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Auction Name Antiquarian and Collectable Books Auction Total Sales (GBP) 40,985.18
Auction Date July 09, 2020 - July 09, 2020 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 18,735.00
Sale Number #70920 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 28,715.00
Total Lots 321
Sold Lots 313 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 19,390.00
% of Lots Sold 97.51% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 29,700.00
Unsold Lots 8 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 138.00%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
181

THE GLASGOW LOOKING GLASS LATER THE NORTHERN LOOKING GLASS.

1834 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 GBP 3,995.00
155 TAYLOR EDWARD.

"Madrigals by Italian Composers with a few by Flemish Composers, Scored from the Original Parts & the English Words Written by Edward Taylor ...

1839 & n.d GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,527.50
76 WEEKLY DISPATCH (Pubs).

The Dispatch Atlas.

1863 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,292.50
150 DONNE JOHN.

Poems ... with Elegies on the Author's Death.

1745 GBP 60.00 - 100.00 GBP 1,175.00
238 JOHNSON SAMUEL.

A Dictionary of the English Language.

1756 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 705.00
10 SOWERBY J. E. & OTHERS.

English Botany or Coloured Figures of British Plants, edited by John T. Boswell Syme.

1863-1872. GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 564.00
138 DICKENS CHARLES.

Dombey and Son.

1847 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 528.75
219 BURKE EDMUND.

Reflections on the Revolution in France.

1791 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 528.75
217 HUME DAVID.

Four Dissertations, The Natural History of Religion, Of the Passions, Of Tragedy and Of the Standard of Taste.

GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 470.00
216 (BURNEY FRANCES).

Cecilia or Memoirs of an Heiress, by the Author of Evelena.

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 446.50
228 PEACHAM HENRY.

The Compleat Gentleman, Fashioning Him Absolute in the Most Necessary & Commendable Qualities … to which is added The Gentleman's Exercise or An Exquisite Practice, as well for Drawing … as for Making Colours … etc.

1661 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 376.00
229 VOLNEY C-F.

Travels Through Syria & Egypt in the Years 1783, 1784 & 1785.

1787 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 376.00
162 NUTTER M. E.

Carlisle in the Olden Time, A Series of Views of Ancient Public Buildings.

1835 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 352.50
296 IRELAND W. H.

Life of Napoleon Bonaparte.

GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 329.00
55 SCOTT SIR WALTER.

Waverley Novels.

1830 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 317.25
137 DICKENS CHARLES.

Works.

1880's. GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 317.25
50 SHAKESPEARE WILLIAM.

The Works.

n.d. GBP 30.00 - 40.00 GBP 305.50
53 RUSKIN JOHN.

Letters Addressed to a College Friend.

1894 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 305.50
59 Institute of Bankers.

Journal.

1879/80 to 1909 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 305.50
245 CHASTELLUX MARQUIS DE.

Travels in North-America in the Years 1780, 1781 & 1782.

1787 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 305.50
320 BIONDI SIR FRANCIS.

An History of the Civill Warres of England Between the Two Houses of Lancaster & Yorke ..

1641 GBP 120.00 - 180.00 GBP 305.50
62 CHALMERS A. (Ed).

The British Essayists.

1823 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 282.00
156 KELLY MICHAEL (Composer).

The Grand Dramatic Romance of Blue Beard or Female Curiosity as now Performing at The Theatre-Royal, Drury Lane ? the words by George Coleman, the younger.

N.d. but c.1798 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 282.00
204 GORDON ALEXANDER.

Itinerarium Septentrionale or A Journey Through Most of the Counties of Scotland & Those in the North of England.

1726 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 282.00
122 THACKERAY W. M.

Works.

1880's. GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 270.25
  • Forum Auctions
    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.
    Forum Auctions
    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.
  • 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
  • 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
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG JEWELRY BOX. $600 - $900
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A SET OF JONI MITCHELL LYRICS FOR "IF I HAD A HEART." $2,000 - $3,000
  • 19th Century Shop
    Catalogue 198 just published
    19th Century Shop. Darwin and Wallace, first printing of the first paper on natural selection
    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
  • Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    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.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    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.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    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.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    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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