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Auction Name Books - Day 1 Total Sales (GBP) 128,085.85
Auction Date September 26, 2013 - September 26, 2013 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 0.00
Sale Number #1156 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 67,830.00
Total Lots 900
Sold Lots 673 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 0.00
% of Lots Sold 74.78% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 87,970.00
Unsold Lots 227 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 145.60%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
851 PETER HENRY EMERSON AND T F GOODALL

LIFE AND LANDSCAPE ON THE NORFOLK BROADS ...

1887 GBP 0.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 75,900.00
392 [WILLIAM COMBE]

THE TOUR OF DOCTOR SYNTAX - IN SEARCH OF THE PICTURESQUE; A POEM ....THE THIRD OF DOCTOR SYNTAX - IN SEARCH OF A WIFE; A POEM. THE SECOND TOUR OF DOCTOR SYNTAX - IN SEARCH OF CONSOLATIONS; A POEM .....

1819 GBP 0.00 - 800.00 GBP 2,070.00
897 FRANCIS BLOMEFIELD AND CHARLES PARKIN

AN ESSAY TOWARDS A TOPOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF NORFOLK,

1739, 1745, 1769-1775 GBP 0.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,380.00
149A

THE BEANO COMIC

1942-46 GBP 0.00 - 120.00 GBP 1,150.00
400 CHARLES DICKENS

A TALE OF TWO CITIES

1859 GBP 0.00 - 350.00 GBP 828.00
300 WILLIAM NICHOLSON

AN ALPHABET

1898 GBP 0.00 - 600.00 GBP 805.00
389A H G WELLS

THE WAR OF THE WORLDS

1898 GBP 0.00 - 600.00 GBP 552.00
120 W E JOHNS

FIGHTING PLANES AND ACES

1932 GBP 0.00 - 600.00 GBP 517.50
807 ISABELLA L BIRD "MRS BISHOP"

JOURNEYS TO PERSIA AND KURDISTAN .....

1891 GBP 0.00 - 180.00 GBP 483.00
259A BERNARD MOORE

A CORNISH GLEANING

1948 GBP 0.00 - 100.00 GBP 414.00
337 IAN FLEMING

MOONRAKER

1955 GBP 0.00 - 250.00 GBP 414.00
299 WILLIAM NICHOLSON

LONDON TYPES

1898 GBP 0.00 - 350.00 GBP 379.50
158 IAN FLEMING (4 ttls)

FOR YOUR EYES ONLY

1960 GBP 0.00 - 150.00 GBP 368.00
262

VANITY FAIR A WEEKLY SHOW OF POLITICAL SOCIAL AND LITERARY WARES

1878-79 GBP 0.00 - 350.00 GBP 356.50
287 WILLIAM FREDERICK DICKES

THE NORWICH SCHOOL OF PAINTING

1906 GBP 0.00 - 150.00 GBP 333.50
403 CHARLES DICKENS

BLEAK HOUSE

1853 GBP 0.00 - 80.00 GBP 333.50
627

[GOTTLIEB WILHELM ECKHARDT]: MONTGOLFIERS LUFTBALL - EINE POETISCHE DEKLAMATION

1784 GBP 0.00 - 500.00 GBP 322.00
194 HAMMOND INNES

SABOTAGE BROADCAST

1938 GBP 0.00 - 250.00 GBP 310.50
440 JOSEPH ADDISON

THE WORKS .....

1721 GBP 0.00 - 50.00 GBP 310.50
672

THE GENEALOGIES RECORDED INT EH SACRED SCRIPTURES ACCORDING TO EVERY FAMILY AND TRIBE WITH THE LINE OF OUR SAVIOUR .....

