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Auction Name Prints, Maps and Posters Total Sales (GBP) 14,337.42
Auction Date May 15, 2024 - May 15, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 8,120.00
Sale Number #51524 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 13,410.00
Total Lots 147
Sold Lots 130 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 12,480.00
% of Lots Sold 88.44% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 20,060.00
Unsold Lots 17 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 71.47%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
12 George Washington Bacon

'Bacon's Chart of Useful Knowledge'

1905 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 684.75
139 Stanley Charles Rowles

'Great Western Railway, Looe South Cornwall for Ideal Homes and Holidays' (Railway Travel Poster)

GBP 200.00 - 400.00 GBP 448.20
27 Walter Sickert

'Mother and Daughter

GBP 200.00 - 400.00 GBP 423.30
130 Tove Jansson

'Moomintroll & Little My, Snufkin, Snorkmaiden and Sniff' (Moomin Series)

1956 GBP 60.00 - 100.00 GBP 423.30
52 Charles Mottram, after Henry Courtney Selous

'Jerusalem in Her Fall'

GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 398.40
24 John Raphael Smith, after Joseph Wright of Derby

'The Widow of an Indian Chief Watching the Arms of Her Deceased Husband'

1789 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 373.50
26 Walter Sickert

'Sonia Alomis'

GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 373.50
37 John Johnson, after Allan Ramsay

'Lady Erskine'

GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 373.50
16 John Speed

Kent with her Cities and Earles Described and Observed' (Map of the County of Kent)

GBP 200.00 - 400.00 GBP 348.60
40 Spy [Leslie Matthew Ward]

On the Terrace

1893 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 323.70
82 Henry Moore

Petals (from La Poesie)

GBP 200.00 - 400.00 GBP 323.70
34 William Wynne Ryland, after Angelica Kauffman

'O Venus Regina Cnidi Paphique' and 'Venus presenting Helen to Paris

GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 298.80
50 Charles Hunt, after John Frederick Herring

'Grand Stand, Ascot'

1839 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 273.90
31 Sebastian Leclerc, after Charles Lebrun

'Defaite de l'armee espagnole pres de Bruges sous la Condivite de Marsin, Parles Trouppes Du Roy Louis XIV en Lannee 1667'

GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 249.00
93 After Raoul Dufy

'Ascot 1935'

GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 224.10
74 Vernon Gibberd

'Edinburgh with Salisbury Crags'

GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 199.20
91 William Orpen

'The Bather'

GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 199.20
33 Armedeo Gabrieli, after William Hamilton

Months of the Year

GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 186.75
94 David Hockney

'The Rakes Progress'

GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 174.30
109 Graham Ovenden

'Selina'

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 174.30
4 Willem Blaeu

'Rutlandia Comitatus, Rutlandshire' (Map of the County of Rutland)

GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 161.85
9 Joan Blaeu

Suthsexia vernacule Sussex' (Map of the County of Sussex)

GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 161.85
3 Herman Moll

'Sussex' (Map of the County of Sussex)

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 149.40
36 Sayer & Bennett (publishers)

'The Pretty Milleners'

1781 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 149.40
102 Vladimir Griegorov Tretchikoff

Chinese Girl (The Green Lady)

GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 149.40
  • Old World Auctions (Sept 11): Lot 732. Early Announcement of Continental Congress' Declaration of Independence (1776) Est. $12,000 - $15,000
    Old World Auctions (Sept 11): Lot 361. One of Ortelius' Most Decorative Maps in Full Contemporary Color (1585) Est. $9,500 - $12,000
    Old World Auctions (Sept 11): Lot 55. Early Edition of One of the Most Important 16th Century Maps of the New World (1545) Est. $6,000 - $7,500
    Old World Auctions (Sept 11): Lot 27. Fascinating Japanese Satirical Map of the World Published After WWI (1924) Est. $2,750 - $3,500
    Old World Auctions (Sept 11): Lot 637. Complete Example of De Bry's Petits Voyages, Part VIII (1606) Est. $4,750 - $5,500
    Old World Auctions (Sept 11): Lot 50. Extremely Rare Uncut Sheet from Sylvanus's 1511 Edition of Ptolemy's Geographia (1511) Est. $2,000 - $2,300
    Old World Auctions (Sept 11): Lot 399. One of the Most Desired Maps of Ireland by John Speed (1610) Est. $2,750 - $3,500
    Old World Auctions (Sept 11): Lot 689. Pictorial Map of Melbourne in the Style of MacDonald Gill (1934) Est. $900 - $1,100
    Old World Auctions (Sept 11): Lot 652. Blaeu's Carte-a-Figures Map of Africa in Full Contemporary Color (1663) Est. $3,000 - $3,750
    Old World Auctions (Sept 11): Lot 729. Hand-Colored Image of David Handing the Letter to Uriah (1518) Est. $1,000 - $1,300
    Old World Auctions (Sept 11): Lot 533. Eight-Volume Set Recounting Travels of Anacharsis in Greece (1789) Est. $800 - $950
  • Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    September 11
    Printed Books, Maps & Manuscripts, The Polydore Vergil bound for Queen Mary I
    Dominic Winter, Sep. 11: Exquemelin (Alexandre Olivier). The History of the Bucaniers of America..., 4 parts in one, 3rd edition, 1704. £1,000-1,500
    Dominic Winter, Sep. 11: Greenough (George Bellos). A Physical and Geological Map of England & Wales..., Geological Society, July 1865. £5,000-8,000
    Dominic Winter, Sep. 11: Illuminated Psalter. Manuscript Psalter with Calendar, Flanders or North-East France, late 13th century. £7,000-10,000
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    September 11
    Printed Books, Maps & Manuscripts, The Polydore Vergil bound for Queen Mary I
    Dominic Winter, Sep. 11: Book of Hours. Illuminated manuscript on vellum, Use of Rome, in Latin, Florence, c. 1470s. £3,000-5,000
    Dominic Winter, Sep. 11: Henry VIII (King of England). Assertio septem sacramentorum adversus Martinum Lutherum, Antwerp: Michiel Hillen, 1522. £3,000-5,000
    Dominic Winter, Sep. 11: Binding for Queen Mary I of England and Ireland. Polydori Vergilii Urbinatis Anglicae..., 1555. £20,000-30,000
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    September 11
    Printed Books, Maps & Manuscripts, The Polydore Vergil bound for Queen Mary I
    Dominic Winter, Sep. 11: Llwyd (Humphrey). The Breviary of Britayne..., 1st edition in English, 1573. William Lambarde's copy. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, Sep. 11: Embroidered Binding. The Whole Book of Psalmes..., Imprinted for the Company of Stationers, 1634. £700-1,000
    Dominic Winter, Sep. 11: Astronomy Manuscript. [Shakerley, Jeremy (1626-c.1655). Tabulae Britannicae, the British tables…], late 17th c. £1,000-1,500
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    September 11
    Printed Books, Maps & Manuscripts, The Polydore Vergil bound for Queen Mary I
    Dominic Winter, Sep. 11: Elew (Jan Barend, publisher). Nederlandsch bloemwerk, Amsterdam: J.B. Elwe, 1794. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, Sep. 11: Vellucent Art Nouveau Binding [Book of Common Prayer] by Herbert Granville Fell, 1900. £1,000-1,500
    Dominic Winter, Sep. 11: Palladio (Andrea). The Architecture of A. Palladio; in Four Books, 2nd edition, 1721. £2,000-3,000
  • Sotheby’s
    10 September 2024
    The Shem Tov Bible
  • Koller Auctions
    Books & Autographs
    18 September 2024
    Koller, Sep. 18: Cowper, William. Anatomia corporum humanorum ab excellentissimis… Utrecht, 1750. CHF 25,000 to 40,000
    Koller, Sep. 18: Bell, Thomas. A Monograph of the Testudinata. London [1836-1842]. CHF 20,000 to 30,000.
    Koller, Sep. 18: Gould, John. A monograph of the Trochilidae, or family of humming-birds [and] Supplement completed after the authors death…, London [1849-]1861 and [1880-]1887. CHF 50,000 to 80,000.
    Koller Auctions
    Books & Autographs
    18 September 2024
    Koller, Sep. 18: Gould, John. The birds of New Guinea and the adjacent Papuan Islands, including many new species recently discovered in Australia. CHF 50,000 to 80,000.
    Koller, Sep. 18: Levaillant, François. Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de paradis et des rolliers, suivie de celle des toucans et des barbus. Paris [1801-]1806. CHF 40,000 to 60,000.
    Koller, Sep. 18: Pfinzing, Melchior. Die geverlicheiten und einsteils der geschichten des loblichen streytparen…, Nürnberg, 1517. CHF 40,000 to 60,000.
  • Il Ponte, Sep. 24-25: HAMILTON, Sir William - Campi Phlegraei. Napoli: 1779. € 50,000 - 80,000
    Il Ponte, Sep. 24-25: KIRCHER, Athanasius - Turris Babel. Amsterdam: 1679. € 3,000 - 5,000
    Il Ponte, Sep. 24-25: EDWARDS, George.London - Gleanings of Natural History. Londra: 1758-1764. € 7,000 - 10,000
    Il Ponte, Sep. 24-25: HEVELIUS, Johannes - Cometographia. Danzica: 1668. € 20,000 - 30,000
    Il Ponte, Sep. 24-25: KUPKA, Frantisek - Quatre histoires de blanc et noir. Parigi: 1926. € 10,000 - 15,000
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