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Auction Name Online Sale: Books and Works on Paper Total Sales (GBP) 139,510.30
Auction Date February 29, 2024 - February 29, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 64,340.00
Sale Number #2303 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 91,860.00
Total Lots 297
Sold Lots 264 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 73,740.00
% of Lots Sold 88.89% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 105,660.00
Unsold Lots 33 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 132.04%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
272 James Sowerby

British Mineralogy, 3 vol. only (of 5)

 1804-09 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 4,284.00
34 Quintus Smyrnaeus

Derelictorum ab Homero libri quatuordecim,

[1505]. GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 GBP 4,032.00
270 Pierre Pomet

A Compleat History of Druggs Divided into Three Classes, Vegetable, Animal and Mineral

 1712 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 3,528.00
274 Ambroise Pare

Pare (Ambroise) The Workes...Translated out of Latine and compared with the French by Th. Johnson, first English edition

 1634 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 3,528.00
87

Charles I and the Treaty of Newport.- Warwick (Sir Philip, politician and historian, 1609-83).- Draft letter with corrections and deletions to Sir Philip Warwick, "A Copie of a Letter to Sr Phili...

 1648 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 2,624.00
2 Silius Italicus

Punica, edited by Petrus Justinus Philelphus,

 1481 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 2,520.00
1 Gratianus.

[Gratianus]. [Decretum],

[?c.1480]. GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 2,394.00
131

Bible, English.- Bible (The): that is, the Holy Scriptures contained in the Olde and Newe Testament,

 1577 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 2,394.00
248 Thomas Geminus

[Compendiosa totius anatomie delineatio aere exarata], defective

 [?1559] GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 2,394.00
3 Publius Ovidius Naso

Metamorphoseos Libri Moralizati,

1510 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 2,142.00
246 Helkiah Crooke

Mikrokosmographia [graece]. A Description of the Body of Man

 1631 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 2,142.00
271 Christoph Wirsung

The General Practice of Physicke, translated by Jacob Morsan, in English

 1605 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 2,142.00
26 Santi Solinori

Andrea Palladio and others. [Mirabilia Romae] Le cose maravigliose dell'alma citta di Roma..., first illustrated edition 2 parts in 1

 1588 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 2,016.00
103

Politicians.- Collection of letters and postcards

 19th century GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,574.40
5 Marcus Valerius Martialis

Epigrammata Libri magna...,

1522 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,512.00
179 Anna Letitia

Eighteen Hundred and Eleven. A Poem, ,

1812 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,386.00
267 Nicholas Culpeper

A Sure Guide, or, The Best and Nearest Way to Physick and Chyrurgery, by Peter Cole

 1657 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,386.00
181 John Hamilton Reynolds

Safie. An Eastern Tale,

1814 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,260.00
90 E. Martin

[Collection of Recipes], manuscript

 1737 -- [19th century]. GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,246.40
14

Jersey provenance.- Bible, French. La Sainte Bible

 1550 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,197.00
36 Baldassare Castiglione

Il libro del cortegiano

 1547 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,134.00
139 Jasper Atkinson

Observations on the Reports of the Committees of the Houses of Parliament on the expediency of resuming cash-payments at the Bank of England, in a letter to a frie...

 1819 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 1,134.00
247 Andrew Fyfe

A System of the Anatomy of the Human Body, 3 vol., fourth edition,

1820 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,134.00
255 Charles Leadbetter

Astronomy of the Satellites of the Earth, Jupiter and Saturn,

 1729 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,134.00
138 Eliza Haywood

Memoirs of a Certain Island Adjacent to the Kingdom of Utopia

 1726 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,071.00
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    Antique prints, paintings and maps
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