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Dominic Winter Book Auctions: The Library of the late Martin Woolf Orskey

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Auction Name The Library of the late Martin Woolf Orskey Total Sales (GBP) 780,360.00
Auction Date June 26, 2019 - June 26, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 237,100.00
Sale Number #62619 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 352,400.00
Total Lots 404
Sold Lots 400 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 239,650.00
% of Lots Sold 99.01% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 355,800.00
Unsold Lots 4 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 219.33%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
399

The Five Senses. Tasting, Feeling, Hearing, Smeling [sic] & Seeing

 circa 1670 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 36,000.00
1 Book of Hours (Use of Rome).

Illuminated manuscript on prepared parchment in Latin,

circa 1450 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 33,600.00
400 Nicholls (Sutton 1668-1729).

The Compleat Auctioneer,

circa 1700 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 22,200.00
156 Helmin (Margaretha).

Kunst-und Fleiss-übende Nadel-Ergötzungen; oder, neu-erfundenes Neh-und Stick-Buch.

circa 1725 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 18,000.00
204 Edwards (George).

Natural History of Uncommon Birds, and of Some Other Rare and Undescribed Animals...

1743-51 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 18,000.00
7 Milles (Thomas).

The Custumers Alphabet and Primer.

1608 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 16,800.00
203

Prostitution broadsides.

circa 1780 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 16,800.00
3 Zahrawi (Abu'l-Qasim Khalaf ibn 'Abbas al-, & [Theodorus Priscianus]).

Octavii Horatiani Rerum medicarum lib.

1532 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 13,800.00
114

Manuscript Cookery Book.

circa 1700 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 13,800.00
260 Wilkes (Benjamin).

One Hundred and Twenty Copper-Plates of English Moths and Butterflies, representing their changes into the caterpillar, chrysalis, and fly states, and the plants, flowers, and fruits, whereon they feed ...

1773 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 8,880.00
313 Campbell (Patrick).

Travels in the Interior Inhabited Parts of North America

 1793 GBP 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 8,880.00
72 [Pallavicino, Ferrante].

The Whores Rhetorick, calculated to the meridian of London; and conformed to the Rules of Art.

1683 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 8,640.00
303 Andrade (Manoel Carlos de).

Luz da Liberal, e Mobre Arte da Cavallaria, offerecida ao Senhor D. Joao Principe do Brazil

 1790 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 8,640.00
25 Caus (Isaac de).

New and Rare Inventions of Water-Works Shewing the Easiest waies to Raise Water higher then the Spring.

1659 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 7,920.00
2

Marbodus of Rennes.

1531 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 7,800.00
9 Guillemeau (Jacques).

Child-Birth or, the Happy Deliverie of Women.

1612 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 7,200.00
29 [Rabisha, William].

The Whole Body of Cookery Dissected, Taught, and fully manifested, Methodically, Artificially, and according to the best Tradition of the English, French, Italian, Dutch, &c.

1661 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 6,960.00
175 Johnson (Charles).

A General History of the Lives and Adventures of the Most Famous Highwaymen, Murderers, Street Robbers, &c.

1736 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 6,960.00
104 Huygens (Christian).

The Celestial Worlds discover'd: or, Conjectures concerning the Inhabitants, Plants and Productions of the Worlds in the Planets

 1698 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 5,760.00
120 Remmelin (Johann, & Michael Spaher of Tyrol).

A Survey of the Microcosme: or, The Anatomy of the Bodies of Man and Woman.

1702 GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 5,520.00
8

N. F.' The Husbandmans fruitfull Orchard Shewing Divers rare new secrets for the true Ordering of all sortes of fruite in their due seasons.

1609 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 5,280.00
110 ['D. S.'].

England's Happiness Improved: or, an Infalliable Way to get Riches, Encrease Plenty, and promote Pleasure.

1699 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 5,280.00
263

Bookseller's catalogue.

1775 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 5,280.00
5 [Partridge, John].

The Treasurie of Hidden Secrets.

1600 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 5,040.00
52 Woolley (Hannah).

The Queen-like Closet, or Rich Cabinet: Stored with all manner of Rare Receipts for Preserving, Candying and Cookery.

1675 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 5,040.00
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: McCarthy (Cormac). Cities of the Plain, N.Y., 1998, First Edn., signed on hf. title; together with Uncorrected Proof and Uncorrected Advance Reading Copies, both signed by the Author. €800 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Stanihurst (Richard). De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis, Libri Quattuor, sm. 4to Antwerp (Christi. Plantium) 1584. First Edn. €525 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Fleischer (Nat.) Jack Dempsey The Idol of Fistiana, An Intimate Narrative, N.Y., 1929, First Edn. Signed on f.e.p. by Rocky Marciano. €400 to €600.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Smith - Classical Atlas, Lond., 1820. Bound with, Smiths New General Atlas .. Principal Empires, Kingdoms, & States throughout the World, Lond. 1822. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Rare Auction Catalogues – 1856: Bindon Blood, of Ennis, Co. Clare: Sotheby & Wilkinson. €320 to €450.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Mavor (Wm.)] A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of America to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century, 28 vols. (complete) Lond., 1810. €300 to €400.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Mc Carthy (Cormac). Outer Dark, N.Y. (Random House)1968, Signed by Mc Carthy. €250 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Three signed works by Ted Huges - Wodwo, 1967; Crow from the Life and Songs of the Crow, 1970; and Tales from Ovid, 1997. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: The Garden. An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture in all its Branches, 7 vols. lg. 4to Lond. 1877-1880. With 127 colored plates. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Procter (Richard A.) Saturn and its System: Containing Discussions of The Motion (Real and Apparent)…, Lond. 1865. First Edn. €160 to €220.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Ashe] St. George, Lord Bishop of Clogher, A Sermon Preached to the Protestants of Ireland, now in London,... Oct. 23, 1712, London 1712. Second Edn. €130 to €180.
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