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Auction Name Antiquarian and Collectible Books Auction Total Sales (GBP) 17,901.13
Auction Date June 26, 2019 - June 26, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 9,060.00
Sale Number #62619 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 13,690.00
Total Lots 298
Sold Lots 281 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 16,525.00
% of Lots Sold 94.30% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 24,375.00
Unsold Lots 17 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 73.44%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
124 POTTS MR.

Lectures on the Practice of Surgery

1799 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 1,116.25
127

Scottish Songs - Manuscript. Manuscript quarto vol. of Scottish songs with accompanying music & poetry. Approx. 120pp. Brds. det. but present.

1799 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 705.00
128

Plain Astronomy"". Manuscript notebook with many pages of handwritten text & a few diags. & calculations. Calf backed marbled brds.

Prob. late 18th cent.  GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 646.25
211

KURR J. G.  The Mineral Kingdom.

1859 GBP 250.00 - 350.00 GBP 646.25
122 DICKENS CHARLES.

The Life & Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.

1839 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 587.50
1 LANG ANDREW.

The Olive Fairy Book

1907 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 411.25
43 ORMONDE MARQUIS OF.

An Autumn In Sicily. Fldg. eng. map, frontis 15 etched plates & 2 text maps (all as called for). Quarto. Orig. embossed cloth, gilt back (soiled).

1850 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 340.75
282 SAMPSON GEORGE V.

A Memoir Explanatory of the Chart & Survey of the County of London-Derry, Ireland.

1814 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 329.00
150

VICTORIAN ALBUM.

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 246.75
46 WARNOCK 2nd Lt. ROBERT, 6th/7th Bn. Royal Scots Fusiliers (died 12 Aug.1916).  Turnbull Robert (Ed.) 

Robert Warnock, Scout & Soldier. A collection of edited transcripts of Robert Warnock's letters, written while based in the Philippines (1911-1915) & serving in France (1915-1916), many illus., Glasgow

1917 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 211.50
126

Yorkshire - Sketch Book. Early 19th cent. sketch book

. Early 19th cent. GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 188.00
204 HAYLEY WILLIAM.

 The Life of George Romney.

1809 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 188.00
113

Photographs - India.  Album of 48 Edwardian captioned snapshot photographs mainly depicting everyday life in an Indian commercial community,

c.1900/1910. GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 164.50
151

Edinburgh. The Sett or Decreet Arbitral of King James the 6th ... Deciding all Differences Betwixt Merchants & Trades.

1683 GBP 20.00 - 30.00 GBP 164.50
77 STACKHOUSE T.

Copies of Drawings Illustrative of a Course of Lectures on the Architectural & Other Remains of Britain.

N.d. but c.1820. GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 152.75
41 FORBES ARCHIBALD.

The Afghan Wars. Frontis, plates & plans as called for. Orig. brown cloth, George Heriot's prize label to front paste-down. 2nd ed.

1892 GBP 60.00 - 100.00 GBP 141.00
141

SCOTTISH HISTORY SOCIETY.

18 various vols. GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 141.00
249 TOLKIEN J. R. R.

The Silmarillion.

1977 GBP 30.00 - 40.00 GBP 141.00
63 SASSOON SIEGFRIED.

5 1st eds. incl. Memoirs of a Fox Hunting Man, 2nd issue with "A" on blank

1928 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 129.25
70 COOPER THOMAS, THE CHARTIST.

Wise Saws & Modern Instances.

1845.  GBP 120.00 - 180.00 GBP 129.25
79 WILSON JACQUELINE &/or SHARRATT NICK.

104 vols. of which 44 are signed, some inscribed "To Eileen" (Eileen Ireland of Ferndown Middle School).

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 129.25
176 BARDON JONATHAN.

Belfast, An Illustrated History.

1982 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 129.25
203 MILNE A. A.  

Winnie The Pooh. Illus. by E. H. Shepard. Rather worn orig. green cloth, internal thumbing & spotting, ownership inscription to endpaper.

1926 GBP 60.00 - 100.00 GBP 129.25
206

HAUDIQUER M.  L'Art de la Verrerie. Part 2 only.

1718 GBP 30.00 - 40.00 GBP 129.25
215

BANCROFT TIDDLERS. 44 titles of this series of 48 booklets,

published in the 1960's GBP 20.00 - 30.00 GBP 129.25
  • Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: [Langland (William)]. The vision of Pierce Plowman, nowe the seconde time imprinted..., Roberte Crowley, 1550. £8,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: [Shakespeare (William)]. [Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies], second folio edition, [by Tho.Cotes, for Robert Allot], [1632]. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Bible, Czech Biblia Bohemica, first complete Bible printed in the Czech vernacular, Prague, August 1488. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Shabthai Tzvi.- Collection of four printed and illustrated broadsides detailing the appearance, rise and fall of the false messiah, Shabthai Tzvi, Augsburg, 1666-67. £40,000 to £60,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Leaf from the Beauvais Missal, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment, [Northern France (perhaps Beauvais or Amiens)], [fourteenth century (c.1310)]. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Aubrey (John). [Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme], manuscript in English, Latin and Greek, [c. 1693]. £30,000 to £50,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Poems on Various Occasions, first edition, Harriet Maltby's copy, Newark, Printed by S. & J. Ridge, 1807. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, first edition, second impression with dust-jacket, 1937 [but 1938]. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Blake (William).- Thornton (Robert John). The Pastorals of Virgil, 2 vol., engraved plates by William Blake, 1821. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: America.- Mount (William J.) & Thomas Page. The English Pilot…, [bound with] The Fourth Book, describing The West Indies Navigation from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones, 1721. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Oldfield (Henry Ambrose), Rajman Singh Chitrakar & others. An album of 160 photographs and 13 original artworks, (1833-1919), [c. 1850s-1880s]. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Audubon (John James) [and William MacGillivray]. Ornithological Biography…, 5 vol., first edition, presentation copy inscribed by Audubon, Edinburgh, 1831-49 [i.e. 1831-39]. £10,000 to £15,000.
  • 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
  • Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG BEADED JUDICIAL COLLAR. $80,000 - $120,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: ONLY KNOWN COPY OF THE ONLY BOOK BY THE REMARKABLE EVE ADAMS. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A COMPLETE RUN OF VISIONAIRE MAGAZINE THROUGH 2010. $6,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: LAW REVIEW OFFPRINT SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY RUTH BADER GINSBURG. $3,000 - $5,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: META REBNER'S WORKING SCRIPT OF THE LOVED ONE. $1,500 - $2,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A KATHY GROVE PORTRAIT OF CYNDI LAUPER FOR THE FEBRUARY 1989 DETAILS COVER. $800 - $1,200
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A PLASTIC COAT BY MILLIE DAVID FEATURED IN SOHO NEWS STYLE SECTION, FROM THE COLLECTION OF ANNIE FLANDERS. $500 - $700
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG JEWELRY BOX. $600 - $900
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A SET OF JONI MITCHELL LYRICS FOR "IF I HAD A HEART." $2,000 - $3,000
  • 19th Century Shop
    Catalogue 198 just published
    19th Century Shop. Darwin and Wallace, first printing of the first paper on natural selection
    19th Century Shop. Shakespeare’s Poems, first collected edition
    19th Century Shop. Walt Whitman portrait inscribed with a Leaves of Grass poem
    19th Century Shop. Major Elizabeth Barrett Browning manuscript notebook
    19th Century Shop. Spock's Baby Book, original MS
    19th Century Shop. Cellarius, Harmonia Macrocosmica, the great celestial atlas
  • Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    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
    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
    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
    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.
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