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Auction Name
Life & Art at The Flower Loft, Trereife: The Exquisite Home of Jeremy & Lyn Le Grice
Auction Date
07/17/2025 - 07/18/2025
Sale Number
#71725
Total Lots
55
Sold Lots
55
Lots Sold
100.00%
Unsold Lots
0
Total Sales (GBP)
21,425.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
5,850.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
10,670.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
5,850.00
High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
10,670.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
200.80%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
387

A fold-out chapbook Harlequin's Habeas printed by Lindsay, 47 Portpool Lane, 1803 and an 1830s volume from the Nursery Library

GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 4,250.00
451

A Georges Braque Poster - Oeuvre Graphique Bibliotheque Nationale, 1960

GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 2,250.00
393 T. S. Surr.

'Christ's Hospital, A Poem,'

1797 GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 1,125.00
263 Pablo Picasso

Le Vieux Roi,6/1/59 lithograph, signed in the print.

GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,062.50
396

Three 18th Century Printing Proposals

GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 875.00
384

Vogue Two bound volumes covering July 1936-June 1937

1936-1937 GBP 200.00 - 400.00 GBP 650.00
381 Georges and Suzanne Ramie

CERAMIQUES DE PICASSO

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 625.00
325 Henri MATISSE (1869-1954)

The Dancer (1949)

GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 625.00
385 Samuel Bourne and others

A half-calf album of photographs including 20 signed Bourne and numbered, these include Kashmir, Srinagar, Delhi and Lucknow. 9 signed by J. E. Sache. Approximately 47 images, typically 23x29cm and some a little smaller. The back of the album filled most

GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 600.00
398

A small collection of ephemera Including an 18th century newspaper, receipt, auction sale catalogue, Rev. C. V. Le Grice. 'Letters Published Under the Signature of "Civis"....On Church Subjects,' printed card wraps, printed paper wraps, string bound, pp.

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 600.00
113 Rembrandt Van Rijn (1606-1669)

Self Portrait "Frowning" on laid paper

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 600.00
391

By Authority of the King's Royal Letters Patent, The Following Medicines, Sold Wholesale and Retail at Dr.Bateman's Original Warehouse

GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 562.50
112 Rembrandt Van Rijn (1606-1669)

Self portrait "with open mouth" on laid paper

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 562.50
382

Art, Gardening, Interiors and Architecture A large collection of books on ten shelves

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 525.00
394 (John Hill)

Proposals For Printin, in Weekly Numbers, British Herbal: Containing a Compleat History of the Plants and Trees Which Are Natives to Great Britain....

1755 GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 525.00
395 (Sacheverell Stevens)

Printing Proposal for Subscribers Miscellaneous Remarks made on the Spot, in a late Seven Years Tour through France, Italy, Germany and Holland...,

GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 525.00
110 Rembrandt Van Rijn (1606-1669)

Self Portrait "in a fur cap" on laid paper with watermark

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 475.00
111 Rembrandt Van Rijn (1606-1669)

Self portrait with "Bushy Hair" on laid paper

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 400.00
379 Andrew Lanyon

Books by Andrew Lanyon, early Peter Lanyon Catalogues and related material

GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 350.00
373 Toby Treves

Peter Lanyon Catalogue Raisonne

2018 GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 312.50

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