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Auction Name Books, Photos & Ephemera, Postcards, and Postage Stamps. Total Sales (GBP) 14,774.05
Auction Date November 13, 2019 - November 13, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 12,643.00
Sale Number #388 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 15,973.00
Total Lots 232
Sold Lots 167 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 18,768.00
% of Lots Sold 71.98% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 23,453.00
Unsold Lots 65 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 62.99%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
220

Russia

 1857-1945 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,300.00 GBP 1,115.50
192

Iceland

 1873-1902 GBP 900.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 966.00
193

Iceland

 1902-1989 GBP 650.00 - 750.00 GBP 575.00
195

Iceland

 1902-1940 GBP 400.00 - 450.00 GBP 437.00
196

Iceland

 1930 GBP 350.00 - 400.00 GBP 437.00
170

French Colonies

 1961 to mid-1970s GBP 250.00 - 300.00 GBP 333.50
52

Manchester City 1938 Continental Tour Programme, for matches in Denmark & Sweden.

1938 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 322.00
230

Turkey

 1863-1935 GBP 250.00 - 300.00 GBP 287.50
190

German Post Offices in the Levant collection on leaves with forerunners (2) including SG Z7 with dated pen cancel for Constantinople;

 GBP 250.00 - 300.00 GBP 276.00
194

Iceland

 1873 to 1936 GBP 250.00 - 300.00 GBP 264.50
200

Italy & Colonies largely used collection in binder with interest in Aegean Islands, East Africa, Libya to 10lire; Italy with some States,

1862 GBP 70.00 - 100.00 GBP 224.25
147

Carton with Foreign & Commonwealth accumulation on many album pages and stockleaves with good late-19th Century to 1960s

late-19th Century to 1960s GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 207.00
144

World on/off paper accumulation in packets and loose with much mid-period notably Bermuda with numerous GVI issues to 5s including a quantity of high value key-plates, plus wide range of other countries.

 GBP 100.00 - 130.00 GBP 189.75
134

British Commonwealth & GB on stockcards, stockleaves etc; interest in GB Overprints from QV issues, Australia from GV, modern UM Ireland with values to £5, and various others.

GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 178.25
66

South of England topography including canal scenes at Devizes and Chadbury Mill (RP); street scenes of Basingstoke (RP), Yeovil,  Arlington (Post Office) and Widecombe (RP); and other useful.

 GBP 90.00 - 110.00 GBP 166.75
80

Collection in old album,

 1900s/1930s GBP 70.00 - 90.00 GBP 166.75
72

Colonial Africa with interest in German East Africa (24, many under Belgian Occupation), plus Kenya, Tanganyika, Nyasaland, Nigeri a, the Congo, Somalia and others. Fair to Fine. (101)

 GBP 70.00 - 90.00 GBP 132.25
132

British Commonwealth & GB in carton, mostly in stockbooks & binders;

 GBP 70.00 - 100.00 GBP 132.25
83

All-period collection with much GB Topography; the pre-1960 cards 

 pre-196 GBP 120.00 - 150.00 GBP 126.50
117

Northumberland & Durham, plus some Yorkshire, many PU EVII; 

 GBP 130.00 - 150.00 GBP 126.50
212

Pakistan

 1947-1960s GBP 130.00 - 160.00 GBP 126.50
119

Scotland topography and themes including street scenes of Port Seton, Thornhill, Cupar (RP), Doune, Gullane (RP), …

 1904 GBP 140.00 - 160.00 GBP 115.00
17 Izaak Walton

The Compleat Walton

 1929 GBP 40.00 - 50.00 GBP 112.70
112

Morecambe accumulation, plus some Lancaster & district,

GBP 110.00 - 130.00 GBP 105.80
163

China on album pages with much

 1950s/early1960s GBP 40.00 - 50.00 GBP 105.80
  • Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: McCarthy (Cormac). Cities of the Plain, N.Y., 1998, First Edn., signed on hf. title; together with Uncorrected Proof and Uncorrected Advance Reading Copies, both signed by the Author. €800 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Stanihurst (Richard). De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis, Libri Quattuor, sm. 4to Antwerp (Christi. Plantium) 1584. First Edn. €525 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Fleischer (Nat.) Jack Dempsey The Idol of Fistiana, An Intimate Narrative, N.Y., 1929, First Edn. Signed on f.e.p. by Rocky Marciano. €400 to €600.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Smith - Classical Atlas, Lond., 1820. Bound with, Smiths New General Atlas .. Principal Empires, Kingdoms, & States throughout the World, Lond. 1822. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Rare Auction Catalogues – 1856: Bindon Blood, of Ennis, Co. Clare: Sotheby & Wilkinson. €320 to €450.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Mavor (Wm.)] A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of America to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century, 28 vols. (complete) Lond., 1810. €300 to €400.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Mc Carthy (Cormac). Outer Dark, N.Y. (Random House)1968, Signed by Mc Carthy. €250 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Three signed works by Ted Huges - Wodwo, 1967; Crow from the Life and Songs of the Crow, 1970; and Tales from Ovid, 1997. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: The Garden. An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture in all its Branches, 7 vols. lg. 4to Lond. 1877-1880. With 127 colored plates. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Procter (Richard A.) Saturn and its System: Containing Discussions of The Motion (Real and Apparent)…, Lond. 1865. First Edn. €160 to €220.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Ashe] St. George, Lord Bishop of Clogher, A Sermon Preached to the Protestants of Ireland, now in London,... Oct. 23, 1712, London 1712. Second Edn. €130 to €180.
  • 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
    Sotheby’s
    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
  • 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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