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Auction Name Online Sale: Books and Works on Paper Total Sales (GBP) 89,579.25
Auction Date October 22, 2020 - October 22, 2020 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 47,200.00
Sale Number #2176 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 67,080.00
Total Lots 292
Sold Lots 266 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 52,010.00
% of Lots Sold 91.10% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 74,120.00
Unsold Lots 26 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 120.86%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
256 Stoker (Bram)

Dracula

1901 GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 GBP 4,250.00
251 Stoker (Bram)

University of Dublin. College Historical Society. Address Delivered in the Dining Hall of Trinity College...

1872 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 3,750.00
260 Stoker (Bram)

Dracula

1933 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,875.00
193 [Gibbes (Phebe)]

Hartly House, Calcutta

1789 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,750.00
227 Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan)

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

1892 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,750.00
252 Stoker (Bram)

The Duties of Clerks of the Petty Sessions in Ireland

1879 GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 1,625.00
99 Bulstrode (Edward)

The Reports of ... Divers Resolutions and Judgments Given with great Advice and Mature Deliberation by the Grave, Reverend

1688 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,500.00
217 [Wilde (Oscar)]

The Importance of Being Earnest

1899 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,187.50
50 Eskenazi (Giuseppe) & Hajni Elias.

A Dealer's Hand: The Chinese Art World...

2012 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 1,125.00
255 Stoker (Bram)

Dracula

1899 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,125.00
229 Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan)

The Hound of the Baskervilles

1902 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,062.50
79 Williamson (Capt. Thomas)

Foreign Field Sports, Fisheries, Sporting Anecdotes, &c.

1814-13 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,000.00
173

The Bible: that is, the Holy Scriptures conteined in the Olde and Newe Testament: translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke

1599 [but ?1639] GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 937.50
177 Charles I., King of England.

Reliquiæ sacræ Carolinæ The vvorkes of that great monarch and glorious martyr King Charles the Ist. both civil and sacred

1658 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 937.50
196 Strutt (Joseph)

A Complete View of the Dress and Habits of the People of England

1775-76 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 937.50
208 Austen (Jane)

Sense and Sensibility

1884 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 875.00
236 Dinsdale (Alfred)

Television. Seeing by Wireless

1926 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 875.00
203 Tennyson (Alfred, Lord)

In Memoriam

1850 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 812.50
230 Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan)

Adventures of Gerard

[1903 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 812.50
231 Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan)

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

1905 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 812.50
268 White (T.H.)

The Sword in the Stone

1938 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 812.50
142 [Bunyan (John)]

[Shen Lu Jing Cheng Zhèng bian]... [Pilgrim's Progress]

[1870] GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 750.00
174 Leoni (Giovanni Battista)

Vita di Francesco Maria di Montefeltro della Rovere IIII Duca D'Urbino

1605 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 750.00
181 Hammond (Henry)

Sermons Preached ...

1675 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 750.00
234 Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan)

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

1927 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 750.00
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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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  • 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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