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Auction Name Fine Art & Antiques, Books & Pictures Total Sales (GBP) 24,071.25
Auction Date September 20, 2022 - September 21, 2022 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 14,230.00
Sale Number #92022 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 19,180.00
Total Lots 110
Sold Lots 96 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 15,970.00
% of Lots Sold 87.27% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 21,650.00
Unsold Lots 14 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 111.18%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
620 Goltzius (H)

'Los Vivos Retratos de Todos'

 1560 GBP 800.00 - 900.00 GBP 1,592.50
624 Bayardi (OA)

'Catalogo degli Antichi Monumenti… di Ercolano', 1 vol. ( all published )

 1755 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,347.50
665

Eleven boxes of books relating to the ancient world, specifically Roman and Hellenistic culture and history

 GBP 180.00 - 220.00 GBP 1,102.50
640 Austen (Jane)

'Pride and Prejudice'

 1894 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 1,041.25
646 Rossi (G)

[ Le Fontane della Ville di Frascati ]

 c1687 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 857.50
615

Two boxes of leather bindings: Art Journal, National Gallery etc and other misc. bindings (37)

 GBP 200.00 - 250.00 GBP 796.25
660

Twelve boxes of books relating to ancient world history, culture, society and archaeology

 GBP 180.00 - 220.00 GBP 796.25
657

Fourteen boxes of books relating to ancient world history, culture, society and archaeology

 GBP 180.00 - 220.00 GBP 735.00
625 Bartoli (PS)

'Columna Cochlis'

c1704 GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 673.75
658

Eleven boxes of books relating to ancient world history, culture, society and archaeology

 GBP 180.00 - 220.00 GBP 612.50
682 Wodehouse (PG)

A collection of ninety-eight books, many in dust jackets, several pre-war first editions

 GBP 180.00 - 220.00 GBP 612.50
617 Petrarch

Trostspiegel'

1572 GBP 600.00 - 700.00 GBP 588.00
905 English School, 19th Century

Twelve Silhouette Portraits/mostly members of the Burrow and Pooley Family

 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 551.25
619 Pyne (WH)

'Costume of Great Britain'

 1808 GBP 600.00 - 700.00 GBP 490.00
621 Burton (R)

'The Anatomy of Melancholy'

 1652 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 465.50
622 Ovid

Metamorphoseos',

 1527 GBP 600.00 - 700.00 GBP 465.50
628 Neal (DS) & Cosh (SR)

'Roman Mosaics of Britain'

 GBP 250.00 - 350.00 GBP 465.50
651 Evans (AF)

'The Log of the Jean Louis'. Typescript and manuscript log of a voyage from Dover to Paris in 1912.

1912 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 465.50
608 Lysons (S)

'Mosaic Pavements discovered at Horkstow', elephant folio

 1801 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 428.75
659

Ten boxes of books relating to ancient world history, culture, society and archaeology

 GBP 180.00 - 220.00 GBP 428.75
645 Speed (John)

'The Historie of Great Britaine'

 1632 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 392.00
664

Seven boxes of books relating to the ancient world, specifically Roman and Hellenistic culture and history

 GBP 180.00 - 220.00 GBP 392.00
647 Sadeler (Marco)

'Vestigi delle Antichita di Roma'

 1606 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 367.50
639 Evans (A)

'The Palace of Minos Knossos'

 1964 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 343.00
599

Art & Design reference: A very large quantity of monographs, exhibition catalogues, pamphlet material etc. (quantity)

 GBP 200.00 - 250.00 GBP 306.25
  • 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
    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.
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