Forum Auctions: Online Sale: Books and Works on Paper
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Online Sale: Books and Works on Paper | Total Sales (GBP) | 73,024.50 |
| Auction Date | September 23, 2021 - September 23, 2021 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) | 39,490.00 |
| Sale Number | #2219 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) | 56,600.00 |
| Total Lots | 277 | ||
| Sold Lots | 246 | Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) | 47,630.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 88.81% | High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) | 68,310.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 31 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 106.90% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 259 | Flowers from an Indian Garden, comprising Love and Hope |
c.1860. | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 2,375.00 | |
| 116 | Dickens (Charles) | Master Humphrey's Clock, |
1840 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 1,625.00 |
| 131 | Lowe (E. J.) | A Natural History of New and Rare Ferns |
1864 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 1,625.00 |
| 239 | Weill (Kurt) | Der Silbersee. Ein Wintermärchen |
1933 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 1,625.00 |
| 102 | Ballooning.- Aerostation. A narrative of the aerial voyage, of Mr. Windham Sadler, across the Irish Channel, from Portobello Barracks |
1817 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 1,500.00 | |
| 213 | Milne (A. A.) | The House at Pooh Corner, |
1928 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 1,375.00 |
| 46 | Gower (John) | De Confessione amantis, |
1532 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 1,000.00 |
| 60 | Sidney (Algernon) | Discourses Concerning Government |
1698 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 1,000.00 |
| 66 | [Swift (Jonathan)] | [Swift (Jonathan)] Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World...by Captain Lemuel Gulliver, |
1726 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 1,000.00 |
| 225 | Neri (Antonio) Christopher Merret and Johann Kunckel | Christopher Merret and Johann Kunckel, Art de la Verrerie |
1752 | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | GBP 1,000.00 |
| 263 | Gerard (John) | The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes, [by Adam Islip Joice Norton and Richard Whitakers] |
[1633]. | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | GBP 1,000.00 |
| 79 | Boxing & poisoned arrows.- Farrago. Containing essays, moral, philosophical, political, and historical: on Shakespeare, truth, boxing, kings, Kings, Religion, Commerce, Governments, |
1792 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 937.50 | |
| 145 | Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge) | A Tangled Tale |
1885 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 937.50 |
| 151 | Twain (Mark) | The £10,000 Bank-Note And Other New Stories |
1893 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 937.50 |
| 229 | Ayers (John) | The Baur Collection. Chinese Ceramics, |
1968-74 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 937.50 |
| 222 | Large collection of works by 20th century British printmakers, |
[20th century] | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 875.00 | |
| 258 | Smythies (Bertram E.) | Birds of Burma |
1940 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 875.00 |
| 21 | Flaubert (Gustave) | Madame Bovary, |
1942 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 812.50 |
| 30 | Bosworth (William) | Volume of 17 sheets of blank 18th century vellum, |
[18th century]. | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 812.50 |
| 161 | Eliot (George) | Silas Marner |
1905 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 812.50 |
| 168 | Churchill (Winston S.) | Post-War Speeches |
1948-61 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 812.50 |
| 193 | Beckett (Samuel) | As No Other Dare Fail, |
1986 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 812.50 |
| 241 | Repton (Humphry) | Designs for the Pavilion at Brighton |
[watermarked 1822]. | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 750.00 |
| 252 | Taylor (George) | Taylor & Skinner's Survey and Maps of the Roads of North Britain, or Scotland |
1776 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 625.00 |
| 262 | [Darwin (Erasmus)] | The Botanic Garden; A Poem, in Two Parts |
1791 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 600.00 |
