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Auction Name Online Sale: Books and Works on Paper Total Sales (GBP) 72,647.00
Auction Date June 16, 2022 - June 16, 2022 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 46,830.00
Sale Number #2244 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 66,620.00
Total Lots 266
Sold Lots 233 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 53,730.00
% of Lots Sold 87.59% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 76,370.00
Unsold Lots 33 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 95.13%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
171 Niven (David)

Bring on the Empty Horses

1975 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 3,750.00
224 Israelian (Garik) and Brian May (editors),

Starmus. 50 Years of Man in Space

2014 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 2,250.00
242 Jardine (Sir William)

The Naturalist's Library

1834-43 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 2,000.00
32 Steuart or Stewart (Walter)

The ABC with the shorter Catechisme Appointed by the General Assembly to be a Directory for Catechising of such as are of a weaker Capacity,manuscript

1714 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,690.00
57 Paley (William)

The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy

1749 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,625.00
225

.- The Pontifical Academy of Sciences. Plenary Session on Science and Sustainability

2016 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,375.00
109 Hume (David) & Tobias Smollett.

The History of England

c.1860 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,062.50
9

Missale Romanum

1585 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 937.50
97 Dickens (Charles)

Our Mutual Friend

1865 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 937.50
98 Dickens (Charles)

Our Mutual Friend

1865 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 937.50
155

Magic. Supernatural.- Tales of Magic and Mystery

1927-8 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 937.50
267 Dugdale (Sir William)

The Antiquities of Warwickshire

1730 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 937.50
103 Dickens (Charles)

The Works ...

c.1880 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 875.00
163 Grahame (Kenneth)

The Wind in the Willows

GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 875.00
166 Tolstoy (Count Lev Nikolayevich "Leo")

War and Peace

1938 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 875.00
181 Gorham (Maurice)

The Local

1939 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 875.00
235 Pratt (Anne)

The Flowering Plants, Grasses, Sedges, an Ferns of Great Britain

c.1870 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 875.00
50 Fielding (Henry)

The Works

1762 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 812.50
54 Sa'di.

Persian fables.- Sa'di. Select fables from Gulistan

1774 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 750.00
90 Dickens (Charles)

Bleak House

1853 GBP 200.00 - 400.00 GBP 750.00
73 Thomson (W.)

The Morning of Execution, Newgate Prison

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 715.00
152 Boswell (James)

The Life of Samuel Johnson

1925 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 687.50
190 Cundall (H.M.)

Kate Greenaway Pictures

1921 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 687.50
236 Sowerby (John Edward)

English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants

1863-99. GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 687.50
3 Machiavelli (Niccolò)

Discorsi di Niccolo Machiavelli cittadino, et segretario fiorentino sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio

?1543. GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 625.00
  • 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.
  • 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
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    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
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