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Auction Name Antiquarian and Collectors Books Total Sales (GBP) 43,566.28
Auction Date February 20, 2018 - February 20, 2018 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 21,330.00
Sale Number #1688 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 32,340.00
Total Lots 265
Sold Lots 231 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 27,015.00
% of Lots Sold 87.17% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 40,595.00
Unsold Lots 34 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 107.32%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
3188 COMPUTING.

Manchester University Computer, Inaugural Conference, July 1951.

1951 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 2,241.00
3200 IACOVLEFF [or Jacovleff], Alexandre.

Dessins et Peintures D'Afrique Executes au cours de l'Expedition Citroen Centre Afrique. Deuxieme mission Haardt Audouin-Dubreuil.

1927 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,992.00
3024 NEW NATURALIST LIBRARY.

The New Naturalist Library.

1945-2002. GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 GBP 1,867.50
3258 TWARDOWSKI, Samuel.

Woyna [Wojna] Domowa Z-Kozaki I Tatary Moskwa, potym Szwedami i z-Wegry [A Civil War with the Cossacks and Tatars, Muscovy, and then with the Swedes and Hungarians].

1681 GBP 70.00 - 100.00 GBP 1,867.50
3189 Arthur W. BURKS, Herman H. GOLDSTINE, and John von NEUMANN.

Preliminary Discussion of the Logical Design of an Electronic Computing Instrument.

1947 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,743.00
3112 Charlotte BERNHARDI.

Memoir of the Celebrated Admiral Adam John de Krusentstern, The First Russian Circumnavigator, translated… by his daughter… and edited by Rear-Admiral Sir John Ross.

1856 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,120.50
3185 CLARKE, Harry (illustrator). Hans Christian ANDERSEN.

Fairy Tales.

1916 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 622.50
3065

The London Almanack for the Year of Christ 1757.

1757 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 597.60
3230 [CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de.

The History Of the most Renowned Don Quixote of Mancha, And his Trusty Squire Sancho Pancha, Now made English according to the Humour of our Modern Language And Adorned with several Copper Plates…translated by J. Philips.

1687 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 597.60
3157 HUGHES, Ted.

The Iron Man… A Story in Five Nights.

1968 GBP 250.00 - 350.00 GBP 572.70
3067

The Bible… That is, the Holy Scriptures contained in the Old and Newe Testament: translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in divers languages.

1610 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 498.00
3080 AUSTEN, Jane.

[The Works.]

1885-1886. GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 498.00
3100 BRUCE, James.

Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile… in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 & 1773.

1804 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 473.10
3199 KHAYYAM, Omar.

The Rubaiyat… the Astronomer Poet of Persia, translated into English by Edward Fitzgerald.

2009 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 473.10
3085 John MURRAY (publisher).

A [Murray's] Handbook for India: being an Accurate Account of The Three Presidencies, and of the Overland Route.

1859 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 423.30
3187 HERODOTUS.

The History of Herodotus of Halicarnassus… the translation of G. Rawlinson, revised and annotated by A.W. Lawrence.

1935 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 423.30
3238 CHAUCER, Geoffrey.

The Romaunt of the Rose.

1974 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 423.30
3102 Julius PAYER.

New Lands Within the Arctic Circle.

1876 GBP 250.00 - 350.00 GBP 398.40
3167 MANDELA, Nelson.

In His Own Words, edited by Kader Asmal, David Chidester, Wilmot James.

2003 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 398.40
3163 NICHOLSON, William.

The Pirate Twins.

1929 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 373.50
3001 DARWIN, Charles.

Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. 'Beagle' Round the World.

1882 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 348.60
3084 ADAMS, William.

The Modern Voyager and Traveller Through Europe, Asia, Africa and America.

1828- 1832. GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 348.60
3148 BRITTAIN, Vera.

Testament of Youth. An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925.

1933 GBP 70.00 - 100.00 GBP 348.60
3030 BARRETT, Charles G.

The Lepidoptera of the British Islands.

1893-1907. GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 336.15
3071 WORLIDGE, John.

Vinetum Britannicum: Or, a Treatise of Cider, and Such Other Wines and Drinks that are Extracted from all manner of Fruits Growing in this Kingdom.

1678 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 336.15
  • 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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