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Auction Name Books, Ephemera, Cigarette Cards, Postcards, Stamps and Postal History. Total Sales (GBP) 9,382.85
Auction Date January 12, 2022 - January 12, 2022 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 8,260.00
Sale Number #406 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 10,870.00
Total Lots 107
Sold Lots 78 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 9,720.00
% of Lots Sold 72.90% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 12,790.00
Unsold Lots 29 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 73.36%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
41

Alan Turing signed pamphlet: Turing’s personal copy of Leventhal & Salkind’s "Spherical Trigonometry",

1943 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 1,437.50
21 Mark Twain

The £1,000,000 Bank-Note and other New Stories,

1893 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 851.00
62

Album of largely pre-1940 UK topography with many RPs, plus social history & subject cards; includes street scenes of Wallasey, Heywood (3),

 pre-1940 GBP 350.00 - 400.00 GBP 632.50
4

Bookplates from 18th to 20th Century, a fine collection in a modern album, written up with research notes, including examples by Thomas Bewick

 18th to 20th Century GBP 200.00 - 250.00 GBP 529.00
22 Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol,

 1844 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 414.00
28 Geoffrey Parker

"The Black Scalpel: A Surgeon with S.O.E.",

1968 GBP 250.00 - 300.00 GBP 322.00
54

Dinky Toys collection, all mint & boxed, comprising 21st Century Atlas Editions for the French & German markets.

 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 310.50
59

Mainly British subject cards plus some views in old album; interest in many comic including Felix the Cat (2), children including Pauli Ebner (3),

 GBP 100.00 - 130.00 GBP 172.50
12

Product labels from 1900s to 1970s

 1900s to 1970s GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 143.75
57

Album of pre-1950 GB & Ireland topography and some social history, with variety of UK views, Wexford (10) and Belfast, Isle of Man,

 pre-1950 GBP 70.00 - 90.00 GBP 143.75
58

Album of mainly pre-1930 UK topography and social history, plus some France WWI; includes fire disasters (8), Royal Visits, views of Wigan (15)

 pre-1930 GBP 70.00 - 90.00 GBP 143.75
200

Germany - North German Confederation 1869 Covers to Bristol, all with letters enclosed, at the 3½gr or 5gr rate, mostly franked ½gr,1gr

 1869 GBP 70.00 - 100.00 GBP 143.75
42 Charles Darwin and Richard Owens

The Zoology of the Voyage H.M.S. Beagle,

 1994 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 138.00
185

Egypt 1886-1960s Covers & Cards with wide variety of frankings and cancels; includes many early 20th Century used PPCs, military mail,

 1886-1960s GBP 70.00 - 100.00 GBP 138.00
60

Lancs & Cheshire collection in album including Warrington Royal Visit 1909 RP; street scenes of Partington (RP), Lymm (2), Grappenhall (4),

 GBP 70.00 - 100.00 GBP 132.25
55

Album of British topography & subjects with some street scenes, RP Australian Speedway riders, Portland quarries and lighthouse,

 GBP 90.00 - 110.00 GBP 126.50
138

British Commonwealth postal history mix, chiefly 20th Century commercial covers from wide range of territories; interest in East Africa

 20th Century GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 126.50
69

WWI Allied Forces in Siberia

 1918 GBP 40.00 - 50.00 GBP 120.75
147

1840 (May 12th) 1d Mulready Letter Sheet (Stereo A1) FU to Turnham Green with complete seal of the House of Commons Library on reverse,

 1840 GBP 150.00 - 170.00 GBP 115.00
141

Great Britain Covers & Cards from pre-stamp to QE2, chiefly Lancashire interest with a variety of cancellations;

 GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 101.20
18

Collection of Foreign Billheads, Receipts and Letterheads

 19th Century to 1940s GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 98.90
11

Ephemera of all kinds from early 19th Century to modern

early 19th Century to modern GBP 60.00 - 100.00 GBP 96.60
15

Victorian to 1920s Greetings Cards plus some In Memoriam silk bookmarks and few other items.

1920s GBP 40.00 - 50.00 GBP 94.30
67

Military selection 1900s-1945, chiefly WWI, with patriotic, Daily Mail types, military leaders, fund-raising, RP camp scenes, etc.

1900s-1945 GBP 50.00 - 70.00 GBP 94.30
100

Box of covers, cards & fronts from pre-stamp to modern with much GB; includes many Free fronts, plus 1d red frankings

 20th Century GBP 50.00 - 60.00 GBP 94.30
  • 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
  • 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.
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