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Auction Name Fine Art and Antiques Total Sales (GBP) 109,866.00
Auction Date September 21, 2021 - September 21, 2021 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 28,920.00
Sale Number #67 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 43,660.00
Total Lots 168
Sold Lots 157 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 33,470.00
% of Lots Sold 93.45% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 49,950.00
Unsold Lots 11 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 219.95%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
187 Locke (J)

Works of, 10 vols and 65 other volumes (complete runs)

 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 11,040.00
155 Hardouin Germain, bookseller.

Hore intemerate Virginis Mariae second(um) Usum Romanum…

1505 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 9,000.00
171 Bentham, Jeremy.

Plan of Parliamentary Reform,

1817 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 7,200.00
154 ed. F. S. Ellis,

Psalmi Penitentiales,

 1894 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 6,000.00
182 Rousseau, J.J.

A Discourse upon the Origin and Foundation of the Inequality Among Mankind,

1761 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 3,840.00
201

A quantity of leather bound volumes, approximately 120, in four boxes

 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 3,840.00
184

Leather bound books, approximately 90 vols in four boxes

 GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 3,600.00
191 D'Avenant (C)

Essays upon Peace at Home and 70 other leather bound volumes in complete runs

 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 3,000.00
200

A quantity of leather bound volumes, approximately 100, in four boxes

 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 3,000.00
240 Churchill, Sir Winston Spencer.

The Story of the Malakand Field Force,

1898 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 1,980.00
225

Bindings, 17 vols., mostly 20th Century

 20th Century GBP 50.00 - 70.00 GBP 1,920.00
180

British and European Travel and Topography, approximately 100 vols in three boxes

 GBP 100.00 - 120.00 GBP 1,800.00
161 Mexia, Pero.

Historia Imperial Y Cesarea…,

1578 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,680.00
224 Sowerby (J) and James Edward Smith

English Botany, vols l - 18, 1790-1804; Supplement, 3 vols., 1831-43; General Index, 1814

 1790-1843 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 1,680.00
241 Churchill, Sir Winston Spencer.

The River War, First Edition, 2 vols.,

1899 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 1,680.00
198

A quantity of leather bound volumes, Stage, Theatre and Classics, four boxes

 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 1,560.00
204

A quantity of leather bound volumes, approximately 70, in four boxes

 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 1,560.00
172 Middleton, C. T.

A New and Complete System of Geography, 2 vols.,

 1777-78. GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,320.00
199

A quantity of leather bound volumes, History, Literature and Biography in French and Italian, approximately 140 volumes in four boxes

 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 1,320.00
203

A quantity of leather bound volumes, approximately 80, in four boxes

 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 1,320.00
284 Kipling, Rudyard.

The Jungle Book; The Second Jungle Book

 1894, 1895 GBP 700.00 - 900.00 GBP 1,320.00
170 Kirwan, Richard.

Elements of Mineralogy,

 1784 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 1,200.00
232

A large quantity of early/mid 19th Century theatre hand bills,

 1821-1873 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,140.00
156 [Carroll, John].

An Address to the Roman Catholics of the United States of America,

1785 GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 1,020.00
205 Leech (J)

Life and Caricatures, 2 vols and 37 other volumes

 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 1,020.00
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
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