1799 GBP 0.00 - 300.00 GBP 310.50
832 WINSTON L SPENCER CHURCHILL

THE STORY OF THE MALAKAND FIELD FORCE, AN EPISODE OF FRONTIER WAR

1898 GBP 0.00 - 120.00 GBP 299.00
136 LILIAN GASK

THE FAIRIES AND THE CHRISTMAS CHILD Ill Willy Pogany

1912 GBP 0.00 - 50.00 GBP 287.50
881 ERNEST TUNBRIDGE

HIGH JINKS: A YARN OF THE NORFOLK BROADS

GBP 0.00 - 40.00 GBP 287.50
193 JOHN D MACDONALD

PLANET OF THE DREAMERS

1954 GBP 0.00 - 60.00 GBP 276.00
763 CHARLES STONHAM

THE BIRDS OF THE BRITISH ISLANDS

1906-1911 GBP 0.00 - 220.00 GBP 276.00
  • Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG BEADED JUDICIAL COLLAR. $80,000 - $120,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: ONLY KNOWN COPY OF THE ONLY BOOK BY THE REMARKABLE EVE ADAMS. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A COMPLETE RUN OF VISIONAIRE MAGAZINE THROUGH 2010. $6,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: LAW REVIEW OFFPRINT SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY RUTH BADER GINSBURG. $3,000 - $5,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: META REBNER'S WORKING SCRIPT OF THE LOVED ONE. $1,500 - $2,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A KATHY GROVE PORTRAIT OF CYNDI LAUPER FOR THE FEBRUARY 1989 DETAILS COVER. $800 - $1,200
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A PLASTIC COAT BY MILLIE DAVID FEATURED IN SOHO NEWS STYLE SECTION, FROM THE COLLECTION OF ANNIE FLANDERS. $500 - $700
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG JEWELRY BOX. $600 - $900
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A SET OF JONI MITCHELL LYRICS FOR "IF I HAD A HEART." $2,000 - $3,000
  • 19th Century Shop
    Catalogue 198 just published
    19th Century Shop. Darwin and Wallace, first printing of the first paper on natural selection
    19th Century Shop. Shakespeare’s Poems, first collected edition
    19th Century Shop. Walt Whitman portrait inscribed with a Leaves of Grass poem
    19th Century Shop. Major Elizabeth Barrett Browning manuscript notebook
    19th Century Shop. Spock's Baby Book, original MS
    19th Century Shop. Cellarius, Harmonia Macrocosmica, the great celestial atlas
  • Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [RUTH, George Herman “Babe” (1895-1948)]. Signed photograph. Circa 1930s. 191 x 248 mm. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HARRISON, Benjamin. Document signed (“Benj Harrison”) as governor of Virginia, certifying the service of Daniel Cumbo, a Black Revolutionary soldier. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: ONE OF THE FIRST PRINTED ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: FIRST PRINTING OF LINCOLN’S IMMORTAL GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HIGHLY IMPORTANT MORMON ARCHIVE. ALLEY, George. Archive of 23 Autograph Letters Signed by Mormon Convert George Alley to His Brother Joseph Alley. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [AVIATION]. [ARMSTRONG, Neil A.] Aviation Hall of Fame Gold Medal MS64 NGC, Awarded to Neil Armstrong in 1979. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: NEWLY DISCOVERED FIRST PRINTING OF "WITH MALICE TOWARDS NONE... " FROM THE ONLY NEWSPAPER ACTUALLY ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN LINCOLN’S SECOND INAUGURAL PROCESSION. $4,000 to $8,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: THE MOST IMPORTANT GEORGE WASHINGTON DOCUMENT IN PRIVATE HANDS; GEORGE WASHINGTON’S COMMISSION AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF, 1775, ONE OF ONLY TWO ORIGINALS. $150,000 to $250,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: A VERY RARE ACCOUNT OF BLACKBEARD’S DEATH AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PIRATE ITEMS EXTANT. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: EDISON, Thomas. Patent for Edison’s Improvements on the Electric-Light, No. 219,628. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Patent Office], 16 September 1879. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [VIETNAM WAR]. The original pen used by Secretary of State William P. Rogers to sign the Vietnam Peace Agreement, Paris, 27 January 1973. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: SONS OF LIBERTY FOUNDER COLONEL BARRÉ ANNOTATED TITLE-PAGE, “WHICH OUGHT TO ROUSE UP BRITISH ATTENTION”. $4,000 to $6,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: [Langland (William)]. The vision of Pierce Plowman, nowe the seconde time imprinted..., Roberte Crowley, 1550. £8,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: [Shakespeare (William)]. [Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies], second folio edition, [by Tho.Cotes, for Robert Allot], [1632]. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Bible, Czech Biblia Bohemica, first complete Bible printed in the Czech vernacular, Prague, August 1488. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Shabthai Tzvi.- Collection of four printed and illustrated broadsides detailing the appearance, rise and fall of the false messiah, Shabthai Tzvi, Augsburg, 1666-67. £40,000 to £60,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Leaf from the Beauvais Missal, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment, [Northern France (perhaps Beauvais or Amiens)], [fourteenth century (c.1310)]. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Aubrey (John). [Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme], manuscript in English, Latin and Greek, [c. 1693]. £30,000 to £50,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Poems on Various Occasions, first edition, Harriet Maltby's copy, Newark, Printed by S. & J. Ridge, 1807. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, first edition, second impression with dust-jacket, 1937 [but 1938]. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Blake (William).- Thornton (Robert John). The Pastorals of Virgil, 2 vol., engraved plates by William Blake, 1821. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: America.- Mount (William J.) & Thomas Page. The English Pilot…, [bound with] The Fourth Book, describing The West Indies Navigation from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones, 1721. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Oldfield (Henry Ambrose), Rajman Singh Chitrakar & others. An album of 160 photographs and 13 original artworks, (1833-1919), [c. 1850s-1880s]. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Audubon (John James) [and William MacGillivray]. Ornithological Biography…, 5 vol., first edition, presentation copy inscribed by Audubon, Edinburgh, 1831-49 [i.e. 1831-39]. £10,000 to £15,000.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
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