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Auction Name Two Day Book Auction Total Sales (GBP) 93,351.70
Auction Date October 15, 2020 - October 16, 2020 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 50,705.00
Sale Number #7597 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 69,640.00
Total Lots 611
Sold Lots 591 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 92,045.00
% of Lots Sold 96.73% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 121,415.00
Unsold Lots 20 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 76.89%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
539

THE NAVAL JOURNAL OF THE REV ANDREW LAWRENCE (1755-1821), [Elder brother of Sir Thomas Lawrence, PRA, FRS], 150 manuscript pages including watercolours and drawings covering the period 1793-97

 1793-97 GBP 300.00 - 350.00 GBP 4,586.15
253

GENESIS, TWELVE WOODCUTS BY PAUL NASH WITH THE FIRST CHAPTER OF GENESIS IN THE AUTHORISED VERSION,

1924 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 3,966.40
534

An early 19th century notebook being a manuscript digest or accounts of Lord Nelson's Executors with entries 1805-12

 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 3,098.75
282

THE SONG OF SONGS, THE AUTHORISED VERSION, trans/ed William Oscar Emil Oesterley, ill Lettice Sandford

 1936 GBP 400.00 - 500.00 GBP 2,788.88
292 JOHN MILTON

PARADISE LOST, ill Mary Groom,

 1937 GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 2,169.13
603 PETER HENRY EMERSON

WILD LIFE ON A TIDAL WATER, THE ADVENTURES OF A HOUSE-BOAT AND HER CREW, ill P H Emerson & T F Goodall

 1890 GBP 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,239.50
275 RICHARD ALDINGTON

IMAGES OF WAR, A BOOK OF POEMS, ill Paul Nash

 1919 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 1,115.55
254 PAUL NASH

PLACES SEVEN PRINTS REPRODUCED FROM WOOD BLOCKS DESIGNED AND ENGRAVED BY PAUL NASH WITH ILLUSTRATIONS IN PROSE

 1922 GBP 400.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,103.16
212 JOHN KEATS

ENDYMION, A POETIC ROMANCE, ill John Buckland-Wright

 1947 GBP 400.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,041.18
463 ALFRED THAYER MAHAN

TYPES OF NAVAL OFFICERS DRAWN FROM THE HISTORY OF THE BRITISH NAVY

 1901 GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 1,016.39
293

THE REVELATION OF SAINT JOHN THE DIVINE, ill Blair Hughes-Stanton,

1932 GBP 400.00 - 500.00 GBP 991.60
270 MATTHEW FLINDERS

NARRATIVE OF HIS VOYAGE IN THE SCHOONER "FRANCIS" 1798 PRECEDED AND FOLLOWED BY NOTES ON FLINDERS BASS THE WRECK OF THE SYDNEY COVE ETC BY GEOFFREY RAWSON, ill John Buckland-Wright

 1946 GBP 500.00 - 600.00 GBP 743.70
356 ANON

ENGLISH GARDEN, scarce unrecorded Victorian peep-show

 GBP 300.00 - 350.00 GBP 743.70
235 POWYS MATHERS

LOVE NIGHT, A LAOTIAN GALLANTRY, ill John Buckland-Wright

 1936 GBP 120.00 - 180.00 GBP 731.31
220 JONATHAN SWIFT

TRAVELS INTO SEVERAL REMOTE NATIONS OF THE WORLD [GULLIVER'S TRAVELS], ill David Jones

 1925 GBP 250.00 - 300.00 GBP 681.73
279 OMAR KHAYYAM

THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM, EDWARD FITZGERALD'S TRANSLATION REPRINTED FROM THE FIRST EDITION WITH HIS PREFACE AND NOTES, ill J Yunge Bateman

 1958 GBP 250.00 - 300.00 GBP 681.73
414 PETER CUNNINGHAM

THE STORY OF NELL GWYN AND THE SAYINGS OF CHARLES THE SECOND

 1852 GBP 250.00 - 300.00 GBP 669.33
294

THE LAMENTATIONS OF JEREMIAH, ill Blair Hughes-Stanton,

 1933 GBP 400.00 - 500.00 GBP 644.54
538

NAVAL ORDER BOOK OF RICHARD THOMAS (POST-CAPTAIN OF 1805), 12 somewhat faint manuscript pages "Orders by Admirals Nelson and Collingwood", page 5 contains an unpublished order by Nelson dated 4th June 1805, note Ron Fiske's manuscript notes on ffep, folio

 1805 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 644.54
230 BARBARA BINGLEY

THE PAINTED CUP, ill Lettice Sandford

 1935 GBP 200.00 - 250.00 GBP 619.75
281

LIBER BESTIARUM M S BODLEY 764

 2008 GBP 300.00 - 350.00 GBP 619.75
537

THE NAVAL ORDER BOOK OF RICHARD THOMAS (POST-CAPTAIN OF 1805), 183 manuscript pages with entries 1793-99, 1805-10

 1793-99, 1805-10 GBP 400.00 - 500.00 GBP 619.75
496 ANON

A MEMOIR OF THE LIFE OF ADMIRAL LORD NELSON,

[1801?] GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 582.57
595 FRANCIS BLOMEFIELD AND CHARLES PARKIN

AN ESSAY TOWARDS A TOPOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF NORFOLK

 1805-10 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 545.38
226

THE SONG OF SONGS CALLED BY MANY THE CANTICLE OF CANTICLES, ill Eric Gill

 1925 GBP 300.00 - 350.00 GBP 520.59
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    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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    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.
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