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Auction Name Online Sale: Books and Works on Paper Total Sales (GBP) 120,486.64
Auction Date July 25, 2024 - July 25, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 58,135.00
Sale Number #916 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 82,080.00
Total Lots 301
Sold Lots 268 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 67,755.00
% of Lots Sold 89.04% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 95,510.00
Unsold Lots 33 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 126.15%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
46 Richter (Hans), El Lissitzky and Werner Graeff, editors.

G: Material zur elementaren Gestaltung,

1923 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 5,040.00
37 [Hayter (Henry William Goodenough)], "H.H." and others, contributors.

The Rattle,

1896-97. GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 2,142.00
157

Trials.- View of the Trial of Warren Hastings esq. at Westminster Hall,

1788 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,836.80
44 Lissitzky (El) and Frank Lloyd Wright

Wendingen,

1921 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,764.00
234 Decorative Bindings

The Book of Gems. from the Poets and Artists of Great Britain,

1877 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,764.00
56 Tschichold (Jan)

Typographischen Mitteilungen. Sonderheft. Elementare Typographie,

1925 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,638.00
116 Curtis (William)

Flora Londinensis

GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 1,638.00
218 Dickens (Charles)

Martin Chuzzlewit,

GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,638.00
23 Fox Talbot (William Henry).-

The Art-Union, Monthly journal of the Fine Arts,

1846 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,574.40
22 Jones (Owen)

Designs for Mosaic and Tessellated Pavements,

1842 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,512.00
173 Hall (Joseph)

The Works...,

1625 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,512.00
177 Langbaine (Gerard)

An Account of the English Dramatick Poets,

1691 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,512.00
216 Dickens (Charles)

Nicholas Nickleby,

1839 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 1,512.00
52 Meyer (Hannes)

Typed Letter signed, addressed to a student body regarding alterations to the Bauhaus course following student submissions,

1930 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,443.20
66 Goldfinger (Erno) and Colin Penn.

Planning Your Homes,

1945 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,386.00
235 Becher (H.C.R.)

A Trip to Mexico,

1880 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,386.00
53

Bauhaus.- Bauhaus. Organ der kostufra. Sprachrohr der studierenden, nos. 9 & 10,

1931-32. GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 1,260.00
60 Muller-Lehing (Arthur, editor).-

i10, no.5,

1927 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,197.00
124 Saunderson (Nicholas)

The Elements of Algebra, in Ten Books,

1740 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,197.00
68 Cook (Peter, editor)

Archigram 1,

1961 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 1,134.00
122 Mydorge (Claude)

Examen du Livre des Recreations Mathematiques, et de ses problemes en Geometrie, ...

1638 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,134.00
217 Dickens (Charles)

Master Humphrey's Clock,

1840-41. GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,134.00
241 Du Maurier (George)

Peter Ibbetson,

1892 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,134.00
171 Shaw (George Bernard)

Two Autograph Letters signed to J Morley Longdon,

v.d. (2) GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,115.20
6 [Crouch (Nathaniel)], "Richard Buton".

Historical Remarques and Observations of the Ancient and Present State of London and Westminster,

1684 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 1,071.00
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