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Auction Name Online Sale: Books and Works on Paper Total Sales (GBP) 78,285.75
Auction Date June 03, 2020 - June 03, 2020 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 38,695.00
Sale Number #2155 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 55,440.00
Total Lots 238
Sold Lots 221 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 41,930.00
% of Lots Sold 92.86% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 59,640.00
Unsold Lots 17 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 131.26%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
63 Dalziel (Thomas, 1823-1906)

Morning Prayer

 1896 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 4,500.00
64 Dalziel (Thomas, 1823-1906)

Some Simple Scrappy Sketches Everybit Wrought And Writ by Thomas B.G.S. Dalziel

 1897 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 3,750.00
151

Naval Chronicle (The), 40 vol.

 1799 - 1818 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 3,000.00
235 Topsell (Edward)

The historie of foure-footed beastes.

1607 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 2,375.00
222 Smith & Son (Charles)

A Geological Railway & Canal Map of England, Wales and part of Scotland,

 1843 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 2,000.00
231 Markham (Gervase)

Cheape and good hvsbandry for the vvell-ordering of all beasts, and fowles, and for the generall cure of their diseases

 1616 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 2,000.00
190 Rowling (J.K.)

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,

 2007 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,750.00
216 Bobrinskii (Count Alexei)

Kurgani i Sluchainiya Arkheologicheskiya Nakhodki bliz Mestechka Smeli [Burial mounds and fortuitous archaeological discoveries near Smiela]

 1887-94 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,250.00
68

Textus Biblie,

1529 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,187.50
201 Acosta (Jose de )

Historia naturale e morale delle Indie

 1596 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,125.00
67

A large Victorian album, containing greetings, Christmas and valentines cards, stamps, coloured cuttings etc.

[c1880s]. GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,000.00
164 Telford (Thomas)

Ship Canal, for the Junction of the English and Bristol Channels

 1824 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,000.00
54 Cruikshank (George)

The Comic Almanack

 1835-53. GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 937.50
159 [Gillies (Robert Pearce)]

Tales of a Voyager to the Arctic Ocean [First Series -] Second Series

 1826-9 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 875.00
172 Marryat (Frederick)

Masterman Ready; Or The Wreck Of The Pacific

 1841 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 875.00
87

Grant by Alice widow of Thomas de Pynyntons of a free tenement in Little Chart to the Prior [Henry Eastry] and priory of Christ Church, …

 1303 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 845.00
46 Milne (A. A.)

The House at Pooh Corner,

 1928 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 812.50
121 Bacon (Sir Francis)

The charge of Sir Francis Bacon Knight, his Maiesties Attourney generall, touching duells, vpon an information in the Star-chamber against Priest and Wright.

1614 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 812.50
195 Ortelius (Abraham)

Africae Tabula Nova, map of the African continent, with Madagascar and part of the Arabian Gulf,

1570 or later GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 812.50
154 Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord)

The Giaour, A Fragment of a Turkish Tale

 1813 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 750.00
62

Japanese Fairy Tale series, 12 vol.

 [c.1880] GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 687.50
66

Daly's Theatre - 36 original costume designs for a production of G. H. Clutsam & Hubert Bath's opera "Young England", after William Charles Wilhelm

 [circa 1916-1917] GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 687.50
123 Hobbes (Thomas)

Leviathan, or, the Matter, Form,and Power of a Common-wealth, Ecclesiastical and Civil,

 1651, [1680]. GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 687.50
161 Ainsworth (William Harrison)

Crichton

 1838 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 687.50
113 Fawcett (Dame Millicent Garrett, leader of the constitutional women's suffrage movement and author, 1847-1929)

Autograph Letter signed to William Thomas Stead, 4pp., sm. 8vo, Alde House, Aldeburgh, 25th December 1890,

 1890, GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 598.00
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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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