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Auction Name Antiquarian and Collectible Books Total Sales (GBP) 42,851.70
Auction Date October 07, 2021 - October 07, 2021 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 21,795.00
Sale Number #100721 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 33,445.00
Total Lots 320
Sold Lots 291 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 24,370.00
% of Lots Sold 90.94% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 37,480.00
Unsold Lots 29 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 114.33%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
175 LEWIS C.S.

Chronicles of Narnia. The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe

1950 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 4,012.00
186 MOORE THOMAS.

 The Ferns of Great Britain & Ireland, edited by John Lindley, nature-printed by Henry Bradbury.

1855 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,360.00
16

Letters by Scottish Women. An interesting collection of 40 plus manuscript letters spanning the period 1686 to 1820s.

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 2,242.00
17 DUFF HUGH ROBERT, of Muirtown.

Radiger or The Hall of Odin, A Tragedy, In Five Acts. 52pp anonymous publication, the leaves

1819 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 1,652.00
315 THE INGRAM SISTERS, of Staindrop Hall, Co. Durham.

 "Etchings". A square quarto Victorian album in dark half morocco containing 40 etchings by the daughters of John Ingram of Staindrop Hall, a noted art collector & Italian traveller.

circa 1816 - 1820s. GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,121.00
12 McNAB FRANCIS.

Australia. 6 detailed manuscript letters, each a folded folio sheet "ship letter" of varying legibility (some written crossed across the paper) to his mother & family in Saltcoats,

C. early 1840s. GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 1,062.00
7 WARRAND ALEXANDER M.D.

Military Surgeon serving in India. Slim manuscript account book

1828-1833 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 1,003.00
14 McNAB WILLIAM, 

Buenos Aires & Montevideo. 6 very detailed & descriptive manuscript "ship letters"  & similar, each on a folded folio sheet, written to family in Scotland.

1829 - early 1830s. GBP 60.00 - 100.00 GBP 1,003.00
15 FAMILY OF HUNTER.

 Australia etc. 3 bundles of correspondence & documents ref. the court case, Hunter v Hunter (Supreme Court, Colony of Victoria),

c.1860 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 944.00
124 THE QUEEN'S OWN CAMERON HIGHLANDERS.

 The 79th News. A complete run from No. 1, April 1891 to 1960 in 60 vols.

1891 to 1960 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 708.00
153 LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF ART & DESIGN.

 The Comet. Issue for May 1912, No. 9.

1888-1968 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 531.00
18

New South-Sea Annuities. 9 certificates of the purchase of Stock. Printed in red & black with manuscript details.

1770s/1780s GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 472.00
8 WARRAND Lt. ALEXANDER J. C., 35th Regiment.

Quarto exercise book in marbled brds., full, containing a diary (whilst he was in India), hurriedly written in pencil

1855 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 413.00
113 DUGDALE WILLIAM.

 The Antiquities of Warwickshire Illustrated from Records, Leiger-Books, Manuscripts, Charters, Evidences, Tombes & Armes, beautified with Maps, Prospects & Portraictures.

1656 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 413.00
163 PARRY WILLIAM EDWARD.

 Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific ... in His Majesty's Ships Hecla & Griper under the orders of William Edward Parry RN FRS & Commander of the Expedition.

1821 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 413.00
265 BILLINGTON WILLIAM.

 A Series of Facts, Hints, Observations & Experiments on the Different Modes of Raising Young Plantations of Oak ... the Fencing, Draining, Pruning & Training (of) Young Trees ... Fruit Trees.

1825 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 413.00
184 LATHAM JOHN.

 A General History of Birds.

1822 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 377.60
5 BURNLEY-CAMPBELL LT. COL. HARDIN (1843-1920).

 Letts's Diary & Almanac for 1878 with many manuscript entries

1879 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 354.00
33 WARRAND DUNCAN (Compiler).

 2 large folio ledgers containing copious information of historical & antiquarian interest re. Invernesshire, the Highlands, the clans & Northern families (incl. Forbes of Culloden).

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 354.00
239 FRASER WILLIAM.

 The Douglas Book.

1885 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 354.00
13 McNAB WILLIAM.

Buenos Aires. Very detailed manuscript "ship letter" to Irvine, Ayrshire describing his journey, the country, its beef farming etc. (Very legible but with a hole with loss).

1829". GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 330.40
177 STEPHENSON JOHN & CHURCHILL JAMES M.

 Medical Botany or Illustrations & Descriptions of the Medicinal Plants.

1831 GBP 120.00 - 180.00 GBP 330.40
191 SPEED JOHN.

 The Historie of Great Britaine under the Conquests of the Romans, Saxons, Danes & Normans ... with the Successions, Lives, Acts & Issues of the English Monarchs.

1632 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 330.40
19

Insurance Certificates. United and Most Beneficial Society for Perpetual Insurance Upon Lives. 3 folio certificates

1713 & 1714 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 306.80
176 RICHARDSON WILLIAM.

 The Monastic Ruins of Yorkshire.

