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Auction Name Online Sale: Books and Works on Paper Total Sales (GBP) 59,968.75
Auction Date November 14, 2019 - November 14, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 39,320.00
Sale Number #2122 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 56,280.00
Total Lots 222
Sold Lots 190 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 45,670.00
% of Lots Sold 85.59% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 65,280.00
Unsold Lots 32 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 91.86%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
47 Southey (Robert) Martin (John, editor)

An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands...with an Original Grammar and Vocabulary...compiled and arranged from the extensive communications of Mr.William Mariner

1817 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 3,250.00
68 [James (Sir Henry, printer)]

[Domesday Book or Great Survey of England of William the Conqueror]

[1862] GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 3,000.00
222 Töpffer (Rodolphe)

Monsieur Pencil

1840 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,750.00
199

Closed fore-edge painting.- The Book of Common Prayer

1850 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 1,062.50
70 Repton (Humphry) Malins (Edward)

The Red Books of Humphry Repton

1976 GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 1,000.00
221 Töpffer (Rodolphe)

Histoire de Mr. Jabot

1833 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,000.00
195

Masonic binding.- Bible, English. The Holy Bible

1769 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 937.50
63 Palmer (Samuel)

An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil

1883 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 875.00
187

Bible

1619 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 875.00
129 Donovan (Edward)

The Natural History of British Birds ... in five volumes

1799 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 812.50
108 Michelot (Henri)

Le portulan de la Mer Mediterranee, ou le vray guide des pilotes costiers

1709 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 750.00
188 More (Henry)

A platonick song of the soul; treating, of The life of the soul

1647 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 750.00
193 Shakespeare (William)

The Works of ...,6vol.

1743-44. GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 750.00
99 Russo-Japanese War (The)

Fully Illustrated

1904-05. GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 687.50
79 Cluverius (Philippus)

Germaniae Antiquae libri tres

1616 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 625.00
104 Conway (Sir William Martin)

Climber's Guide to the Central Pennine Alps

1890 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 625.00
65 Switzer (Stephen)

An Introduction to a General System of Hydrostaticks and Hydraulicks, Philosophical and Practical…

1729 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 600.00
163 Heinsius (Daniel, editor)

Quintus Horatius Flaccus

1718 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 575.00
39 Vaughan (Walter)

An Essay, Philosophical and Medical

1792 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 550.00
82 Hazlitt (William Carew)

British Columbia, and Vancouver Island

1858 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 550.00
1 Anacreon.

Odae

1554 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 525.00
130 Morris (Rev. Francis Orpen)

A History of British Birds

[?1888] GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 525.00
149 Herodotus.

Historiæ libri IX

1583 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 525.00
80 Gerning (Johann Isaak von)

A Picturesque Tour along the Rhine, from Mentz to Cologne

1820 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 500.00
118 Southouse (Thomas)

Monasticon Favershamiense in Agro Cantiano: or a Surveigh of the Monastry of Faversham ...

1671 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 500.00
  • 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.
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