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Auction Name Best of British: Editions 1950 - 2019 Total Sales (GBP) 673,972.00
Auction Date December 11, 2019 - December 11, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 432,100.00
Sale Number #2129 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 631,300.00
Total Lots 120
Sold Lots 73 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 657,700.00
% of Lots Sold 60.83% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 960,400.00
Unsold Lots 47 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 70.18%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
114 ** Banksy (b.1974)

Girl with Balloon

2004 GBP 120,000.00 - 180,000.00 GBP 156,000.00
112 Banksy (b.1974)

Very Little Helps

2008 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 41,600.00
113 Banksy (b.1974)

Have a Nice Day (Anarchist Book Fair)

2003 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 40,300.00
110 Banksy (b.1974)

CND

2005 GBP 22,000.00 - 28,000.00 GBP 36,400.00
119 Banksy (b.1974)

Grannies

2007 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 28,600.00
105 Harland Miller (b.1964)

Tonight We Make History

2018 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 22,100.00
115 Banksy (b.1974)

Happy Choppers

2003 GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 GBP 20,800.00
32 David Hockney (b.1937)

Big Celia Print #2 (Tokyo 253)

1981 GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 GBP 19,500.00
118 Banksy (b.1974)

Welcome to Hell

2004 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 19,500.00
109 Banksy (b.1974)

Soup Can (Original)

2005 GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 GBP 18,200.00
111 Banksy (b.1974)

Morons

2007 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 18,200.00
116 Banksy (b.1974)

Have a Nice Day

2003 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 18,200.00
120 Banksy (b.1974)

Turf War

2003 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 18,200.00
117 Banksy (b.1974)

Bomb Middle England

2002 GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 GBP 15,600.00
50 Various Artists

Fig-1 50 projects in 50 weeks: Richard Hamilton, Gavin Turk, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Grayson Perry, Anish Kapoor, Antony Gormley, Tracey Emin, Wolfgang Tilmans, Gilbert & George, Howard Hodgkin, Harland Miller, Peter Doig, Michael Craig-Martin, Jeremy Delle

2000-01 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 13,000.00
108 Banksy (b.1974)

Weston Super Mare

2003 GBP 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 GBP 12,350.00
31 David Hockney (b.1937)

Celia Looks (Tokyo 247)

1980 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 10,400.00
39 Bridget Riley (b.1931)

Untitled (La Lune en Rodage- Carlo Belloli) (Schubert 6)

1965 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 9,100.00
107 Banksy (b.1974)

Silver Flags

2006 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 9,100.00
103 Harland Miller (b.1964)

Wherever You Are Whatever You're Doing This One's For You

2013 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 8,580.00
44 Francis Bacon (1909-1992)

Triptych (Sabatier 33)

1976 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 8,450.00
63 Howard Hodgkin (1932-2017)

Blue Listening Ear (Heenk 73)

signed and numbered from the edition of 100 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 7,150.00
67 Damien Hirst (b.1965)

The Souls III (Turquoise / Rustic Copper / Silver Gloss)

2010 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 6,500.00
68 Damien Hirst (b.1965)

H5-2. Beverly Hills

2018 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 6,500.00
38 Bridget Riley (b.1931)

Sideways (Schubert 76)

