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Auction Name Online Sale: Books and Works on Paper Total Sales (GBP) 73,280.00
Auction Date October 31, 2019 - October 31, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 33,115.00
Sale Number #2116 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 47,490.00
Total Lots 200
Sold Lots 179 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 36,815.00
% of Lots Sold 89.50% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 52,740.00
Unsold Lots 21 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 138.95%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
76 Citolini (Alessandro)

La Tipocosmia

1561 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 4,500.00
181

Martirologio de Usuard

1997 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 4,500.00
32 Bligh (William)

A Narrative of the mutiny on board His Majesty's Ship Bounty

1790 GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 3,000.00
120 Plutarch.

The lives of the noble Grecians and Romanes

1579 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 2,000.00
134 Trade

Savary des Brulons (Jacques)

1751-1755 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,625.00
158 Queen Victoria

Shakespeare (William)

1863 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,500.00
169 Warner (Sir George F., editor)

The Benedictional of Saint Aethelwold, Bishop of Winchester 963-984

1910 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,187.50
68 Lucian, of Samosata.

Deorum Dialogi numero. 70.

1515 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,125.00
75 Gregory (Saint, of Nazianzus)

Graeca quædem & sancta Carmina

1561 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,125.00
31 Queen Victoria

Gallery of the Celebrated Landscapes of Switzerland

c.1885. GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,062.50
80 Homer.

Odyssea

1567 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,062.50
130 Charles I

The first part of the city and country remembrancer, being an account of the names of 92. of the Kings judges

1707 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,062.50
182

The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux Acc. No. 54.1.2. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Cloisters Collection

1998-2000. GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,000.00
70 Pietro, da Lucca.

Arte del ben pe[n]sare e co[n]templare la passione del nostro signor Jesu Christo

1527 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 937.50
173 Keynes (John Maynard)

The Economic Consequences of the Peace, 1919; A Tract on Monetary Reform, 1923

1919 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 937.50
200 Westall (R.)

Victories of the Duke of Wellington

1819 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 937.50
199 Pogany (Willy)

Wagner (Richard)

1911 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 875.00
47 Markham (Gervase)

The English husbandman...The first part contayning the knowledge of husbandly duties

1635 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 812.50
101

Office de le Semaine Sainte

1708 GBP 250.00 - 350.00 GBP 812.50
139 [Knight (Ellis Cornelia)]

Dinarbas; a tale

1792 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 812.50
194 Clarke (Harry)

Perrault (Charles)

1922 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 812.50
25 Hunt (John)

The Ascent of Everest

2003 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 750.00
127 Shadwell (Thomas)

The History of Timon of Athens

1678 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 750.00
56 [Venette (Nicolas)]

The Art of Pruning Fruit-Trees

1685 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 687.50
121 Owen (John)

Epigrammatum

1622 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 687.50
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Sotheby’s
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
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