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Auction Name Two Day Books & Ephemera Auction Total Sales (GBP) 78,859.20
Auction Date June 16, 2020 - June 17, 2020 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 44,709.00
Sale Number #7476 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 63,245.00
Total Lots 746
Sold Lots 639 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 53,905.00
% of Lots Sold 85.66% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 75,750.00
Unsold Lots 107 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 104.11%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
376 ALEXANDRE DU SOMMERARD

LES ARTES AU MOYEN AGE,

1838-46 GBP 4.00 - 0.00 GBP 3,600.00
532 PIETRO ANDREA MATTIOLI

COMMENTARRI IN LIBROS SEX DIOSCORIDIS ANAZARBEI DE MEDICA MATERIA ADIECTIS QUAM PLURIMIS PLANTARUM AND ANIMALIUM IMAGINIBUS,

 1554 GBP 3.00 - 0.00 GBP 1,740.00
86

THE HAPPY MAG

 1923-1940 GBP 200.00 - 250.00 GBP 1,500.00
44 JOHN RONALD REUEL TOLKIEN

THE HOBBIT

 1937 GBP 1.00 - 0.00 GBP 1,260.00
701 JAMES WYLD

A POPULAR ATLAS OF THE WORLD CONSISTENT OF DETAILED MAPS OF THE DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE GLOBE

 1849 GBP 500.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,056.00
184 ANNE FRANK

THE DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL, trans B M Mooyaart-Doubleday, foreword Storm Jameson

 1952 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 1,044.00
59

*AN ALPHABET OF FEMALE COSTUMES, (so titled on box label),

circa 1880 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 960.00
141 IAN RANKIN

KNOTS AND CROSSES

 1987 GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 900.00
332 MIGUEL DE CERVANTES DE SAAVEDRA

THE LIFE AND EXPLOITS OF THE INGENIOUS GENTLEMAN DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA, trans Charles Jarvis

 1742 GBP 1.00 - 0.00 GBP 900.00
294 JONATHAN SWIFT

TRAVELS INTO SEVERAL REMOTE NATIONS OF THE WORLD BY LEMUEL GULLIVER, ill Charles E Brock

 1894 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 840.00
365 EDWARD BAWDEN (ILL)

FORTNUM & MASON CATALOGUES, 9 assorted items comprising EASTER IS EARLY THIS YEAR, circa 1956; THE DELECTABLE HISTORY OF FORTNUM & MASON

 1957 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 684.00
495 LEWIS WRIGHT

THE ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF POULTRY..., ill J W Ludlow

 1873 GBP 300.00 - 350.00 GBP 648.00
668 WALTER RYE

NORFOLK FAMILIES,

1913-15 GBP 50.00 - 75.00 GBP 648.00
238 BRITAIN IN PICTURES SERIES

122 titles with very little duplication, + COMPOSITE SERIES (4), THE NATIONS AND BRITAIN (4), ENGLISH POETS PICTURES (SET OF 6) + MICHAEL CARNEY

 1995 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 636.00
85 RICHMAL CROMPTON

WILLIAM THE LAWLESS

 1970 GBP 500.00 - 600.00 GBP 576.00
601 JOSEPH SKINNER

THE PRESENT STATE OF PERU...

 1805 GBP 500.00 - 600.00 GBP 552.00
182 STEPHEN HAWKING

A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME

 GBP 50.00 - 75.00 GBP 528.00
427 SYLVANUS MORGAN

THE SPHERE OF GENTRY DEDUCED FROM THE PRINCIPLES OF NATURE AN HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL WORK OF THE ARMS AND BLAZON IN FOUR BOOKS

 1661 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 528.00
596 ROBERT SURTEES

THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE COUNTY PALATINE OF DURHAM...

 1816-40 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 528.00
637 FRANCIS BLOMEFIELD AND CHARLES PARKIN

AN ESSAY TOWARDS A TOPOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF NORFOLK

 1805-10 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 480.00
341 CLAUDE BLAIR ET AL (EDS)

THE CROWN JEWELS, THE HISTORY OF THE CORONATION REGALIA IN THE JEWEL HOUSE OF THE TOWER OF LONDON,

 1998 GBP 300.00 - 350.00 GBP 444.00
550

THE REST HOUR MUNDESLEY SANATORIUM MAGAZINE

 1930 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 444.00
745

FORES' CORRECT REPRESENTATION OF THE STATE PROCESSION ON THE OCCASION OF THE AUGUST CEREMONY OF HER MAJESTY'S CORONATION JUNE 28TH 1838...ALSO ACCURATE VIEWS OF THE INTERIOR OF THE ABBEY DURING THE CEREMONY

 1838 GBP 400.00 - 500.00 GBP 432.00
473 HENRY ELIOT HOWARD

THE BRITISH WARBLERS, A HISTORY WITH PROBLEMS OF THEIR LIVES, ill Henrik Gronvold

 1907-15 GBP 200.00 - 250.00 GBP 396.00
724

THE SPLENDID PROCESSION OF QUEEN VICTORIA TO HER CORONATION ON 28TH JUNE 1838 DISPLAYING EVERY PORTION OF THE ROYAL CORTEGE ON THAT MEMORABLE OCCASION AS WELL AS THE WHOLE LINE OF STREETS WITH THEIR NUMEROUS DECORATIONS FROM THE DUKE OF YORK'S PILLAR TO H

 1838 GBP 200.00 - 250.00 GBP 396.00
  • 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.
  • 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.
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