Sothebys: English literature and history, L00205,
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- July 13, 2000 - July 13, 2000
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 202 | Cockburn, Sir George, Admiral. | Group of items relating to Admiral Cockburn | GBP 500.00 - 600.00 | 2,938.00 | ||
| 203 | Genealogy. | Large volume of draft pedigrees of British and European families | USD 600.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 204 | George IV. | Remarkable autograph letter signed | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 205 | [Hamilton, Sir William]. | Two letters addressed to Sir William Hamilton | USD 400.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 206 | Jewellery. | Treasury order signed by Lord Godolphin relating to jewellery presented to foreign envoys | GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | 470.00 | ||
| 207 | Leicester, Robert Dudley, first Earl of | fine illuminated pedigree and armorial of leicester's family presented to him by robert cooke, chester herald | GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | 19,800.00 | ||
| 208 | Nightingale, Florence. | Two autograph letters signed | GBP 500.00 - 600.00 | 881.00 | ||
| 209 | Slavery. | An Abstract of the Evidence delivered before a select committee of the House of Commons in the years 1790, and 1791; | GBP 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 | 8,225.00 | ||
| 210 | Slavery. | Group of letters and pamphlets belonging to the Abolitionist Stephen Lushington | GBP 700.00 - 800.00 | 799.00 | ||
| 211 | Victoria. | Fine series of fifteen autograph letters | GBP 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 | 2,115.00 | ||
| 212 | Churchill, Sir Winston. | The River War. An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan. Longmans, Green, and co., 1899 | GBP 3,500.00 - 4,500.00 | 5,640.00 | ||
| 213 | Churchill, Sir Winston. | The World Crisis. | 1923-1931 |
GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | 22,100.00 | |
| 214 | Churchill, Sir Winston. | Vote for Churchill. The Right Member for Commercial Manchester. | [Manchester] | [1908] |
GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | 3,760.00 |
| 215 | Churchill, Sir Winston. | North-West Manchester By-Election. Free Trade for Ever and Churchill Now! | Manchester | [1908] |
GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | 1,410.00 |
| 216 | Churchill, Sir Winston. | My African Journey. | 1908 |
GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | 705.00 | |
| 217 | Churchill, Sir Winston. | Typed letter signed | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | 5,640.00 | ||
| 218 | Churchill, Sir Winston. | India. | 1931 |
GBP 250.00 - 300.00 | 564.00 | |
| 219 | [Bronfman, Samuel, creator of Seagrams]-Leacock, Stephen. | Canada The Foundations of its Nature. | Montreal | 1941 |
GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 3,290.00 |
| 220 | Churchill, Sir Winston (introd.) Bermann, Richard A. | The Mahdi of Allah. The Story of the Dervish Mohammed Ahmed. | 1931 |
GBP 250.00 - 350.00 | 235.00 | |
| 221 | Churchill, Sir Winston. | Various | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | 764.00 | ||
| 222 | [Churchill, Sir Winston]. | Large political watercolour drawing | USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 223 | [Churchill, Sir Winston] | Portrait of Churchill | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | 822.00 | ||
| 224 | Churchill, Sir Winston. | For Free Trade. A Collection of Speeches delivered at Manchester or in the House of Commons during the Fiscal Controversy preceding the late General Election. | 1906 |
GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | 9,988.00 | |
| 225 | Churchill, Sir Winston. | London to Ladysmith via Pretoria. | 1900 |
USD 600.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold | |
| 226 | Churchill, Sir Winston. | Into Battle. Speeches... | Shanghai | 1941 |
GBP 650.00 - 750.00 | 999.00 |
| 227 | Churchill, Sir Winston. | Andra Varldskriget [first Swedish edition of The Second World War]. | Stockholm | 1948-19 54 |
GBP 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 | 2,938.00 |
| 228 | Churchill, Sir Winston. | Wartime photograph signed | GBP 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,410.00 | ||
| 229 | Churchill, Sir Winston. | Wartime photograph signed | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | 728.00 | ||
| 230 | Churchill, Sir Winston. | Two typed letters signed | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,528.00 | ||
| 231 | Churchill, Sir Winston. | The World Crisis. | 1923-19 27 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 3,525.00 | |
| 232 | Disraeli, Benjamin. | Two autograph letters signed | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | 881.00 | ||
| 233 | Lushington, Stephen (M.P., lawyer, judge, and abolitionist) | Collection of about two hundred and seventy letters written by or to Lushington during the course of his Parliamentary career | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 234 | Lloyd George, David. | Fine early autograph letter signed | USD 500.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 235 | Eighteenth-century politicians. | Album of historical documents | GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | 2,585.00 | ||
| 236 | Politics. | Collection of historical documents Collection of letters (generally autograph) and documents | GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 | 1,880.00 | ||
