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Keys Fine Arts Auctioneers: 2-Day Book and Ephemera Sale - Day 1

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Auction Name 2-Day Book and Ephemera Sale - Day 1 Total Sales (GBP) 68,284.80
Auction Date April 11, 2019 - April 11, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 47,845.00
Sale Number #1755 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 66,050.00
Total Lots 847
Sold Lots 574 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 70,340.00
% of Lots Sold 67.77% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 96,385.00
Unsold Lots 273 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 70.85%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
311 [MARY SHELLEY]

FRANKENSTEIN OR THE MODERN PROMETHEUS

 1831 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 3,360.00
734 JOHN STOW

A SURVEY OF THE CITIES OF LONDON AND WESTMINSTER CONTAINING THE ORIGINAL ANTIQUITY INCREASE MODERN ESTATE AND GOVERNMENT OF THOSE CITIES…NOW LASTLY CORRECT IMPROVED AND VERY MUCH ENLARGED…BY JOHN STRYPE

 1720 GBP 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,520.00
753 SIR JOHN MALCOLM

THE HISTORY OF PERSIA FROM THE MOST EARLY PERIOD TO THE PRESENT TIME CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF THE RELIGION GOVERNMENT USAGES AND CHARACTER OF THE INHABITANTS OF THAT KINGDOM

 1815 GBP 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,800.00
459 SARAH MARTIN

THE NEW EXPERIENCED ENGLISH-HOUSEKEEPER FOR THE USE AND EASE OF LADIES HOUSEKEEPERS COOKS ETC,

1795 GBP 300.00 - 350.00 GBP 1,680.00
73

THE DANDY MONSTER COMIC

 1939 GBP 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,500.00
467 JOHN BLAGRAVE

THE ART OF DYALLING IN TWO PARTS, THE FIRST SHEWING PLAINLY AND IN ALL A MANNER MECHANICALLY TO MAKE DYALS TO ALL PLAINES HORIZONTALL MURALL DECLINING RECLINING OR INCLINING WITH THE THEORICKE OF THE ARTE, THE SECOND HOW TO PERFORM THE SELFE SAME IN A MOR

 1609 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,500.00
307 SIEGFRIED SASSOON

MEMOIRS OF AN INFANTRY OFFICER, ill Barnett Freedman

 1931 (320) (300) GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,260.00
490

A MID-18TH CENTURY MANUSCRIPT RECEIPT BOOK, circa 35 manuscript pages + a large quantity manuscript arithmetic pages

 circa 1747 GBP 200.00 - 250.00 GBP 960.00
731 JOHN MOTTLEY “ROBERT SEYMOUR ESQ”

A SURVEY OF THE CITIES OF LONDON AND WESTMINSTER BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK AND PARTS ADJACENT… THE WHOLE BEING AN IMPROVEMENT OF MR STOW’S AND OTHER SURVEYS…

 1734-35 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 960.00
590

THE HOLY BIBLE…,

 1717 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 936.00
354 BARBARA BINGLEY

THE PAINTED CUP, ill Lettice Sandford

 1935 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 780.00
348 WILLIAM MORRIS

THE EARTHLY PARADISE,

1896 GBP 200.00 - 250.00 GBP 744.00
396 JOHN MILTON

PARADISE REGAIN’D, A POEM IN FOUR BOOKS TO WHICH IS ADDED SAMSON AGONISTES AND POEMS UPON SEVERAL OCCASIONS, ed Thomas Newton

 1766 GBP 250.00 - 300.00 GBP 624.00
729 JAMES HOWEL

LONDONOPOLIS AN HISTORICAL DISCOURSE OR PERLUSTRATION OF THE CITY OF LONDON, THE IMPERIAL CHAMBER AND CHIEF EMPORIUM OF GREAT BRITAIN WHEREUNTO IS ADDED THE CITY OF WESTMINSTER WITH THE COURTS OF JUSTICE ANTIQUITIES AND NEW BUILDINGS THEREUNTO BELONGING

 1657 GBP 500.00 - 600.00 GBP 600.00
776 HENRY NINHAM

FIFTEEN ETCHINGS, [BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE BY J REEVE]

 1875 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 600.00
413

THE STUDENT OR THE OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE MONTHLY MISCELLANY,

1850-51 GBP 200.00 - 250.00 GBP 576.00
718 JOHN STOW

THE SURVAY OF LONDON CONTAINING THE ORIGINALL ANTIQUITIE ENCREASE AND MORE MODERNE ESTATE OF THE SAID FAMOUS CITE

 1618 GBP 300.00 - 350.00 GBP 576.00
333 EDWARD BAWDEN (ILL)

FORTNUM & MASON CHRISTMAS CATALOGUES

 1955-58 GBP 400.00 - 450.00 GBP 552.00
338 FRANK LAURENCE LUCAS (ED/TRANS)

THE GOLDEN COCKEREL GREEK ANTHOLOGY, ill Lettice Sandford [L],

1937 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 552.00
730 JOHN GWYNN

LONDON AND WESTMINSTER IMPROVED, ILLUSTRATED BY PLANS TO WHICH IS PREFIXED A DISCOURSE ON PUBLIK MAGNIFICENCE…, preface [Samuel Johnson]

 1766 GBP 500.00 - 600.00 GBP 552.00
336 “EVADNE LASCARIS”

THE GOLDEN BED OF KYDNO, trans Edward Powys Mathers “PM”, ill Lettice Stanford

1935 GBP 200.00 - 250.00 GBP 504.00
733 WILLIAM MAITLAND

A HISTORY OF LONDON FROM ITS FOUNDATION TO THE PRESENT TIME – THE HISTORY AND SURVEY OF LONDON…

 1756 GBP 500.00 - 600.00 GBP 504.00
748 [THOMAS MAURICE]

INDIAN ANTIQUITIES OR DISSERTATIONS RELATIVE TO THE ANCIENT GEOGRAPHICAL DIVISIONS, THE PURE SYSTEM OF PRIMEVAL THEOLOGY, THE GRAND CODE OF CIVIL LAWS, THE ORIGINAL FORM OF GOVERNMENT AND THE VARIOUS AND PROFOUND LITERATURE OF HINDOSTAN COMPARED THROUGHOU

 1793 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 504.00
100 RICHARD ADAMS

WATERSHIP DOWN

 1972 GBP 300.00 - 350.00 GBP 480.00
214 AYN RAND

THE FOUNTAINHEAD

 1947 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 456.00
  • Doyle, May 1: Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.
  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
  • Sotheby’s
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
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