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Auction Name Online Sale: Books and Works on Paper Total Sales (GBP) 103,741.00
Auction Date December 16, 2021 - December 16, 2021 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 56,020.00
Sale Number #2228 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 78,460.00
Total Lots 279
Sold Lots 250 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 68,190.00
% of Lots Sold 89.61% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 95,540.00
Unsold Lots 29 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 108.58%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
106 Delrue (Paul, binder).- Thomas (Dylan)

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog

1940 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 7,095.00
181 Piper (John).- Thomas (Dylan)

Deaths and Entrances

1984 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 7,095.00
260 Travers (Martin)

Collection of 45 original drawings for the publication 'Pictures of the English Liturgy'

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 3,000.00
108 Keats (John)

[Poems]

1914 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,875.00
268 Kipling (Rudyard)

The Jungle Book [&] The Second Jungle Book

GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 1,625.00
104 ?apek (Karel)

Anglické Listy

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,500.00
238 Bowie (David)

Moonage Daydream. The Life and Times of Ziggy Stardust

2002 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,500.00
248 Smith (Patti)

Witt

1973 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 1,250.00
132 Gross (Anthony).- Theocritus.

Sixe Idyllia...

1971 GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 1,125.00
5 Daglish (Eric Fitch).- Walton (Izaak) & Charles Cotton.

The Compleat Angler

1927 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,062.50
204 Thomas (Dylan)

Under Milk Wood

2013 GBP 700.00 - 900.00 GBP 1,062.50
214 Craig (John)

Britten's Aldeburgh

1997 GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 1,062.50
38 Fine Press Book Association (The).

Fine Press Book Association (The). Parenthesis: The Newsletter [Journal]...

1998-2021. GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,000.00
177 Piper (John).- Thomas (R.S.)

The Mountains

1968 GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 1,000.00
105 Delrue (Paul, binder).- Llewellyn (Richard)

How Green was my Valley

1939 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 967.50
34 Ward (Lynd)

Prelude to a Million Years

1933 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 937.50
185

Private Press Propsectuses.- A collection of prospectuses

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 937.50
197 Semonides, of Amorgos.

Women

1983 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 875.00
202 Tanner (Heather & Robin)

Woodland Plants

2 vol., one of 50 copies, this marked 'Publishers' Proof 1', Robin Garton Ltd. GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 875.00
130 Graham (Rigby)

Leicestershire

1980 GBP 650.00 - 750.00 GBP 812.50
190 Meyer (Klaus)

Superimpositions: A Suite of Eight Groups of Relief Prints in Colour

1995 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 812.50
198 Shakespeare (William)

The Works

10 vol., limited edition on handmade paper, Stratford-on-Avon GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 812.50
165 Barnfield (Richard)

The Affectionate Shepheard

1998 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 774.00
11 Gibbings (Robert).- Lucian of Samosata.

The True Historie of Lucian the Samosatenian

1927 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 750.00
124 Gill (Eric)

Wood-Engravings...

1924 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 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.
  • Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: McCarthy (Cormac). Cities of the Plain, N.Y., 1998, First Edn., signed on hf. title; together with Uncorrected Proof and Uncorrected Advance Reading Copies, both signed by the Author. €800 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Stanihurst (Richard). De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis, Libri Quattuor, sm. 4to Antwerp (Christi. Plantium) 1584. First Edn. €525 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Fleischer (Nat.) Jack Dempsey The Idol of Fistiana, An Intimate Narrative, N.Y., 1929, First Edn. Signed on f.e.p. by Rocky Marciano. €400 to €600.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Smith - Classical Atlas, Lond., 1820. Bound with, Smiths New General Atlas .. Principal Empires, Kingdoms, & States throughout the World, Lond. 1822. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Rare Auction Catalogues – 1856: Bindon Blood, of Ennis, Co. Clare: Sotheby & Wilkinson. €320 to €450.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Mavor (Wm.)] A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of America to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century, 28 vols. (complete) Lond., 1810. €300 to €400.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Mc Carthy (Cormac). Outer Dark, N.Y. (Random House)1968, Signed by Mc Carthy. €250 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Three signed works by Ted Huges - Wodwo, 1967; Crow from the Life and Songs of the Crow, 1970; and Tales from Ovid, 1997. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: The Garden. An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture in all its Branches, 7 vols. lg. 4to Lond. 1877-1880. With 127 colored plates. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Procter (Richard A.) Saturn and its System: Containing Discussions of The Motion (Real and Apparent)…, Lond. 1865. First Edn. €160 to €220.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Ashe] St. George, Lord Bishop of Clogher, A Sermon Preached to the Protestants of Ireland, now in London,... Oct. 23, 1712, London 1712. Second Edn. €130 to €180.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
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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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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
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