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Auction Name Online Sale: Modern Illustrated Books and Private Presses Total Sales (GBP) 116,796.15
Auction Date September 09, 2021 - September 09, 2021 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 53,185.00
Sale Number #2217 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 76,910.00
Total Lots 288
Sold Lots 268 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 57,115.00
% of Lots Sold 93.06% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 82,580.00
Unsold Lots 20 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 141.43%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
226 Greenhill (Elizabeth, binder).- Flint (Sir William Russell)

Greenhill (Elizabeth, binder).- Flint (Sir William Russell) Breakfast in Périgord, one of 525 copies signed by artist, 1968.

 1968 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 6,250.00
96 Poole (Monica)

Poole (Monica) Edge of the Sea; Driftwood; Chalk Rocks, three wood-engravings, [c.1977-1993] (3)

 circa1977-1993 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 3,484.00
20 Farleigh (John)

Farleigh (John) Orchid Down, wood-engraving, 1936; and seven other wood-engravings by various hands, 20th century (7)

 1936 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 3,120.00
42 Hermes (Gertrude)

Hermes (Gertrude) Willows and Water-lillies, wood-engraving, 1930.

 1930 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 2,948.00
43 Hermes (Gertrude)

Hermes (Gertrude) Waterlilies, wood-engraving, 1930.

 1930 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 2,948.00
88 Poole (Monica)

Poole (Monica) Dandelion; Magnolia, two wood-engravings, [c.1977-1993] (2)

 circa1977-1993 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 2,412.00
89 Poole (Monica)

Poole (Monica) Edge of the Wood; Old Trees, two wood-engravings, [c.1977-1993] (2).

 circa1977-1993 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 2,412.00
95 Poole (Monica)

Poole (Monica) Dead Trees - Sheppey; Quarry; Cattle Barrier, three wood-engravings, [c.1977-1993] (3)

 circa1977-1993 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,742.00
69 Miller Parker (Agnes)

Miller Parker (Agnes) Fox Cubs, wood-engraving, 1936; and two others by different hands 20th century (3)

 1936 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 1,608.00
12 Bostock (James)

Bostock (James) Spring Pastoral, wood-engraving, [c.2004]; and 11 others, 20th century (12).

 circa2004 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,560.00
32 Grant (Duncan)

Grant (Duncan) Martini and Oranges, pen and ink, pastel, [c. 1936].

 circa1936 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 1,340.00
93 Poole (Monica)

Poole (Monica) Dry September; Hedgerow; Summer, three wood-engravings, [c.1977-1993] (3)

 circa1977-1993 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,340.00
94 Poole (Monica)

Poole (Monica) Kentish Wood; Pilgrim's Way; Old Fence, three wood-engravings, [c.1977-1993] (3)

 circa1977-1993 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,340.00
66 MacNab (Iain)

MacNab (Iain) Snow on the Radnor Hills, wood-engraving, [mid-20th century]

 mid-20th century GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,273.00
98 Poole (Monica)

Poole (Monica) Collection of six signed wood-engravings, [c.1977-1993] (6)

 circa1977-1993 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,273.00
269 Emett (Frederick Rowland)

Emett (Frederick Rowland) "Go on! You ask Him!... Ask him if he's on essential business", scraperboard, 1947.

 circa1947 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,273.00
193 Winstanley (Alan, binder).- Lawrence (T.E.)

Winstanley (Alan, binder).- Lawrence (T.E.) Seven Pillars of Wisdom, first trade edition, 1935.

 1935 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,187.50
127

Various (Artists) Collection of over 80 wood-engravings, 20th century (Sm. Qty.)

 20th century GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,170.00
184 Nonesuch Press.- Shakespeare (William)

Nonesuch Press.- Shakespeare (William) The Works, edited by Herbert Farjeon, 7 vol., printed by Walter Lewis at the Cambridge University Press for the Nonesuch Press, 1929-33.

 1929-33 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,062.50
203 Carpenter (Edward).- Whitman (Walt)

Carpenter (Edward).- Whitman (Walt) Song Of Myself, one of a hundred copies printed on Japan vellum and signed by Elbert Hubbard, 1904.

 1904 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 1,000.00
236 Gill (Eric)

Gill (Eric) Engravings..., one of 400 copies, Bristol, printed by Ernest Ingham at the Fanfare Press for Douglas Cleverdon, 1929.

 1929 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,000.00
252 Ward (Lynd)

Ward (Lynd) Prelude to a Million Years, from a limited edition signed by the author and specially bound, 1933.

 1933 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 937.50
114 Stone (Reynolds)

Stone (Reynolds) The Old Rectory: a Suite of Wood Engravings..., one of 150 sets, Litton Cheney Press for Warren Editions, 1976.

 1976 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 875.00
270 Jullian (Philippe, French illustrator, aesthete, novelist and dandy, 1919-1977)

Jullian (Philippe, French illustrator, aesthete, novelist and dandy, 1919-1977) The Family Portrait, watercolour, 1952.

 1952 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 845.00
152 Wright (Frank Lloyd).- Pfeiffer (Bruce Brooks)

Wright (Frank Lloyd).- Pfeiffer (Bruce Brooks) Frank Lloyd Wright: Monograph[s]; Preliminary Studies; In His Renderings, photographed by Yukio Futagawa, 12 vol., Tokyo, 1990.

 1990 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 812.50
  • 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.
  • Sotheby’s
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    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
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    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
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