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Chorley's

Auction Info

Auction Name
Fine Art & Antiques / Early Oak, Walnut & Works of Art / Taxidermy
Auction Date
06/24/2025 - 06/24/2025
Sale Number
#62425
Total Lots
79
Sold Lots
45
Lots Sold
56.96%
Unsold Lots
34
Total Sales (GBP)
6,695.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
4,260.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
6,310.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
8,610.00
High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
12,820.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
52.22%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
578 Marc Ferrez (Brazil 1843-1923)

an album of commercial photographs of Brazil, Tijuca, Hotel Moreau, Hotel del la Misericorde, Freitas 'Hotel, Tujuca, ...

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,690.00
598 Austen (Jane)

Works to include Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey, Persuasion,

n.d. [circa 1870] GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 390.00
431 Robert Turnbull Macpherson (1811-1872)

Rome

GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 364.00
599 Rackham (Arthur)

Mother Goose The Old Nursery Rhymes,

1913 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 325.00
439 After Robert Westall

Harvest Scenes, a pair

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 260.00
438 After J W Frohawk

Five Ornithological Studies

GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 234.00
433 After John Collins (c.1725-1758/9)

Six framed stage designs for Tarquino Tasso's 'Jerusalem delivered'

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 221.00
587

Folio Society: Classical Works and Legends, a large collection of works by classical authors (qty)

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 221.00
434 After Canaletto (Italian 18th/19th Century)

View of Venice

GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 208.00
576

Bindings to include Macaulay (Thomas Babington) The History of England,

1856 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 182.00
600 Loudon (Mrs)

British Wild Flowers

n.d. GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 182.00
608 Nash (Thomas)

Collections for the History of Worcestershire,

1799 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 182.00
595

Hugh Thompson, The Merry Wives of Windsor,

1910 GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 169.00
623 Dickens (Charles)

Works,

n.d. GBP 120.00 - 180.00 GBP 143.00
446 After Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805-1873)

Empress Eugenie Surrounded by Her Ladies in Waiting

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 130.00
432 Sadeler after Maarten De Vos (1532 - 1603)

The Elder Romoaldum teaching Marinus sacred things

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 130.00
444 Nicolas de Launay (1739-1792)

L'heureux moment, Le carquois epuise

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 117.00
559

A set of four French dried flower pictures with accompanying captions

GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 117.00
632

Children's Books to include Motte-Fouque (de la) Undine ... illustrated by Arthur Rackham,

1909 GBP 70.00 - 100.00 GBP 117.00
596

Royalty & Aristocracy to include Debrett's Peerage 1985; Who's Who 1982, Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage ... 1957 and Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage 2015 (4)

GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 91.00

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