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Bearnes Hampton and Littlewood: Maritime Auction

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Auction Name Maritime Auction Total Sales (GBP) 135,638.25
Auction Date October 19, 2021 - October 19, 2021 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 32,495.00
Sale Number #MA20 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 43,045.00
Total Lots 142
Sold Lots 119 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 35,425.00
% of Lots Sold 83.80% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 47,185.00
Unsold Lots 23 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 287.46%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
34

British Antarctic Expedition 1910. An important 'Antarctic Ocean Sheet VIII' chart with the plotted course for RYS 'Terra Nova' 1910-1913

 1910-1913 GBP 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 20,910.00
33

British Antarctic Expedition 1910. An important 'Antarctic Ocean Sheet IV' chart with the plotted course for RYS 'Terra Nova' 1910-1913

 1910-1913 GBP 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 12,915.00
19

A mounted photograph of the crew of RYS Terra Nova, British Antarctic Expedition 1910

 1910 GBP 500.00 - 600.00 GBP 4,674.00
64

An eighteen line typescript poem 'They died like men', McMurdo Sound

 GBP 200.00 - 400.00 GBP 4,428.00
10

A copy of 'The Indexed New Testament' with gilt stamped black leather binding 'Antarctic Expedition 'Terra Nova'

 1910 GBP 250.00 - 350.00 GBP 3,936.00
54

Handwritten manuscript 'With Scott Before the Mast' by F E C Davies under the pseudonym 'Rudolf'

 1948 GBP 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 3,936.00
72

A group of three photographs of an ice locked Terra Nova

 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 3,936.00
73

RYS Terra Nova, a handmade 'crossing the line' certificate for 'Frederick Davies' signed by 'Edward R Evans'

1910 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 3,690.00
62

Boulton & Paul Ltd, Norwich, 31/5/1910

 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 3,444.00
42

A hand drawn and annotated map of the South Pole (unknown cartographer) showing the Scott & Amundsen routes to the pole

 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 3,198.00
23

A typed single sheet itinerary/timetable for the British Antarctic Expedition movement of RYS Terra Nova

 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 2,952.00
40

A blue print for the 'Rigging Arrangement 'Terra Nova',

 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 2,952.00
11

A mounted photograph of visitors aboard RYS Terra Nova

 1910 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 2,706.00
14

A signed full length photograph of the expedition dog handler Demetri Geroff

 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 2,706.00
30 Edward Leicester Atkinson (1881-1929)

Edward Leicester Atkinson (1881-1929) RYS Terra Nova surgeon/parasitologist, an archive of nineteen letters to 'Chippie' F E C Davies

 1910 to 1940 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 2,706.00
28

A letter from Harry Pennell on HMS Duke of Edinburgh letterhead

 GBP 250.00 - 300.00 GBP 2,460.00
18

A large photogravure print of F E Davies

 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 2,091.00
26

Captain Lawrence Edward Grace Oates RN (1880-1912) a signed copy of Erskine Childers 'German Influences on British Cavalry',

1911 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 2,091.00
37

An Admiralty published chart 'South Polar Chart'

 circa1914 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 2,091.00
39

A large blue print for the 'General Arrangement 'Terra Nova'

 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 2,091.00
22

Two handmade greeting cards by Frank Davies, pen ink and watercolour, one with stern view of RYS Terra Nova after the photograph by Herbert Ponting

 1915 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,968.00
24

A handwritten note on card to RYS Terra Nova crew members George Abbot and Frank Davies dated 'Nov 25-10' from Mrs Robson & Mr Wood, Tancred Street, Linwood (Christchurch NZ)

 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 1,968.00
60

A collection of miscellaneous ephemera relating to F E C Davies

 GBP 50.00 - 60.00 GBP 1,968.00
67

A Board of Trade Certificate of Discharge for F E Davies from the Terra Nova, dated 21st June

 1913 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 1,845.00
31

A group of nine letters from Harry Pennell and family members circa1910 to FEC Davies

 circa1910 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,722.00
  • 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.
  • 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: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
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