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Auction Name Online Sale: Books and Works on Paper Total Sales (GBP) 63,831.00
Auction Date May 02, 2019 - May 02, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 32,770.00
Sale Number #2100 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 46,390.00
Total Lots 193
Sold Lots 172 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 38,170.00
% of Lots Sold 89.12% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 54,090.00
Unsold Lots 21 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 118.01%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
153 Robertson (Thomas)

The History of Mary Queen of Scots...

1706 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 4,250.00
62

Galerie du Musée Napoleon

1810-1815. GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 3,750.00
141 [Playstowe (Philip)]

"An Officer". The Gentleman's Guide in His Tour Through France...

1772 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 2,250.00
89 Achilles Tatius.

Les Amours de Clytophon et de Leucippe

1635 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 2,125.00
125 May (Thomas)

A breviary of the history of the Parliament of England. Expressed in three parts: 1. The causes and beginnings of the civil war of England. 2. A short mention of the progreß of that civil war

1655 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 2,000.00
35 Lesson (René-Primevère)

Histoire naturelle des oiseaux-mouches [and] Les trochilides ou les colibris et les oiseaux-mouches [and] Histoire naturelle des colibris

[c.1829-1833]. GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,875.00
165 Hull (William)

The History of the Glove Trade...

1834 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,625.00
7 Daniell (William, 1769-1837)

Landscape with large hill in the distance

[circa 1786-1792]. GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,187.50
180 The Blackmer Collection. Navari (Leonora)

Greece and the Levant: The Catalogue of the Henry Myron Blackmer Collection of Books and Manuscripts

1989 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,062.50
139 Phillips (Thomas)

A Letter to a Student at a Foreign University on The Study of Divinity

1756 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 937.50
187 Smith (John Raphael, 1752-1812)

Lt. Col. Tarleton

1782 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 910.00
82

Biblia. Bibliorum opus sacrosanctum Vulgatis quidem characteribus

1532 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 875.00
93 Peringskiold (Johan)

Historia Hialmari regis Biarmlandiae atque Thulemarkiae

[?1701]. GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 875.00
151 Wilson (John)

A Short Treatise on the Law

1792 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 875.00
169 Ball (Charles)

The History of the Indian Mutiny...

[1858]. GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 812.50
14 Anson (George)

A Voyage Round the World in the Years MDCCXL

1748 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 687.50
28 Wolstenholme the Elder (After Dean)

[Fox Hunting] Plates I-IV

1806 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 687.50
81 Aristotle. Duns, Scotus (Johannes)

Questiones vtiles subtilissimi doctoris Ioannis Scoti super libros Priorum.

1512 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 687.50
67 Keele (Kenneth D.)

Leonardo Da Vinci: Atlas der Anatomischen Studien in der Samlung ihrer Majestät Queen Elizabeth II in Windsor Castle

1980-81. GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 625.00
146 Chatterton (Thomas)

Poems

1778 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 625.00
13 Annesley (George, Viscount Valentia)

Voyages and Travels to India

1809 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 600.00
133 Maclaurin (Colin)

An Account of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophical Discoveries

1750 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 600.00
36 Lilford (Lord)

Notes on the birds of Northamptonshire and neighbourhood

1893 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 575.00
149 Fenn (John, editor)

Original Letters

1787-1823. GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 575.00
166 Darley (George)

Thomas À Becket...

1840 GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 575.00
  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
  • Doyle, May 1: Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.
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