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Auction Name Summer Selection: Modern & Contemporary Editions Total Sales (GBP) 313,440.92
Auction Date July 31, 2024 - July 31, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 196,530.00
Sale Number #1149 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 277,220.00
Total Lots 380
Sold Lots 277 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 290,480.00
% of Lots Sold 72.89% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 404,270.00
Unsold Lots 103 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 77.53%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
5 Banksy

Love Rat

2004 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 17,576.00
3 Banksy

CND Soldiers

2005 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 10,816.00
372 Pablo Picasso

Homme et Femme (Bloch 77)

1927 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 10,816.00
5A Stik

Dancer

2011 GBP 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 GBP 10,140.00
6 Bridget Riley

Leap (Tommasini & Gubay 68)

2008 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 10,140.00
4 Banksy

Monkey Queen

2004 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 9,464.00
11 Roy Lichtenstein

Illustration for 'De Denver au Montana, Depart 27 Mai 1972 (II)' (Corlett 276)

1992 GBP 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 GBP 9,184.00
12 Roy Lichtenstein

Illustration for 'Hum-Bum!'

1992 GBP 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 GBP 9,184.00
8 Damien Hirst

Mementos of the Fat Woman, 2016, from The Currency

2016 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 8,112.00
374 Pablo Picasso

Le Dejeuner sur L'Herbe (Bloch 1024; Cramer 118)

1962 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 7,436.00
7 Damien Hirst

H13-7. Mill Bay, Salcombe, from Where the Land Meets the Sea

2023 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 5,678.40
153 Gary Hume

Spring Angels

2000 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 5,002.40
363 Henri Matisse

Verve Vol. IX, Nos. 35-36

1958 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 4,550.00
194 Grayson Perry

Gay Black Cats MC

2017 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 4,056.00
92 Michael Kagan

Time to Go

2021 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 3,148.80
77 Stik

Holding Hands (Red, Orange, Yellow, Blue & Teal) (signed)

2020 GBP 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,974.40
101 Weiwei Ai

Coca-Cola Vase

2023 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,886.40
199 Paula (1935) Rego

Embarkation, from Six Artists: The Royal College of Art Portfolio 1992 (Rosenthal 76)

1992 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,704.00
215 David Shrigley

I've Got Your Lipstick

2021 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,704.00
316 Salvador Dali

Intra-Uterine Paradesic Locomotion, from Imaginations and Objects of the Future (Field 75-11D; M&L 825a)

1975/6 GBP 1,800.00 - 2,200.00 GBP 2,568.80
87 Martin Whatson

Elephant

2022 GBP 1,800.00 - 2,200.00 GBP 2,433.60
24 Keith Haring

Untitled, from the Valley (see Littman p.141)

1989 GBP 1,800.00 - 2,200.00 GBP 2,361.60
25 Keith Haring

Untitled, from the Valley (see Littman p.137)

1989 GBP 1,800.00 - 2,200.00 GBP 2,361.60
29 Blu

Headquarters

2008 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 2,298.40
255 Terry Frost

Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries II, from The Royal Academy Schools: Portfolio No.1 2004 (Kemp 252)

2004 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 2,298.40
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    Bonhams, now to Oct. 24: AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES. 1785-1851. The Birds of America, from Drawings Made in the United States and their Territories. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 24: ADAMS ON HIS PEAR TREES AND A LOST PORTRAIT BY SALEM ARTIST HANNAH CROWNINSHIELD. ADAMS, JOHN. 1735-1826. $10,000 - $15,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 24: EARLIEST MAP DEVOTED TO NORTH AMERICA. FORLANI, PAULO. fl.1560-1571. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 24: HAMILTON DEFENDS THE CONSTITUTION. HAMILTON, ALEXANDER. 1757-1804. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 24: NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION BROADSIDE. Boston, September 14, 1768. $5,000 - $8,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 23: ONE OF THE EARLIEST ILLUSTRATIONS OF A SURGICAL PROCEDURE. BARTHOLOMAEUS ANGLICUS. $10,000 - $15,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 23: RICHARD FEYNMAN'S ANNOTATED COPY, WITH TWO EARLY FEYNMAN AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPTS. $15,000 - $25,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 23: THE FOUNDATIONS OF MODERN COMPUTING. TURING, ALAN MATHISON. 1912-1954. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 23: FINE OIL PORTRAIT OF ALBERT EINSTEIN BY EUGEN SPIRO. $40,000 - $60,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 23: PENICILLIN MOLD MEDALLION INSCRIBED BY ALEXANDER FLEMING. FLEMING, ALEXANDER. 1881-1955. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 23: APPLE "TWIGGY" MACINTOSH PROTOTYPE USED IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF DEMONSTRATION SOFTWARE. $80,000 - $120,000
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    October 17th, 2024
    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: Abraham Lincoln Signed Letter on Executive Mansion Stationary To Secretary of The Navy re: Appointment for Naval Academy!
    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: Extremely Rare Ben Franklin Printed: Considerations on Keeping Negroes...Part Second. 1762.
    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: An impressively extra-illustrated copy; Including an Original leaf from Shakespeare’s 1623 First Folio!
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    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: Rarest Naval Autograph James Lawrence “Don’t give up the ship On " U.S. Ship Hornet June 19th 1812.
    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: Oversize Ernest Hemingway Signed Photo with long Inscription about Drinking Wine to his dear friend and Secretary Roberto Herrera.
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    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: [Maps] Gio. Ant. Magnini, Italia, 1620.
    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: LAWMAN SALOON JUDGE ROY BEAN Signed Legal Document 1895-RARE!
    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: Autograph Album with James Garfield as President, Chester A. Aurthur as VP, William T. Sherman, Burnside, P.T. Barnum and many more!
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    October 17th, 2024
    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: Thomas Jefferson and James Madison Signed Four Language Ship's Paper.
    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: Hector Berlioz Autograph Musical Quotation Signed.
    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: Important Memorandum the Day after Gettysburg July 5th, 1863 where Lincoln asks all Department Heads of the cabinet to meet him at the Executive Mansion.
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    Bibliotheca Brookeriana:
    A Renaissance Library. The Aldine Collection D-M
    18 October 2024
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 18: Herodianus Syrus, Herodiani Historiarum, Venice, Heirs of Aldo & Torresano, 1524, Parisian binding for Jean Grolier by Jean Picard, ca. 1540
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 18: Musaeus, Opusculum de Herone et Leandro, Venice, Aldo, 1495 (Greek text), interleaved with 1497–1498 (Latin text), English olive morocco by Charles Lewis, the Botfield copy
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 18: Horatius Flaccus, Horatius, Venice, Aldo, 1501, Bolognese brown goatskin (between 1501 and 1503), arms of Mino Rossi and illuminated initials throughout
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 18: Lucretius, De rerum natura, Venice, Aldo, 1500, English early eighteenth-century red morocco, the Fletcher copy
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 18: Dante, Le terze rime, Venice, Aldo, 1502, illuminated, contemporary Bolognese morocco binding
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