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Bearnes Hampton and Littlewood: Books, Maps and Prints

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Auction Name Books, Maps and Prints Total Sales (GBP) 144,400.00
Auction Date May 24, 2022 - May 24, 2022 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 58,150.00
Sale Number #BK26 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 88,105.00
Total Lots 462
Sold Lots 366 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 83,770.00
% of Lots Sold 79.22% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 125,990.00
Unsold Lots 96 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 114.61%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
255A CHURCHILL, Winston S

`The Second World War'

 1948-51 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 9,375.00
330 STUBBE, Henry

The Indian Nectar, or a Discourse Concerning Chocolata

1662 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 9,375.00
462

An Atlas of the Witwatersrand Goldfields in the South African Republic, compiled under the direction of C. S. Goldman ... and Baron A. Von Maltzan ...

 GBP 5,000.00 - 6,500.00 GBP 6,250.00
249 BOWMAN, Hildebrand

The Travels of Hildebrand Bowman, Esquire, into Carnovirria, Taupiniera, Olfactaria, and Auditante, in New-Zealand

 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 5,250.00
235

PENINSULA WAR JOURNAL

1811-1815. GBP 500.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 4,500.00
79 BLACKSTONE, Sir William

Commentaries on the Laws of England

GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 3,250.00
222A CHURCHILL, Winston S

`Into Battle' and 'The Unrelenting Struggle'

 1941 & 1942. GBP 500.00 - 600.00 GBP 3,250.00
68

[ The Rare First Printed Folio Edition of the Geneva / Breeches Bible ]

 1578 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,500.00 GBP 2,250.00
92 CLARENDON PRESS

The Case of the King against Alexander Broadfoot, at the Sessions of Oyer and Terminer and Goal Delivery Held for the City of Bristol and County of the same City, on the 30th August 1743,

1758 GBP 250.00 - 450.00 GBP 2,125.00
244 ATKYNS, Sir Robert

The Ancient and Present State of Gloucestershire

1768 GBP 1,750.00 - 2,050.00 GBP 2,000.00
15 AUSTEN, Jane

Pride and Prejudice

 1894 GBP 60.00 - 100.00 GBP 1,875.00
388

Trial and execution of Mary Cain, who suffered this morning at the Old Bailey, for the wilful murder of Maurice Fitzgerald, on the 26th of December last.

 GBP 200.00 - 350.00 GBP 1,750.00
131 GREENWOOD, Jonathan

The Sailing and Fighting Instructions or Signals As they are Observed in the Royal Navy of Great Britain

GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,625.00
33 RACKHAM, Arthur : (Illustrator)

Rip Van Winkle

 1905 GBP 600.00 - 900.00 GBP 1,500.00
169 ORWELL, George

Nineteen Eighty Four

 1949 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,500.00
54

YELLOW BOOK An Illustrated Quarterly

1894 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,375.00
327 SOWERBY, J. E & SYME, John T. Boswell

English Botany

 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,375.00
383

Life, Trial, Confession and Execution of W. G. Youngman. For the murder of his mother, sweetheart, and his two brothers at no. 16 Manor Place, Walworth on Tuesday, September 4th, 1860.

 1860 GBP 200.00 - 350.00 GBP 1,375.00
386

The Trial of Patrick Carroll, with particulars relative to his Execution this morning. In front of the jail at Maidstone, for the wilful murder of Mrs. Browning.

 GBP 200.00 - 350.00 GBP 1,375.00
170 ORWELL, George

Nineteen Eighty Four

 1949 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,250.00
217 WOLLSTONECRAFT, Mary

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,250.00
355

AN ALBUM OF WORLD TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHS

circa 1870s-80s,:- comprising approximately 60 hand-coloured Japanese photographs and conventional albumen prints including officers in Mauritius 1869, Singapore, Tangier, Madras, Malacca, South Africa, Spain, Gibraltar GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,250.00
377

Life, Trial, Confession & Execution of Catherine Wilson, the Female Poisoner who was Executed at Newgate, on Monday, October 20th, for the Murder of Mrs Soames.

 GBP 200.00 - 350.00 GBP 1,250.00
255B CONYBEARE, W.D & DAWSON, W : et al ,

Land Subsidence in East Devon, vi)

 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,187.50
380

Execution of Allen, Gould and Larkin, at the New Bailey Prison, Manchester, on Saturday, November 23rd. Charged with the wilful murder of Sergeant Brett at Manchester, on September 18

 1867 GBP 200.00 - 350.00 GBP 1,187.50
  • 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
    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
  • 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.
  • 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.
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