Forum Auctions: Online Sale: Books and Works on Paper, 2303, London

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Auction Report
Auction Date
February 29, 2024 - February 29, 2024
Page Size: 297 items in 12 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
101 Margaret Seguier

Royal Navy Interest.- Stewart (Margaret) Commonplace Book, manuscript in two hands

 [c.1825] GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 131.20
102

Music.- [Wade (Joseph)] [Urganda], manuscript 3 act opera,

 [?c. 1830] GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 189.00
103

Politicians.- Collection of letters and postcards

 19th century GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,574.40
104

Musicians & Theatrical.- Collection of letters and postcards

 19th -- 20th centuries GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 446.08
105 Edmund Wickes

Log for the Ship Strathfieldsaye Bound for Port Philip which left the Port of London Dec 8th 1852..., autograph manuscript

 1852-53 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 209.92
106

Crimean War.- Letter from a lieutenant in the camp before Sebastopol unsigned

 [1855] GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
107 J.H. Wardle

Six Comic Illustrations as given on very many occasions Gratuitously for Charitable and Other Purposes at Readings and Concerts &c., illustrate...

 [?Nottingham], [c.1880] GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
108 Sir Walter Parratt

"The face of death". Anthem sung at Queen Victoria's funeral, autograph music signed by Parratt

 1904 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
109 John Garland

Archive relating to Garland who held various significant government posts as a cabinet minister including Attorney General in several Australian governments...

 v.s., v.d., 1916-20s GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
110 Albert Smith

Smith (Albert, 363rd Mechanical Transport Coy, d. 1918) Large collection of letters (and some small photographs) from Smith to his wife Nancy and family

 1917-18; GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
111 Walter Edwards

Edwards (Walter) Diary of service in Egypt and Palestine, manuscript

 [1917]-18 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 262.40
112 Mussolini (Benito) & Victor Emmanuel III (King of Italy)

Commission of Lieutenant Colonel Romanelli of Artillery to be director of the artillery directorate of Messina, D.s. "Mussolini" & "Victor...

 Rome, 1926 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 157.44
113 H. Fearnall

World War II Photographs

 1944-5. GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 170.56
114 Ruth Rendell

"Barbara Vine". The Blood Doctor, original draft typescript,

 [c.2002] GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 223.04
115 Publius Terentius Afer

Publii Terentii Afri Comoediae sex, edited by A.H. Westerhovius

 Glasgow 1742 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 378.00
116 Sophocles

Tragoediae quae extant septem

 Glasgow 1745 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
117 Aristotle.

De Poetica, edited by Theodore Goulston

 Glasgow 1745 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 428.40
118 Steele (Sir Richard) and Joseph Addison.

[The Tatler] The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq., 4 vol.

 Glasgow 1747 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
119 Marcus Tullius Cicero

Opera quae supersunt omnia20 vol.

 Glasgow 1748-1749. GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 504.00
120 Francis Hutcheson

Philosophiae moralis institutio compendiaria libris III

 Glasgow 1745 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
121 Christiaan Huygens

Cosmotheoros: or, Conjectures concerning the planetary worlds and their inhabitants,

Glasgow 1757 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 693.00
122 Thucydides.

Bellum Peloponnesiacum, 8 vol.

 Glasgow 1759 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 189.00
123 Giovanni Battista Guarini

Il Pastor Fido,

1763 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
124 Edward Somerset, 2nd Marquis Worcester

A Century of the names and scantlings of such inventions, as at present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected, ...

 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 302.40
125 James Edward Buchanan Boswell

An Account of Corsica, the journal of a tour to that island, and memoirs of Pascal Paoli,

Glasgow 1768 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
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    Books, Maps, Modern Literature
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    Australian Book Auctions, May 14/15: ORWELL, George. ANIMAL FARM. London, Secker & Warburg, 1945. $8,000 to $12,000 AUD.
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    Australian Book Auctions
    Books, Maps, Modern Literature
    May 14 (US) / May 15 (Australia)
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  • Gonnelli
    Auction 51
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 14st 2024
    Gonnelli: Leonard Bramer, The descent from the cross, 1634. Starting price 3200€
    Gonnelli: Gustav Hjalmar de Morner Karel, Rome’s Carnival, 1820. Starting price 1000€
    Gonnelli: Various Authors, Mater Dolorosa, 1700. Starting price 200€
    Gonnelli: Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Carcere Oscura, 1790. Starting price 180€
    Gonnelli: Jan Brueghel, Marine fauna view, 1620 ca. Starting price 28000€
    Gonnelli: Ippolito Scarsella, Mary and Christ with Sant Rocco and Arch-Angel Michele,1615. Starting price 8000€
    Gonnelli: Hans Sebald Beham, Adam and Eve, 1543. Starting price 600€
    Gonnelli: Francesco Burani, Baccanale, 1630. Starting Price 280€
    Gonnelli: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, Plance from Ventiquattr’ore, 1675. Starting price 800€
    Gonnelli: Giuseppe Angeli, Livorno’s Plan, 1793. Starting price 240€
    Gonnelli: XIV Century Artist, Capital “N” letter, 1350 ca. Starting price 340€
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