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Auction Name Fine Books, Manuscripts, and Works on Paper Total Sales (GBP) 979,566.50
Auction Date September 30, 2021 - September 30, 2021 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 395,600.00
Sale Number #1086 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 561,300.00
Total Lots 508
Sold Lots 464 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 452,500.00
% of Lots Sold 91.34% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 641,500.00
Unsold Lots 44 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 152.70%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
29

Bible, English. The Holy Bible, Second Folio edition, the "Great She Bible", black letter, text in double columns, engraved More-Speed 1611 map of Canaan,

1613-11. GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 GBP 81,250.00
152

Royal Society.- Philosophical Transactions: giving some Accompt of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World, vol. 1-11 in 6 vol.

 1667-76. GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 38,750.00
283 Milton (John)

Poems of Mr. John Milton, Both English and Latin, Compos'd at several times, first edition, state with "S" in "S. Pauls" in imprint

 1645 GBP 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 GBP 27,500.00
430 Fleming (Ian)

Casino Royale, first edition

 1953 GBP 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 GBP 21,250.00
202 Beauplan (Guillaume Levasseur, Sieur de)

Description d'Ukranie,

1660 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 20,000.00
493 Thomson (John)

Illustrations of China and Its People, 4 vol., first edition, 96 photographic plates

 1873-74. GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 GBP 20,000.00
223 Petrarca (Francesco)

Rerum vulrgarium fragmenta, decorated manuscript on paper

 second half of the 15th century. GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 18,200.00
34

The Holy Bible. Containing the Bookes of the Old and New Testament

 1660 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 13,750.00
26

Binding.- Bible, Greek.- , Novum Testamentum Graece cum vulgata interpretatione Latina Graeci contextus lineis inserta,

 1599 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 12,500.00
216 Worm (Ole)

Museum Wormianum seu Historia rerum rariorum, tam naturalium, quam artificialium, tam domesticarum, quam exoticarum..., first edition,

1655 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 10,625.00
372 Greene (Graham)

The Power and the Glory, first edition

 1940 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 10,625.00
21

Bible, English. The Bible, double column, title with woodcut vignette, Old and New Testament headings within woodcut borders,

1577 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 10,000.00
16 Campanella (Giovanni Domenico)

Astrologicorum Libri VI, rare first edition,

1629 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 8,750.00
165 Huygens (Christiaan)

Kosmotheoros, sive de terris coelestibus, earumque ornatu, conjecturae, first edition,

1698 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 8,750.00
248 Nitzschewitz (Hermannus)

Novum beatae Mariaevirginis psalterium,

 1493 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 8,750.00
157 Aguilon (François d')

Opticorum libri sex Philosophis iuxta ac Mathematicis utiles, first edition,

1613 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 8,125.00
245 Abbott (Mary Lee)

Sketch book of original artwork,

1945 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 8,125.00
275 Low (Henry)

An almanack and prognostication,

?c.1560. GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 8,125.00
363 Greene (Graham)

Brighton Rock, first English edition

 1938 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 8,125.00
220

Venetian choirbook.- Single leaf from a 13th century Venetian antiphonal, with large decorated initial, manuscript on vellum,

c.1260 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 7,800.00
190 Spinoza (Baruch)

Opera posthuma, Quorum series post Praefationem exhibetur, first edition,

1677 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 7,500.00
276 Montemayor (Jorge de)

Diana of George of Montemayor: translated out of Spanish into English by Bartholomew Yong of the Middle Temple Gentleman, first edition in English,

 1598 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 7,500.00
72 Huloet (Richard)

Huloets Dictionarie, newelye corrected ... and enlarged by John Higgins, second edition

 1572 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 6,250.00
318

Henry A. Bright copy.- Laurie & Whittle, publishers.- Polar.- Portraits of the vessels on the Polar Expedition of 1818,

 1818 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 6,250.00
451 Nabokov (Vladimir)

Lolita, first American edition, fourth impression, signed by the author,

 1955 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 6,250.00
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
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