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Auction Name Online Sale: Books and Works on Paper Total Sales (GBP) 115,842.75
Auction Date January 13, 2022 - January 13, 2022 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 50,120.00
Sale Number #2229 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 71,930.00
Total Lots 299
Sold Lots 277 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 55,420.00
% of Lots Sold 92.64% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 79,480.00
Unsold Lots 22 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 145.75%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
145 Agrippa (Henricus Cornelius)

Henry Cornelius Agrippa's fourth book of occult philosophy, and geomancy,

1655 but c.1780 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 4,750.00
12

India.- Report on Staff Tour 1910 held by the Chief of the General Staff.

1911 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 3,000.00
93 Verepaeus (Simon)

Catholicum Precationum Selectissimarum Enchiridion

 1598 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 3,000.00
255 Jonson (Ben)

Volpone: or The Foxe, limited edition of 1000 copies,

 1898 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 2,750.00
195 Lever (Darcy)

The Young Sea Officer's Sheet Anchor, or a Key to the Leading of Rigging and to Practical Seamanship

 1819 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 2,250.00
13

India.- Photograph Album of expatriate life in India

 1920s - 30s. GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 2,000.00
28 Lithgow (William)

An admired and painefull peregrination from Scotland, to the most famous kingdomes in Europe, Asia and Affricke, By Nicholas Okes

 1632 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 2,000.00
181 Necker (Jacques)

An Essay on the True Principles of Executive Power in Great States

 1792 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,875.00
197 Fouché (Joseph)

The Memoirs of Joseph Fouche, Duke of Otranto, Minister of the General Police of France

 1825 GBP 350.00 - 450.00 GBP 1,750.00
168

America.- Annual Register (The), or a View of the History, Politics and Literature, c.215 vol. including duplicates, various editions

 1758-1953. GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,625.00
118

Cumberland.- William Huddleston appointment of William Hutton of Egremond and William Biggyng of ?Chapel as attorneys

 1500 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,560.00
92 Aurelianus (Caecilius)

De acutis morbis lib. III. De diuturnis lib. V...,

1567 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,500.00
146 Boehme (Jacob)

Aurora, that is, the Day-Spring. Or Dawning of the Day in the Orient... that is the Root or Mother of Philosophie, Astrologie & Theologie…

 1656 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,500.00
113 Marx (Karl)

Kapital: Kritika Politicke Ekonomie, first Czech edition, Prague

 1913 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,375.00
65 Darwin (Charles)

The Variations of Animals and Plants under domestication

 1868 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,187.50
156 Defoe (Daniel)

The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

 1719 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,125.00
293 Phillips (Watts)

A Suggestion! The Leviathan, What to do with her now you've got her off

 1858 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 1,040.00
20 Hillary (Edmund)

High Adventure

 1955 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,000.00
90 Ramus (Petrus)

Petri Rami Veromandui rhetoricæ distinctiones in Quintilianum,

1550 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,000.00
273 Hepplewhite (A[lice])

The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide

 1789 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,000.00
298 Vaillant (Wallerant)

Portrait of the artist, Jacob van der Does (1623-1673),

c. 1660 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 975.00
26 Grose (John Henry)

A Voyage to the East-Indies, with Observations on various parts there

 1757 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 937.50
44

Sussex.- Scrapbook of Sketches, Plates and Maps,

 c.1813. GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 937.50
97

Biblia Sacra dat is, de geheele Heylige Schrifture, bedeylt in't Oudt en Nieuw Testament,

1657-1646 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 937.50
123 Taaffe (Theobald, MP)

Indenture, bargain and sale by Theobald Taaffe to Henry Davidson of Seven Plantations in the Parish of Clarendon, Jamaica, including "all housed negroes", D.s.

 1770 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 910.00
  • 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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    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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