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Sale Name: Online Sale: Books and Works on Paper
Auction Date: 07/10/2017 - 07/10/2017
Year of Sale: 2017
Sale Number: #1013
Total Lots: 475
Sold Lots: 366
Lots Sold: 77.1%
Unsold Lots: 109
Price Unknown: 0

Total Sales (GBP): 798,112.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP): 388,830.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP): 540,960.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP): 486,530.00
High Estimate of All Lots (GBP): 681,110.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 117.18%
Currency: GBP
Inflation Adjusted Price in U.S. Dollars: 1,114,110.00

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
335	[Brontë (Emily and Anne)], "Ellis and Acton Bell".	Wuthering Heights; Agnes Grey, together 3 vol., …	1847	GBP 60,000.00 - 80,000.00	81,250.00
330	[Brontë (Charlotte, Emily & Anne)], "Currer, Ellis & Acton Bell".	Poems, first edition, first …	1846	GBP 30,000.00 - 40,000.00	56,250.00
183	Galenus (Claudius)	[Opera, 5 vol., Venice, Heirs of Aldus Manutius and Andrea Torresano, 1525.		GBP 25,000.00 - 35,000.00	40,000.00
333	[Brontë (Charlotte, Emily & Anne)], "Currer, Ellis & Acton Bell".	Poems, first edition, second …	1846 but 1848.	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	35,000.00
331	[Brontë (Charlotte, Emily & Anne)], "Currer, Ellis & Acton Bell".	Poems, first edition, first …	1846	GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	20,000.00
173	Vespucci (Amerigo)	S'ensuyt le Nouveau Monde et navigations faictes par Emeric de …	c. 1530	GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	18,750.00
167	Aesop.	Aesop. Esopi appologi sive mythologi cum quibusdam carminum et fabularum additionibus Sebastiani …	1501	GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	18,750.00
380	Gaskell (Elizabeth C.)	The Life of Charlotte Brontë, fourth edition, inscribed by Patrick Brontë, …	1858	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	17,500.00
329	Brontë (Emily Jane [pseud. Ellis Bell], novelist and poet, 1818-48)	Autograph address to Ellen Nussey at Hathersage, on envelope, torn where opened, 3 …	1845	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	16,250.00
157	[Satow (D.)]	An album of 50 views of the Shanghai Amateur Circus, 1901.	1901	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	15,000.00
371	Brontë ([married name Nicholls], Charlotte [pseud. Currer Bell], novelist, 1816-55)	Autograph Letter signed to Martha Brown, 1p., 8vo, [?July 1850.	1850	GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	15,000.00
389	Brontë (Charlotte, Emily & Anne)	[The Novels, 12 vol., Memorial edition, number 1 of 5 …	c. 1910.	GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	11,875.00
365	[Brontë (Anne)]	The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, 3 vol., first edition, T. C. Newby, 1848.	1848	GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	11,250.00
160	[Henry (David, editor)]	An Historical Account of all the Voyages round the World, 6 vol. including …	1773-74	GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	8,750.00
180	Cicero (Marcus Tullius)	Rhetoricorum..., Venice, Heirs of Aldus Manutius and …	1521	GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	8,750.00
293	Early children's book.	Early children's book.- The Top Book of All For Little Masters and Misses, rare at auction, R. …	1760	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	8,750.00
392	? Bell (Vanessa, 1879-1961)	'Charlotte Brontë', plate design for Kenneth Clark, 1932	1932	GBP 5,000.00 - 6,000.00	8,125.00
378	[Brontë (Charlotte)], "Currer Bell".	The Professor. A Tale, 2 vol., first edition, A.B.Nicholls' …	1857	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	7,500.00
290		London Magazine (The): and Monthly Chronologer, vol.VIII-X & XXV-XLIV, 23 vol., numerous engraved …	1739-41 & 1756-75	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	7,500.00
349	Lowry (Laurence Stephen, 1887-1976)	Study for 'A house on the moor, "Heathcliff's House"', [circa …	circa 1949-1950.	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	6,875.00
367	Brontë [married name Nicholls], Charlotte [pseud. Currer Bell], novelist, 1816-55)	Autograph address panel of a letter sent to her father, Rev. Patrick Brontë & …	1849	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	6,250.00
475	Smith (Sally Lou, binder). Cassou (Jean)	Adieu aux Halles: Dessins et …	1975	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	6,250.00
277	William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones. Catterson-Smith (Robert,	Archive of letters to Robert Catterson-Smith from William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones, Georgiana …		GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	6,250.00
119	Bartlett (J.A.) & Britton (John)	Topographical Survey of the Borough of St. Marylebone, ... from Surveys & …	1834	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	5,625.00
446	Crane (Walter)	Eight original illustrations for The Merry Wives of Windsor, 1894.	circa 1894	GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	5,250.00

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ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000.
Sotheby’s
Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
Open for Bidding 2-17 April

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.