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Auction Name Online Sale: Books and Works on Paper Total Sales (GBP) 89,667.90
Auction Date October 10, 2024 - October 10, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 50,940.00
Sale Number #935 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 72,410.00
Total Lots 273
Sold Lots 235 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 58,990.00
% of Lots Sold 86.08% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 83,710.00
Unsold Lots 38 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 107.12%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
274 Simon (General Edouard-Francois 1769-1827)

Plan & Views of Dumbarton Castle near Glasgow

April 1813 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 3,276.00
124 Mallory (George), E.M. Forster, A.E. Housman etc.-

Pate (Minnie, of the Cambridge University Typewriting Office, 33 Trinity Street, Cambridge)

1895-1950. GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 2,772.00
113

White Army Posters.- 4 Propaganda Posters of White Army Commanders

c.1919-20 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 2,016.00
132 Churchill (Sir Winston)

Divi Britannici: Being a Remark Upon the Lives of all the Kings of this Isle

1675 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,890.00
112

White Army Poster.- Admiral Aleksandr Vasilievich Kolchak, Supreme Commander

c.1919-20. GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,512.00
275

L'Harmonie des Couleurs

1880 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,197.00
185

Visconti: An Historical Tragedy, in Five Acts

1829 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,134.00
235

The Wind in the Willows

1908 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,134.00
279 Drury (Paul) and others.

Collection of over 90 prints

19th and 20th century (90)This lot is sold subject to Artists Resale Rights, details of which can be found in our Terms and Conditions. GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 1,134.00
196

The Woodlanders

1887 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,008.00
238

Photographs from the Collection of the Gilman Paper Company

1985 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,008.00
93 Flaminio (Marcantonio)

In librum psalmorum brevis explanatio

1545 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 945.00
266 Lawrence (T.E.)

Crusader Castles

1936 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 945.00
79 [Turner (William)]

[The First and Seconde Partes of the Herbal...

1568-61 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 882.00
82 Darwin (Charles)

The Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection

1876 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 882.00
141 Bond (William)

The Supernatural Philosopher: or, the Mysteries of Magick

1728 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 882.00
70 Rothschild (Walter)

A Monograph of the Genus Casuarius

1900 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 819.00
74 Chopping (Richard)

20 botanical drawings

?c.1940-50. GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 819.00
171 Dutch School (probably late 18th century or slightly later)

Four sheets of silver brocade paper

circa 1800 or later GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 819.00
256

Woodland landscape

1974 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 819.00
12 English School (18th century)

An original diagram of Yusuf's Well, Cairo Citadel, Egypt

late 18th century GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 756.00
36 Shackleton (Ernest H., editor)

Aurora Australis.

1907 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 756.00
133 Marvell (Andrew) and others. and others.

Collection of Poems on Affairs of State

1689 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 756.00
186

The Poetical Works

1832 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 756.00
255 Exter (Alexandra) and Marie Colmont.

Panorama du Fleuve; Panorama de la Montagne; Panorama de la Cote

1937 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 756.00
  • Bonhams, now to Oct. 24: CATESBY, MARK. 1683-1749. The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands. $100,000 - $150,000
    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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    October 17th, 2024
    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.
    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: VOLTAIRE Signed Receipt about a partial payment of debt for the Duke of Wuerttemberg.
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    October 17th, 2024
    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!
    One of a Kind Collectibles Auctions
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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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  • Sotheby’s
    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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