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Auction Name Music and Antiquarian Books and Manuscripts - bidstart 11/20 Total Sales (GBP) 624,834.00
Auction Date November 30, 2021 - November 30, 2021 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 324,400.00
Sale Number #L21406 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 457,600.00
Total Lots 181
Sold Lots 142 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 541,400.00
% of Lots Sold 78.45% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 759,200.00
Unsold Lots 39 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 82.30%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
17

Guitar. Important late C17th manuscript volume of 72 pieces for five-course guitar

 GBP 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 GBP 138,600.00
124 Jacobus de Voragine

Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea sanctorum, [Augsburg, not after 1475], contemporary pigskin

 not after 1475 GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 GBP 69,300.00
151 Claudius Ptolemaeus

Ptolemaeus, Almagestum, Venice, 1515, contemporary tooled calf

 1515 GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 GBP 30,240.00
12 Composers and musicians

Composers and musicians. 6 autograph albums, including musical quotations by Ravel, Stravinsky and Schoenberg, 1907-1955

 1907-1955 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 27,720.00
105 Daniel Defoe

Defoe, Autograph manuscript poem, 'Resignation', 1708

 1708 GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 GBP 18,900.00
117

Greek Liturgy of John Chrystostom, Rome, Doukas, 1526, later mottled calf

 1526 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 16,380.00
15 Gluck, Christoph Willibald

C.W. Gluck. Autograph letter in French, to the playwright Charles Palissot, signed ("Gluck"), 1780

 1780 GBP 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 15,120.00
65

Book of hours, use of Rome, illuminated manuscript on vellum [Southern Netherlands (Bruges), c. 1470]

 Southern Netherlands (Bruges) GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 13,860.00
67

Book of Hours, use of Paris, illuminated manuscript on vellum [France (Paris), early 16th century]

 early 16th century GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 GBP 13,860.00
177 William Henry James Weale

Weale, Printed and manuscript liturgical fragments collected by Weale, including from the Aberdeen Breviary

 GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 GBP 11,970.00
174 Antonio Visentini

Visentini, Urbis Venetiarum prospectus, Venice, 1754, contemporary boards

 1754 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 10,710.00
91 Sebastian Brant

Brant, Stultifera navis, Basel, 1506, later half calf

 1506 GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 GBP 9,450.00
51 Scarlatti, Domenico

D. Scarlatti. XLII Suites de Pieces Pour le Clavecin En deux Volumes [keyboard sonatas K.1-42], [1739]

 1739 GBP 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 GBP 8,820.00
86

Bible, Latin, Venice, 1495, 4 volumes, vellum

 1495 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 8,190.00
36 [Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus] Vincent Novello

[W.A. Mozart] V. Novello. Autograph manuscript volume of his vocal-score arrangements of masses by Mozart, by 1819

 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 7,560.00
69 Ahmad [ibn Muhammad], called ibn 'Arabshah

Ahmad, Vitae et rerum gestarum Timuri, Leiden, 1636, calf, heavily annotated

 1636 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 7,560.00
171 Juan Valverde de Amusco and David van Mauden

Valverde de Amusco, Anatomie, Antwerp, Plantin, 1568, contemporary vellum

 1568 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 7,560.00
61

Leaf of a huge Gradual, illuminated manuscript on vellum [Italy (Ferrara), 15th century (second half)]

 15th century (second half)] GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 6,048.00
82 Johannes Balbus

Balbus, Catholicon, Venice, 1497/98, contemporary English calf by the Huntsman Binder

 1497/98 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 6,048.00
113 Frederick II, King of Prussia ("Frederick the Great")

Frederick II, autograph letter signed, about the Battle of Hohenfriedberg and being a Philosopher King, 1745

 1745 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 5,670.00
154 Werner Rolewinck

Rolewinck, Fasciculus temporum, Venice, Ratdolt, 1484, red morocco with the arms of Carlo Felice of Savoy

 1484 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 5,670.00
146 Philip II

Philip II, Carta executoria for Diego Pérez de Herias, manuscript on vellum with lead seal, Valladolid, 1584

 1584 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 5,040.00
57 Walton, William

W. Walton. Collection of 21 letters to Stewart Craggs, including a 4-bar autograph music manuscript, 1968-1982

 1968-1982 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 4,788.00
87

Bible, [Testament Newydd ein Arglwydd Iesu Christ, 1567], the first printed Bible in Welsh

 1567 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 4,410.00
18 Handel, George Frideric

G.F. Handel. First edition of "Rodelinda", 1725

 1725 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 4,032.00
  • 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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