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Auction Name Antiquarian and Collectable Books Auction Total Sales (GBP) 29,862.63
Auction Date January 22, 2020 - January 22, 2020 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 15,135.00
Sale Number #12220 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 22,175.00
Total Lots 301
Sold Lots 288 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 15,555.00
% of Lots Sold 95.68% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 22,815.00
Unsold Lots 13 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 130.89%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
39 CANNON HALL, BARNSLEY.

 An Account of the Improvements in the Gardens & Park at Cannonhall.

c.1760-1765 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 3,760.00
226 GIBBON EDWARD.

  The History of the Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire.

GBP 3,500.00 - 4,500.00 GBP 3,407.50
91 VERNE JULES.

 Works.

c.1880's/1890's. GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,175.00
40 RANDALL JOSEPH.

 A Course of Lectures ? to the Youth of the Academy at Heath, Near Wakefield, Yorkshire

1750 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 881.25
225 RIDER HAGGARD HENRY.

 A four line manuscript autograph postcard from North Lodge, St. Leonard's on Sea

1920 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 763.75
215 KNIGHT E. F.

 Letters from The Sudan.

1897 GBP 120.00 - 180.00 GBP 493.50
93 STEVENSON R. L.

 Works.

c.mid 1890's. GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 340.75
196 WALKER, DURHAM (Pubs).

  Songs & ballads. 25 small quarto sheets, each printed to one side only with chap or slip songs & poems.

Mid 19th cent. GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 317.25
109 MALORY SIR THOMAS.

 Le Morte d'Arthur.

2003 GBP 250.00 - 350.00 GBP 293.75
4 LYTTON LORD.

 Novels. 28 uniform vols. Handsome green half calf, marbled brds. & gilt backs.

C.1890's. GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 270.25
114 CRAIG JOHN.

 Britten's Aldeburgh.

1997 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 270.25
233 (HENDERSON ANDREW).

 The History of the Rebellion

1745 & 1746. GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 258.50
144 NORTON B. & BILL J.

 The Holy Bible containing The Old Testament & The New.

1620 & 1621 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 246.75
111 EDE H. S.

 A Life of Gaudier-Brzeska.

1930 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 235.00
224 CHURCH OF SCOTLAND.

 The Confession of Faith, Larger & Shorter Catechisms.

1723 & 1744 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 223.25
5 ANNAN THOMAS (Photographer).

 The Old Country Houses of the Old Glasgow Gentry.

1878 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 211.50
133 AUSTEN JANE.

 Works.

1880's/1890's. GBP 20.00 - 30.00 GBP 211.50
12 DE GRIMM & DIDEROT.

 Correspondance Litteraire, Philosophique et Critique.

1813 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 199.75
121 FRASER SIR HUGH.

 Amid the High Hills.

1923 GBP 60.00 - 100.00 GBP 199.75
230 THOMSON W.

 Orpheus Caledonius or A Collection of Scots Songs Set to Musick.

1733 GBP 120.00 - 180.00 GBP 199.75
21 SCOTT SIR WALTER.

 Waverley Novels.

1871 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 188.00
89 EMERSON RALPH WALDO.

 Works

n.d. GBP 60.00 - 100.00 GBP 188.00
92 DICKENS CHARLES.

 The Fireside Dickens, Complete Edition in Twenty-Two Volumes.

n.d. GBP 120.00 - 180.00 GBP 188.00
78 ERASMUS.

 Opera Omnia. reprint of the 1703-1706 ed.

1962 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 176.25
231 MASON JOHN.

 Kelso Records, Being Traditions & Recollections of Kelso.

1839 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 176.25
  • 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.
  • 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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