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Keys Fine Arts Auctioneers: Book Sale - Day 1

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Auction Name Book Sale - Day 1 Total Sales (GBP) 66,112.80
Auction Date August 29, 2019 - August 29, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 48,360.00
Sale Number #1803 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 66,680.00
Total Lots 706
Sold Lots 493 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 66,275.00
% of Lots Sold 69.83% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 91,051.00
Unsold Lots 213 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 72.61%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
589 WILLIAM WESTALL AND SAMUEL OWEN

PICTURESQUE TOUR OF THE RIVER THAMES,

1828 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 6,960.00
590 REV DANIEL LYSONS

THE ENVIRONS OF LONDON BEING AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE TOWNS VILLAGES AND HAMLETS WITHIN TWELVE MILES OF THE THAT CAPITAL INTERSPERSED WITH BIOGRAPHICAL ANECDOTES,

1796 1791-1800 1807 GBP 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 4,560.00
375

MAGNA CARTA ET CETERA ANTIQUA STATUTA NUNC NOITER PER DIVERSA...

1556 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 2,280.00
660 FRANCIS BLOMEFIELD & CHARLES PARKIN

AN ESSAY TOWARDS A TOPOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF NORFOLK,

1739-75 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 2,040.00
293 JOHN MILTON

THE PARADISE LOST,

1846 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,680.00
556 JOSIAH WOOD WHYMPER (ILL)

ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY PLATES ILLUSTRATIVE OF NATURAL HISTORY,,,

1843 GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 1,080.00
41 KENNETH GRAHAME

THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS

2008 GBP 400.00 - 450.00 GBP 984.00
311 EDWARD BAWDEN, (ILL)

FORTNUM & MASON CATALOGUES 11 varied catalogues

GBP 400.00 - 450.00 GBP 984.00
554

WILLIAM HAYES

1771-75 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 864.00
370 AGNES STRICKLAND

LIVES OF THE QUEENS OF ENGLAND...

1851-1852 GBP 600.00 - 900.00 GBP 696.00
232 RICHARD JEFFERIES

RESTLESS HUMAN HEART

1875 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 600.00
455 GILBERT BURNETT

BISHOP BURNETT'S HISTORY OF HIS OWN TIME ,,,

1823 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 576.00
300

THE YELLOW BOOK AN ILLUSTRATED QUARTERLY

1894-97 GBP 450.00 - 550.00 GBP 552.00
384 EDMUND SPENSER

THE FAERIE QUEENE

1613 GBP 400.00 - 500.00 GBP 504.00
132 JOHN FRYER KEANE

MERE SHAKINGS

1887 GBP 50.00 - 75.00 GBP 480.00
439 [HUGH SMITH]

LETTERS TO MARRIED WOMEN

1767 GBP 400.00 - 500.00 GBP 480.00
443 OTTO VAN VEEN

QUUINTI HORATII FLACI EMBLEMATA IMAGINIBUS IN AES INCISIS,,,

1612 GBP 400.00 - 500.00 GBP 456.00
628

DAYLIGHT, AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY JOURNAL POLITICAL

1878-79 GBP 50.00 - 75.00 GBP 444.00
328 ROBERT GILMOR

CUTTING AWAY, THE LINOCUTS OF ROBERT GILMOR

2006 GBP 250.00 - 300.00 GBP 420.00
679 SIR JOHN ROSS

NARRATIVE OF A SECOND VOYAGE IN SEARCH OF A NORTH-WEST PASSAGE AND OF A RESIDENCE IN THE ARCTIC REGIONS DURING THE YEARS 1829,

1830 GBP 300.00 - 350.00 GBP 384.00
93 W E JOHNS

5 titles: BIGGLES IN THE UNDERWORLD

1968 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 372.00
100 W E JOHNS

BIGGLES DOES SOME HOMEWORK, THE LAST UNFINISHED NOVEL

1997 GBP 300.00 - 350.00 GBP 324.00
200 J D SALINGER

THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

1951 GBP 60.00 - 90.00 GBP 312.00
212 MARGARET MITCHELL

GONE WITH THE WIND

1936 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 312.00
242 GEOFFREY CHAUCER