| 237 | Boer War. | An evocative letter and card sent from Ladysmith during the siege both by Captain Archibald Wales | USD 400.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 238 | Jenkins, James. | The Martial Achievements of Great Britain and her Allies. | [1814-1815] |
GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | 940.00 | |
| 239 | Navigation. | Manuscript volume compiled by John Harper when a prisoner of war in France, 1811-1814 | GBP 500.00 - 600.00 | 470.00 | ||
| 240 | Nelson, Horatio Lord. | Autograph letter signed | GBP 700.00 - 900.00 | 2,820.00 | ||
| 241 | Nelson, Horatio Lord. | Letter signed | GBP 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 | 4,112.00 | ||
| 242 | Ward, Robert. | Animadversions of Warre, or a militarie magazine of the truest rules, and ablest instructions, for the managing of warre. | 1639 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 294.00 | |
| 243 | Brecht, Bertolt, and Charles Laughton. | Mimeographed typescript of Charles Laughton's English adaptation of Brecht's celebrated play Galileo with an autograph insertion by brecht, together with an autograph letter signed by Laughton | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 244 | Eliot, T.S. | The Confidential Clerk. A Play. | 1954 |
GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 2,585.00 | |
| 245 | Eliot, T.S. | Fine typed letter signed | GBP 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,175.00 | ||
| 246 | Greene, Graham. | Playscript of The Return of A.J. Raffles | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | 940.00 | ||
| 247 | Shaw, George Bernard | Buoyant Billions: A Comedy of No Manners. | 1948 |
GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | 881.00 | |
| 248 | [Olivier, Laurence, and others:] | Various | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | 1,058.00 | ||
| 249 | Elliott, Denholm. | collection of denholm eliott's scripts | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 1,410.00 | ||
| 250 | Kubrick, Stanley. | Series of eleven letters signed | USD 14,000.00 - 18,000.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 251 | Kubrick, Stanley. | Series of outlines and working filmscripts of Dr. Strangelove | GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | 11,162.00 | ||
| 252 | Kubrick, Stanley. | Two certificates of Bafta awards for Dr. Strangelove | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,058.00 | ||
| 253 | Kubrick, Stanley. | The certificate of nomination for award by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences for Dr. Strangelove | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 254 | Collection of other related material | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 3,055.00 | |||
| 255 | Olivier, Sir Laurence, Lord. | important collection of over two hundred and fifty letters and cards by sir laurence olivier and his family | USD 50,000.00 - 60,000.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 256 | Theatre, etc. | Collection of autograph letters and cards signed | GBP 500.00 - 600.00 | 846.00 | ||
| 257 | Darwin, Charles. | Autograph letter signed | GBP 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 | 4,112.00 | ||
| 258 | The Principles of Mr. Harrison's Time-Keeper, with plates of the same. | 1767 |
GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | 4,112.00 | ||
| 259 | Art. | Collection of letters by early-nineteenth-century artists | GBP 900.00 - 1,200.00 | 2,232.00 | ||
| 260 | Art. | Collection of letters by nineteenth-century artists | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,880.00 | ||
| 261 | Art. | Documents written or signed by Kneller, Reynolds and Fuseli | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | 588.00 | ||
| 262 | Ackermann, Rudolph. | Autograph letter signed | USD 700.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 263 | Britton, John. | Autograph letter signed | USD 500.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 264 | Cotman, John Sell. | Five letters | USD 600.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 265 | Dahl, Michael. | Five documents signed | USD 500.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 266 | Etty, William. | Eleven autograph letters signed | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | 588.00 | ||
| 267 | London, East-Robinson, Samuel. | Two eighteenth century manuscript plans in ink on vellum | GBP 700.00 - 900.00 | 705.00 | ||
| 268 | Landseer (Sir Edwin) | Nineteen autograph letters signed to various correspondents | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | 705.00 | ||
| 269 | Palmer, Samuel. | Fine autograph letter signed | GBP 500.00 - 600.00 | 470.00 | ||
| 270 | Pre-Raphaelites. | Collection of over twenty letters by Pre-Raphaelite artists and writers | GBP 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 | 3,878.00 | ||
| 271 | Pre-Raphaelites. | Autograph letters | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | 764.00 | ||
| 272 | Prout, Samuel. | Eleven autograph letters signed one incomplete | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | 588.00 | ||
| 273 | Pyne, W.H. | The History of the Royal Residences... illustrated by one hundred highly finished and coloured engravings. | 1819 |
USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 274 | Roberts, David. | Four autograph letters signed | GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 | 1,292.00 | ||
| 275 | Turner, J.M.W. | Three autograph letters signed | GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 | 2,350.00 | ||
| 276 | Turner, J.M.W. | Autograph letter unsigned | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | 764.00 |
