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Dominic Winter Book Auctions: 19th and 20th Century Photography, Cameras and Accessories

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Auction Name 19th and 20th Century Photography, Cameras and Accessories Total Sales (GBP) 359,622.00
Auction Date November 24, 2022 - November 24, 2022 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 170,040.00
Sale Number #112422 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 258,850.00
Total Lots 426
Sold Lots 364 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 206,040.00
% of Lots Sold 85.45% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 309,270.00
Unsold Lots 62 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 116.28%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
228

A comprehensive collection of the autographs of all 46 presidents from George Washington to Joe Biden, (including Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States), 1764-2020

 GBP 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 GBP 43,200.00
395

An important archive of ledgers, committee books and notebooks for Marconi Wireless Telegraph (M.W.T.), 1897/1970s

 1897/1970s GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 13,800.00
166

A sammelband of pamphlets relating to events in the English Civil War, 1642-52

 1642-52 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 10,800.00
52 Frith (Francis)

Sinai and Palestine; Lower Egypt, Thebes and the Pyramids; Upper Egypt and Ethiopia; Egypt, Sinai and Palestine ... Supplementary volume, 4 volumes, London: William Mackenzie, [1862-63]

 [1862-63] GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 9,600.00
66 Howlett (Robert).

Isambard Kingdom Brunel preparing the launch of 'The Great Eastern', November 1857

 1857 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 7,200.00
260 King George VI, Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, Queen Elizabeth II & Princess Margaret.

A full-length portrait photograph of George VI and Queen Elizabeth in full Coronation robes, with their two daughters, the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret, in the Throne Room, Buckingham Palace, London, by Dorothy Wilding, 12 May 1937

 1937 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 6,960.00
320 Darwin (Charles Robert).

English naturalist, geologist and originator of the theory of evolution. Autograph Letter Signed, ‘C. Darwin’, Down, [Bromley, Kent, after 14 April 1863], to [Daniel] Oliver, concerning ovules in primula [primroses]

 1863 GBP 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 6,720.00
95 Man Ray.

Demain, 1932

 1932 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 6,240.00
330 Einstein (Albert).

German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity. Signed Photograph, ‘Albert Einstein, 1933’

 1933’ GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 6,240.00
13 Cameron (Julia Margaret).

Alice Liddell as St Agnes, October 1872

 1872 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 5,280.00
161

A group of 3 Gurney family photograph albums, c. 1870s/1880s

 c.1870s/1880s GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 5,040.00
302 Baden-Powell (Robert).

An original hand-made poster for a tug of war match on board ship, signed 'R.S.S. BadenPowell, RMS Orient, 23.3.07', pen & ink and watercolour on thick white wove paper, entitled 'CHALLENGE'

 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 5,040.00
375 Wallace (Alfred Russel).

British Naturalist, explorer and biologist. Autograph Letter Signed, ‘Alfred R Wallace’, Frith Hill, Godalming, 11 May 1882

 1882 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 5,040.00
67 Howlett (Robert).

Group portrait of Isambard Kingdom Brunel and 4 others on the day of the launch of the Great Eastern, November 1857

 1857 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 4,800.00
147

A view of Runcton Hall from the east, by Walter Dexter, c. 1920s

 c.1920s GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 4,800.00
284 Nelson (Horatio).

British Admiral during the Napoleonic Wars, the victor of the Battle of Trafalgar, 1805. Autograph Letter Signed, 'Nelson & Bronte', [H.M.S.] Amazon, Downs, 17 October 1801

 1801 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 4,560.00
332 Eliot (George).

English novelist, poet, journalist and translator. Autograph Letter Signed, 'M.E. Lewes', The Heights, Witley, near Godalming, 29 June 1879

 1879 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 4,320.00
162 Gurney (Somerville Arthur).

A group of 4 albums containing photographs mostly taken by Somerville Gurney, c. 1889/1913

 c.1889/1913 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 4,080.00
354

A NASA Apollo Missions Moonwalkers' autographs boardroom display piece, featuring autographs of all 12 Apollo moonwalker astronauts, comprising: Apollo 11: Neil Armstrong, (1930-2012), black ballpoint pen on plain paper; Apollo 11: Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, (1

 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 4,080.00
387

A group of 16 handmade posters for protests at Harvard University, 1969

 1969 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 4,080.00
420

Plans of Estates in Easton, Letheringham & Charsfield in the County of Suffolk; The Property of the Rt. Hon: The Earl of Rochford, 1794

 1794 GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 4,080.00
256 Churchill (Winston Spencer).

British statesman, soldier and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940-1945 & 1951-1955. Photograph Signed, ‘Winston S. Churchill’, by A. H. Poole & Co., 34 Mall, Waterford, [1915]

 [1915] GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 3,600.00
399

Miscellaneous ephemera, 19th & 20th century, a voluminous assortment of chromo scraps, photographs, postcards, some scrap albums and other printed material, largely with a chromolithographic theme

 19th & 20th century GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 3,600.00
376 Worsley (Frank).

New Zealand sailor and explorer who served on Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic expedition 1914-1916

 1914-1916 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 3,360.00
252 Churchill (Winston Spencer).

British statesman, soldier and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940-1945 & 1951-1955. Signed Photograph, ‘Winston S. Churchill’, by Ernest H[erbert] Mills, 1904

 1904 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 3,120.00
  • 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.
  • Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    Starting 10AM CST
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [RUTH, George Herman “Babe” (1895-1948)]. Signed photograph. Circa 1930s. 191 x 248 mm. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HARRISON, Benjamin. Document signed (“Benj Harrison”) as governor of Virginia, certifying the service of Daniel Cumbo, a Black Revolutionary soldier. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: ONE OF THE FIRST PRINTED ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    Starting 10AM CST
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: FIRST PRINTING OF LINCOLN’S IMMORTAL GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HIGHLY IMPORTANT MORMON ARCHIVE. ALLEY, George. Archive of 23 Autograph Letters Signed by Mormon Convert George Alley to His Brother Joseph Alley. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [AVIATION]. [ARMSTRONG, Neil A.] Aviation Hall of Fame Gold Medal MS64 NGC, Awarded to Neil Armstrong in 1979. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    Starting 10AM CST
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: NEWLY DISCOVERED FIRST PRINTING OF "WITH MALICE TOWARDS NONE... " FROM THE ONLY NEWSPAPER ACTUALLY ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN LINCOLN’S SECOND INAUGURAL PROCESSION. $4,000 to $8,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: THE MOST IMPORTANT GEORGE WASHINGTON DOCUMENT IN PRIVATE HANDS; GEORGE WASHINGTON’S COMMISSION AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF, 1775, ONE OF ONLY TWO ORIGINALS. $150,000 to $250,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: A VERY RARE ACCOUNT OF BLACKBEARD’S DEATH AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PIRATE ITEMS EXTANT. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    Starting 10AM CST
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: EDISON, Thomas. Patent for Edison’s Improvements on the Electric-Light, No. 219,628. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Patent Office], 16 September 1879. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [VIETNAM WAR]. The original pen used by Secretary of State William P. Rogers to sign the Vietnam Peace Agreement, Paris, 27 January 1973. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: SONS OF LIBERTY FOUNDER COLONEL BARRÉ ANNOTATED TITLE-PAGE, “WHICH OUGHT TO ROUSE UP BRITISH ATTENTION”. $4,000 to $6,000.
  • 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
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