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Auction Name Made in Britain - bidstart 3/9 Total Sales (GBP) 1,159,956.00
Auction Date March 16, 2021 - March 16, 2021 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 479,700.00
Sale Number #L21144 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 715,900.00
Total Lots 141
Sold Lots 129 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 587,000.00
% of Lots Sold 91.49% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 871,100.00
Unsold Lots 12 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 133.16%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
20 Dame Magdalene Odundo

Untitled

1987 (on the base) GBP 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 GBP 138,600.00
19 Allen Jones, R.A.

Parachute Fragments

GBP 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 GBP 75,600.00
114 Bridget Riley

Firebird (S. 9)

1971 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 52,920.00
24 Dame Lucie Rie

An Impressive Footed Bowl

GBP 18,000.00 - 25,000.00 GBP 40,320.00
23 David Hockney, R.A.

Still Life With Book (Scottish Arts Council 144; MCA Tokyo 135)

1973 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 35,280.00
26 Yousuf Karsh

Winston Churchill, 1941

1941 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 35,280.00
54 Percy Wyndham Lewis

Untitled (For the Rebel Art Centre or the Omega Workshops)

GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 30,240.00
113 Harland Miller

If the Phone Don't Ring

2008 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 30,240.00
5 Damien Hirst

Valium

2000 GBP 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 GBP 27,720.00
9 Chris Smith

Ali and The Beatles, 1964

1964 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 25,200.00
17 Mike Figgis

Kate Moss Descending Staircase, 2007

2007 GBP 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 GBP 25,200.00
48 Bridget Riley

Untitled (La Lune En Rodage - Carlo Belloli) (S. 6)

1965 GBP 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 GBP 25,200.00
115 David Hockney, R.A.

Blue Hang Cliff (MCA Tokyo 335)

1993 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 25,200.00
18 Patrick Caulfield, R.A.

Les Desmoiselles D'Avignon Vues De Derrière (Cristea 90)

1999 GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 GBP 23,940.00
21 Edmund de Waal

specific objects, 1

2010 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 21,420.00
74 Ben Nicholson

Untitled (Design for Edinburgh Weavers)

circa 1956 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 21,420.00
310 David Shrigley

Untitled, 1998

1998 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 18,900.00
22 David Hockney, R.A.

Dancing Flowers (MCA Tokyo 307)

1986 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 17,640.00
10 Damien Hirst

Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD)

2000 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 16,380.00
7 Bridget Riley

New Day (Not in Schubert)

1992 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 15,120.00
271 Bridget Riley

Untitled (Richard Feigen Gallery) (Not in S.)

circa 1960 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 15,120.00
253 Richard Hamilton

Fashion Plate (L. 76)

1969-70 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 12,600.00
122 Damien Hirst

Blue Butterfly

2006 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 11,970.00
126 Howard Hodgkin

For Jack (not in H.)

2006 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 11,970.00
151 Chris Levine

Equanimous 1 (Crystallised), 2020

2020, printed later. GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 11,970.00
  • 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.
  • Sotheby’s
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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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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
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