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Auction Name Of Royal and Noble Descent Total Sales (GBP) 51,314.00
Auction Date January 17, 2018 - January 17, 2018 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 38,800.00
Sale Number #L18306 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 55,700.00
Total Lots 13
Sold Lots 11 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 58,800.00
% of Lots Sold 84.62% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 85,700.00
Unsold Lots 2 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 59.88%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
134 Nelson, Horatio Lord

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("NELSON & BRONTE"), TO EMMA HAMILTON, ON HIS IMMINENT DEPARTURE ON THE VICTORY

 1803 GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 GBP 18,750.00
91 Nelson, Horatio, Lord--Nayler, George.

ARMORIAL ACHIEVEMENT

 1804 GBP 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 GBP 15,000.00
8 Albrecht Dürer

THE DEATH OF THE VIRGIN (B. 93; M., HOLL. 205)

 1510 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 10,000.00
92 Nelson and the Battle of Trafalgar--Collection

A COLLECTION OF PRINTED ITEMS, COMPRISING:

 1806 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 1,875.00
97 William Barnard

PORTRAIT OF ADMIRAL LORD NELSON, AFTER LUCIUS GAHAGAN

 1805 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,188.00
99 James Parker Brooke

PLAN OF THE PLATFORM AND DISPOSITION OF THE BANNEROLLS, TROPHIES ETC. AROUND THE COFFIN AT THE FUNERAL OF THE MUCH LAMENTED LORD NELSON, UNDER THE DOME AT ST PAUL'S CATHEDRAL ON 9TH JANUARY 1806

 1806 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,125.00
96 Charles Knight

BUST OF LORD NELSON, AFTER ANNE SEYMOUR DAMER

 1806 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,000.00
112 Valentine Green

THE BRITISH NAVAL VICTORS; AFTER GAINSBOROUGH DUPONT, FRANCIS COTES, RICHARD MORTON PAYNE, AND LEMUEL FRANCIS ABBOTT

 1799 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 938.00
132 Hamilton, Emma

AUTOGRAPH LETTER, UNSIGNED, TO NELSON'S SISTER, CATHERINE MATCHAM

 1802 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 688.00
100 After Augustus Charles Pugin

INTERNMENT OF THE REMAINS OF THE LATE LORD VISCOUNT NELSON IN THE CATHEDRAL OF ST PAUL IN LONDON

 1806 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 500.00
113 Valentine Green

THE BRITISH NAVAL VICTORS; AFTER GAINSBOROUGH DUPONT, FRANCIS COTES, RICHARD MORTON PAYNE, AND LEMUEL FRANCIS ABBOTT

 1799 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 250.00
  • 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.
  • 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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