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Sale Name
Fine Books, Manuscripts, and Works on Paper
Auction Date
12/01/2022 - 12/01/2022
Year of Sale
2022
Sale Number
#1110
Total Lots
446
Sold Lots
373
Lots Sold
83.6%
Unsold Lots
73
Price Unknown
0
Total Sales (GBP)
709,481.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
440,250.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
626,300.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
660,250.00
High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
941,350.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
75.37%
Currency
GBP
Inflation Adjusted Price in U.S. Dollars
785,189.00

Top twenty five by sale price

View All Auction Lots.
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
265 Columna (Guido de) Historia destructionis Troiae, first edition

c.1477-1479.

 GBP 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 30,000.00
291 Shute (John) The First and Chief Groundes of Architecture, first edition

1563

 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 21,250.00
292 Lees-Milne (James Henry, Country House Survey, 3 vol., autograph manuscript entries signed, original boards

1928-1975.

 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 17,500.00
131 Martin (John) Paradise Lost: By John Milton, first edition in the original 12 parts, Imperial Quarto issue,

1825-26.

 GBP 12,000.00 - 16,000.00 16,250.00
435 Stoker (Bram) Dracula, first edition, later issue, Graham Greene's copy,

1897

 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 15,000.00
299 Dod (John) A plaine and familiar exposition of the tenne commandements ...,

1617

 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 13,750.00
267 Firmicus Maternus (Julius) and others. [Scriptores Astronomici veteres],

1499

 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 11,875.00
298 Mascall (Leonard) The First Booke of Cattell, 3 parts in 1, first edition,

1587

 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 11,250.00
140 Gillray (James) The Plumb-pudding in danger: -or- State Epicures taking un Petit Souper, etching with hand-colouring

1805

 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 11,050.00
417 Orwell (George) Animal Farm. A Fairy Story, first edition

1945

 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 10,000.00
335 Wilberforce (William) A Letter on the Abolition of the Slave Trade; Addressed to the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of Yorkshire, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author

1807

 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 10,000.00
440 Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Lord of the Rings, 3 vol.

1954

 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 9,375.00
255 Darwin (Charles, Autograph Letter signed to his cousin Reginald Darwin

1879

 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 9,100.00
350 Cameron (Julia Margaret, Poems, signed presentation copy from Tennyson to Julia Margaret Cameron, later ink inscription recording the gifting of this volume to her son Charles Hay Cameron (in his hand), full contemporary blind-stamped red morocco, gilt

1857

 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 8,125.00
8 Cohen (Claudia) and Barbara Hodgson. and Barbara Hodgson. Decorating Paper: Pattern & Technique

2015

 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 8,125.00
439 Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, first edition, first impression

1937

 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 7,500.00
329 By the Congress of the United States of America. Manifesto. "These United States, having been driven to hostilities by the oppressive and tyrannous measures... , bound with others

1778

 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 7,500.00
24 Chaucer (Geoffrey) Troilus and Criseyde, number 159 of 225 copies on hand-made paper,

1927

 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 7,500.00
192 Benham (Daniel) Sketch of the Life of Jan August Miertsching, Interpreter of the Esquimaux Language to the Arctic Expedition on Board H.M.S. "Investigator", Captain M'Clure, first edition

1854

 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 6,875.00
227 Illuminated manuscript.- Large remnant of the Psalter with Passion Sequences copied by Pietro Ursuleo of Capuo, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment,

c.1460.

 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 5,625.00
305 Brown (Edward) An Account of Several Travels Through a great part of Germany...wherein the Mines, Baths, and other Curiosities of those Parts are Treated of, first edition, presentation copy from Sir Thomas Browne,

1677

 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 5,625.00
268 Seneca (Lucius Annaeus) Tragoedia,

1513

 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 5,250.00
194 St. John (James Augustus) Views in the Eastern Archipelago, Borneo, Sarawak, Labuan, first edition in book form

1847

 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 5,250.00
370 Amis (Kingsley) Lucky Jim, first edition, signed by the author

1953

 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 5,000.00
296 [Blenerhasset (Thomas)] The seconde part of the Mirrour for magistrates, conteining the falles of the infortunate princes of this lande, rare first and only separate edition,

1578

 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 5,000.00
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    Sotheby’s
    Year in Review
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: A Rare Hebrew Bible with Micrographic Masorah. Sold: 1,514,000 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: "The Freedman's Primer.” Sold: 241,300 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Smith, William. "The Map that Changed the World." Sold: 139,700 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Psalter, C13th. Illuminated Psalter. Sold: 330,200 GBP
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Lincoln, Abraham. The abolition of slavery. Sold: 13,697,500 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Vergilius. Opera, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, 1501. Sold: 1,041,400 USD
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