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Auction Name Books, Medals, Militaria, Coins, Stamps and Collectables Total Sales (GBP) 21,438.76
Auction Date September 24, 2024 - September 24, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 10,295.00
Sale Number #92424 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 16,300.00
Total Lots 137
Sold Lots 112 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 12,225.00
% of Lots Sold 81.75% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 19,450.00
Unsold Lots 25 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 110.23%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
507 RH Grazebrook

Diary of trips to Kashmir 1924-26-28 by RH Grazebrook, with detailed descriptions of his trips, accompanying photographs, maps, drawings, trade cards,...

1924 GBP 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,545.60
94 Robjent, Richard (ills) and McKelvie, Colin Laurie

The Partridge Studies in Words and Pictures

1993 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,416.80
86 Cade ,Tom J. and Digby, David R. ( illustrator)

The Falcons of the World,

1982 limited edition numbered 13 of 35 copies with an original pencil drawing signed by the artist R. David Digby GBP 200.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,094.80
3 Gurney, Ivor (Private of the Gloucesters)

Severn & Somme

1917 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 875.84
506

Album of 1940's/50's and other film star photographs

1940's/50's GBP 70.00 - 100.00 GBP 772.80
70 Harrison, J C (ills), text by Colin Laurie McKelvie

The Game Birds of the British Isles , memoir by the Hon Aylmer Tryon,

1989 GBP 200.00 - 400.00 GBP 669.76
87 Cade ,Tom J. and Digby, David R. ( illustrator)

The Falcons of the World

1982 limited edition numbered 26 of 35 copies with an original pencil drawing signed by the artist R. David Digby GBP 200.00 - 400.00 GBP 618.24
81 Meinertzhagen, Colonel R.

Birds of Arabia

GBP 200.00 - 400.00 GBP 515.20
82 Millais J.G. -

THE NATURAL HISTORY OF BRITISH GAME BIRDS

1909 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 515.20
511 Rider Haggard

Album of signed letters and photograph of Mr Rider Haggard

GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 489.44
30 Craddock, Harry (compiled by)

The Savoy Cocktail Book

1930 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 386.40
84 [Thorburn, Archibald ]

Thorburn's Birds of Prey

facsimile of 1919 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 386.40
38 Rackham, Arthur (ills.)

The Ingoldsby Legends - Mirth and Marvels by Thomas Ingoldsby

1907 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 334.88
58 Pollard, Hugh B C

Game Birds , illustrated by Philip Rickman,

1929 GBP 150.00 - 350.00 GBP 334.88
101 Perrott, C L E

A Selection of British Birds Part 1

1979 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 334.88
47 , edited by Clifford Bax and Austin O'Spare,

The Golden Hind, a quarterly magazine of art and literature

1922 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 309.12
1 Pratchett, Terry -

nine signed and dedicated first editions to include Jingo

1997 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 283.36
40 Beardsley, Aubrey (ills)

Lucian's True History, translated by Francis Hicks, further illustrations by William Strang and JB Clark

1894 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 283.36
57 Baker, E C Stuart

Indian Ducks and their Allies

1908 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 283.36
125

Isle of Man government Twenty Pounds Dawson, (pick 32s) Queen Elizabeth II specimen, serial number 000000, hole punched through signature

GBP 100.00 - 120.00 GBP 283.36
523

Large collection of vintage Judge's postcards, most being of topographical interest, to include Hastings, Holyhead, Lake Windermere, etc

GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 283.36
124

Isle of Man Government Ten Pounds (pick 31bs) Queen Elizabeth II specimen, serial number 000000, hole punched through signature

GBP 80.00 - 100.00 GBP 257.60
93 Robjent, Richard (ills), Martin, Brian P (text)

Sporting Wildfowl of the British Isles, studies in words and pictures

1999 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 244.72
98

Folio Society to include Thomas Hardy, the Brontes, the Maya, the Aztecs, the Incas, the Babylonians, etc, boxed set and other volumes and one box of the Oxford Library boxed sets to include the Oxford Library of Words and Phrases, the Oxford Library of S

GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 244.72
99 Arnold, E C

British Waders

1924 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 231.84
  • Gonnelli
    Auction 58
    Books, Autographs & Manuscripts
    March 11th-13th 2025
    Gonnelli: Manuscript and illuminated book of hours, mid-15th century.
    Gonnelli: Sumptuous Koran manuscript by Bukhara illuminators in the mid-nineteenth century.
    Gonnelli: Rowling J. K., Harry Potter e la Pietra Filosofale. Firenze: Adriano Salani, 1998.
    Gonnelli: Fontana Lucio, Dix eaux-fortes. Milano: Galerie Schwarz, 1962.
    Gonnelli: Valli Antonio, Il canto de gl'augelli. In Roma, Nicolò Mutij, 1601.
    Gonnelli: Moniglia Giovanni Andrea, Il Mondo Festeggiante. In Firenze: nella Stamperia di S.A.S., 1661.
    Gonnelli: Alighieri Dante, [Divine Comedy with commentary and Life of Dante by Cristoforo Landino]. Danthe alegieri fiorentino. Venezia, Capcasa, 1493.
    Gonnelli: Foresti, Novissime historiarum. Venezia, Rusconi, 1506.
    Gonnelli: Hieronymus (santo), Vita di sancti Padri vulgariter historiada. Venezia, Otino da Pavia, 1501.
    Gonnelli: Ghisi Andrea, Laberinto dato novamente in luce. In Venetia: per Euangelista Deuchino, 1616.
    Gonnelli: Gouvea Antonio (de), Innocentia victrix. [China, Canton], 1671.
    Gonnelli: Napier John, Rabdologiae, seu numerationis per virgulas libri duo. Edinburgi: Andreas Hart, 1617.
    Gonnelli: Ortelius Abraham, Theatrum orbis terrarum. Antverpiae: Aegid. Coppenium Diesth, xx Maii 1570.
  • Sotheby's
    Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
    Sotheby’s: The Shem Tov Bible, 1312 | A Masterpiece from the Golden Age of Spain. Sold: 6,960,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Ten Commandments Tablet, 300-800 CE | One of humanity's earliest and most enduring moral codes. Sold: 5,040,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: William Blake | Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Sold: 4,320,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: The Declaration of Independence | The Holt printing, the only copy in private hands. Sold: 3,360,000 USD
    Sotheby's
    Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
    Sotheby’s: Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sold: 1,920,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Machiavelli | Il Principe, a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began. Sold: 576,000 GBP
    Sotheby’s: Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura, ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBP
    Sotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR
  • ALDE, Mar. 4: JÉRÔME (SAINT). Epistolæ. Parme, s.n., 1480. €15,000 to €20,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 4: DANTE ALIGHIERI. [La Divina Commedia]. Brescia, Bonino de Boninis, 1487. €10,000 to €12,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 4: PLINE L'ANCIEN. Historia naturalis. Parme, Andrea Portilia, 8 juillet 1481. €8,000 to €10,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 4: MÉTHODE D'OLYMPE. De revelatione facta ab angelo beato Methodio in carcere detento. Bâle, Michael Furter, 1504. €8,000 to €10,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 4: ARISTOPHANE. Κωμῳδίαι ἐννέα. Comœdiæ novem. Venise, Alde Manuce, 1498. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 4: ARISTOPHANE. Κωμῳδίαι ἑνδεκα... Comœdiæ undecim cum scholiis antiquis. Genève, Société caldorienne, 1607. €800 to €1,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 4: EURIPIDE. Τραγωδιαι ἑπτακαίδεκα. Tragœdiæ septendecim. Venise, Alde, février 1503. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 4: HIPPOCRATE. Τα ευρισκομενα... Opera omnia quæ extant, in VIII sectiones ex Erotiani mente distributa. Francfort, Claude de Marne et Johann Aubry, 1595. €800 to €1,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 4: HOMÈRE. Ποιήσεις άμφω ήτε Ιλιάς και η Οδύσσεια. Opus utrumque Iliados et Odysseæ. Bâle, Johann Herwagen, 1551. €800 to €1,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 4: PINDARE. Ολύμπια, Πύθια, Νέμεα, Ίσθμια. Olympia, Pythia, Nemea, Isthmia. [Genève], Paul Estienne, 1599. €400 to €500.
    ALDE, Mar. 4: PLATON. Ἅπαντα Πλάτωνος. Omnia opera, cum commentariis Procli in Timæum et Politica. Bâle, Johann Walder, 1534. €800 to €1,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 4: PLINE L'ANCIEN. Historia naturalis. Parme, Andrea Portilia, 8 juillet 1481. €8,000 to €10,000.
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