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Auction Name Online Sale: Books and Works on Paper Total Sales (GBP) 58,175.00
Auction Date November 04, 2021 - November 04, 2021 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 31,130.00
Sale Number #2226 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 44,710.00
Total Lots 204
Sold Lots 179 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 36,780.00
% of Lots Sold 87.75% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 52,710.00
Unsold Lots 25 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 110.37%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
151

Broadside.- Newport Rising.- Awful Preparation for the Execution of the Chartist Prisoners Frost Williams, and Jones, H. Paul, c.1840.

 c.1840. GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,875.00
156 Heath (William)

The Man Wots Got the Whip Hand of 'Em All, etching with hand-colouring, 1829.

 1829 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,690.00
178 Grimm (Jakob Ludwig and Wilhelm Carl)

The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, one of 750 copies signed by the artist, 1909.

 1909 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,625.00
157 Heath (William)

March of Intellect, etching with hand-colouring, 1829.

 1829 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,430.00
28 Newton (Charles Thomas)

Travels and Discoveries in the Levant, 2 vol. bound as 1, first edition, 1865; and others Middle East (c.95)

 1865 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,375.00
148

Broadside.- A Faithful Representation of the Trial of Her Most Gracious Majesty, Caroline, Queen of England, in the House of Lords, 1820, York, Carrall, [1820].

 1820 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,375.00
176 Gulliver (Lilliputius)

Instructive Lessons Conveyed to the Youthful Mind, 1803.

 1803 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 1,250.00
149

Broadside.- Bodysnatchers.- Bishop's House of Murder, situated in a Dismal Lane in Nova Scotia Gardens, Bethnal Green, c.1831.

 c.1831. GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 1,062.50
158 Nicolas (Sir Nicholas Harris)

The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson, 7 vol., 1845-46

 1845-46 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,062.50
119

Workhouse.- St Giles' in the Fields.- Regulations of the Work-house... belonging to the Parish of St. Giles, 12th July 1726 bound with At a Meeting of the Gentlemen of the Vestry of the Work-house, 291 x 188mm, 15th March 1726.

 1726 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,000.00
164 Pardoe (Julia)

Louis the Fourteenth, 3 vol., 1886; and other sets (34)

 1886 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,000.00
172

History of The Times (The), 4 vol. bound in 5., limited editions of 125 copies per volume, 1935-52; and the Complete Peerage (13)

 1935-52 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 1,000.00
29 Roberts (David)

The Holy Land, c.1889.

 c.1889 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 875.00
120 Watts (John, editor)

The Musical Miscellany; being a Collection of Choice Songs, set to the Violin and Flute, 6 vol., first edition, by and for John Watts, 1729-31.

 1729-31. GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 875.00
170 Tagore (Rabindranath)

Gitanjali (Song Offerings), one of 750 copies, Printed at the Chiswick Press for the India Society, 1912.

 1912 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 875.00
52 Telford (Thomas)

Holyhead Road. Reports ... to the Commissioners for the Improvement of the Holyhead Road, 15 reports in 4 vol., 1816-37; and another similar (7)

 1816-37; and others similar, one the Carlisle and Glasgow Road and 2 on railways (7) GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 750.00
103 Tusser (Thomas)

Fiue hundreth points of good husbandry vnited to as many of good huswiferie, first deuised, & nowe lately augmented with diuerse approued lessons concerning hopps & gardening, first edition, Richard Tottill, 1573.

 1573. sold not subject to return. GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 750.00
45 Cooke (William Bernard)

The Thames; or, Graphic Illustrations ... on the Banks of that noble River, 2 vol., 1811.

 1811 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 687.50
56 Loudon (Jane)

The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Annuals, second edition, [1850]; and another by the same (2)

 1850; British Wild Flowers, second edition, half-title, 60 hand-coloured lithographs, a little rubbed GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 687.50
80 Dolce (Lodovico)

Libro delli dieci canti di Sacripante qual tratta delle sanguinose battaglie fatte da lui con molti baroni della Franza, rare, Verona, Merlo, [c.1630-1640].

 c.1630-1640. GBP 250.00 - 350.00 GBP 687.50
131

America.- Annual Register (The), or a View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the Year 1776, fourth edition, for J. Dodsley, 1788; and a quantity of others antiquarian, including other 18th and 19th century periodicals (qty)

 1788 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 625.00
136 Hume (David)

The History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Cæsar to the Revolution in 1688, 8 vol., 1796-97; and others, histories of England (41)

 1796-97 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 625.00
205 Randle (John, editor)

The Wood-Engravings of Gwenda Morgan, number 25 of 335 copies signed by the artist, Andoversford, Whittington Press, 1985; and others similar (5)

 1985 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 600.00
35 James (Helen M.)

36 original drawings for J.M. Dent & Co.'s 'Toledo. The Story of an Old Spanish Capital', [c. 1903].

 circa 1903 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 550.00
67 Bell (Charles)

A System of Operative Surgery, founded on the Basis of Anatomy, 2 vol., 1807; and others medicine (8)

 1807 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 550.00
  • 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.
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