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Auction Name Books, Medals, Militaria, Collectables Total Sales (GBP) 38,106.70
Auction Date June 07, 2022 - June 07, 2022 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 14,155.00
Sale Number #60722 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 22,435.00
Total Lots 218
Sold Lots 199 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 15,485.00
% of Lots Sold 91.28% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 24,515.00
Unsold Lots 19 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 155.44%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
72

Large quantity of folio society to include:- T H White, Umberto Echo

 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 1,220.00
129

A King's Story - the Memoirs of HRH Duke of Windsor KG,

1951 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 1,220.00
90 Johnson, Samuel

A Dictionary of the English Language in which the words are deduce from their originals, and illustrated in their different significations…, The History of the Language and an English Grammar

 1784 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 976.00
155 Carlyle, Thomas

The History of Friedrich II of Prussia called Friedrich the Great

 1858 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 976.00
95 Kelmscott Press, Swinburne, Algernon Charles

Atalanta in Calydon : A Tragedy ...

1894 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 854.00
112 Fleming, Ian 

Doctor No

 1958 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 854.00
117 [Fox, Rev J]

The Book of Martyrs or The Acts and Monuments of the Christian Church

 1576 ? GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 732.00
144 Cowper, William

Poems by William Cowper of the Inner Temple in Two Volumes, a New Edition

 1811 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 732.00
109 Paxton, Joseph 

Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants

 1834, 1836 and GBP 200.00 - 400.00 GBP 707.60
127

Assorted volumes to include Baedeker's Southern Germany

 GBP 20.00 - 40.00 GBP 707.60
137 Naval history 

The Cruise Round the World of the Flying Squadron 1869-1870 Under the Command of Rear Admiral G T Phipps Hornby

 1871 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 634.40
157 Southey, Robert

The Naval History of England in 5 vols

 1833 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 634.40
139 Rackham, Arthur (ills)

The Spring Tide of Life - Poems of Childhood by Algernon Charles Swinburne

 1918 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 585.60
158 Boswell, James

The Life of Samuel Johnson ...

 1835 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 585.60
119A Swinburne, Algernon Charles

Note of an English Republican on the Muskavite Crusade

 1876 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 549.00
170 George Mackley

Woodcut The Ferry

 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 549.00
89

The Camden Society, various volumes to include "Suppression of the Monastries"

 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 512.40
118 Linnaei, Caroli 

... Systema Naturae ... Parisiis, Michalis-Anthonii

 1644 GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 512.40
125

Cottage Roof binding - "Christianae Religionis; Sive Ecclesiae Anglicanae ... Quibus Commentarii ..."

 1620 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 512.40
171 George Mackley

Woodcut Dead trees by the river

 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 488.00
179

Macmillans Teaching Aids, Geography sets 1 and 2

GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 463.60
86 Bindings Ferrier [Susan] [Edmonstone]

Marriage William Blackwood 1818 (written first edition 1810

 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 427.00
91 Ralegh, Sir Walter Knight

"The Historie of the World, in five books..."

 1671 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 427.00
99

Large quantity of Batsford Publications

 GBP 200.00 - 400.00 GBP 427.00
131 Tolkien

The Fellowship of the Ring ...

 1966 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 427.00
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
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