Forum Auctions: Selected Books from Rugby School Library
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Selected Books from Rugby School Library | Total Sales (GBP) | 775,662.50 |
| Auction Date | November 18, 2020 - November 18, 2020 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) | 285,350.00 |
| Sale Number | #1067 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) | 413,350.00 |
| Total Lots | 290 | ||
| Sold Lots | 289 | Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) | 285,650.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 99.66% | High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) | 413,750.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 1 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 187.47% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 112 | Shakespeare (William) | Comedies, Histories & Tragedies |
1632 | GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | GBP 60,000.00 |
| 146 | Shakespeare (William) | Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true Original Copies. Unto which is added, Seven Plays, never before Printed in Folio |
1685 | GBP 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 | GBP 47,500.00 |
| 169 | Irish Language.- Prayers, beginning "In the name of the Father |
c. 1780. | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 40,000.00 | |
| 113 | Shakespeare (William) | [Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies |
1632 | GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | GBP 35,000.00 |
| 2 | Lactantius (Lucius Coelius Firmianus) | Opera |
1468 | GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | GBP 21,250.00 |
| 147 | Shakespeare (William) | Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true Original Copies. Unto which is added, Seven Plays, never before Printed in Folio |
1685 | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 20,000.00 |
| 298 | Hooke (Robert) | Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries there-upon |
1667 | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 19,375.00 |
| 134 | Milton (John) | Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books |
1667 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 13,750.00 |
| 4 | Bible |
1477 | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 10,625.00 | |
| 185 | Dickens (Charles) | A Christmas Carol |
1843 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | GBP 10,625.00 |
| 16 | Aldus.- Politianus (Angelus) | Opera |
1498 | GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | GBP 10,000.00 |
| 87 | Maplet (John) | A greene Forest, or a naturall Historie...of Stones & Mettals: next of Plants, as of Herbes, Trees & Shrubs |
1567 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 10,000.00 |
| 157 | Defoe (Daniel) | The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe |
1719 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 10,000.00 |
| 8 | Biblia latina, with the Glossa Ordinaria of pseudo-Walafrid Strabo and interlinear glosses of Anselmus Laudunensis |
not after 1480 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | GBP 9,375.00 | |
| 188 | Thoreau (Henry David), Ralph Waldo Emerson and Nathanial Hawthorne.- Peabody (Eleanor P., editor) | Aesthetic Papers |
1849 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 9,375.00 |
| 163 | Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Chronicle (The) |
1731-1888 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | GBP 8,750.00 | |
| 283 | Gilpin (William) | Observations on the River Wye |
1800 edition, 1782 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 8,750.00 |
| 221 | Emerson (Peter Henry) | Pictures from Life in Field and Fen |
1887 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 8,125.00 |
| 244 | Zocchi (Giuseppe) | Vedute delle Ville, e d'altri Luoghi della Toscana |
1757 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | GBP 8,125.00 |
| 10 | Bartholomaeus Anglicus. | De proprietatibus rerum |
1491 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 7,500.00 |
| 268 | Ogilby (John) | Britannia: or, The Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales |
1698 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | GBP 7,500.00 |
| 211 | Boydell (John & Josiah) | A Set of Prints Engraved after the Most Capital Paintings in the Collection of Her Imperial Majesty The Empress of Russia |
1788 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 7,250.00 |
| 14 | Ship of Fools.- Brant (Sebastian) | Das Narrenschiff [Latin] Stultifera navis |
1497 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 6,875.00 |
| 104 | Aristotle. | Politiques, or Discourses of Government |
1598 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 6,875.00 |
| 222 | Emerson (Peter Henry) | Pictures of East Anglian Life... With General and Descriptive Text and Three Appendices |
1888 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 6,875.00 |
