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Auction Name Online Sale: Books and Works on Paper Total Sales (GBP) 20,637.50
Auction Date January 17, 2018 - January 17, 2018 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 17,300.00
Sale Number #2035 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 24,735.00
Total Lots 137
Sold Lots 101 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 24,400.00
% of Lots Sold 73.72% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 34,705.00
Unsold Lots 36 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 59.47%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
123

Album compiled by Kenneth Fry

1910s-20s. GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 2,000.00
6 Edward Lear.- Colenso (John William)

Ten Weeks in Natal

1855 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 937.50
90 Holinshed (Raphael)

[Chronicles]

[1587] GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 937.50
1 Arkell-Hardwick (A.)

An Ivory Trader in North Kenya: the Record of an Expedition through Kikuyu to Galla-land in East Equatorial Africa

1903 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 812.50
109 Wyld (James)

Maps & Plans, Showing the Principal Movements, Battles & Sieges, in which the British Army was engaged during the War from 1808 to 1814 in the Spanish Peninsula and the South of France

[1840] GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 625.00
25 Griffith (Mrs. M.C.)

Journal of Common Occurences...

1831 - 1832 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 550.00
54 Lilford (Thomas Littleton Powys, 4th Baron)

Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Islands

1891-97 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 500.00
7 Le Vaillant (François)

New Travels into the Interior Parts of Africa

1796 GBP 250.00 - 350.00 GBP 450.00
65 Stuart (James)

and Nicholas Revett. The Antiquities of Athens

1825-30 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 450.00
13 Owen (William Fitzwilliam Wentworth)

Narrative of Voyages to Explore the Shores of Africa

1833 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 425.00
11 Nousveaux (Edouard Auguste, 1811-1867)

Plaine d'Accra

1845 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 375.00
38 Camden (William)

Britain, Or a Chorographicall Description of the Most Flourishing Kingdomes

1610 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 375.00
79 Valerius Maximus (Gaius)

Factorum, et Dictorum Memorabilium Libri Novem

1565 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 375.00
82 Binding

Missale Romanum

1671 bound with Proprium Missarum de Sanctis Ecclesiae Passaviensis, Passau, G. Hõller GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 375.00
23 Company School (19th century)

A Shahin Falcon; Priamus butterfly

[19th century] GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 350.00
39 Grose (Francis)

The Antiquities of England and Wales

[c. 1787]. GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 350.00
122

A group of 15 royal dinner and luncheon menus

1902-73 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 325.00
78 [Abravanel (Judah)] "Leon Hebreu". Dialoghi di Amore, collation: A-Z8, AA-HH8 (HH7-8 blank), woodcut device on title, X8 with lower corner repaired, occasional light foxing, Venice, Domenico Giglio, 1558; bound with Dolce (Lodovico)

Dialogo della Institution delle Donne

1558 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 275.00
30 Payne (John, translator)

The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night

1882-84 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 250.00
133 Harding (Edward)

Portraits of the whole of the Royal Family

1806 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 250.00
87 Hoffmann (Ernst Theodor Amadeus)

Meister Floh: Ein Mährchen in sieben Abentheuern zweier Freunde

1822.<br /><br />? Just before publication, this volume was the target of a major censorship case, which lead to significant portions of the fourth and fifth adventures being removed before publication. GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 237.50
113 Allen (Joseph)

Narrative of the Destruction of His Majesty's Ship Resistance, and of the Miraculous Escape of Thomas Scott, and Three Other Men

1843 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 237.50
16 Terry (Mrs.)

After. [Panoramas of Freetown

[19th century] GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 225.00
29 Willyams (Rev. Cooper)

A Selection of Views in Egypt

1822 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 225.00
88 Slavery

Traité

1825.<br /><br />? Covering the abolition agreement between England and Sweden. Rare. GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 225.00
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    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: EDISON, Thomas. Patent for Edison’s Improvements on the Electric-Light, No. 219,628. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Patent Office], 16 September 1879. $2,000 to $3,000.
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    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
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    Forum Mar. 28: [Langland (William)]. The vision of Pierce Plowman, nowe the seconde time imprinted..., Roberte Crowley, 1550. £8,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: [Shakespeare (William)]. [Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies], second folio edition, [by Tho.Cotes, for Robert Allot], [1632]. £30,000 to £40,000.
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    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Shabthai Tzvi.- Collection of four printed and illustrated broadsides detailing the appearance, rise and fall of the false messiah, Shabthai Tzvi, Augsburg, 1666-67. £40,000 to £60,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Leaf from the Beauvais Missal, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment, [Northern France (perhaps Beauvais or Amiens)], [fourteenth century (c.1310)]. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Aubrey (John). [Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme], manuscript in English, Latin and Greek, [c. 1693]. £30,000 to £50,000.
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    Forum Mar. 28: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Poems on Various Occasions, first edition, Harriet Maltby's copy, Newark, Printed by S. & J. Ridge, 1807. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, first edition, second impression with dust-jacket, 1937 [but 1938]. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Blake (William).- Thornton (Robert John). The Pastorals of Virgil, 2 vol., engraved plates by William Blake, 1821. £8,000 to £12,000.
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    Forum Mar. 28: America.- Mount (William J.) & Thomas Page. The English Pilot…, [bound with] The Fourth Book, describing The West Indies Navigation from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones, 1721. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Oldfield (Henry Ambrose), Rajman Singh Chitrakar & others. An album of 160 photographs and 13 original artworks, (1833-1919), [c. 1850s-1880s]. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Audubon (John James) [and William MacGillivray]. Ornithological Biography…, 5 vol., first edition, presentation copy inscribed by Audubon, Edinburgh, 1831-49 [i.e. 1831-39]. £10,000 to £15,000.
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