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Auction Name Books Total Sales (GBP) 13,233.00
Auction Date November 22, 2017 - November 22, 2017 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 12,691.00
Sale Number #372 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 16,106.00
Total Lots 245
Sold Lots 173 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 17,916.00
% of Lots Sold 70.61% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 22,776.00
Unsold Lots 72 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 58.10%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
183

Great Britain EVII & George V M&U collection in album

 GBP 650.00 - 750.00 GBP 500.00
228

Austria 1850-1918 mint & used collection written up in album

 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 400.00
192

GB Commemorative Presentation Packs December 2003 to October 2014

 GBP 300.00 - 330.00 GBP 350.00
229

Austria 1918-1937 mint & used collection written up in album with many sets; includes 1919 Newspaper stamps FU, 1922 Musicians both mint and FU

 GBP 350.00 - 400.00 GBP 350.00
230

Austria 1938-1950 mint & used collection in album with few 1938 Anschluss covers, 1945 Hitler Overprints to 5mk (2) with overprint and perf variations

 GBP 350.00 - 400.00 GBP 350.00
1

Traditional bookbinders’ cloth and papers

 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 340.00
187

Great Britain 1929 PUC £1 fresh mtd mint. 

 GBP 350.00 - 380.00 GBP 340.00
184

Great Britain 1913 2s6d and £1 green VGU

 GBP 350.00 - 450.00 GBP 270.00
186

Great Britain 1929 PUC £1 VGU

 GBP 250.00 - 300.00 GBP 250.00
190

Great Britain Presentation Packs (246) from 1969 to 2017

 GBP 180.00 - 220.00 GBP 230.00
191

GB Commemorative Presentation Pack collection in 4 albums

 GBP 160.00 - 180.00 GBP 210.00
182

GB accumulation with First Day & Commemorative covers in 5 albums including a collection of coin covers (26),

 GBP 180.00 - 220.00 GBP 195.00
40

Southdown Motor Services

 GBP 120.00 - 150.00 GBP 185.00
51

A collection of letters (44) and ephemera

 GBP 70.00 - 100.00 GBP 185.00
52

Archive of papers concerning the sisters Elizabeth Alder (d.1829) of Ryton-on-Tyne and Newcastle

 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 185.00
61 Lt. General Pitt Rivers

Excavations in Cranborne Chase

 GBP 100.00 - 130.00 GBP 185.00
6

Fine collection of Scandinavian Bookplates 1900s to 1970s

 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 160.00
185

Great Britain 1918-1919 Bradbury Wilkinson Seahorses including 2s6d to 10s fine mint

 GBP 180.00 - 220.00 GBP 150.00
227

Austria 1936 Dollfuss Assassination anniversary fine LM Mint. SG 793. Cat £950 (Michel 1500 Euro)

 GBP 250.00 - 300.00 GBP 150.00
74 William Hodge

William Hodge's Notable British Trials series

 GBP 70.00 - 90.00 GBP 145.00
189

Great Britain QE2 ranges in large stockbook & loose

 GBP 140.00 - 160.00 GBP 145.00
58

A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings Upon High Treason and other Crimes and Misdemeanours

 GBP 120.00 - 150.00 GBP 135.00
73 William Hodge

William Hodge's Notable British Trials series

 GBP 70.00 - 90.00 GBP 135.00
2

Concise Album of Manchouko late-1920s comprising a small bound volume of 126 views of Manchuria including the city of Dairen;

 GBP 70.00 - 100.00 GBP 125.00
8

The Annual Register

 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 125.00
  • 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
    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
  • 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.
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