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Sale Name
The Cornish Library of John Stengelhofer: Rare Books and Works on Paper
Auction Date
03/07/2024 - 03/08/2024
Year of Sale
2024
Sale Number
#30724
Total Lots
513
Sold Lots
435
Lots Sold
84.8%
Unsold Lots
78
Price Unknown
0
Total Sales (GBP)
105,318.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
39,524.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
64,460.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
44,519.00
High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
72,635.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
145.00%
Currency
GBP
Inflation Adjusted Price in U.S. Dollars
134,091.00

Top twenty five by sale price

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Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
269 Reginald Koettlitz (1860-1916) The Antarctic Letters,written from the British Antarctic expedition of 1901-1904

GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 11,495.00
270 George Francis Arthur MulockDSO, RN, FRGS (1882-1963) The Antarctic Letters,written from the British Antarctic expedition of 1901-1904

GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 7,744.00
271 Captain William Colbeck (1871-1930) The Antarctic Letters,written from the British Antarctic expedition of 1901-1904

GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 6,050.00
267 From Michael Barne DSO (1877-1961) The Antarctic Letters,written from the British Antarctic expedition of 1901-1904

GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 5,203.00
273 Reginald Koettlitz(1860-1916) The Antarctic Letters,written from the British Antarctic expedition of 1901-1904

GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 4,961.00
147 (Caroline Fox and Davies Gilbert) Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. A granderised collection of the first reports thought to be Caroline Fox's own.

GBP 1,800.00 - 2,200.00 4,961.00
268 Reginald Koettlitz (1860-1916) The Antarctic Letters,written from the British Antarctic expedition of 1901-1904

GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 4,719.00
266 From Thomas Vere Hodgson (1864-1926) The Antarctic Letters,written from the British Antarctic expedition of 1901-1904

GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 4,598.00
300 DOYLE, Arthur Conan. 'The Hound of the Baskervilles. Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes

1902

 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 3,751.00
201 RASHLEIGH, Philip. 'Specimens of British Minerals, Selected from The Cabinet of......With General Descriptions of Each Article,'

1797

 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 3,509.00
272 Sir Clements Markham KCB FRS FRSGS (President of the Royal Geographical Society) (1830-1916) The Antarctic Letters,written from the British Antarctic expedition of 1901-1904

GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 3,146.00
146 The Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society Annual reports. A continuous run from 1834 to 1926.

1834 to 1926

 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 1,210.00
131 Newquay, North Cornwall Plan Of The Building Sites on the Porth Veor Estate, 1881

GBP 300.00 - 500.00 1,185.80
148 (Important Cornish manuscript) 'Plans of the whole Parish of Sithney, in Cornwall. 1824' MS survey of parishes in Cornwall, showing field boundaries, with detailed tables of land use.

1824

 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 992.20
302 LE CARRE, John 'The Honourable Schoolboy'

1977

 GBP 250.00 - 350.00 992.20
460 BURGESS, Anthony. 'A Clock Work Orange,'

1962

 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 871.20
316 Master Therion (Aleister Crowley) 'Magick: In Theory and Practice (being part III of Book 4) Section 2; Section 3; Section 4'

1929

 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 871.20
340 James MCBEY (1883-1959) Tangier, 1913

1913

 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 822.80
278 WILD, Frank. 'Shackleton's Last Voyage: The Story of the Quest,'

1923,

 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 726.00
246 Tony WEARE (1912-1994) Four portfolios of botanical watercolour studies

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 701.80
336 M & N Hanhart (lithographers) 'Truro and the River Fal from opposite Tregothnan House,'

[1855].

 GBP 50.00 - 100.00 629.20
151 The book of the Mannor of Ventongimps, 1683' Court Book with manuscript entries in latin, dating from 1683.

1683-1691

 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 629.20
161 Mines on The Great Flat Lode, Camborne, Cornwall' A 19th century plan

19th century

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 605.00
353 HARRIS, Robert (1581-1658) Sammelband volume of Sermons

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 580.80
234 Nikolaus Pevsner. 'The Buildings of England'.

[circa 2000]

 GBP 80.00 - 100.00 580.80
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