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Auction Name Prints and Multiples Total Sales (GBP) 6,225,744.00
Auction Date March 17, 2021 - March 17, 2021 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 2,038,500.00
Sale Number #L21160 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 3,090,100.00
Total Lots 166
Sold Lots 156 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 2,105,000.00
% of Lots Sold 93.98% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 3,184,800.00
Unsold Lots 10 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 195.48%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
84 Andy Warhol

Endangered Species (F. & S. II.293-302)

1983 GBP 350,000.00 - 550,000.00 GBP 2,919,000.00
3 Henri Matisse

Jazz (Duthuit Books 22)

1947 GBP 220,000.00 - 350,000.00 GBP 277,200.00
5 M. C. Escher

Metamorphosis II (Bool/Kist/Locher/Wierda 320)

1939-40 GBP 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 GBP 201,600.00
83 Andy Warhol

Reigning Queens (Royal Edition): Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (F. & S. II.334A)

1985 GBP 100,000.00 - 150,000.00 GBP 201,600.00
89 Andy Warhol

Chanel (F. & S. II.354)

1985 GBP 120,000.00 - 180,000.00 GBP 189,000.00
108 After Jean-Michel Basquiat

Untitled (Head)

2001 GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 GBP 69,300.00
109 After Jean-Michel Basquiat

Untitled (Ernok)

2001 GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 GBP 69,300.00
113 Kaws

Tension

2019 GBP 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 GBP 69,300.00
88 Andy Warhol

$ (1) (see F. & S. IIA.274-279)

1982 GBP 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 GBP 63,000.00
80 Andy Warhol

Flowers (Feldman & Schellmann II.6)

1964 GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 GBP 52,920.00
87 Andy Warhol

Paramount (F. & S. II.352)

1985 GBP 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 GBP 52,920.00
1 Pablo Picasso

Françoise aux cheveux ondulés (Bloch 403; Mourlot 47)

1946 GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 GBP 50,400.00
85 Andy Warhol

The Shadow (F. & S. II.267)

1981 GBP 26,000.00 - 36,000.00 GBP 50,400.00
106 Keith Haring

Pop Shop I (Three Plates) (L. pp. 82-83)

1987 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 50,400.00
2 Pablo Picasso

Minotaure caressant une dormeuse (B. 201; Baer 369)

1933 GBP 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 GBP 47,880.00
112 After Jean-Michel Basquiat

Charles the First

2004 GBP 35,000.00 - 55,000.00 GBP 47,880.00
4 Pablo Picasso

Faune dévoilant une femme (B. 230; Ba. 609)

1936 GBP 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 GBP 44,100.00
169 Vija Celmins

Untitled (Ocean) (R. p. 49)

1972 GBP 18,000.00 - 22,000.00 GBP 44,100.00
110 After Jean-Michel Basquiat

Jawbone of an Ass

2004 GBP 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 GBP 40,320.00
111 After Jean-Michel Basquiat

Rome Pays Off

2004 GBP 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 GBP 40,320.00
129 Stik

Sleeping Baby (NHS Blue)

2015 GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 GBP 40,320.00
51 Joan Miró

La Reine des éphémères (D. 758)

1975 GBP 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 GBP 37,800.00
92 Andy Warhol

Sitting Bull (F. & S. IIIA.70)

1986 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 37,800.00
93 Andy Warhol

The Nun (F. & S. II.314)

1983 GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 GBP 37,800.00
135 Stik

Sleeping Baby (Red)

2015 GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 GBP 37,800.00
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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