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Auction Name Fine Books, Manuscripts, and Works on Paper Total Sales (GBP) 582,812.96
Auction Date July 18, 2024 - July 18, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 315,050.00
Sale Number #1148 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 447,700.00
Total Lots 312
Sold Lots 241 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 523,350.00
% of Lots Sold 77.24% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 746,500.00
Unsold Lots 71 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 78.07%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
58 William Shakespeare

Introducing Falstaff.- Shakespeare (William) The First Part of Henry the Fourth, with the Life and Death of Henry, Sirnamed Hot-Spurre, extract from the first folio, Printed by Isaac Jaggard, and...

1623 GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 GBP 57,960.00
25 Sir Francis Bacon

Bacon (Sir Francis) De Dignitate et Augmentis Scientiarum Libri IX, Pierre Gassendi's copy gifted him by Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, Paris, Typis Petri Mettayer, 1624.

1624 GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 GBP 40,320.00
51

Bible, English. [The Holy Bible], first edition of the King James Bible, the Great 'He' Bible, [Robert Barker], [1611].

1611 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 20,160.00
248 Plato.

Officina Serpentis.- Plato. Tres Epistolae Platonis, one of 7 copies printed on vellum and with initials added by hand in gold by Hanns Thaddaus Hoyer, from an edition of 340, 1926.

1926 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 20,160.00
253 Alfred Edward Mathews

America.- Mathews (Alfred E.) Pencil Sketches of Montana, first edition, New York, Published by the Author, 1868

1868 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 18,900.00
273 Gen. James Maurice Primrose

India.- Primrose (Gen. James Maurice) Collection of 24 original drawings from his time in India with the 43rd Regiment of Foot, circa 1855 to 1864

circa 1855 to 1864 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 13,120.00
236 Edouard Manet

Manet (Edouard) Trente Eaux-fortes originales, the complete portfolio, Paris, A. Stroelin, 1905

1905 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 11,970.00
40

Slavery.- Brown (William Wells, American abolitionist) Fling Out the Anti-Slavery Flag, autograph manuscript poem signed, Bridgewater [Bridgwater, Somerset], 1851.

1851 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 11,152.00
275 Jonathan Scott

India & England.- Scott (Jonathan, orientalist) Large correspondence to "My dear Dick", his brother Richard Scott, [India], 1780-92, on a variety of matters, his participation in the the Anglo-Ma...

1780-92 Not Available GBP 10,496.00
14 Sir Thomas More

More (Sir Thomas) La Republica nuovamente ritrovata, del Governo dell'Isola Eutopia, first edition in Italian, Venice, 1548.

1548 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 9,450.00
66 Lodovico Ariosto

Russian Royal Arms.- Ariosto (Lodovico) Orlando Furioso, 4 vol., large paper copy, Birmingham, John Baskerville for Pietro and Giovan Claudio Molini, 1773.

1773 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 8,820.00
205 J.K. Rowling

Rowling (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, first paperback edition, 1997.

1997 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 8,190.00
59 William Shakespeare

The opening two plays.- Shakespeare (William) The Tempest [&] The Two Gentlemen of Verona, extracted from the second folio, Thomas Cotes, for Robert Allot, 1632.

1632 GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 GBP 7,560.00
67 James Edward Buchanan Boswell

Binding.- Boswell (James) The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., 2 vol. first edition, first issue, handsome straight grain blue morocco by Zaehnsdorf, by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilley, 1791.

1791 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 7,560.00
62 John Bulwer

B[ulwer] (J[ohn]) Anthropometamorphosis: Man Transform'd: or the Artificiall Changling Historically, second much enlarged edition, William Hunt, 1653

1653 GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 GBP 6,300.00
240 Claudia Cohen

Cohen (Claudia) Barbara Hodgson. Decorating Paper: Pattern & Technique, number 35 of 36 copies, signed by the authors, Vancouver, Heavenly Monkey, 2015.

2015 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 6,300.00
46 E. Gordon Duff

Caxton (William).- Duff (E. Gordon) William Caxton, one of 148 copies with an original leaf from the first edition of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales printed by Caxton in 1476/77, Chicago, The Caxton ...

1905 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 5,670.00
36

More (Hannah) 6 Autograph Letters signed to Jonathan Scott, 1813-15, on a variety of subjects including her and and her sister's health, the expense of buying books in the country, and a subscrip...

1813-15 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 5,510.40
133 Edward Bawden

Bawden (Edward) Original dust-jacket artwork for 'The Outsider' by Albert Camus, [c.1946].

c.1946. GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 5,200.00
61 Arthur Saul

Chess.- [Saul (Arthur)] The Famous Game of Chesse-play...now augmented...by Jo. Barbier, for John Jackson, [?1638].

[?1638]. GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 5,040.00
31 A. Sale

Cromwell (Thomas) Sale by Thomas Cromwell to John at ffelde [Atfield] and Michael at ffelde of London, ironmongers, of a messuage called Borden with its land in Hederon [Headcorn], and appoints A...

1538 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 4,985.60
179 Anna Kavan

Kavan (Anna) Ice, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1967.

1967 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 4,788.00
234 Roger Fry

Fry (Roger) Twelve Original Woodcuts, first edition, one of 150 copies, Hogarth Press, 1921.

1921 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 4,788.00
1 Silius Italicus

Silius Italicus Punica, Parma, [Printer of Hieronymus, 'Epistolae', 1480], rare, 16 November, 1481.

1480, 1481 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 4,410.00
5 Ovid.

Ovid. Epistolas Ouidii: Cum commentariis Ubertini, Bologna, Caligola Bazalieri, 1501.

1501 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 4,410.00