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Auction Name Two Day Book Sale Total Sales (GBP) 13,011.60
Auction Date July 07, 2022 - July 08, 2022 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 9,945.00
Sale Number #70722 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 13,885.00
Total Lots 333
Sold Lots 165 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 18,745.00
% of Lots Sold 49.55% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 26,266.00
Unsold Lots 168 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 49.54%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
249

THE NORWICH GAZETTE

 1733-35 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 624.00
265 EDWARD QUIN

AN HISTORICAL ATLAS IN A SERIES OF MAPS OF THE WORLD AS KNOWN AT DIFFERENT PERIODS CONSTRUCTED UPON AN UNIFORM SCALE AND COLOURED ACCORDING TO THE POLITICAL CHANGES OF EACH PERIOD ACCOMPANIED BY A NARRATIVE OF THE LEADING EVENTS EXHIBITED IN THE MAPS FORM

 1836 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 624.00
320

TITANIC DISASTER

 GBP 400.00 - 500.00 GBP 480.00
91 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

THE PLAYS

 1825 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 444.00
92 RICHARD F BURTON

THE BOOK OF THE SWORD

 1884 GBP 300.00 - 350.00 GBP 432.00
267 FRANCIS BLOMEFIELD & CHARLES PARKIN

AN ESSAY TOWARDS THE TOPOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF NORWICH

 1805-10 GBP 400.00 - 500.00 GBP 408.00
209

THE HOLY BIBLE...

 1615? GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 384.00
259 ROALD AMUNDSEN

THE SOUTH POLE, AN ACCOUNT OF THE NORWEGIAN ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION IN THE 'FRAM' 1910-1912

 1912 GBP 400.00 - 450.00 GBP 360.00
212

TESTAMENTI VETERIS BIBLIA SACRE SIVE LIBRI CANONICI PRISCAE LUDAEORUM ECCLESIAE A DEO TRADITI...

 1593 GBP 400.00 - 500.00 GBP 336.00
17 RANDOLPH STOW

MIDNITE, THE STORY OF A WILD COLONIAL BOY

 F W Cheshire GBP 60.00 - 90.00 GBP 228.00
166 WILLEM JACOB'S GRAVESANDE

MATHEMATICAL ELEMENTS OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY CONFIRM'D BY EXPERIMENTS OR AN INTRODUCTION TO SIR ISAAC NEWTON'S PHILOSOPHY...

 1747 GBP 200.00 - 250.00 GBP 192.00
99 [STEPHANIE FELICITE COMTESSE DE GENLIS]

THE AFFECTING HISTORY OF THE DUCHESS OF C - WHO WAS CONFINED NINE YEARS IN A HORRID DUNGEON UNDERGROUND WHERE LIGHT NEVER ENTERED, A STRAW MATTRESS BEING HER ONLY RESTING PLACE AND BREAD AND WATER HER ONLY SUPPORT CONVEYED HER BY MEANS OF A TURNING BOX BY

 circa 1830 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 180.00
222 ANNE PRATT

2 titles: THE FLOWERING PLANTS AND FERNS OF GREAT BRITAIN

 1850-57 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 180.00
339

Packet:

 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 168.00
47 REGINALD HILL 'DICK MORLAND'

2 titles: HEART CLOCK

 1973 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 144.00
313 THOMAS WALSH & THOMAS ALLOM

CONSTANTINOPLE AND THE SCENERY OF THE SEVEN CHURCHES OF ASIA MINOR ILLUSTRATED...

 circa 1839 GBP 250.00 - 300.00 GBP 144.00
22 KIT WILLIAMS

3 titles: MASQUERADE

 1982 GBP 60.00 - 90.00 GBP 132.00
24 KENNETH ROBERT HENDERSON MACKENZIE

THE MARVELLOUS ADVENTURES AND RARE CONCEITS OF MASTER TYLL OWLGLASS

 1860 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 132.00
86 MAXIME DU CAMP

UNE HISTOIRE D'AMOUR

 1888 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 132.00
112 PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

THE SENSITIVE PLANT

 1911 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 132.00
250 ROBERT FITCH

VIEWS OF THE GATES OF NORWICH MADE IN THE YEARS 1792-3 BY THE LATE JOHN NINHAM WITH AN HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION EXTRACTS FROM THE CORPORATION RECORDS AND PAPERS OF THE LATE JOHN KIRKPATRICK...

 1861 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 132.00
171 W HENRY HILL, ARTHUR F HILL AND ALFRED E HILL

ANTONIO STRADIVARI, HIS LIFE AND WORK (1644-1737)

 1902 GBP 120.00 - 180.00 GBP 120.00
176 EDWARD JONES BARD TO THE PRINCE

MUSICAL AND POETICAL RELICKS OF THE WELSH BARDS...

 1808 GBP 50.00 - 75.00 GBP 120.00
340

Great Northern Railway Company booklet of numbered and perforated railway tickets/warrants issued circa 1870 in connection with the Bedfordshire election of that year and associated with Lieut-Col Stewart's campaign

 circa 1870 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 120.00
77 AGATHA CHRISTIE

THE AGATHA CHRISTIE COLLECTION

 circa 2001 GBP 50.00 - 75.00 GBP 108.00
  • 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.
  • Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: McCarthy (Cormac). Cities of the Plain, N.Y., 1998, First Edn., signed on hf. title; together with Uncorrected Proof and Uncorrected Advance Reading Copies, both signed by the Author. €800 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Stanihurst (Richard). De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis, Libri Quattuor, sm. 4to Antwerp (Christi. Plantium) 1584. First Edn. €525 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Fleischer (Nat.) Jack Dempsey The Idol of Fistiana, An Intimate Narrative, N.Y., 1929, First Edn. Signed on f.e.p. by Rocky Marciano. €400 to €600.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Smith - Classical Atlas, Lond., 1820. Bound with, Smiths New General Atlas .. Principal Empires, Kingdoms, & States throughout the World, Lond. 1822. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Rare Auction Catalogues – 1856: Bindon Blood, of Ennis, Co. Clare: Sotheby & Wilkinson. €320 to €450.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Mavor (Wm.)] A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of America to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century, 28 vols. (complete) Lond., 1810. €300 to €400.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Mc Carthy (Cormac). Outer Dark, N.Y. (Random House)1968, Signed by Mc Carthy. €250 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Three signed works by Ted Huges - Wodwo, 1967; Crow from the Life and Songs of the Crow, 1970; and Tales from Ovid, 1997. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: The Garden. An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture in all its Branches, 7 vols. lg. 4to Lond. 1877-1880. With 127 colored plates. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Procter (Richard A.) Saturn and its System: Containing Discussions of The Motion (Real and Apparent)…, Lond. 1865. First Edn. €160 to €220.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Ashe] St. George, Lord Bishop of Clogher, A Sermon Preached to the Protestants of Ireland, now in London,... Oct. 23, 1712, London 1712. Second Edn. €130 to €180.
  • 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
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