THE CANTERBURY TALES

2010 GBP 200.00 - 250.00 GBP 312.00
  • 19th Century Shop
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    19th Century Shop. Shakespeare’s Poems, first collected edition
    19th Century Shop. Walt Whitman portrait inscribed with a Leaves of Grass poem
    19th Century Shop. Major Elizabeth Barrett Browning manuscript notebook
    19th Century Shop. Spock's Baby Book, original MS
    19th Century Shop. Cellarius, Harmonia Macrocosmica, the great celestial atlas
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    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
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    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [RUTH, George Herman “Babe” (1895-1948)]. Signed photograph. Circa 1930s. 191 x 248 mm. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HARRISON, Benjamin. Document signed (“Benj Harrison”) as governor of Virginia, certifying the service of Daniel Cumbo, a Black Revolutionary soldier. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: ONE OF THE FIRST PRINTED ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. $4,000 to $6,000.
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    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: FIRST PRINTING OF LINCOLN’S IMMORTAL GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HIGHLY IMPORTANT MORMON ARCHIVE. ALLEY, George. Archive of 23 Autograph Letters Signed by Mormon Convert George Alley to His Brother Joseph Alley. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [AVIATION]. [ARMSTRONG, Neil A.] Aviation Hall of Fame Gold Medal MS64 NGC, Awarded to Neil Armstrong in 1979. $2,000 to $3,000.
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    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: NEWLY DISCOVERED FIRST PRINTING OF "WITH MALICE TOWARDS NONE... " FROM THE ONLY NEWSPAPER ACTUALLY ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN LINCOLN’S SECOND INAUGURAL PROCESSION. $4,000 to $8,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: THE MOST IMPORTANT GEORGE WASHINGTON DOCUMENT IN PRIVATE HANDS; GEORGE WASHINGTON’S COMMISSION AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF, 1775, ONE OF ONLY TWO ORIGINALS. $150,000 to $250,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: A VERY RARE ACCOUNT OF BLACKBEARD’S DEATH AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PIRATE ITEMS EXTANT. $3,000 to $5,000.
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    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: EDISON, Thomas. Patent for Edison’s Improvements on the Electric-Light, No. 219,628. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Patent Office], 16 September 1879. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [VIETNAM WAR]. The original pen used by Secretary of State William P. Rogers to sign the Vietnam Peace Agreement, Paris, 27 January 1973. $10,000 to $15,000.
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  • Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: [Langland (William)]. The vision of Pierce Plowman, nowe the seconde time imprinted..., Roberte Crowley, 1550. £8,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: [Shakespeare (William)]. [Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies], second folio edition, [by Tho.Cotes, for Robert Allot], [1632]. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Bible, Czech Biblia Bohemica, first complete Bible printed in the Czech vernacular, Prague, August 1488. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Shabthai Tzvi.- Collection of four printed and illustrated broadsides detailing the appearance, rise and fall of the false messiah, Shabthai Tzvi, Augsburg, 1666-67. £40,000 to £60,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Leaf from the Beauvais Missal, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment, [Northern France (perhaps Beauvais or Amiens)], [fourteenth century (c.1310)]. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Aubrey (John). [Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme], manuscript in English, Latin and Greek, [c. 1693]. £30,000 to £50,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Poems on Various Occasions, first edition, Harriet Maltby's copy, Newark, Printed by S. & J. Ridge, 1807. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, first edition, second impression with dust-jacket, 1937 [but 1938]. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Blake (William).- Thornton (Robert John). The Pastorals of Virgil, 2 vol., engraved plates by William Blake, 1821. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: America.- Mount (William J.) & Thomas Page. The English Pilot…, [bound with] The Fourth Book, describing The West Indies Navigation from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones, 1721. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Oldfield (Henry Ambrose), Rajman Singh Chitrakar & others. An album of 160 photographs and 13 original artworks, (1833-1919), [c. 1850s-1880s]. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Audubon (John James) [and William MacGillivray]. Ornithological Biography…, 5 vol., first edition, presentation copy inscribed by Audubon, Edinburgh, 1831-49 [i.e. 1831-39]. £10,000 to £15,000.
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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: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
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  • Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG BEADED JUDICIAL COLLAR. $80,000 - $120,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: ONLY KNOWN COPY OF THE ONLY BOOK BY THE REMARKABLE EVE ADAMS. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A COMPLETE RUN OF VISIONAIRE MAGAZINE THROUGH 2010. $6,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: LAW REVIEW OFFPRINT SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY RUTH BADER GINSBURG. $3,000 - $5,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: META REBNER'S WORKING SCRIPT OF THE LOVED ONE. $1,500 - $2,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A KATHY GROVE PORTRAIT OF CYNDI LAUPER FOR THE FEBRUARY 1989 DETAILS COVER. $800 - $1,200
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    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG JEWELRY BOX. $600 - $900
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A SET OF JONI MITCHELL LYRICS FOR "IF I HAD A HEART." $2,000 - $3,000
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