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Auction Name The Collection of a Connoiseur: History in Manuscript - bidstart 7/8 Total Sales (GBP) 464,178.00
Auction Date July 15, 2020 - July 15, 2020 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 192,150.00
Sale Number #L20314 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 280,600.00
Total Lots 136
Sold Lots 104 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 351,150.00
% of Lots Sold 76.47% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 520,200.00
Unsold Lots 32 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 89.23%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
45 FERDINAND AND ISABELLA, King and Queen of Spain

FERDINAND AND ISABELLA, King and Queen of Spain | document signed, expelling unconverted Moors, 1501

 1501 GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 GBP 52,500.00
85 NAPOLEON I

NAPOLEON I | letter signed, ordering General Desaix to sail to Malta, prior to the Egyptian Expedition, 1798

 1798 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 52,500.00
26 CHURCHILL

CHURCHILL | autograph letter signed, to Pamela Plowden, 1900

 1900 GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 GBP 27,500.00
29 CHURCHILL

CHURCHILL | photographic portrait signed, 1941

 1941 GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 GBP 27,500.00
81 MONET

MONET | autograph letter signed, begging for 100 Francs

 100 Francs GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 27,500.00
28 CHURCHILL

CHURCHILL | autograph letter signed, to Pamela, Countess of Lytton, 1907

 1907 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 23,750.00
44 ELIZABETH I

ELIZABETH I | early letter signed, to Edward North, First Baron North, 1560

 1560 GBP 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 GBP 23,750.00
9 BATHURST

BATHURST | warrant, appointing Sir Hudson Lowe jailer to Napoleon, 1816

 1816 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 21,250.00
68 T.E. LAWRENCE

T.E. LAWRENCE | autograph letter signed, to Major Littleton, 14 October 1918

 1918 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 13,750.00
20 CATHERINE II, Empress of Russia

CATHERINE II, Empress of Russia | letter signed, to Ferdinand IV, 1777

 1777 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 10,625.00
77 MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS

MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS | document signed, 1565

 1565 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 10,000.00
95 NELSON

NELSON | autograph letter signed, to Emma, Lady Hamilton, 1801

 1801 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 10,000.00
31 DARWIN

DARWIN | photograph signed, c. 1871

 1871 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 9,375.00
8 BALL, Capt.

BALL, Capt. | manuscript plans of the Battle of the Nile, c.1798

 1798 GBP 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 GBP 8,750.00
84 NAPOLEON I

NAPOLEON I | early signed letter, as Commander-in-Chief of the Army of the Interior, to the Minister of War, [1796]

 1796 GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 GBP 6,875.00
111 ROBESPIERRE

ROBESPIERRE | document signed, also signed by two other members of the Committee for Public Safety, 1794

 1794 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 6,000.00
42 EINSTEIN

EINSTEIN | two typed letters signed, to R.L. Worrall about the realistic basis of physics, 1931

 1931 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 5,625.00
134

WORLD WAR I--GOSCHEN | typescript document to Von Jagow, the German Foreign Minister, 4 August 1914

 1914 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 5,250.00
43 EINSTEIN

EINSTEIN | typed letter signed, to Leo Kohn, secretary of the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem, 8 January 1936

 1936 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 5,000.00
125 QUEEN VICTORIA

QUEEN VICTORIA | autograph letter signed, to Tennyson, 28 August 1883

 1883 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 5,000.00
21 CATHERINE II, Empress of Russia

CATHERINE II, Empress of Russia | letter signed, to Prince Potemkin about building the docks at Kherson, 1784

 1784 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 4,750.00
69 T.E. LAWRENCE

T.E. LAWRENCE | autograph letter signed, to John Buchan, 1926

 1926 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 4,375.00
87 NAPOLEON I

NAPOLEON I | letter signed, to Général Berthier, on military units for Holland, 11 December 1802

 1802 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 4,000.00
114 BRITISH ROYAL FAMILY

BRITISH ROYAL FAMILY | a collection of ten items, 1864-1956

 1864-1956 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 4,000.00
119 TOLSTOY

TOLSTOY | photograph signed, 1909

 1909 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 3,750.00
  • 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.
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