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Auction Info

Sale Name
Antiquarian & Collectable Books Auction to Include Ephemera, Photographs etc.
Auction Date
02/10/2022 - 02/10/2022
Year of Sale
2022
Sale Number
#21022
Total Lots
316
Sold Lots
307
Lots Sold
97.2%
Unsold Lots
9
Price Unknown
0
Total Sales (GBP)
48,120.40
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
21,520.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
32,570.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
22,250.00
High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
33,670.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
142.92%
Currency
GBP
Inflation Adjusted Price in U.S. Dollars
60,158.90

Top twenty five by sale price

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Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
316 GIRDLESTONE JOHN. Miscellanea Curiosa. 10 manuscript volumes.

N.d

 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 3,658.00
94 ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings.

1868 to 1880.

GBP 250.00 - 350.00 1,888.00
308 IBBETSON JOHN HOLT. A Practical View of an Invention for the Better Protecting Bank-Notes Against Forgery.

1820

 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 1,180.00
306 SHARP GRANVILLE. The Gilbart Prize Essay on … Practical Banking.

1854

 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 1,062.00
102 GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS.  Fitzgerald Edward (Trans). Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.

1938

 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 885.00
132 GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS.  Jones Gwyn & Thomas (Trans). Mabinogion.

1948

 GBP 250.00 - 350.00 826.00
208 WISDEN. Cricketers' Almanack.

1879 to 1892,

 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 649.00
113 GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS.  Rutter Owen (Ed). The Voyage of the Bounty's Launch As Related in William Bligh's Despatch to the Admiralty & the Journal of John Fryer.

1934

 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 649.00
220 WISDEN. Cricketers' Almanack.

1940 to 1945

 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 649.00
312 THE MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY. A Catalogue of Books.

1804

 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 590.00
288 (IBBETSON JOHN HOLT)  Specimens in Eccentric Circular Turning … by An Amateur.

1817

 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 566.40
78 (STEVENS GEORGE ALEX). The Dramatic History of Master Edward, Miss Ann, Mrs Llwhuddwhydd & Others … Collected from Zaphaniel's Original Papers.

1743

 GBP 60.00 - 100.00 531.00
85 DAMPIER WILLIAM. Two odd vols.

1699

 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 519.20
136 GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS.  Besterman Theodore (Ed). The Travels & Sufferings of Father Jean De Brebeuf Among the Hurons of Canada.

1938

 GBP 120.00 - 150.00 472.00
219 WISDEN. Cricketers' Almanack.

1930 to 1939.

GBP 300.00 - 500.00 472.00
268 GUILLIM JOHN. A Display of Heraldry, 1679 bound with Analogia Honorum or A Treatise of Honour & Nobility, 1677.

1679

 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 448.40
267 PRICE RICHARD. A Review of the Principal Questions & Difficulties in Morals.

1769

 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 448.40
218 WISDEN. Cricketers' Almanack.

1920 to 1921.

GBP 300.00 - 500.00 448.40
123 GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS.  Gill Eric. Id Quod Visum Placet.

1926

 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 413.00
315 FAERNO GABRIELE (Ed.)   P. Terentii, Comoediae, Bernard Giunti, Florence, 1565 & Emendationes In Sex Fabulas Terentii, Giunti, Florence, 1565.

1565

 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 413.00
130 GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS.  Sterne Laurence. The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy.

1929

 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 377.60
107 GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. Swinburne Algernon Charles. Hymn to Proserpine, 1944; Laus Veneris, 1948 & Pasiphae, 1950.

1944

 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 377.60
184 LILLYWHITE FREDERICK. Cricket Scores & Biographies (Continued by Arthur Haygarth) of Celebrated Cricketers.

1996-2017

GBP 150.00 - 250.00 377.60
4 ABERDEEN, BON ACCORD PRESS. 11 poetical & related pamphlets with orig.

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 377.60
114 GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS.  Rutter Owen (Ed). The Journal of James Morrison, Boatswain's Mate of the Bounty, Describing the Mutiny & Subsequent Misfortunes of the Mutineers together with An Account of the Island of Tahiti.

1935

 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 377.60
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  • <b><center>Heritage Auctions<br>Rare Books Signature Auction<br>December 15, 2025</center></b> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> John Donne. <i>Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death.</i> London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633. <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Edgar Rice Burroughs. <i>Tarzan of the Apes.</i> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> F. Scott Fitzgerald. <i>Tender is the Night. A Romance.</i> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Bram Stoker. <i>Dracula.</i> Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897. <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Jerry Thomas. <i>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…</i>
    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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  • <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> 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. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
    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.
  • <center><b>Sotheby’s<br>Book Week<br>December 9-17, 2025</b></center> <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Francesco Colonna. <i>Hypnerotomachie,</i> Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Nausea. <i>De principiis dialectices Gorgias,</i> and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Billon. <i>Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur,</i> Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000. <center><b>Sotheby’s<br>Book Week<br>December 9-17, 2025</b></center> <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> 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. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of <i>Sense and Sensibility,</i> the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> 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.
    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.