1843 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 306.80
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    19th Century Shop. Major Elizabeth Barrett Browning manuscript notebook
    19th Century Shop. Spock's Baby Book, original MS
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  • Potter & Potter Auctions
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    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [RUTH, George Herman “Babe” (1895-1948)]. Signed photograph. Circa 1930s. 191 x 248 mm. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HARRISON, Benjamin. Document signed (“Benj Harrison”) as governor of Virginia, certifying the service of Daniel Cumbo, a Black Revolutionary soldier. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: ONE OF THE FIRST PRINTED ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. $4,000 to $6,000.
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    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: FIRST PRINTING OF LINCOLN’S IMMORTAL GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HIGHLY IMPORTANT MORMON ARCHIVE. ALLEY, George. Archive of 23 Autograph Letters Signed by Mormon Convert George Alley to His Brother Joseph Alley. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [AVIATION]. [ARMSTRONG, Neil A.] Aviation Hall of Fame Gold Medal MS64 NGC, Awarded to Neil Armstrong in 1979. $2,000 to $3,000.
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    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: NEWLY DISCOVERED FIRST PRINTING OF "WITH MALICE TOWARDS NONE... " FROM THE ONLY NEWSPAPER ACTUALLY ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN LINCOLN’S SECOND INAUGURAL PROCESSION. $4,000 to $8,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: THE MOST IMPORTANT GEORGE WASHINGTON DOCUMENT IN PRIVATE HANDS; GEORGE WASHINGTON’S COMMISSION AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF, 1775, ONE OF ONLY TWO ORIGINALS. $150,000 to $250,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: A VERY RARE ACCOUNT OF BLACKBEARD’S DEATH AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PIRATE ITEMS EXTANT. $3,000 to $5,000.
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    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: EDISON, Thomas. Patent for Edison’s Improvements on the Electric-Light, No. 219,628. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Patent Office], 16 September 1879. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [VIETNAM WAR]. The original pen used by Secretary of State William P. Rogers to sign the Vietnam Peace Agreement, Paris, 27 January 1973. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: SONS OF LIBERTY FOUNDER COLONEL BARRÉ ANNOTATED TITLE-PAGE, “WHICH OUGHT TO ROUSE UP BRITISH ATTENTION”. $4,000 to $6,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: [Langland (William)]. The vision of Pierce Plowman, nowe the seconde time imprinted..., Roberte Crowley, 1550. £8,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: [Shakespeare (William)]. [Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies], second folio edition, [by Tho.Cotes, for Robert Allot], [1632]. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Bible, Czech Biblia Bohemica, first complete Bible printed in the Czech vernacular, Prague, August 1488. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Shabthai Tzvi.- Collection of four printed and illustrated broadsides detailing the appearance, rise and fall of the false messiah, Shabthai Tzvi, Augsburg, 1666-67. £40,000 to £60,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Leaf from the Beauvais Missal, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment, [Northern France (perhaps Beauvais or Amiens)], [fourteenth century (c.1310)]. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Aubrey (John). [Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme], manuscript in English, Latin and Greek, [c. 1693]. £30,000 to £50,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Poems on Various Occasions, first edition, Harriet Maltby's copy, Newark, Printed by S. & J. Ridge, 1807. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, first edition, second impression with dust-jacket, 1937 [but 1938]. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Blake (William).- Thornton (Robert John). The Pastorals of Virgil, 2 vol., engraved plates by William Blake, 1821. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: America.- Mount (William J.) & Thomas Page. The English Pilot…, [bound with] The Fourth Book, describing The West Indies Navigation from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones, 1721. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Oldfield (Henry Ambrose), Rajman Singh Chitrakar & others. An album of 160 photographs and 13 original artworks, (1833-1919), [c. 1850s-1880s]. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Audubon (John James) [and William MacGillivray]. Ornithological Biography…, 5 vol., first edition, presentation copy inscribed by Audubon, Edinburgh, 1831-49 [i.e. 1831-39]. £10,000 to £15,000.
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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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  • Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG BEADED JUDICIAL COLLAR. $80,000 - $120,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: ONLY KNOWN COPY OF THE ONLY BOOK BY THE REMARKABLE EVE ADAMS. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A COMPLETE RUN OF VISIONAIRE MAGAZINE THROUGH 2010. $6,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: LAW REVIEW OFFPRINT SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY RUTH BADER GINSBURG. $3,000 - $5,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: META REBNER'S WORKING SCRIPT OF THE LOVED ONE. $1,500 - $2,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A KATHY GROVE PORTRAIT OF CYNDI LAUPER FOR THE FEBRUARY 1989 DETAILS COVER. $800 - $1,200
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A PLASTIC COAT BY MILLIE DAVID FEATURED IN SOHO NEWS STYLE SECTION, FROM THE COLLECTION OF ANNIE FLANDERS. $500 - $700
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG JEWELRY BOX. $600 - $900
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A SET OF JONI MITCHELL LYRICS FOR "IF I HAD A HEART." $2,000 - $3,000
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