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Dominic Winter Book Auctions: Printed Books, Maps and Documents

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Auction Name Printed Books, Maps and Documents Total Sales (GBP) 239,029.88
Auction Date October 05, 2016 - October 05, 2016 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 58,025.00
Sale Number #100516 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 58,025.00
Total Lots 485
Sold Lots 425 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 73,160.00
% of Lots Sold 87.63% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 73,160.00
Unsold Lots 60 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 326.72%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
141 Donovan (Edward, 1768-1837)

Five original watercolour paintings of Tasmanian lepidoptera,

GBP 1,000.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 9,082.00
143 Donovan (Edward, 1768-1837)

Seven original watercolour paintings for An Epitome of the Natural History of Insects of China,

1798 GBP 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 6,214.00
79 Drayton (Michael)

Poly-Olbion

1612 GBP 250.00 - 250.00 GBP 5,975.00
62 Wilkes (Benjamin)

One Hundred and Twenty Copper-Plates of English Moths and Butterflies, Representing their Changes into Caterpillar, Chrysalis and Fly States, and the Plants, Flowers and Fruits, whereon they feed.

1773 GBP 2,000.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 4,780.00
360

Twentieth-Century Literature. A substantial collection of hundreds of letters from notable writers of the mid to late 20th century as collected by Eileen Cond,

mid to late 20th century GBP 740.00 - 740.00 GBP 4,541.00
3 Cary (John)

Cary's New Universal Atlas, containing Distinct Maps of all the Principal States and Kingdoms throughout the World from the Latest and Best Authorities Extant, 1st edition,

1808 GBP 740.00 - 740.00 GBP 4,063.00
142 Donovan (Edward, 1768-1837)

Ten original watercolour paintings for An Epitome of the Natural History of Insects of China,

1798 GBP 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 4,063.00
44 Harris (Moses)

The Aurelian: Or, Natural History of English Insects; Namely Moths and Butterflies.

1778 GBP 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 3,585.00
495 Ainsley (James)

Memoirs of an Unfortunate Young Nobleman, Return'd from a Thirteen Years Slavery in America…

1743 GBP 150.00 - 150.00 GBP 2,748.50
39 Donovan (Edward)

The Natural History of British Insects; Explaining them in their several states, with the periods of their transformations, their food, oeconomy, &c.

1793-1813 GBP 740.00 - 740.00 GBP 2,629.00
37 Curtis (John)

British Entomology; Being Illustrations and Descriptions of the Genera of Insects found in Great Britain and Ireland:

1823-40 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 2,390.00
146 Ehret (Georg Dionysius, 1710-1770)

Group of flowering plants and mosses on a rocky bank,

GBP 150.00 - 150.00 GBP 2,390.00
490 Juvenal (Decio Junio)

D. Ivnii Ivvenalis Satyre

1644 GBP 200.00 - 200.00 GBP 2,330.25
34 Albin (Eleazar)

A Natural History of English Insects. Illustrated with a Hundred Copper Plates, Curiously Engraven from the Life: And exactly Coloured by the Author Eleazar Albin, Painter.

1735 GBP 740.00 - 740.00 GBP 2,210.75
474 Thomas (Gale)

Opuscula Mythologica Physica et Ethica. Graece et Latine

1688 GBP 150.00 - 150.00 GBP 2,210.75
57 Seitz (Dr. Adalbert)

The Macrolepidoptera of the World. A Systematic Account of all the known Macrolepidoptera edited with the assistance of well-known specialists,

1906-1954 GBP 500.00 - 500.00 GBP 2,151.00
199 World. Ortelius (Abraham)

Typus Orbis Terrarum

1570 GBP 500.00 - 500.00 GBP 2,151.00
322

Conjuring & Magic. The personal scrap album of Major Lionel Hugh Branson,

circa 1900s/1930s GBP 250.00 - 250.00 GBP 2,091.25
339

Morrell Family scrap album. A large scrap album containing documents, letters and pedigrees relating to the Morrell family of Oxford,

circa 1760-1900 GBP 250.00 - 250.00 GBP 2,091.25
340

[Ottoline Morrell Birthday Book]. A Book of Strife in the Form of the Diary of an Old Soul, by George MacDonald

1892 GBP 340.00 - 340.00 GBP 1,852.25
63 Wilkes (Benjamin)

Dedication to the Worthy Members of the Aurelian Society... Twelve New Designs of English Butterflies

1742 GBP 400.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,732.75
299 Bakst (Leon)

L'Oeuvre de L?on Bakst pour La Belle au Bois Dormant, Ballet en cinq actes d'apr?s le conte de Perrault, Musique de Tchaikovsky,

1922 GBP 500.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,673.00
323 Churchill (Winston Leonard Spencer, 1874-1965)

Trying to find a safe seat

1908 GBP 50.00 - 50.00 GBP 1,673.00
473 Hooker (Richard)

The Works of... in Eight Books of Ecclesiastical Polity

1662 GBP 150.00 - 150.00 GBP 1,673.00
153 Howitt (Samuel William 1765 - 1822)

A collection of fourteen studies of birds,

GBP 200.00 - 200.00 GBP 1,613.25
  • 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.
  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.
  • 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.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
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    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
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    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
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