Forum Auctions: Books and Works on Paper - Online
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Books and Works on Paper - Online | Total Sales (GBP) | 57,060.25 |
| Auction Date | January 09, 2020 - January 09, 2020 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) | 32,360.00 |
| Sale Number | #2136 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) | 46,840.00 |
| Total Lots | 206 | ||
| Sold Lots | 183 | Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) | 36,310.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 88.83% | High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) | 52,490.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 23 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 108.71% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | Wike (Benjamin) | [Broadside] The Last Dying Words and Confession of Benjamin Wike |
1785 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 1,750.00 |
| 182 | Thesiger (Wilfred) Stanley (Henry Morton) | Coomassie and Magdala: the Story of Two British Campaigns in Africa |
1874 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 1,250.00 |
| 59 | De Bisschop (Jan) | Signorum Veterm Icones; Paradigmata Graphices Variorum Artificum |
c.1672-89 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 1,125.00 |
| 180 | Poncet (Charles Jacques) | A Voyage to Æthiopia |
1709 | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | GBP 1,125.00 |
| 30 | Wyld (James) | The British Possessions in North America and the United States with the Hudson's Bay Territories |
1857 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 1,105.00 |
| 89 | Shakespeare (William) | Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies |
1767 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 1,000.00 |
| 99 | Punch's Pocket Book |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 1,000.00 | ||
| 135 | Powell (Anthony) | Caledonia. A Fragment |
1934 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 1,000.00 |
| 145 | Waugh (Evelyn) | [Sword of Honour Trilogy] comprising: Men at Arms; Officers and Gentlemen; Unconditional Surrender |
1952-61. | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 1,000.00 |
| 21 | Doating Mother's Garland (The) |
[c.1830] | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 937.50 | |
| 179 | Plowden (Walter Chichele) | Travels in Abyssinia and the Galla Country ... |
1868 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 937.50 |
| 17 | [Saunders (Richard)] | Rider's British Merlin: for the Year of Our Lord God 1776 |
1776 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 812.50 |
| 28 | [Hutchings (James M.)] | Forty-Nine. Articles in a Miner's Creed |
1855 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 812.50 |
| 46 | Chabrée (Dominique) | Stirpium icones et sciagraphia... |
1666 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 812.50 |
| 38 | Unique Relic of Shakespeare. A Curious Jug |
1841 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 750.00 | |
| 115 | Dickens (Charles) | The Pickwick Papers |
1925 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 750.00 |
| 14 | True Narrative (The) of the Proceedings at the Sessions House in the Old Bayly which began on Thurfday [sic] the 24th of this Instant May...giving an Account of most of the Remarkable Trials there |
1683 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 687.50 | |
| 109 | Gibbon (Edward) | The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire |
c.1880 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 687.50 |
| 121 | Burgess (Anthony) | Time for a Tiger |
1956 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 687.50 |
| 174 | Acton (Roger) | The Abyssinian Expedition and the Life and Reign of King Theodore |
[1868] | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 687.50 |
| 43 | Dutch School (18th century) | The Fowlers |
GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 624.00 | |
| 19 | Colour-printed and embossed admission ticket to Westminster Abbey |
1821 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 600.00 | |
| 107 | Tennyson (Alfred, Lord) | The Works... |
1878 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 600.00 |
| 195 | London | Over 200 manuscript property tenure diagrams |
GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 575.00 | |
| 85 | Milton (John) | A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political and Miscellaneous Works |
1698 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 550.00 |
