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Auction Name Antiquarian and Collectible Books Auction Total Sales (GBP) 17,901.13
Auction Date June 26, 2019 - June 26, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 9,060.00
Sale Number #62619 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 13,690.00
Total Lots 298
Sold Lots 281 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 16,525.00
% of Lots Sold 94.30% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 24,375.00
Unsold Lots 17 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 73.44%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
124 POTTS MR.

Lectures on the Practice of Surgery

 1799 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 1,116.25
127

Scottish Songs - Manuscript. Manuscript quarto vol. of Scottish songs with accompanying music & poetry. Approx. 120pp. Brds. det. but present.

1799 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 705.00
128

Plain Astronomy"". Manuscript notebook with many pages of handwritten text & a few diags. & calculations. Calf backed marbled brds.

 Prob. late 18th cent.  GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 646.25
211

KURR J. G.  The Mineral Kingdom.

 1859 GBP 250.00 - 350.00 GBP 646.25
122 DICKENS CHARLES.

The Life & Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.

1839 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 587.50
1 LANG ANDREW.

The Olive Fairy Book

 1907 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 411.25
43 ORMONDE MARQUIS OF.

An Autumn In Sicily. Fldg. eng. map, frontis 15 etched plates & 2 text maps (all as called for). Quarto. Orig. embossed cloth, gilt back (soiled).

1850 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 340.75
282 SAMPSON GEORGE V.

A Memoir Explanatory of the Chart & Survey of the County of London-Derry, Ireland.

 1814 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 329.00
150

VICTORIAN ALBUM.

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 246.75
46 WARNOCK 2nd Lt. ROBERT, 6th/7th Bn. Royal Scots Fusiliers (died 12 Aug.1916).  Turnbull Robert (Ed.) 

Robert Warnock, Scout & Soldier. A collection of edited transcripts of Robert Warnock's letters, written while based in the Philippines (1911-1915) & serving in France (1915-1916), many illus., Glasgow

 1917 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 211.50
126

Yorkshire - Sketch Book. Early 19th cent. sketch book

. Early 19th cent. GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 188.00
204 HAYLEY WILLIAM.

 The Life of George Romney.

1809 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 188.00
113

Photographs - India.  Album of 48 Edwardian captioned snapshot photographs mainly depicting everyday life in an Indian commercial community,

c.1900/1910. GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 164.50
151

Edinburgh. The Sett or Decreet Arbitral of King James the 6th ... Deciding all Differences Betwixt Merchants & Trades.

1683 GBP 20.00 - 30.00 GBP 164.50
77 STACKHOUSE T.

Copies of Drawings Illustrative of a Course of Lectures on the Architectural & Other Remains of Britain.

N.d. but c.1820. GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 152.75
41 FORBES ARCHIBALD.

The Afghan Wars. Frontis, plates & plans as called for. Orig. brown cloth, George Heriot's prize label to front paste-down. 2nd ed.

 1892 GBP 60.00 - 100.00 GBP 141.00
141

SCOTTISH HISTORY SOCIETY.

 18 various vols. GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 141.00
249 TOLKIEN J. R. R.

The Silmarillion.

 1977 GBP 30.00 - 40.00 GBP 141.00
63 SASSOON SIEGFRIED.

5 1st eds. incl. Memoirs of a Fox Hunting Man, 2nd issue with "A" on blank

 1928 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 129.25
70 COOPER THOMAS, THE CHARTIST.

Wise Saws & Modern Instances.

 1845.  GBP 120.00 - 180.00 GBP 129.25
79 WILSON JACQUELINE &/or SHARRATT NICK.

104 vols. of which 44 are signed, some inscribed "To Eileen" (Eileen Ireland of Ferndown Middle School).

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 129.25
176 BARDON JONATHAN.

Belfast, An Illustrated History.

1982 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 129.25
203 MILNE A. A.  

Winnie The Pooh. Illus. by E. H. Shepard. Rather worn orig. green cloth, internal thumbing & spotting, ownership inscription to endpaper.

 1926 GBP 60.00 - 100.00 GBP 129.25
206

HAUDIQUER M.  L'Art de la Verrerie. Part 2 only.

1718 GBP 30.00 - 40.00 GBP 129.25
215

BANCROFT TIDDLERS. 44 titles of this series of 48 booklets,

 published in the 1960's GBP 20.00 - 30.00 GBP 129.25
  • 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.
  • 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.
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