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Auction Name Books and Ephemera - Two Day Sale Total Sales (GBP) 83,089.20
Auction Date January 25, 2018 - January 26, 2018 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 54,010.00
Sale Number #1648 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 67,580.00
Total Lots 1204
Sold Lots 814 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 85,925.00
% of Lots Sold 67.61% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 107,590.00
Unsold Lots 390 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 77.23%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
63 W E JOHNS (WILLIAM EARLE)

THE CAMELS ARE COMING

1933 GBP 500.00 - 600.00 GBP 2,160.00
1325

Mint and used collection in two ideal albums, volumes 1 and 2

 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 2,160.00
293 JOHN STEINBECK

OF MICE AND MEN, illustrated Michael Rothenstein

1937 GBP 300.00 - 350.00 GBP 1,440.00
1277

Ernie Blenkinsop (1902-1969) England International Football cap season 1928-1929 awarded to Ernie Blenkinsop for his 8th England cap versus Spain

 1929 GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 1,440.00
693 THOMAS MUFFETT

HEALTH'S IMPROVEMENT, OR, RULES COMPRISING AND DISCOVERING THE NATURE, METHOD, AND MANNER OF PREPARING ALL SORTS OF FOOD USED IN THIS NATION, edited Christopher Bennet

1655 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,104.00
395 CHARLES DICKENS

OLIVER TWIST, illustrated George Cruikshank

1838 GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 1,080.00
1324

Indian Feudatory States, mint, unused and used collection of Jammu and Kashmir, Charkhari, Alwar, Bhopal, Poonch, Sirmoor, and Travancore

GBP 100.00 - 120.00 GBP 960.00
647 AHMED DJEVAD

ETAT MILITAIRE OTTOMAN...ALBUM DES FIGURES ET DES DESSINS MENTIONNES DANS LE PREMIer VOLUME LES JANISSAIRES,

1882 GBP 300.00 - 350.00 GBP 900.00
1326

Mint and used Commonwealth collection in a Simplex album including Australia 1932

 1932 GBP 300.00 - 350.00 GBP 696.00
1259

Spanish Royal Family, House of Bourbon-Anjou, collection of 38 Christmas cards sent 1969-2012 by King Juan Carlos I

1969-2012 GBP 400.00 - 500.00 GBP 660.00
790 HENRY LEONARD MAYER

COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS OF BRITISH BIRDS, AND THEIR EGGS

1842-1857 GBP 350.00 - 400.00 GBP 528.00
562 HENRY AVRAY TIPPING

ENGLISH HOMES 1926 2nd impression PERIOD IV - VOL II THE WORK OF SIR JOHN VANBRUGH AND HIS SCHOOL, 1699-1736 1928 1st edition folio, uniform original publishers two-tone blue cloth lettered in gilt, dust-wrappers (worn with some part losses,

 1927-1936 GBP 180.00 - 200.00 GBP 504.00
530 JOSEF HALFER

THE PROGRESS OF THE MARBLING ART FROM TECHNICAL SCIENTIFIC PRINCIPLES, translated Herman Dieck, Buffalo

1894 GBP 40.00 - 50.00 GBP 480.00
92 KENNETH GRAHAME

THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS, illustrated Graham Robertson

1908 GBP 400.00 - 450.00 GBP 468.00
258 RAY BRADBURY

2 titles FAHRENHEIT 451

GBP 180.00 - 220.00 GBP 468.00
423 DR GOLDSMITH

THE HISTORY OF MISS SYLVIA S - ,

1807 GBP 40.00 - 50.00 GBP 468.00
1320

GB 1840 1d black on cover, four margins, AB tied by black Maltese Cross, faint postmark, FE-10

 1840 GBP 120.00 - 150.00 GBP 468.00
1243

Album cycling interest ephemera, mainly late Victorian/Edwardian including postcards, photographs, trade catalogues, leaflets, invoices etc,

1892 GBP 150.00 - 180.00 GBP 468.00
39 WILLIAM SPOONER (PUBLISHED)

THE COTTAGE OF CONTENT; OR RIGHT ROADS AND WRONG WAYS, A GAME, Victorian children's table game, November 1st 1848

1848 GBP 350.00 - 400.00 GBP 456.00
721 CAPT THOMAS WILLIAMSON

ORIENTAL FIELD SPORTS BEING A COMPLETE, DETAILED, AND ACCURATE DESCRIPTION OF THE WILD SPORTS OF THE EAST AND EXHIBITING IN A NOVEL AND INTERESTING MANNER THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE ELEPHANT, THE RHINOCEROS, THE TIGER, THE LEOPARD, THE BEAR, THE DEER, THE

 1807 GBP 500.00 - 600.00 GBP 456.00
1296

Packet containing 11 assorted stock car racing programmes 1954-1955

 GBP 40.00 - 50.00 GBP 444.00
194 AGATHA CHRISTIE

N OR M?

1941 GBP 250.00 - 300.00 GBP 432.00
717

(GENEVA BIBLE, "BREECHES BIBLE") THE BIBLE, THAT IS, THE HOLY SCRIPTURES CONTEINED IN THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT TRANSLATED ACCORDING TO THE EBREW AND GREEKE, AND CONFERRED WITH THE BEST TRANSLATIONS IN DIVERS LANGUAGES,

1599 GBP 400.00 - 500.00 GBP 420.00
193 AGATHA CHRISTIE

ONE, TWO, BUCKLE MY SHOE

1940 GBP 250.00 - 300.00 GBP 408.00
260 AUGUST DERLETH

5 titles SOMETHING NEAR,

1945 GBP 120.00 - 150.00 GBP 396.00
  • 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
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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
  • 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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