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Auction Name Online Sale: Books and Works on Paper Total Sales (GBP) 65,349.50
Auction Date February 04, 2021 - February 04, 2021 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 36,425.00
Sale Number #2187 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 52,900.00
Total Lots 232
Sold Lots 216 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 39,630.00
% of Lots Sold 93.10% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 57,420.00
Unsold Lots 16 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 113.81%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
127 Rolle (Henry)

Un abridgment des plusieurs cases et resolutions del common ley: alphabeticalment digest desouth severall titles

1668 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 3,000.00
222 Anonymous.

Unrequited Love, or "The Despondent Lover", a suite of 14 Valentine's Day poems, etching and aquatints with full hand-colouring heightened with gum arabic, each with printed verse and delicate embossed borders, sheets approx. 255 x 205 mm (10 x 8 in), min

[circa 1830s] GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,210.00
78 British Topography.-

Collection of five vues d'optique, including a view of the Thames Estuary in Essex, Northfleet in Kent, the Royal Palace of Windsor, Royal Palace of Kensington, and another, engravings with hand-colouring, various sizes, trimmed to images or with small ma

19th century GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 1,300.00
156 Radcliffe (Ann)

The Mysteries of Udolpho, a Romance, 4 vol., light stain spot to vol.1 P, occasional light toning or finger-soiling,

1794 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 1,250.00
152 Ramsay (Rev. James)

An Essay on the Treatment and Conversion of African Slaves in the British Sugar Colonies, first edition, title and following leaf stained from old tape reinforcement at inner margin, water-staining to lower corner towards end, occasional foxing, contempor

1784 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,125.00
94 Collins (Samuel)

A Systeme of Anatomy, treating of the Body of Man, Beasts, Birds, Fish, Insects, and Plants

1685 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,062.50
32 Lugt (Frits)

Répertoire des Catalogues de Ventes Publiques, vol.1-3 only (of 4: 1600-1825; 1826-1860; 1861-1900, lacking vol.4: 1901-25), tear to rear pastedown of vol.1, original cloth, 4to, The Hague

1938-53-64 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 937.50
67 Shaw (Thomas)

Travels, or Observations relating to several parts of Barbary and the Levant

1738-46 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 937.50
118 Rochester Gillingham & Chatham solicitors.-

[Relating to Arnold Tuff & Grimwade, The Precincts, Rochester].-

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 937.50
151 Blackstone (Sir William)

Reports of cases determined in the several courts of Westminster-Hall, from 1746 to 1779, occasional spotting or staining

1781 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 937.50
27 Miquel (Pierre & Rolande)

2 vol. including Catalogue Raisonné,

2006 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 875.00
140

Reasons humbly offer'd to the Honourable House of Commons, for the effectual suppressing the excessive drinking of the liquor commonly called gin, or compound spirits, docket title, woodcut decorative initial, light folds, [Hanson 4991],

[?1736] GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 875.00
81

Journey (A) from London to Scarborough in Several Letters, lacking frontispiece, small loss to foredge of first few leaves, possibly affecting text on title, spotting, disbound,

[1735] GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 812.50
150 Gessner (Salomon)

New Idylles, translated by W. Hooper, first edition in English, copy letters in manuscript between Gessner and another to blanks, engraved title, bound before half-title and advertisement, 9 engraved plates, illustrations, scattered faint spotting, previo

1776 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 812.50
26 Mannocci (Lino)

The Etchings of Claude Lorrain, New Haven & London

1988 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 750.00
68 Wyld (James)

Map of Syria Ancient and Modern, second edition, engraved with hand-colouring in outline, 986 X 662mm., lightly browned, linen-backed and dissected, folding into original cloth slip-case with original printed label, some fading,

[c.1843] GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 750.00
187 Dickens (Charles).- Hutton (Laurence, editor)

Letters of Charles Dickens to Wilkie Collins 1851-1870, first edition, bookplate of Ernest H. Shackleton, scattered faint spotting, contemporary morocco-backed boards, slight bumping to spine extremities

1892 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 750.00
221

Collection of six Victorian scrap albums, including New Year, Christmas, and birthday cards etc., printed in chromolithograph colours, some heightened with gold, some with "lacy" embossed borders, occasional manuscript note or illustration, mounted on bla

c.1868-1903. GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 750.00
37 Bonaparte (Lucien)

Choix de Gravures a l'Eau Forte, d'apres les Peintures...de la Galerie...

1812 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 687.50
101 Moses ben Jacob (of Coucy)

Praecepta Mosaica

1533 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 687.50
28 Schmit (Robert)

Eugène Boudin 1824-1898, 4 vol. including supplement, limited edition, illustrations, original cloth, t.e.g., spines slightly faded, 4to,

1973-84 GBP 250.00 - 350.00 GBP 625.00
65 Miles (Col. Samuel Barrett)

The Countries and Tribes of the Persian Gulf, vol.2 only (of 2), first edition, half-title, 5 photographic plates, front free endpaper with bookplate of Carl J. Seton-Browne and remains of a paper label and stamp, ink library stamp to half-title and title

1919 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 625.00
142

Album of c. 100 sheets of blank 18th century paper, each sheet 322 x 202mm., occasional spotting, one pastedown with tear, hinges broken, original vellum, yellowed and marked, lower cover with ink stains, Pro Patria watermark, folio,

[c. 1740s]. GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 625.00
184 [Clemens (Samuel Langhorne)] "Mark Twain".

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, first English edition, half-title, list of works to verso, frontispiece and illustrations, previous owner's ink signature to title, advertisements dated January 1885 at end, original pictorial cloth, lightly browned spi

1884 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 600.00
124 MacDonald (George, poet and novelist, 1824-1905)

Autograph Letter signed to Ramsden Bacchus

1891 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 575.00
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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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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
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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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