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Auction Name Antiquarian and Collectors' Books Total Sales (GBP) 53,737.93
Auction Date July 26, 2022 - July 26, 2022 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 23,990.00
Sale Number #72622 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 37,070.00
Total Lots 236
Sold Lots 213 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 28,290.00
% of Lots Sold 90.25% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 43,400.00
Unsold Lots 23 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 123.82%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
3188 MANTELL, Gideon Algernon.

The Fossils of the South Downs; or Illustrations of the Geology of Sussex.

1822 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 2,490.00
3007 FLEMING, Ian.

From Russia With Love.

1963 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 GBP 2,241.00
3031 LYELL, Charles.

Principles of Geology, being an Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface.

1832-1833. GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 2,241.00
3097

[A hand-written 'Log of Proceedings' from six naval vessels written by William Chimmo R.N. during the Opium Wars.

1841-1844. GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 GBP 1,743.00
3140 DUTTON, Clarence E.

Atlas to Accompany the Monograph on the Tertiary History of the Grand Canon District.

1882 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,618.50
3147 AUSTEN, Jane.

Pride and Prejudice.

1894 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 1,245.00
3182

[A hand-written and illustrated hymn-book written in Church Slavonic for the Festal Stikherarion, Russian Old Believer.

early 19th century GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,058.25
3154 HADDON, Walter.

Poematum Gvalteri Haddoni, Legum Doctoris, Sparsim Collectorum, Libri Duo.

1592 GBP 70.00 - 100.00 GBP 933.75
3139 PLATEARIUS, Matthaues. - M. MOLEIRO (editor).

Libro de Los Medicamentos Simples.

2000 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 747.00
3038 MINIATURE BOOK.

The English Bijou Almanac for 1838.

 for 1838. GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 684.75
3080 Blair HUGHES-STANTON.

The Revelation of Saint John the Divine.

1932 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 684.75
3153

Recollections of a Course of Lectures on Familiar Philosophy delivered by Dean Walker Esq. at Fulham in May and June 1815 by The Young Ladies at Miss Ball & Mrs Baird's School, Little Chelsea.

circa 1815. GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 684.75
3008 SOUZA, Francis Newton.

Words and Lines.

1959 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 622.50
3049 GREENOUGH, G.B.

A Critical Examination of the First Principles of Geology in a Series of Essays.

1819 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 622.50
3208 ROY, William.

The Military Antiquities of the Romans in Britain.

1793 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 622.50
3083 MANTELL, Gideon.

A Sketch of the Geology of Surrey.

1840 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 597.60
3126 John WHITEHURST.

An Inquiry into the Original State and Formation of the Earth; deduced from Facts and the Laws of Nature.

 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 597.60
3152

A Tour from Rotterdam to Bergen opt Zoom, Antwerp, Mecklin, & Brussells [sic].

1753 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 547.80
3036 DUMAS, Alexandre.

Le Comte de Monte-Christo [sic.]

1845 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 522.90
3061 MANTELL, Gideon.

A Descriptive Catalogue of the Objects of Geology, Natural History, and Antiquity (Chiefly Discovered in Sussex), in the Museum Attached to the Sussex Scientific and Literary Institution at Brighton.

1836 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 522.90
3191 BECHE, Henry T. de la.

Sections and Views Illustrative of Geological Phaenomena.

1830 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 522.90
3028 WOOLLEY, Hannah.

The Queen-Like Closet, or Rich Cabinet: Stored with all manner of Rare Receipts for Preserving, Candying, and Cookery, Very Pleasant and Beneficial to all Ingenious Persons of the Female Sex. To which is added, A Supplement Presented to all Ingenious Ladi

 1681-1680. GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 498.00
3085 P.I. MARTIN.

A Geological Memoir on a Part of Western Sussex; with Some Observations Upon Chalk-Basins, the Weald-Denudation, and Outliers-by-Protrusion.

1828 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 498.00
3092

BIBLE, In Ge'ez. [A hand-written Ethiopian Coptic Bible in the Ge'ez script.

circa early 19th century GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 435.75
3024 Michael FARADAY.

Chemical Manipulation; Being Instructions to Students in Chemistry.

1827 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 423.30
  • 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
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    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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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
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  • 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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