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Auction Name Books, Autographs, Photographs, Ephemera, Postcards, and Postage Stamps. Total Sales (GBP) 5,816.70
Auction Date April 02, 2025 - April 02, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 5,092.00
Sale Number #433 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 7,300.00
Total Lots 138
Sold Lots 103 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 6,672.00
% of Lots Sold 74.64% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 9,610.00
Unsold Lots 35 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 60.53%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
18

Bob Geldof "Is That It?" Sidgwick & Jackson, 1986, first edn., signed & inscribed by Bob Geldof and Paul Young on front endpapers,

1986 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 178.25
130

Carton with M&U world ranges in stockbooks, in binders, etc, with interest in New Zealand from 1900s including better Officials & Life Insurance,

1900s GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 155.25
90

Film Scenes issued by Picturegoer, late-1940s and 1950s, mostly D and W series. Duplication. Fine throughout. (293)

1950s GBP 120.00 - 150.00 GBP 138.00
53

UK Industrial Railways, an accumulation of PC size photos of steam locomotives, 1930s/60s, plus few later coloured PPCs; includes traction engines

1930s/60s GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 126.50
85

Film Stars and few vocalists, largely male, mostly RPs, chiefly 1930s/ 1950s, many in plastic sleeves. Many famous names. VG/VF (408)

1930s/1950s GBP 150.00 - 180.00 GBP 126.50
1

Collection of 1830s/1920s Billheads and few correspondence cards from Booksellers, Stationers and Printers, largely UK, few France and Egypt,

1830s/1920s GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 120.75
8

Anthony Browne "Voices in the Park", Doubleday, 1998, first edition in d/jkt, signed and inscribed by the author with a cartoon on front endpaper.

1998 GBP 50.00 - 70.00 GBP 120.75
73

Comic collection, 1900s/1970s, with many named artists especially Donald McGill, plus Mabel Lucie Attwell, Cynicus, Fred Spurgin, and various others.

1900s/1970s GBP 120.00 - 150.00 GBP 120.75
113

Merchant Shipping 1900s to 1960s, with many Officials from 1900s, later coloured art types, and RPs of all periods. Includes Liners, coastal steamers

1900s to 1960s GBP 120.00 - 150.00 GBP 120.75
2

Chinese Game of 'Four Winds' 1920s, complete with 148 'Mah Jong' type bakelite tiles, plus four blanks, counters & dice,

1920s GBP 120.00 - 150.00 GBP 115.00
71

Comic collection, 1900s/1970s, with many Donald McGills and other named artists, majority 1930s/1960s. Some PU. Mainly Good/VF (327).

1900s/1970s GBP 120.00 - 150.00 GBP 115.00
72

Comic collection, 1900s/1970s, with many Donald McGills and other named artists, majority 1930s/1960s. Some PU. Mainly Good/VF (370).

1900s/1970s GBP 130.00 - 160.00 GBP 115.00
88

Film Stars and few vocalists, all male, all 'Picturegoer', mostly D and W series, many in plastic sleeves, VG/VF. (293)

GBP 100.00 - 130.00 GBP 112.70
10

Leather bindings including "Works of Shakespeare" in fine prize-binding; Egmont Hake "Paris Originals", 1878, inscribed by the author, 20 etchings,

1878 GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 105.80
87

Film Stars, all female, 'Picturegoer' series D and W, a collection in plastic sleeves, some light duplication, fine throughout. (194)

GBP 70.00 - 100.00 GBP 105.80
129

Yorkshire topography with some emphasis on North Yorks. Includes 41 street scenes with RPs of Thorner, Kilburn, Gillamoor, Beverley, North Ferriby,

GBP 100.00 - 130.00 GBP 105.80
86

Film Stars, all female, 'Picturegoer' series D and W, a collection in plastic sleeves, fine throughout. (171)

GBP 70.00 - 90.00 GBP 103.50
101

Greater Manchester with many city centre views plus Levenshulme (11, two damaged), Miles Platting, Worsley (post office), Cheadle, and Gatley (2),

GBP 50.00 - 70.00 GBP 103.50
56

W.D. & H.O. Wills "Boer War Medallions", 1900, metal, K size, three different (Redvers, Roberts and Baden-Powell), Cat PS125 each;

1900 GBP 70.00 - 100.00 GBP 98.90
80

Entertainers 1900s to 1960s, Theatre and Cinema, largely RPs with emphasis on Edwardian period and 1940s/50s. Includes coloured publicity types

1900s to 1960s GBP 100.00 - 130.00 GBP 94.30
102

Political Cartoons (34), famous politicians and related items, mostly 1900s/WWI, many relating to Joseph Chamberlain, Lloyd George and the Kaiser.

