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Auction Name Fine Books, Atlases, Manuscripts and Historical Photographs Total Sales (GBP) 841,693.50
Auction Date August 19, 2020 - August 19, 2020 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 356,800.00
Sale Number #26014 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 552,200.00
Total Lots 260
Sold Lots 236 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 686,500.00
% of Lots Sold 90.77% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 1,023,500.00
Unsold Lots 24 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 82.24%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
233 KANDINSKY (WASSILY)

Klänge, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 64 OF 300 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST, Munich, R. Piper & Co., [1913]

 1913 GBP 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 GBP 37,562.50
223 LAWRENCE (T.E.)

Seven Pillars of Wisdom. A Triumph, PRIVATELY PRINTED EDITION, INSCRIBED BY LAWRENCE "INCOMPLETE COPY. I.XII.26 T.E.S." on p.XIX, [Printed for the author by Manning Pike and H.J. Hodgson, 1926]

 1926 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 35,062.50
232 JONES (DAVID)

Series of one hundred and twenty six letters signed Northwick Lodge, Harrow-on-the-Hill, Monks Dene Residential Hotel, 2 Northwick Park Road, Harrow and Calvary Nursing Home, Sudbury ("Sodbury") Hill, Harrow, [mostly dated in Welsh], 4 February 1959 to 27

 1959-1974 GBP 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 GBP 35,062.50
155 INDIA - PHOTOGRAPHY BEATO (FELICE)

Panorama of Delhi taken from the Jamma Masjid, 1858

 1858 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 25,062.50
137 JAILLOT (ALEXIS HUBERT)

Atlas nouveau contenant toutes les parties du monde, ou sont exactement remarqués les empires, monarchies, royaumes, estats, republiques & peuples qui s'y trouvent á present, 2 vol. in one, Paris, Hubert Jaillot, 1696 [but Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier,

1696, 1700 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 23,812.50
160 INDIA - PHOTOGRAPHY BEATO (FELICE)

Six photographs of Amritsar including the Golden Temple complex, 1858-1859

 1858-1859 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 20,062.50
158 INDIA - PHOTOGRAPHY BEATO (FELICE)

Panorama of Lucknow taken from the Kaiser Bagh Palace, 1585

 1585 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 17,562.50
157 INDIA - PHOTOGRAPHY BEATO (FELICE)

Eighteen photographs of Delhi and environs, 1858-1859

 1858-1859 GBP 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 16,312.50
159 INDIA - PHOTOGRAPHY BEATO (FELICE)

Twenty-four photographs of Lucknow, together with 2 parts of a panorama, 1858

 1858 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 16,312.50
193 EINSTEIN (ALBERT)

Photograph signed and inscribed to the photographer ("To Mr Tycko/ Albert Einstein. 1932"), 1932

 1932 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 16,312.50
38 MANUSCRIPT - CULINARY & MEDICINAL RECEIPTS

Recipe book, bearing the ownership inscription of "Sarah Turner" and the date "1658", 1658 to c.1755

 1658 to c.1755 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 15,062.50
86 CHARLES I

The shoes reputedly worn by Charles I on the day of his execution, Tuesday 30 January 1649, (2)

 GBP 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 15,062.50
156 INDIA - PHOTOGRAPHY BEATO (FELICE)

Seventeen photographs of Delhi, 1858-1859

 1858-1859 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 15,062.50
49 MANUSCRIPT RECIPE BOOK

Book of culinary receipts written in several late seventeenth and eighteenth century hands late seventeenth to mid eighteenth century

 late seventeenth to mid eighteenth century GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 12,562.50
177 GOULD (JOHN)

The Birds of Great Britain, vol. 1 (of 5), FIRST EDITION, by the Author, 1873

 GBP 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 12,562.50
44 MANUSCRIPT RECIPE BOOK - LAURENCE STERNE & YORKSHIRE

Recipe and household book kept by the Croft family of Stillington Hall, North Yorkshire, mid eighteenth to early nineteenth century

 mid eighteenth to early nineteenth century GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 11,937.50
138 LAURIE (ROBERT) AND JAMES WHITTLE

A New and Elegant Imperial Sheet Atlas, Comprehending General and Particular Maps of Every Part of the World, Laurie & Whittle, 1797

 1797 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 11,937.50
107 TOLSTOY (LEO)

Anna Karenina, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, Moscow, T. Ris, 1878

 1878 GBP 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 GBP 11,312.50
255 WAUGH (EVELYN)

Vile Bodies, FIRST EDITION, Chapman & Hall, 1930

 1930 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 11,312.50
229 DODGSON (CHARLES LUTWIDGE) 'LEWIS CARROLL'

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, FIRST PUBLISHED (SECOND ENGLISH) EDITION, Macmillan (2)

 1866 1865 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 10,062.50
153 GRINDLAY (ROBERT MELVILLE)

Scenery, Costumes and Architecture, Chiefly on the Western Side of India, FIRST EDITION, Smith, Elder, 1830

 1830 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 9,437.50
214 CHEKHONIN (SERGEI VASIL'EVICH)

Costume design for a female dancer, possibly from Islamey by Mily Balakirev, signed and dated "Sergei Tchzhonine, Paris" (lower right)

 GBP 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 9,437.50
114 ARISTOTLE

Politiques, or Discourses of Government, Adam Islip, 1598

 1598 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 8,187.50
224 LAWRENCE (T.E.)

The Odyssey of Homer, [translated by T.E. Lawrence], LIMITED TO 530 COPIES, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED "G[eorge]. L[loyd]. from T.E.S., 1933" on the front free endpaper, Emery Walker, Wilfred Merton and Bruce Rogers, 1932

 1933 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 8,187.50
41 MANUSCRIPT RECIPE BOOK - EAST ANGLIAN QUAKERS

Culinary and medicinal receipt book, c.1700 onwards

 c.1700 onwards GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 7,562.50
  • Sotheby’s
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    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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  • 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.
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    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
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    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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    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
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    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
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    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.
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    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.
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    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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    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.
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    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.
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