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Bearnes Hampton and Littlewood: Books, Maps and Prints

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Auction Name Books, Maps and Prints Total Sales (GBP) 129,712.00
Auction Date March 14, 2018 - March 14, 2018 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 47,145.00
Sale Number #BK19 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 71,745.00
Total Lots 489
Sold Lots 434 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 52,345.00
% of Lots Sold 88.75% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 79,700.00
Unsold Lots 55 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 162.75%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
20

MANUSCRIPT VERSE : by Emily Trevenen (with a few additions by E.H.

first half of the 19th cent Not Available GBP 7,018.00
555

INDIA : 3 manuscript maps, one title, ' Sketch Map Shewing the Principal Roads, Civil, Military and Stations under The Three Residences of Fort William, Fort of George and Bombay, AD 1828." 690 x 540 mm, hand coloured, and mounted on linen.

GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 6,897.00
329

CHURCHILL, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer : The World Crisis, 4 vols, maps, plans,

1923-27 GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 GBP 5,808.00
328

CHURCHILL, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer : The River War an Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan

 1899 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 5,566.00
108

EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY : Specimens of Fancy Turning Executed on the Hand or Foot Lathe; with geometric, oval, and eccentric chucks, and elliptical cutting frame.

1869 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 5,203.00
23

COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor : ( 1772-1834 ) English poet, literary critic, philosopher, one of the founders of the Romantic Movement

 undated (1825). Not Available GBP 4,840.00
528A

SUFFRAGETTE : Archive ...

1913 GBP 250.00 - 500.00 GBP 4,114.00
106

CUNARD, Nancy & BANTING, John [editors] Salvo for Russia : A limited edition of new poems, etchings and engravings produced in aid of the Comforts Fund for Women and Children of Soviet Russia

 1942 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 3,509.00
357

SIGNALS BOOK : manuscript on 40 pages, hand coloured flags, contemporary marbled wrappers in modern custom made solander box, small 4to

 c1782 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 2,662.00
582 WYLD, James

A New General Atlas of Modern Geography.

(1838). GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 1,754.50
142 CLARKE, Harry ... (illustrator)

Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen : 24 plates, full gilt vellum, 4to

 1919 GBP 450.00 - 650.00 GBP 1,573.00
579 VASI, Giuseppe

Raccolta Delle Piu Belle Vedute Antiche, E Moderne Di Roma : 2 vols

 1786 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,573.00
573 SAXON, Christopher

Lancastriae : [ Lancashire ] hand coloured map with 'early' hand colouring, 485 x 395 mm, laid down, some offsetting, short tears without loss, good margins1577.

GBP 600.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 1,512.50
458 JARDINE, Sir William

The Naturalist's Library : 14 vols, BIRDS, 419 hand coloured plates, half brown morocco with gilt ornithological devices on the spine, marbled boards, signed bindings, 8vo

 1834-43 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,270.50
271 RALEIGH, Sir Walter

The History of the World : engraved title-page, 'The Minde of the Front' leaf, 7 ex.

1614 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 1,185.80
183 BOURDALOUE, Luigi

Prediche Quaresimali Del Padre Luigi Bourdaloue, Della Compagnia di Gesu : engraved portrait frontispiece, vellum, 4to

 1713 GBP 250.00 - 350.00 GBP 1,064.80
549 CULVERIS, Philippus, et al

Philippi Culverii Introductio in Universam Geographiam : eng.

1697 GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 968.00
21

MANUSCRIPT COOKERY BOOKS: one by Martha Fricker, dated January 1st

 1814 Not Available GBP 871.20
472 STAFFORD, Hugh

A Treatise on Cyder-Making, Founded on long Practice and Experience; with a Catalogue of Cyder-Apples of Character, in Herefordshire and Devonshire : later half calf, 4to

 1753 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 871.20
533 ADMIRALTY CHART : Australia

South Coast Port Phillip Surveyed by Lieutenants T.M.

GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 871.20
122 LOUDON, J.C

The Architectural Magazine, and Journal of Improvement in Architecture, Building, and Furnishing : 5 volume set, illust, full gilt calf, 8vo

 1834-38 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 701.80
450 EVANS, I. B. Pole

The Flowering Plants of South Africa : 13 vols, hand coloured plates, cloth, 4to

 1921-33 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 701.80
193 CICERO, Marcus Tullius

Secundo Volumine Haec Continentur.

1523 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 665.50
447 DARWIN, Charles

The Origin of Species :

1872 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 665.50
222 GROTIUS, Hugo

The Most Excellent Hugo Grotius His Three Books Treating of the Rights of War & Peace : rebound in calf, lacking engraved title, printed title in red & black, folio

 1682 GBP 120.00 - 200.00 GBP 629.20
  • 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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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
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  • 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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