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    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
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    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.
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    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.
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    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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    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Alken (Henry). Sporting Notions, first edition, T.McLean, 1832-33. £800 to £1,200.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Bardi (Lorenzo). Nuova Raccolta delle piu interessanti Vedute della Citta di Firenze…, Florence, Lorenzo Bardi, [c.1840]. £1,500 to £2,000.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Crawfurd (John). Journal of an Embassy from the Governor-General of India to the Court of Ava..., first edition, 1829. £1,000 to £1,500.
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    27th March 2024
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Dawe (George, engraver). The Life of a Nobleman, first edition, Geo. Henderson, [c.1825]. £1,000 to £1,500.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: [Doyle (John)], "H.B.". Political Sketches &c., 10 vol. including The Descriptive Key to H.B., Thomas McLean, [1829-51]. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Eben (Adolphus Christian Frederick, Baron von) and Nicolaus Heideloff. Modèles de l'Uniforme Militaire Adopté dans l'Armée Royale de Suède, Rudolph Ackerman, 1808. £1,500 to £2,000.
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    27th March 2024
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Geissler (J.G.G.) and Friedrich Hempel. Mahlerische Darstellungen der Sitten, Gebrauche und Lustbarkeiten bey den Russischen, Tartarischen…, 4 parts in 1, Leipzig and Paris, [1804]. £1,000 to £1,500.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Hunt (Charles). Portraits of Winning Horses...of the Derby, Oaks, & St. Leger, from the Year 1842 to 1849…, Rock Brothers & Payne, 1849. £1,500 to £2,000.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Kunike (Adolf Friedrich). Zwey hundert und sechzig Donau-Ansichten nach dem Laufe des Donaustromes…, Vienna, Leopold Grund, 1826. £3,000 to £5,000.
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    27th March 2024
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Lasinio (Carlo). [Matrimony], Florence, 1790. £1,500 to £2,000.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Reinhardt (Joseph). A Collection of Swiss Costumes, in Miniature, second English edition, James Goodwin, [1828]. £800 to £1,200.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Wengen (Gottfried Durst von). Die Öffentliche Maskerade Bamberg am Fastnachts-Montage 1833…, Bamberg, [1833]. £2,000 to £3,000.
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Dominic Winter Book Auctions: Printed Books, Maps and Documents

Auction Reports

Auction Name Printed Books, Maps and Documents Total Sales (GBP) 176,454.00
Auction Date July 20, 2022 - July 20, 2022 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 89,420.00
Sale Number #72022 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 135,280.00
Total Lots 424
Sold Lots 315 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 125,500.00
% of Lots Sold 74.29% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 188,600.00
Unsold Lots 109 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 93.56%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
287

Science. Le Journal des Scavans, 31 volumes,

1666-1703 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 5,760.00
45 Blaeu (Johannes & Guillaume).

Theatrum Orbis Terrarum sive Atlas Novus pars Quarta [England & Wales]

1646 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 4,560.00
202

Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula

circa 1630 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 4,320.00
95 Bertius (Pieter & Ortelius Abraham).

Abraham Ortelii Geographiae veteris Tabulae Aliquot. Europa, Hispania, Britannia, Gallia Strabonis, Belgium, Germania, Italia, Sicilia, Dacia & Moesia, Pontus Euxinus, Thracia, Graecia Sophianai, Africa, Palaestina,

circa 1618 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 3,360.00
266

Miscellaneous ephemera,

mostly 19th & 20th century GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 3,360.00
84 Sowerby (James & Smith, James Edward).

English Botany; or, coloured figures of British plants, with their essential characters, synonyms, and places of growth. To which will be added, occasional remarks, 36 volumes

1790-1814 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 3,120.00
10 Essery (Rev. William Alfred, c. 1831-1904).

A Yachting Cruise Around the World on the SS Ceylon 1881-1882, by the Rev. W.A. Essery, of London

1885 GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 2,760.00
140

Seconda Ostro Tavola,

circa 1565 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 2,640.00
176 Rose (Fred W.).

Angling in Troubled Waters..., A Serio-Comic Map of Europe,

1899 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 2,160.00
203

Nova Orbis Tabula, ad Usum Serenissimi Burgundiae Ducis…

circa 1730 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,920.00
265

Miscellaneous ephemera,

mostly 20th century GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,920.00
160

A New and Correct Map of North America, with the West India Islands.

GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,800.00
293 Graevius (Johann Georg).

