Chorley's: Fine Paintings and Sculpture, Fine Art and Antiques
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Fine Paintings and Sculpture, Fine Art and Antiques | Total Sales (GBP) | 13,786.50 |
| Auction Date | April 29, 2025 - April 29, 2025 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) | 6,840.00 |
| Sale Number | #42925 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) | 10,100.00 |
| Total Lots | 76 | ||
| Sold Lots | 63 | Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) | 9,470.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 82.89% | High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) | 13,910.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 13 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 99.11% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 110 | Ephemera: Bath Theatre Broadsides, 1830s A collection of posters for performances at Bath theatres, predominantly the Theatre Royal to include: |
1830s | GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 3,250.00 | |
| 497 | Johnson (Samuel) | A Dictionary of the English Language, |
1773 | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | GBP 910.00 |
| 105 | English and Continental School, 18th/19th Century | A Folio of Prints |
GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 715.00 | |
| 125 | Speed (John) | Britain, As it was divided in the time of the English Saxons |
GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 585.00 | |
| 480 | [Erotica] Folio Society: | Vatsyayana, The Kama Sutra, translated by Sir Richard Burton & F. F. Arbuthnot, |
2018, | GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | GBP 364.00 |
| 108 | Three carved giltwood frames, possibly 19th Century, each approximately 35cm x 31cm, housing prints in colours after 17th Century genre scenes |
19th Century | GBP 60.00 - 80.00 | GBP 325.00 | |
| 126 | Speed (John) | Midle-Sex [Middlesex] described, with the most famous cities of London and Westminster |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 325.00 | |
| 177 | After Luigi Rossini (1790-1857) | Veduta del Tempio della Sibilla in Tivoli |
GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 325.00 | |
| 96 | Snaffles' Charles Johnson Payne (1884-1967) | The Informers |
GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 286.00 | |
| 120 | Speed (John) | [Gloucestershire] Glocester-shire contrived into thirty thre severall hundreds & those againe into foure principall devisions... |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 260.00 | |
| 487 | Folio Society: History to include: Macculloch (Diarmid) | Reformation, 2 volumes; Rowse (A.L.) The Elizabethan Age, four volumes; Barber (Richard) Chronicles of the Dark Ages, ... |
GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 260.00 | |
| 488 | Folio Society: World History to include: Fage (J. D.) | A History of Africa, 2008, two volumes; Braudel (Fernand) The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World, 2000, ... |
GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 247.00 | |
| 476 | Folio Society: Roberts (David) | Egypt & Nubia, |
201 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 234.00 |
| 479 | Folio Society: Hooke (Robert) | Micrographia or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies, |
2017 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 234.00 |
| 106 | After Augustin de Saint-Aubin (1736-1807) | Le bal pare; Le concert |
GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 221.00 | |
| 90 | English School, 19th Century | Pheasant, Partridge, Duck and Snipe Shooting |
GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 208.00 | |
| 112 | Francis Bedford (1816 - 1894), | The Ruined Mosk (sic) of Tayloon, Cairo, No 4, Fountain of the Seraglio, Constantinople, No 146, The Circular Temple of Baalbec, No 116, |
GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 208.00 | |
| 94 | Cecil Aldin (1870-1935) | A Temporary Partnership |
GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 195.00 | |
| 481 | Folio Society: Morocco Bound Volumes, to include Mommsen (Theodor) | A History of Rome, 2006; The Domesday Book, 2003,... |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 195.00 | |
| 482 | Folio Society: Classical Authors to include: Plutarch, | Lives, |
2010, | GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 195.00 |
| 102 | English School, 18th/19th Century | A collection of Prints and Maps |
GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 182.00 | |
| 91 | John Gould (1804-1881) | Cream Coloured Courser and Collared Pratincole |
GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 169.00 | |
| 121 | by R Parr, | Various loose maps, to include Robert Morden 'Darbyshire', A New Map of the County of Cornwall, a map of Wanstead, Waltham and Leytonstone, |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 169.00 | |
| 486 | Folio Society: History and Wars to include Hobsbawm (Eric) | The Making of the Modern World, 2005, four volumes; Thomas (Hugh) The Spanish Civil War, 2014, ... |
GBP 120.00 - 180.00 | GBP 169.00 | |
| 489 | Folio Society: 20th Century History and Literature to include Shirer (William L.) | The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, 1995, four volumes; Gilbert (Martin) The Holocaust, 2012, three volumes; ... |
GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 169.00 |