2011 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 6,240.00
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    19th Century Shop. Shakespeare’s Poems, first collected edition
    19th Century Shop. Walt Whitman portrait inscribed with a Leaves of Grass poem
    19th Century Shop. Major Elizabeth Barrett Browning manuscript notebook
    19th Century Shop. Spock's Baby Book, original MS
    19th Century Shop. Cellarius, Harmonia Macrocosmica, the great celestial atlas
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    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [RUTH, George Herman “Babe” (1895-1948)]. Signed photograph. Circa 1930s. 191 x 248 mm. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HARRISON, Benjamin. Document signed (“Benj Harrison”) as governor of Virginia, certifying the service of Daniel Cumbo, a Black Revolutionary soldier. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: ONE OF THE FIRST PRINTED ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. $4,000 to $6,000.
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    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: FIRST PRINTING OF LINCOLN’S IMMORTAL GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HIGHLY IMPORTANT MORMON ARCHIVE. ALLEY, George. Archive of 23 Autograph Letters Signed by Mormon Convert George Alley to His Brother Joseph Alley. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [AVIATION]. [ARMSTRONG, Neil A.] Aviation Hall of Fame Gold Medal MS64 NGC, Awarded to Neil Armstrong in 1979. $2,000 to $3,000.
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    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: NEWLY DISCOVERED FIRST PRINTING OF "WITH MALICE TOWARDS NONE... " FROM THE ONLY NEWSPAPER ACTUALLY ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN LINCOLN’S SECOND INAUGURAL PROCESSION. $4,000 to $8,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: THE MOST IMPORTANT GEORGE WASHINGTON DOCUMENT IN PRIVATE HANDS; GEORGE WASHINGTON’S COMMISSION AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF, 1775, ONE OF ONLY TWO ORIGINALS. $150,000 to $250,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: A VERY RARE ACCOUNT OF BLACKBEARD’S DEATH AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PIRATE ITEMS EXTANT. $3,000 to $5,000.
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    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: EDISON, Thomas. Patent for Edison’s Improvements on the Electric-Light, No. 219,628. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Patent Office], 16 September 1879. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [VIETNAM WAR]. The original pen used by Secretary of State William P. Rogers to sign the Vietnam Peace Agreement, Paris, 27 January 1973. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: SONS OF LIBERTY FOUNDER COLONEL BARRÉ ANNOTATED TITLE-PAGE, “WHICH OUGHT TO ROUSE UP BRITISH ATTENTION”. $4,000 to $6,000.
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    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: [Langland (William)]. The vision of Pierce Plowman, nowe the seconde time imprinted..., Roberte Crowley, 1550. £8,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: [Shakespeare (William)]. [Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies], second folio edition, [by Tho.Cotes, for Robert Allot], [1632]. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Bible, Czech Biblia Bohemica, first complete Bible printed in the Czech vernacular, Prague, August 1488. £30,000 to £40,000.
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    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Shabthai Tzvi.- Collection of four printed and illustrated broadsides detailing the appearance, rise and fall of the false messiah, Shabthai Tzvi, Augsburg, 1666-67. £40,000 to £60,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Leaf from the Beauvais Missal, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment, [Northern France (perhaps Beauvais or Amiens)], [fourteenth century (c.1310)]. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Aubrey (John). [Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme], manuscript in English, Latin and Greek, [c. 1693]. £30,000 to £50,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Poems on Various Occasions, first edition, Harriet Maltby's copy, Newark, Printed by S. & J. Ridge, 1807. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, first edition, second impression with dust-jacket, 1937 [but 1938]. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Blake (William).- Thornton (Robert John). The Pastorals of Virgil, 2 vol., engraved plates by William Blake, 1821. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: America.- Mount (William J.) & Thomas Page. The English Pilot…, [bound with] The Fourth Book, describing The West Indies Navigation from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones, 1721. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Oldfield (Henry Ambrose), Rajman Singh Chitrakar & others. An album of 160 photographs and 13 original artworks, (1833-1919), [c. 1850s-1880s]. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Audubon (John James) [and William MacGillivray]. Ornithological Biography…, 5 vol., first edition, presentation copy inscribed by Audubon, Edinburgh, 1831-49 [i.e. 1831-39]. £10,000 to £15,000.
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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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  • Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG BEADED JUDICIAL COLLAR. $80,000 - $120,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: ONLY KNOWN COPY OF THE ONLY BOOK BY THE REMARKABLE EVE ADAMS. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A COMPLETE RUN OF VISIONAIRE MAGAZINE THROUGH 2010. $6,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: LAW REVIEW OFFPRINT SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY RUTH BADER GINSBURG. $3,000 - $5,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: META REBNER'S WORKING SCRIPT OF THE LOVED ONE. $1,500 - $2,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A KATHY GROVE PORTRAIT OF CYNDI LAUPER FOR THE FEBRUARY 1989 DETAILS COVER. $800 - $1,200
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A PLASTIC COAT BY MILLIE DAVID FEATURED IN SOHO NEWS STYLE SECTION, FROM THE COLLECTION OF ANNIE FLANDERS. $500 - $700
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    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A SET OF JONI MITCHELL LYRICS FOR "IF I HAD A HEART." $2,000 - $3,000
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