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Auction Info

Auction Name
A Modern Antiquarian, The Collection of Graham Slater Part 2
Auction Date
04/16/2025 - 04/16/2025
Sale Number
#31403
Total Lots
30
Sold Lots
30
Lots Sold
100.00%
Unsold Lots
0
Total Sales (GBP)
30,284.80
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
9,750.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
14,050.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
9,750.00
High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
14,050.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
215.55%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
408

Manuscript relating to Aristotlean grammar and logic, possibly relating to works by James Harris, [late eighteenth century]

[late eighteenth century] GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 2,816.00
655 Robert Colquhoun

Woman with Goat

1949 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 2,816.00
636 Julian Trevelyan R.A.

Stone Cutting, from

1970 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 2,304.00
641 Edward Bawden R.A.

The Titfield Thunderbolt

1953 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 2,176.00
406

A group of 8 manuscript antiphonal leaves ON VELLUM from the early 16th to the late 17th century, with 10 incunabula leaves (18)

early 16th to the late 17th century GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 1,920.00
640 Edward Bawden R.A.

Liverpool Street Station

1927-29 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 1,664.00
407

[A Booke of Christian Prayers], [1608]; with a bound volume of 12 leaves printed on vellum (2)

1608 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,536.00
411

BIBLE, IN ENGLISH, 1686; Rider's Almanch, 1790; Common Prayer, 1570, decorative bindings, (3)

1686; 1790; 1570 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 1,536.00
405 CICERO.

[De Philosophia]. Secundo volumine haec continentur, ALdine, 1523; and others, calf/vellum (10)

August 1523 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,408.00
403

BREVIARY, . Portiforium seu breviarium ad usum ecclesie Sarisburiensis, 3 parts in 1, , sold as bindings not subject to return (6)

1555 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 1,280.00
634 John Piper C.H.

Sunflowers at Marignac

1956 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,152.00
628 Dame Elizabeth Frink

Horse

1972 GBP 600.00 - 900.00 GBP 1,024.00
639 Edward Bawden R.A.

Three sketches for (each approx.) (3)

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 960.00
539

A reference library relating predominantly to British delftware and tiles

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 832.00
652 Patrick Heron

4: Eight Drawings for Paintings: 1976; 15: Ten Drawings for Paintings: 1977 from 2

1978 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 832.00
409 POSTEL (GUILLAUME)

De Magistratibus Atheniensium liber, ad intelligendam non solum Graecorum, FIRST EDITION, ; and 2 others in red morocco (6)

1541 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 832.00
650 Albert Irvin O.B.E., R.A., R.W.A.

Comet

1998 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 614.40
404

London Almanack for the Year of Christ 1781 idem, 1822; and others, miniature/small books (10)

1781, 1822 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 614.40
651 John Hoyland R.A.

The Red Boat

1999 GBP 350.00 - 450.00 GBP 537.60
671 Urushibara Mokuchu (Yoshijiro) (Japanese, 1888-1953)

Lobster and Clams

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 486.40

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