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Auction Name Books Total Sales (GBP) 11,503.00
Auction Date October 11, 2017 - October 11, 2017 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 10,062.00
Sale Number #371 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 13,457.00
Total Lots 243
Sold Lots 184 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 14,002.00
% of Lots Sold 75.72% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 18,747.00
Unsold Lots 59 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 61.36%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
14 [George Berkeley]

The Analyst; or, a Discourse Addressed to an Infidel Mathematician.

 1734 GBP 800.00 - 1,300.00 GBP 760.00
1

Traditional Bookbinding Tools in 3 containers,

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 700.00
212

Ranges in old Imperial Album with issues to 1927 including Great Britain (188, 88 QV) and 2,162 British Empire; 

 to 1927 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 230.00
31

Bus & Coach Timetable and Excursion leaflets & brochures

 1950s to 1990s GBP 150.00 - 170.00 GBP 195.00
216

George VI Commonwealth collection in album, all mint with some UM;

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 185.00
105 Ellis Peters (Edith Mary Pargeter)

One Corpse Too Many, 

 1979 GBP 130.00 - 180.00 GBP 170.00
34

Bus Timetables of Scotland 1952-1983

 1952-1983 GBP 100.00 - 130.00 GBP 165.00
136 Aime Humbert

Japan and the Japanese Illustrated,

1874 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 160.00
149 Henry Downes Miles

Pugilistica: The History of British Boxing, 

 1906 GBP 70.00 - 100.00 GBP 145.00
49

The Palatine Notebook for 1881

1881 GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 140.00
184

Tuck Oilettes collection in album, chi fly art topography but including some military and ethnology, “Wide-Wide World” and others.

GBP 130.00 - 170.00 GBP 130.00
98 G.D. Armour and Crascredo

Humour in the Hunting Field, Hunting in Hard Times,

1928 GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 125.00
236

British Commonwealth M&U ranges in stockbook

 GBP 90.00 - 110.00 GBP 125.00
106 Ellis Peters (Edith Mary Pargeter)

Monk’s-Hood,

1980 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 115.00
232

Largely European ranges including all-period collection of Switzerland in Album, VG mint or UM France on stockleaves

 1900s GBP 120.00 - 150.00 GBP 110.00
5

Folio Society publications all in slipcases

 GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 105.00
17 Charles Morton

The Doctrine of the Sphere, Part the First, 

 1758 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 105.00
107 Ellis Peters (Edith Mary Pargeter)

The Leper of Saint Giles, 

 1981 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 105.00
111 Ellis Peters

The Virgin in the Ice,

1982 GBP 70.00 - 100.00 GBP 105.00
113 Ellis Peters

The Devil’s Novice,

1983 GBP 70.00 - 100.00 GBP 105.00
75

A Report of the Proceedings in Cases of High Treason [The Trial of John McCann for instigating a rebellion in Ireland],

1798 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 100.00
242

Album of GB Entire Letters 1774-1848

1774-1848 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 98.00
4

Folio Society publications, all in slipcases

 GBP 50.00 - 70.00 GBP 92.00
43

Collection of colour slides of steam locomotives of Indonesia, the photos taken around 1980

 around 1980. GBP 40.00 - 50.00 GBP 92.00
51

Victorian leather-bound Photo Albums

 GBP 50.00 - 70.00 GBP 90.00
  • 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
    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
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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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