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Sale Name: East Anglian Sale - Books
Auction Date: 10/28/2016 - 10/28/2016
Year of Sale: 2016
Sale Number: #1517
Total Lots: 178
Sold Lots: 106
Lots Sold: 59.6%
Unsold Lots: 72
Price Unknown: 0

Total Sales (GBP): 24,133.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP): 13,440.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP): 16,920.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP): 33,390.00
High Estimate of All Lots (GBP): 43,220.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 55.84%
Currency: GBP
Inflation Adjusted Price in U.S. Dollars: 31,506.10

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
438	ARTHUR HENRY PATTERSON	scrap album with 100+ pages of tipped in original pen and ink sketches, autographed letters signed, autographed postcards signed and other correspondence	1899	GBP 500.00 - 600.00	8,000.00
518	PETER HENRY EMERSON	ON ENGLISH LAGOONS BEING AN ACCOUNT OF THE VOYAGE OF TWO AMATEUR WHERRYMEN ON THE NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK RIVERS AND BROADS	1893	GBP 5,000.00 - 6,000.00	5,000.00
464	REV FRANCIS BLOMEFIELD AND CHARLES PARKIN	AN ESSAY TOWARDS A TOPOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF NORFOLK CONTAINING A DESCRIPTION OF THE TOWNS, VILLAGES, AND HAMLETS WITH FOUNDATIONS OF MONASTERIES, CHURCHES, CHAPELS, CHANTRIES, AND OTHER RELIGIOUS BUILDINGS ..., London, W Bulmer for William M	1805-1810	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	600.00
201	*HARRY BECKER	Workers scything		GBP 200.00 - 300.00	460.00
463	THOMAS NASH	NASHES LENTEN STUFFE, CONTAINING THE DESCRIPTION AND FIRST PROCREATION OF THE TOWNE OF GREAT YARMOUTH IN NORFFOLKE, WITH A NEW PLAY NEVER PLAYED BEFORE, OF THE PRAISE OF THE RED HERRING ..., London for N L & CB, 1599, 1st edition, title page, pp1/2, 7/8 s	1599	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	440.00
554	REV FRANCIS BLOMEFIELD & CHARLES PARKIN	AN ESSAY TOWARDS A TOPOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF NORFOLK ...	1739-1775	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	400.00
529	JOHN HENRY GURNEY JNR	THE GANNET, A BIRD WITH A HISTORY	1913	GBP 50.00 - 60.00	350.00
545	EDMUND BARTELL	CROMER, CONSIDERED AS A WATERING PLACE; WITH OBSERVATIONS ON THE PICTURESQUE SCENERY IN ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD	1806	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	280.00
447	ARTHUR HENRY PATTERSON	SEA-SIDE SCRIBBLINGS FOR VISITORS; OR HOW TO MAKE THE MOST OF A HOLIDAY JAUNT	1887	GBP 250.00 - 300.00	260.00
200	*HARRY BECKER	Horse and Tumbril		GBP 100.00 - 150.00	250.00
413	WILLIAM RASTRICK	ICHNOGRAPHIA BURGI PERANTIQUI LENNAE REGIS IN AGRO NORFOLCIENSI ACCURATE DELINEATA		GBP 300.00 - 350.00	240.00
498	EDWARD EMPSON MIDDLETON	THE CRUISE OF THE KATE, A NARRATIVE OF A VERY MERRY WHERRY EXPEDITION THROUGH THE RIVERS AND BROADS OF NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK	1886	GBP 120.00 - 150.00	220.00
440	ARTHUR HENRY PATTERSON	CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS OF GREAT YARMOUTH GIVING A FEW DESCRIPTIVE NOTES, AND DATES WHEN MOST OF THE RARER SPECIES WERE OBTAINED,	1901	GBP 200.00 - 250.00	210.00
461	A SOUTH TOWN RESIDENT	YARMOUTH SANDS, A DESCRIPTIVE AND TRAGIC POEM; THE BANKS OF THE YARE, AND OTHER SUBJECTS IN VERSE, Yarmouth, printed and published for the author by B Gooch & Son 1852, 1st edition, 80,	1852	GBP 80.00 - 100.00	210.00
202	*HARRY BECKER	Sheep in a field		GBP 100.00 - 150.00	200.00
428		MAP OF AN ESTATE DEVISED BY THE WILL OF W M HOWE WINDHAM ESQ DECEASED SITUATE IN THE PARISHES OF ALBY, ALDBURGH, AYLMERTON, AYLSHAM, BACONSTHORPE, BANNINGHAM …	circa 1860	GBP 100.00 - 120.00	200.00
514	[CHARLES COLEMAN LAING]	A WEEK ON THE BURE, ANT AND THURNE, 1895	1895	GBP 200.00 - 250.00	200.00
439	ARTHUR HENRY PATTERSON	CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS OF GREAT YARMOUTH GIVING A FEW DESCRIPTIVE NOTES, AND DATES WHEN MOST OF THE RARER SPECIES WERE OBTAINED	1901	GBP 150.00 - 180.00	200.00
556	EDWARD SEAGO	5 TITLES: HIGH ENDEAVOUR, 1944	1944	GBP 100.00 - 120.00	190.00
10	JOHN CROME	Front of the New Mills	circa 1834	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	180.00
515	HENRY RODOLPH DE SALIS	NORFOLK WATERWAYS, A GUIDE TO THE NAVIGABLE WATERWAYS OF THE NORFOLK BROAD DISTRICT, COMPILED AFTER A PERSONAL SURVEY OF THE WHOLE	1900	GBP 50.00 - 60.00	170.00
427	JOHN SPEED	SUFFOLKE DESCRIBED AND DIVIDED INTO HUNDREDS, THE SITUATION OF A FAYRE TOWNE OF IPSWICH SHEWED ..	circa 17th century	GBP 200.00 - 250.00	160.00
420	JOAN BLAEU	NORTFOLCIA NORFOLKE	circa 1648	GBP 150.00 - 180.00	160.00
456	ARTHUR HENRY PATTERSON, 9 titles	WILD-FOWLERS AND POACHERS FIFTY YEARS ON THE EAST COAST, London, Methuen & Co 1929, 1st edition, signed and inscribed To Frank Spencer Esq Yacht Morning Calm with A H Patterson, John Knowlittle s compliments May 1929 to half title, 8 black and white p	1907	GBP 120.00 - 150.00	150.00
563	WALTER RYE	CARROW ABBEY, OTHERWISE CARROW PRIORY; ITS FOUNDATIONS, BUILDINGS, OFFICERS, AND INMATES…	1889	GBP 200.00 - 250.00	150.00

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Heritage Auctions
Rare Books Signature Auction
December 15, 2025

Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.

Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.