Thesaurus Antiquitatum Romanarum, 12 volumes,

1694-99 GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 1,800.00
3 Bougainville (Louis Antoine de).

A Voyage Round the World, performed by order of his most Christian Majesty, in the years 1766, 1767, 1768, and 1769, 1st edition in English

1772 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,680.00
131

Cary's New Terrestrial Globe Delineated from the best Authorities extant; Exhibiting the late Discoveries towards the North Pole and every improvement in Geography to the Present Time

circa 1835 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,680.00
172

Poloniae Pars I - IV,

1702 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,680.00
13

The Edinburgh Geographical and Historical Atlas, comprehending a sketch of the History of Geography ... and History of each Continent, State, and Kingdom, delineated and a tabular view of the principal mountain chains in the World,

circa 1830 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,560.00
127

Europa recens descripta à Guilielmo Blaeuw

circa 1630 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,560.00
154

Maps. A mixed collection of approximately 175 British maps

17th - 19th century GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,560.00
171

Polonia et Silesia

1630 - 1632 GBP 200.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,560.00
267

Papal Petition. Petition to the pope on behalf of John Goldwelle and Edmund Gaio of London or another city or diocese, and of three other persons to be named by Goldwelle, of their present and future wives and children of either sex, to appoint a confesso

?1516 or 1517 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,560.00
75 L'Ecluse (Charles de).

Clusius, Carolus. Rariorum plantarum historia,

1601 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,500.00
130

Foreign Maps. A collection of approximately 220 maps

16th - 19th century GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,440.00
25

A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in all Parts of the World

1808-1814 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,380.00
61 Yates (Major G. & Rennie Sir John).

A View of Old London Bridge in 1823, after the Removal of the Water Works

1823 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,380.00
  • Koller Auctions
    Books & Autographs
    20 March 2024
    Koller, Mar. 20: DADA - Der Zeltweg. Redaktion: Flake, Serner, Tzara. Zürich, 1919. CHF 5,000 – 8,000
    Koller, Mar. 20: Jespers, Floris - Peeters, Jan. Kinderlust. Antwerpen, J. F. Bogaerts & R. R. Dodson, [1923]. CHF 2,000 – 3,000
    Koller, Mar. 20: FARBENLEHRE - Chevreul, M. E. De la Loi du contraste simultané des couleurs et de l'assortiment des objets colorés. Paris, 1839. CHF 4,000 – 5,000
    Koller, Mar. 20: BOTANIK - Schrank, Franz de Paula von. Flora Monacensis, seu plantae sponte circa Monachium nascentes. München, 1811-1818. CHF 20,000 – 30,000
    Koller, Mar. 20: French Bible manuscript. Latin manuscript on parchment. With 81 illuminated, ornamental and figurative initials. Paris, c. 1250. CHF 90,000 – 120,000
    Koller Auctions
    Books & Autographs
    20 March 2024
    Koller, Mar. 20: Gradual for the use of a Dominican convent. Latin manuscript on parchment, with Flemish rubrics in black and red. Mecheln (?), c. 1520. CHF 25,000 – 40,000
    Koller, Mar. 20: Calendar. French manuscript on parchment. With 12 large colored thorn leaf initials on a gold background. Paris, c. 1380/1390. CHF 40,000 – 60,000
    Koller, Mar. 20: Freud, Sigmund. Collection of 23 handwritten letters to Alphonse Maeder in Zurich. In addition to 4 letter drafts from Maeder to Freud. 2 February 1910 - 21 September 1913. CHF 50,000 – 80,000
    Koller, Mar. 20: Jung, Carl Gustav. Collection of 26 autograph and 3 typescript letters and a postcard to Alphonse Maeder. 1911-1918. CHF 20,000 – 30,000
    Koller, Mar. 20: Nietzsche, Friedrich, philosopher. Handwritten letter signed to Richard Wagner. Basel, September 27, 1876. CHF 20,000 to 30,000
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    19th Century Shop. Darwin and Wallace, first printing of the first paper on natural selection
    19th Century Shop. Shakespeare’s Poems, first collected edition
    19th Century Shop. Walt Whitman portrait inscribed with a Leaves of Grass poem
    19th Century Shop. Major Elizabeth Barrett Browning manuscript notebook
    19th Century Shop. Spock's Baby Book, original MS
    19th Century Shop. Cellarius, Harmonia Macrocosmica, the great celestial atlas
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