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Auction Name English Literature, History, Children’s Books and Illustrations - Online Bidstart 12/3 Total Sales (GBP) 1,166,059.00
Auction Date December 10, 2019 - December 10, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 588,200.00
Sale Number #L19408 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 859,600.00
Total Lots 224
Sold Lots 135 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 1,055,700.00
% of Lots Sold 60.27% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 1,548,000.00
Unsold Lots 89 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 75.33%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
27 ENIGMA I

A Fully Operational Three-Rotor Enigma I Cipher Machine.

1944 GBP 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 GBP 93,750.00
88 SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM

Mr William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true originall copies.

GBP 70,000.00 - 100,000.00 GBP 93,750.00
75 SMITH, ADAM

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

1776 GBP 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 GBP 87,500.00
241 ROWLING, J.K.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.

1997 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 75,000.00
45 VERGILIUS MARO, PUBLIUS, DOUGLAS, GAVIN--VIRGIL

The xiii bukes of Eneados of the famose poete Virgill translatet out of Latyne verses into Scottish metir, bi the Reuerend Father in God, Mayster Gawin Douglas Bishop of Dunkel.

1553 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 62,500.00
251 SHEPARD, E.H.

A Very Grand Thing - The Trouble at Owl's House

 GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 GBP 47,500.00
15 DARWIN, CHARLES

On the Origin of Species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life.

1859 GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 GBP 43,750.00
203 KUBRICK, STANLEY

Archive of Andrew Birkin as uncredited Assistant Director on 2001: A Space Odyssey, comprising:

 GBP 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 GBP 43,750.00
252 SHEPARD, E.H.

Cover design for The Wind in the Willows

 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 25,000.00
1 HERALDRY--ORDER OF THE GARTER

The statutis and ordinances of the mooste noble ordre of saynt George named the Gartier Refourmed explained declared and Renewed by […] Kyng Henry the viiith

 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 23,750.00
94 DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

1892 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 22,500.00
22 GANDHI, MOHANDAS K.

Series of nine letters, notes and cards, eight to Jamnabehn and one to Yashwant Prasad, comprising

 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 20,000.00
91 BLAKE, WILLIAM

Illustrations of the Book of Job. Invented and engraved by William Blake.

1825 [1826] GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 20,000.00
140 WAUGH, EVELYN

10 autograph letters signed, eight to Richard Plunket Greene, one to his mother Gwen ("Lady Plunket"), and one to his fiancée Elizabeth Russell

 GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 GBP 15,000.00
11 BRITISH PRIME MINISTER

Despatch Box

 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 13,750.00
47 EDMONDES, CLEMENT

Observations upon Cæsars Comentaries. By Clement Edmundes, Remembrancer of the cittie of London.

1609] GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 13,750.00
56 HENRY VIII.

Assertio septem sacramentorum aduersus Martin.

1522 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 13,750.00
99 GILLRAY, JAMES

The Genuine Works of James Gillray engraved by himself.

1830 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 13,750.00
70 Pamphlets and Tracts by or attributed to Defoe, Burke, Boswell, Paine and others.

Collection of seven volumes with eighteenth-century tracts on the American War of Independence, the Colonies, Scotland, the East India Company, the Anglo-French War, Parliament and other subjects, with several Edinburgh imprints:

GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 12,500.00
46 DRUMMOND, WILLIAM

Poems.

1616 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 10,625.00
81 [WOLLEY, HANNAH]

The Accomplish’d Ladies Delight in Preserving, Physick, Beautifying, and Cookery.

1686 GBP 600.00 - 900.00 GBP 10,000.00
244 ROWLING, J.K.

Autograph card signed (“J.K. Rowling”) providing clues to the then unpublished Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 10,000.00
79 WODROEPHE, JOHN

The spared houres of a souldier in his travels. Or The true marrowe of the French tongue, where in is truely treated (by ordre) the nine parts of speech. Together, with two rare, and excellent bookes of dialogues ...

1623 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 GBP 9,375.00
237 RACKHAM, ARTHUR

Mrs Ida Samuel (née Mayer), later Lady Samuel

 GBP 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 GBP 9,375.00
23 CHURCHILL, SIR WINSTON

The Second World War.

1948-1954 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 8,750.00
  • 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
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    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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    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    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
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
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