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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 |