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Chiswick Auctions: Books and Works on Paper

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Auction Name Books and Works on Paper Total Sales (GBP) 383,660.00
Auction Date March 16, 2023 - March 16, 2023 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 169,670.00
Sale Number #31623 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 238,640.00
Total Lots 410
Sold Lots 350 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 211,540.00
% of Lots Sold 85.37% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 296,210.00
Unsold Lots 60 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 129.52%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
224

The Artists's own copy Golden Cockerel Press.-

 1947 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 60,000.00
93 SPEED, John (1552-1629).

A Prospect of the most famous Parts of the World….together with The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine ...

 1676 GBP 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 33,750.00
53 Vidal (Emeric Essex) artist

[Napoleon]

1821 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 12,500.00
225 Buckland _ Wright (John) Artist/Illustrator

Original Sketch Books (3)

 1943-46 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 12,500.00
114 Du Halde (P.J.B.)

A Description of the Empire of China and Chinese-Tartary, together with the Kingdoms of Korea and Tibet; containing the Geography and History(Natural as well as Civil) of those Countries, with notes Geographical, Historical, and Critical, and Other Impro

 1738-41 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 11,250.00
24 Pico della Mirandola (Giovanni Francesco).

Libro detto Strega, o delle illusioni del Demonio, [trans.by Leandro degli Alberti from the Latin]

 1524 GBP 1,500.00 - 1,800.00 GBP 8,125.00
257 Rowling (J.K.)

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban,

1999 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 8,125.00
213 Stoker (Bram)

Dracula,

 1897 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 5,250.00
123 Stein (Sir Aurel)

Innermost Asia.

 1928 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 4,500.00
153 Parkinson (John)

Paradisi in Sole Paradissus Terrestri..., woodcut allegorical title of the Garden of Eden by A. Switzer, a German artist living in England, woodcut portrait of Parkinson facing A1, 110 full-page and three small woodcut text illustrations, woodcut initials

 1629 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 4,250.00
85 Narborough (Sir John), Captain Jasmen Tasman, Captain John Wood, and Frederick Marten of Hamburgh.

Account of Several Late Voyages and Discoveries to the South and North. Towards the Streights of Maggellen, the South Seas…..To which are annexed a large introduction and supplement, giving an account of other navigations to those regions of the globe

 1694 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 4,000.00
13 Grotius (Hugo)

De jure belli ac pacis,

 1631 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 3,750.00
54 Nelson (Horatio)

Autograph letter signed ('Nelson') to Sir William Hamilton, reading "I have to request that your Excellency will demand from this Government whether the King of the Two Siciles is at War with a Country calling itself the Ligurian Republic, or weither the

1798 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 3,500.00
109 Allen (W.H.)

Map of the Punjab, and the Sikh Territory,

 1849 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 3,500.00
191 Larkin (Philip)

The Whitsun Weddings,

 1964 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 3,500.00
208

Sammelband. A collection of pamphlets relating to wine etc., mostly uncut, some damp staining, later full sheep, rubbed, sm.,4to.,

1691 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 3,500.00
289 Krahl (Regina)

Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection.

 2006-10 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 3,500.00
4 [Cloppenburgh (Jan Evertszoon, editor)]

Le Miroir de la Cruelle, & Horrible Tyrannie Espagnole perpertree au Pays Pas, par le Tyran Duc de Albe…de les Tyrannies Commises aux Indes Occidentales par les Espagnols

 1620 GBP 1,500.00 - 1,800.00 GBP 3,250.00
107 Mayer (Luigi) Artist

Jerusalem with the Church of the Holy Sepulchre,

 1803 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 3,250.00
302 Beek (Harmsen van der)Illustrator.

Original artwork

 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 3,250.00
315 Milne (A.A,)

[The Christopher Robin Books]

 1924-28 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 3,250.00
349 Christo and Jeanne-Claude

Christo and Jeanne-Claude Career Archive

 1970s to 2010s GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 3,000.00
408

A large collection, including:

 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 3,000.00
84 Morden (Robert)

Geography rectified: or, A Description of the World.

 1680 GBP 1,800.00 - 2,200.00 GBP 2,750.00
146 Gerard (John)

The Herball Historie of Plantes, edited and enlarged by Thomas Johnson, second edition, Johnson's first edition, errata present, engraved title-page by Payne (1607-1647) incorporating a bust of the author, urns with flowers and herbs, and full-length seat

 1633 GBP 1,800.00 - 2,200.00 GBP 2,750.00
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
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