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Keys Fine Arts Auctioneers: Books and Ephemera - Day 2

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Auction Name Books and Ephemera - Day 2 Total Sales (GBP) 14,803.20
Auction Date June 14, 2019 - June 14, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 8,480.00
Sale Number #1782 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 11,355.00
Total Lots 198
Sold Lots 128 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 18,040.00
% of Lots Sold 64.65% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 23,255.00
Unsold Lots 70 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 63.66%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
915

Collection of Royal autograph letters

 1892-1937 GBP 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 GBP 4,440.00
902

Collection pertaining to British Motor Racing driver and principal developer of motor racing stables

 1899-1990 GBP 400.00 - 500.00 GBP 2,520.00
942 RICHARD PAUL JODRELL SENIOR:

COPIES OF LETTERS BY R P JODRELL ON THE SUBJECT OF HIS ESTATES TO DIVERS PERSONS

 1800-1822 GBP 300.00 - 350.00 GBP 420.00
936

Large old scrap album

 19th century to 1930s GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 360.00
1006

GB collection mint QEII commemoratives and definitives stamps in 3 stock books

 GBP 350.00 - 400.00 GBP 348.00
929

Three colour litho prints

 GBP 30.00 - 40.00 GBP 300.00
1007

Box Netherlands stamp year packs 2003-06

 2008-13 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 276.00
1019

Box assorted UK coins

 GBP 120.00 - 150.00 GBP 264.00
910

Original ink and colour wash blueprint/scale plan for the Mann Egerton garage in Prince of Wales Road

 1912 GBP 30.00 - 40.00 GBP 252.00
973 DENIS COMPTON:

PLAYING FOR ENGLAND

 1948 GBP 200.00 - 250.00 GBP 240.00
1002

Fifteen modern slip-cased cigarette card albums containing good quantity sets and part sets + a box of assorted trade cards

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 240.00
953

Colour tinted cabinet photo of Edward VII as HRH The Prince of Wales in Freemason's robes

 GBP 120.00 - 180.00 GBP 216.00
912

Collection of approx 45 monochrome and 14 colour Press Association/A P Leaf desk photos

 circa 1950s- GBP 200.00 - 250.00 GBP 204.00
939

VICTORIAN ALBUM RICHARD PAUL JODRELL

 1898 GBP 120.00 - 180.00 GBP 168.00
1031

EASTERN DAILY PRESS

 1914 GBP 30.00 - 40.00 GBP 168.00
934

Victorian scrap album

 GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 114.00
886

One box approx 50 Bentley sales brochures

 circa 1990s GBP 60.00 - 90.00 GBP 102.00
905

One box: assorted indentures/particulars of sale

 19th/early GBP 50.00 - 60.00 GBP 96.00
914

The Beatles group photograph

 1963 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 96.00
956 EDWARD C LE GRICE FRPS (1888-1970)

two photo albums containing 200+ original photographs including 100+ of the East Window of St Peter Mancroft Norwich 1947 taken after the glass had been cleaned and replaced by Mr King of Norwich following the conclusion of the Second World War

 1947 GBP 100.00 - 120.00 GBP 90.00
1057 JOHN THOMPSON:

PLAN OF THE CITY OF NORWICH

 1779 GBP 80.00 - 100.00 GBP 90.00
955

TYPES OF BRITISH SEAPLANES

 1918 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 84.00
1000

Modern album

 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 84.00
1017

Box accumulation UK and world coins including some pre-1947 + a few bank notes

GBP 80.00 - 100.00 GBP 78.00
961

VELLUM INDENTURE DATED 31ST DECEMBER 1902 BETWEEN HENRY JACOB MILLS OF NORWICH AND EDITH EMILY DOWELL OF SUSSEX AND SAMUEL JOHN GURNEY HOARE …

 1902 GBP 60.00 - 90.00 GBP 72.00
  • Gonnelli
    Auction 51
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 14st 2024
    Gonnelli: Leonard Bramer, The descent from the cross, 1634. Starting price 3200€
    Gonnelli: Gustav Hjalmar de Morner Karel, Rome’s Carnival, 1820. Starting price 1000€
    Gonnelli: Various Authors, Mater Dolorosa, 1700. Starting price 200€
    Gonnelli: Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Carcere Oscura, 1790. Starting price 180€
    Gonnelli: Jan Brueghel, Marine fauna view, 1620 ca. Starting price 28000€
    Gonnelli: Ippolito Scarsella, Mary and Christ with Sant Rocco and Arch-Angel Michele,1615. Starting price 8000€
    Gonnelli: Hans Sebald Beham, Adam and Eve, 1543. Starting price 600€
    Gonnelli: Francesco Burani, Baccanale, 1630. Starting Price 280€
    Gonnelli: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, Plance from Ventiquattr’ore, 1675. Starting price 800€
    Gonnelli: Giuseppe Angeli, Livorno’s Plan, 1793. Starting price 240€
    Gonnelli: XIV Century Artist, Capital “N” letter, 1350 ca. Starting price 340€
  • 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
  • Australian Book Auctions
    Books, Maps, Modern Literature
    May 14 (US) / May 15 (Australia)
    Australian Book Auctions, May 14/15: ORWELL, George. ANIMAL FARM. London, Secker & Warburg, 1945. $8,000 to $12,000 AUD.
    Australian Book Auctions, May 14/15: MILNE, A.A. THE HOUSE AT POOH CORNER With decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. London, Methuen, 1928. Deluxe limited edition. $3,000 to $4,000 AUD.
    Australian Book Auctions, May 14/15: TWAIN, Mark. THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN, (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade). New York, 1885. $1,000 to $1,500 AUD.
    Australian Book Auctions
    Books, Maps, Modern Literature
    May 14 (US) / May 15 (Australia)
    Australian Book Auctions, May 14/15: RAND, Ayn. ATLAS SHRUGGED. Random House, New York, 1957. First edition. $800 to $1,200 AUD.
    Australian Book Auctions, May 14/15: [BAUM, L. Frank]. PICTURES FROM THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ By W.W. Denslow… Chicago, [1903]. $400 to $800 AUD.
    Australian Book Auctions, May 14/15: HELLER, Joseph. CATCH-22. London, Jonathan Cape, 1962. $400 to $600 AUD.
  • Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Isaac Newton on chemistry and matter, and alchemy, Autograph Manuscript, "A Key to Snyders," 3 pp, after 1674. $100,000 - $150,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Exceptionally rare first printing of Plato's Timaeus. Florence, 1484. $50,000 - $80,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: On the Philosophy of Self-Interest: Adam Smith's copy of Helvetius's De l'homme, Paris, 1773. $40,000 - $60,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: "Magical Calendar of Tycho Brahe" - very rare hermetic broadside. Engraved by Merian for De Bry. c.1618. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Author's presentation issue of Einstein's proof of Relativity, "Erklärung der Perihelbewegung des Merkur aus der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie." 1915. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: First Latin edition of Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed. Paris, 1520. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: De Broglie manuscript on the nature of matter in quantum physics, 3 pp, 1954. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Tesla autograph letter signed on electricty and electromagnetic theory. 1894. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Heinrich Hertz scientific manuscript on his mentor Hermann Von Helmholtz, 1891. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: The greatest illustrated work in Alchemy: Micheal Maier's Atalanta Fugiens. Oppenheim, 1618. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Illustrated Alchemical manuscript, a Mysterium Magnum of the Rosicurcians, 18th-century. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Rare Largest Paper Presentation Copy of Newton's Principia, London, 1726. The third and most influential edition. $60,000 - $90,000
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