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Auction Name Online Sale: Books and Works on Paper Total Sales (GBP) 84,742.96
Auction Date April 25, 2024 - April 25, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 54,790.00
Sale Number #2307 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 77,760.00
Total Lots 291
Sold Lots 257 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 64,040.00
% of Lots Sold 88.32% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 91,060.00
Unsold Lots 34 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 93.06%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
53 Cornelis Andre Vlaanderen

L'Europe en Sept 1939

 1939 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 3,148.80
260 Giuseppe Tucci

Tibetan Painted Scrolls, ,

1949 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,890.00
278 Lady Isabella Fremantle

Original sketchbook album with 103 drawings from a trip from England to Spain, via Ireland, France and Italy

 1866-1868 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,638.00
196 Publius Virgilius Maro

The Georgicks...with an English Translation and Notes. By John Martyn

 1741 GBP 250.00 - 350.00 GBP 1,512.00
75 Thomas Fuller

The History of the Worthies of England,

1662s GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,386.00
202 Charles Johnstone

Johnstone (Charles) Chrysal: or, the Adventures of a Guinea, 4 vol., mixed edition

 1766-67 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,386.00
217

Miscellania, or Interesting and Amusing Tales, 3 parts in 1

 1814 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,386.00
187 Decimus Junius Juvenalis

Satires, translated by Barten Holyday

 1673 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,134.00
148

Cambridgeshire, Kirtling.- Charter, grant by William le Huet of Coulyngg Cowlinge to Roger Kadde de Kertlingg Kirtling one piece of land in Kirtling

 1316 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,049.60
16 Charles Booth

Life and Labour of the People in London,

1902 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,008.00
188 Thomas Traherne

Roman Forgeries or a True Account of False Records...of the Church of Rome

 1673 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,008.00
31 Mohammed Iqbal

Poet of the East and Chughtai, text in English Urdu and Persian

 1962 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 945.00
72 Rev. Daniel Lysons

The Environs of London,

1795-1800 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 945.00
128 Quintus Curtius Rufus

De rebus gestis Alexandri Magni, regis Macedonum, libri superstites, edited by Henrik Snakenburg

 1724 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 882.00
264 Edmund Sharpe

Original manuscript Supplement to "Architectural Parallels"

1848 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 882.00
111 Nicholas Culpeper

The English Physician Enlarged, Printed for the Booksellers

 1799 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 819.00
201 John Lodge

The Peerage of Ireland, or, a Genealogical History of the Present Nobility of that Kingdom, 4 vol.

 1754 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 819.00
235 Oliver Onions

Oliver Onions. Whom God Hath Sundered. A Trilogy,

1925 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 819.00
243 H. P. Lovecraft

The Haunter of the Dark and Other Tales of Horror, first English edition

 1951 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 819.00
57 John Speed

The Mape of Hungari...

 1626 but c.1676 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 787.20
172 Charles Babbage

Autograph Letter signed to "Dear Madam"

 1848, declining an invitation to dinner. GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 787.20
77 James Hardiman

The History of the Town and County of the Town of Galway,

1820 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 756.00
95 Ralph Austen

A Treatise of Fruit-Trees, Shewing the manner of Grafting, Setting, Pruning, and Ordering of them in all respects...

 1653 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 756.00
96 Philip Miller

The Abridgement of the Gardeners Dictionary, sixth edition, A.L.s from the author loosely inserted

 1771 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 756.00
100 Stephen Robson

The British Flora

 1777 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 756.00
  • 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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