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Auction Name Fine Books, Manuscripts, and Works on Paper Total Sales (GBP) 1,122,217.88
Auction Date March 28, 2024 - March 28, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 596,550.00
Sale Number #32824 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 852,100.00
Total Lots 431
Sold Lots 312 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 954,700.00
% of Lots Sold 72.39% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 1,362,400.00
Unsold Lots 119 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 82.37%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
47 William Shakespeare

[Shakespeare (William)] [Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies], second folio edition,

1632 GBP 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 GBP 103,320.00
388 Henry Ambrose Oldfield

An album of 160 photographs and 13 original artworks, compiled by Lt. Gen. ...

[circa 1850s to 1880s] GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 56,700.00
59 Bible, Czech

Bible, Czech Biblia Bohemica, first complete Bible printed in the Czech vernacular,

 August 1488. GBP 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 GBP 44,100.00
120 Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I & Charles I.- [Volume of speeches and tracts including Elizabeth I's Speech at Tilbury against the Spanish Armada in 1588 and the advent of the Short and Long Parliaments in the year ...

1640, 1647 & 1648. GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 39,360.00
31 William Langland

The vision of Pierce Plowman, nowe the seconde time imprinted...,

 1550 GBP 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 GBP 20,160.00
382 William (1794) Page

The English Pilot. Part I. Describing the Sea Coast [...] of England... [bound together with] The Fourth Book, describing The West Indies Navigation fr...

1721 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 20,160.00
199 Charles Johnson

A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates..., first edition, first issue

 1724 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 17,640.00
18 Francesco Spiera

Quiquod susceptam semel Evangelice veritatis professione abnegasset, damnassetque, in horrendam incidit desperationem, Historia,

1550 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 16,380.00
235

Broadside announcing the death of Byron.- The particulars of the melancholy Death of Lord Byron, who died at Missolonghi, in Greece, on the 19th of April, 1824, rare broadside,

1824 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 15,120.00
55 Giovanni Boccaccio

De Claris Mulieribus, second edition,

1474 GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 GBP 13,860.00
305 J.R.R. Tolkien

The Hobbit, first edition, second impression with dust-jacket

 1937 [but 1938. GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 GBP 13,860.00
412 John James Audubon

Ornithological Biography, or an Account of the Habits of the Birds of the United States of America,

1831-49 [i.e. 1831-39]. GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 13,860.00
213 John Keats

Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and other Poems, first edition,

 1820 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 12,600.00
381 Nicolas Monardes

Joyfull Newes Out of the New-found Worlde, third English edition,

1596 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 11,970.00
61 Damiano de Odemeira

Libro da imparare giochare a scachi,

c.1524. GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 11,340.00
33 John Fisher

This treatyse concernynge the fruytfull sayinges of Davyd the kynge and prophete in the seven penytencyall psalmes...,

1555 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 10,710.00
115

Book of Hours (Hours of the Virgin), Use of Paris, manuscript in Latin, on vellum, 87 leaves only, 3 full-page miniatures and 12 small miniatures, numerous line initials and line fillers

 19th c. GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 10,496.00
191 Daniel Defoe

[Works], 30 titles by, attributed, or related to Defoe bound in 35, including An Essay Upon Projects, Captain Singleton and A Plan of the English Commerce, mostly first or early ed...

1692-1754. GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 10,080.00
312 Evelyn Waugh

Brideshead Revisited, first edition, signed by the author

 1945 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 10,080.00
372 Colen Campbell

Vitruvius Britannicus, or The British Architect..., 5 vol., vol.4 & 5 first editions

 1751-67-71. GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 GBP 10,080.00
379 John Josselyn

New Englands Rarities Discovered: in Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Serpents, and Plants of that Country, second edition,

 1675 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 10,080.00
65 Jean Francois Champollion

Precis du Systeme Hieroglyphique des Anciens Egyptiens, first edition, specially bound for Pope Leo XII,

 1824 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 9,450.00
282

Shepard's illustrations for Wind in the Willows

 1930s GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 9,450.00
419 Luigi-Federico Menabrea

Notions sur la machine analytique de M. Charles Babbage', first edition, journal issue

 1842 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 9,450.00
389 Edward Terry

A Voyage to East-India, first edition,

1655 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 8,820.00
  • Gonnelli
    Auction 51
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 14st 2024
    Gonnelli: Leonard Bramer, The descent from the cross, 1634. Starting price 3200€
    Gonnelli: Gustav Hjalmar de Morner Karel, Rome’s Carnival, 1820. Starting price 1000€
    Gonnelli: Various Authors, Mater Dolorosa, 1700. Starting price 200€
    Gonnelli: Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Carcere Oscura, 1790. Starting price 180€
    Gonnelli: Jan Brueghel, Marine fauna view, 1620 ca. Starting price 28000€
    Gonnelli: Ippolito Scarsella, Mary and Christ with Sant Rocco and Arch-Angel Michele,1615. Starting price 8000€
    Gonnelli: Hans Sebald Beham, Adam and Eve, 1543. Starting price 600€
    Gonnelli: Francesco Burani, Baccanale, 1630. Starting Price 280€
    Gonnelli: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, Plance from Ventiquattr’ore, 1675. Starting price 800€
    Gonnelli: Giuseppe Angeli, Livorno’s Plan, 1793. Starting price 240€
    Gonnelli: XIV Century Artist, Capital “N” letter, 1350 ca. Starting price 340€
  • 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
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    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
  • Australian Book Auctions
    Books, Maps, Modern Literature
    May 14 (US) / May 15 (Australia)
    Australian Book Auctions, May 14/15: ORWELL, George. ANIMAL FARM. London, Secker & Warburg, 1945. $8,000 to $12,000 AUD.
    Australian Book Auctions, May 14/15: MILNE, A.A. THE HOUSE AT POOH CORNER With decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. London, Methuen, 1928. Deluxe limited edition. $3,000 to $4,000 AUD.
    Australian Book Auctions, May 14/15: TWAIN, Mark. THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN, (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade). New York, 1885. $1,000 to $1,500 AUD.
    Australian Book Auctions
    Books, Maps, Modern Literature
    May 14 (US) / May 15 (Australia)
    Australian Book Auctions, May 14/15: RAND, Ayn. ATLAS SHRUGGED. Random House, New York, 1957. First edition. $800 to $1,200 AUD.
    Australian Book Auctions, May 14/15: [BAUM, L. Frank]. PICTURES FROM THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ By W.W. Denslow… Chicago, [1903]. $400 to $800 AUD.
    Australian Book Auctions, May 14/15: HELLER, Joseph. CATCH-22. London, Jonathan Cape, 1962. $400 to $600 AUD.
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