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Bloomsbury Auctions: Western Manuscripts and Miniatures

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Auction Name Western Manuscripts and Miniatures Total Sales (GBP) 566,925.00
Auction Date July 06, 2022 - July 06, 2022 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 369,150.00
Sale Number #70622 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 540,350.00
Total Lots 132
Sold Lots 86 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 453,650.00
% of Lots Sold 65.15% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 662,650.00
Unsold Lots 46 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 85.55%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1

Three cuttings from an exceptionally early manuscript of Paul the Deacon's Homiliary

 GBP 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 GBP 87,500.00
119

The Bishop Carr Bible, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment

 GBP 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 GBP 62,500.00
118

Summa Sententiarum, ascribed to 'Master Odo', in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment

 GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 GBP 43,750.00
121

Compendium of Latin translations of Greek texts on teaching

 GBP 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 GBP 32,500.00
122

The 'Harpenden codex' of Palladius, De re rustica, in the earliest Italian translation

 GBP 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 GBP 30,000.00
123

Medical compendium with substantial parts of Egidius de Corbeil

 GBP 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 GBP 30,000.00
124

Book of Hours, in Latin and French, illuminated manuscript on parchment

 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 27,500.00
126

Book of Hours, Use of Paris, in Latin and French, illuminated manuscript on parchment

 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 25,000.00
128

Book of Hours, Use of Paris, in Latin and French, illuminated manuscript on parchment

 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 25,000.00
31

Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose, in Middle French

 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 15,000.00
76

Six initials on cuttings, with five humans, including a hunter with a bow

 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 12,500.00
127

Book of Hours, Use of Saintes, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment

 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 11,250.00
18

Notker the Stammerer, Liber sequentiarum, an important work for the Carolingian history of music

 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 10,000.00
71

Papal indulgence for the Hospital at 'Ronceval' (Roncevaux in the high pass over the Pyrenees)

 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 10,000.00
6

Substantial remains of a single gathering from a large manuscript of Augustine

 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 9,375.00
96

Leaf from the Llangattock Breviary, manuscript (Italy, 15th century)

 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 9,000.00
125

Book of Hours, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment

 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 8,125.00
129

Carta Executoria, granted by King Philip II, for Juan Bautista Gallo of Valladolid

 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 5,625.00
65

Grant by Abbot Peter and the community of the Cistercian Abbey of St. Mary

 GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 5,250.00
41

Large collection of leaves from Books of Hours

 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 5,000.00
94

Valerius Maximus, Factorum et Dictorum Memorabilium, with a large initial enclosing

 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 5,000.00
110

Cutting from a Homilary, with fine line-drawn Christ and St. Peter in an initial

 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 5,000.00
58

Sixteen cuttings from bifolia from a manuscript of a Latin wordlist based on Balbus' Catholicon

 GBP 700.00 - 900.00 GBP 4,000.00
4

Two cuttings from an early Liber Pontificalis

 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 3,750.00
8

Two leaves from a large Romanesque Bible

 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 3,750.00
  • Sotheby’s
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
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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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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
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  • 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.
  • 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.
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