1900s/WWI GBP 50.00 - 70.00 GBP 94.30
109

Cunard shipping, mainly coloured art types, plus mainly b/w and RP interiors (38). Good to VF (134)

GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 94.30
31

R. Banks (Manchester photographer) "State Visit of the Lord Mayor of London (Alderman Frank Green)......to Manchester...1901"

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 92.00
76

Comic accumulation, mainly 1900s to 1920s, with many named artists including Rene Bull, Phil May, Hassall, P.V. Bradshaw, G.E. Shepheard, Ellam,

1900s to 1920s, GBP 100.00 - 130.00 GBP 92.00
81

Entertainers, mainly Edwardian to 1920s actors and some vocalists, mostly female including few French, with many uncommon items. Mainly RPs

1920s GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 92.00
  • GonnelliAuction 59Antique prints, paintings and mapsMay 20th 2025 GonnelliAuction 59Antique prints, paintings and mapsMay 20th 2025
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Pietro Aquila, Psyche and Proserpina,1690. Starting price 140€
    Gonnelli: Jacques Gamelin, Memento homo quia pulvis es et in pulverem reverteris, 1779. Starting price 300€
    Gonnelli: Giorgio Ghisi, The final Judgement, 1680. Starting price 480€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli Goya y Lucientes Francisco, Los Proverbios.1877. Starting price 1000 €
    Gonnelli: Domenico Peruzzini, Long bearded old man, 1660. Starting price 2200€
    Gonnelli: Enea Vico, Leda and the Swan,1542. Starting price 140€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Andrea Del Sarto [school of], San Giovanni Battista, 1570. Starting price 25000€
    Gonnelli: Carlo Maratta, Virgin Mary and Jesus, 1660. Starting Price 1200€
    Gonnelli: Louis Brion de La Tour, Sphére de Copernic Sphere de Ptolemée / Le Systême de Ptolemée. Le Systême de Ticho-Brahe…, 1766. Starting price 180€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Marc’Antonio Dal Re, Ville di Delizia o Siano Palaggi Camparecci nello Stato di Milano Divise in Sei Tomi Con espressevi le Piante…, Tomo Primo, 1726. Starting price 7000€
    Gonnelli: Katsushika Hokusai, Bird on a branch, 1843. Starting price 100€
  • Dominic Winter AuctioneersMay 14Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration Dominic Winter AuctioneersMay 14Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: (Choiseul-Gouffier, Marie). Voyage Pittoresque de la Grece, 2 vols, 1st edition, 1782-1822. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Gentlemen's Magazine and Historical Chronicle, by Sylvanus Urban, 11 volumes. £700-1,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Shackleton (Ernest). The Heart of the Antarctic, 2 vols, 1st ed, presentation copy, 1909. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Drayton (Michael). Poly Olbion..., London: 1622. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Scheuchzer (Johann Jacob). Ouresiphoites Helveticus, 4 parts in 1, 2nd ed, 1723. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Roberts (Henry, after). Chart of the NW Coast of America and NE Coast of Asia ..., [1784]. £500-800
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Maffei (Giovanni), Indiarum orientalium Occidentaliumque Descriptio..., 1589. £1,200-1,500
    Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Ortelius (Abraham), Typus Orbis Terrarum, [1598]. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Bible [English]. [The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New..., 1613]. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Taylor (John). All the Workes of John Taylor the Water-Poet..., 1630. £1,000-1,500
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Pierpont Morgan Collection. Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains, 1904 & 1906. £2,000-3,000
  • Swann, May 15: Lot 4: Helena Bochoráková-Dittrichová, Z Mého Detství Drevoryty, Prague: Obzina, 1929. First trade edition, signed by the artist. $4,000 to $6,000. Swann, May 15: Lot 4: Helena Bochoráková-Dittrichová, Z Mého Detství Drevoryty, Prague: Obzina, 1929. First trade edition, signed by the artist. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 4: Helena Bochoráková-Dittrichová, Z Mého Detství Drevoryty, Prague: Obzina, 1929. First trade edition, signed by the artist. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 4: Helena Bochoráková-Dittrichová, Z Mého Detství Drevoryty, Prague: Obzina, 1929. First trade edition, signed by the artist. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 10: Nancy Cunard, Negro Anthology, with a tipped-in A.L.S. to Karl Marx's niece, 1934. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 14: Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1845. First edition. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 17: Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun, inscribed first edition, 1959. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 28: Margaret Hill Morris, Private Journal Kept during a Portion of the Revolutionary War, for the Amusement of a Sister, 1836. First edition. $3,000 to $4,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 38: Anna Sewell, Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse, 1877. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 43: Gertrude Stein, Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia, signed presentation copy with photograph of Stein, 1912. First edition. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 48: Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, first edition in the scarce dust jacket, 1927. $6,000 to $8,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 54: Katherine Dunham, large archive of material from her attorney, 1951-53. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 55: Margaret Fuller Signed Autograph Letter, New York City, 1846. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 92: Sonia Delaunay, illus. & Tristan Tzara, Juste Present, deluxe edition with original gouache, 1961. $20,000 to $25,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 93: Flor Garduño, The Sonnets of Shakespeare, 2006. Limited edition. $6,000 to $8,000.
  • 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
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