Auction Reports
Chorley's
Auction Info
- Auction Name
- Fine Paintings and Sculpture, Fine Art and Antiques
- Auction Date
- 04/29/2025 - 04/29/2025
- Sale Number
- #42925
- Total Lots
- 76
- Sold Lots
- 63
- Lots Sold
- 82.89%
- Unsold Lots
- 13
- Total Sales (GBP)
- 13,786.50
- Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
- 6,840.00
- High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
- 10,100.00
- Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
- 9,470.00
- High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
- 13,910.00
- 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 |
| 177 | After Luigi Rossini (1790-1857) | Veduta del Tempio della Sibilla in Tivoli |
GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 325.00 | |
| 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 | |
| 96 | Snaffles' Charles Johnson Payne (1884-1967) | The Informers |
GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 286.00 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 90 | English School, 19th Century | Pheasant, Partridge, Duck and Snipe Shooting |
GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 208.00 | |
| 482 | Folio Society: Classical Authors to include: Plutarch, | Lives, |
2010, | GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | 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 | |
| 94 | Cecil Aldin (1870-1935) | A Temporary Partnership |
GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 195.00 |
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![<b>Sotheby’s:</b> Ernest Hemingway. <i>Three Stories And Ten Poems,</i> [Paris], (1923). First edition of Hemingway’s first published book. $75,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/acf970a0-a15d-4c79-aa24-5e8e414cb465.png "<b>Sotheby’s:</b> Ernest Hemingway. <i>Three Stories And Ten Poems,</i> [Paris], (1923). First edition of Hemingway’s first published book. $75,000.")
