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Auction Report
Auction Date
April 25, 2024 - April 25, 2024
Page Size: 291 items in 12 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Sir Harry H. Johnston

The Uganda Protectorate

1902 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 189.00
2 David Livingstone

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa

1857 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 201.60
3 David Livingstone

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa

1857 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 252.00
4 John M'Leod

A Voyage to Africa with some Account of the Manners and Customs of the Dahomian People

1820 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 327.60
5 David Roberts

Sketches in Egypt & Nubia

Aalsmeer c.1985 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 428.40
6 David Roberts

Sketches in Egypt & Nubia

Aalsmeer c.1985 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 214.20
7 C.G. Schillings

In Wildest Africa

New York & London 1907 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
8 Henry Morton Stanley

How I Found Livingstone

1872 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 163.80
9 Henry Morton Stanley

Through the Dark Continent

1878 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 126.00
10 Henry Morton Stanley

In Darkest Africa, or the Quest Rescue and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria

1890 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 302.40
11 John Hanning Speke

Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile,

1863 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 352.80
12 William Herrod-Hempsall

The Bee-Keeper's Guide,

1938 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 63.00
13 Bashir E. Allouse

Birds of Iraq,

Baghdad 1960-62 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 138.60
14 R. K. Brooke

South African Red Data Book - Birds, Pretoria

1984 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 44.10
15 Husam al-Daulah Timur Mirza

The Baz-Nama-Yi Nasiri: A Persian Treatise on Falconry

1908 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 403.20
16 Charles Booth

Life and Labour of the People in London,

1902 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,008.00
17 Robert Willis

The Architectural History of the University of Cambridge and of the Colleges of Cambridge and Eton

Cambridge GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 302.40
18

Stratagems of Chess

1817 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 94.50
19 Sir Winston Spencer Churchill

The Second World War

1948-54 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 252.00
20 Richard Cosway

Photographs of a Private Collection of Portrait Drawings of the English School

1902 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 201.60
21

Crests and Monograms.- Album of Crests and Monograms

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 138.60
22 Nicholas Culpeper

The British Herbal and Family Physician

Halifax c.1815 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 403.20
23 Charles Darwin

The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals

1872 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 504.00
24 Alexandre Dumas

The Three Musketeers

1894 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 277.20
25 Jack Davenport

Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction

1869 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 302.40
  • Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Isaac Newton on chemistry and matter, and alchemy, Autograph Manuscript, "A Key to Snyders," 3 pp, after 1674. $100,000 - $150,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Exceptionally rare first printing of Plato's Timaeus. Florence, 1484. $50,000 - $80,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: On the Philosophy of Self-Interest: Adam Smith's copy of Helvetius's De l'homme, Paris, 1773. $40,000 - $60,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: "Magical Calendar of Tycho Brahe" - very rare hermetic broadside. Engraved by Merian for De Bry. c.1618. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Author's presentation issue of Einstein's proof of Relativity, "Erklärung der Perihelbewegung des Merkur aus der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie." 1915. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: First Latin edition of Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed. Paris, 1520. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: De Broglie manuscript on the nature of matter in quantum physics, 3 pp, 1954. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Tesla autograph letter signed on electricty and electromagnetic theory. 1894. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Heinrich Hertz scientific manuscript on his mentor Hermann Von Helmholtz, 1891. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: The greatest illustrated work in Alchemy: Micheal Maier's Atalanta Fugiens. Oppenheim, 1618. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Illustrated Alchemical manuscript, a Mysterium Magnum of the Rosicurcians, 18th-century. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Rare Largest Paper Presentation Copy of Newton's Principia, London, 1726. The third and most influential edition. $60,000 - $90,000
  • Doyle, May 1: Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
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