Bloomsbury Auctions: Antiquarian Books, Day 2
Auction Reports
Auction Name | Antiquarian Books, Day 2 | Total Sales (GBP) | 257,249.00 |
Auction Date | July 18, 2014 - July 18, 2014 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) | 164,420.00 |
Sale Number | #36119 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) | 234,580.00 |
Total Lots | 478 | ||
Sold Lots | 314 | Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) | 237,990.00 |
% of Lots Sold | 65.69% | High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) | 340,210.00 |
Unsold Lots | 164 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 75.62% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
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430 | Bernoulli (Jakob) | Ars Conjectandi, |
1713 | GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | GBP 9,300.00 |
458 | Gauss (Carl Friedrich) | [A collection of twelve mathematical papers], |
1810 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 8,680.00 |
569 | Herring (John Frederick) | Portraits of the Winning Horses of the Great St. Leger Stakes, at Doncaster, |
1827-43 | GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | GBP 8,060.00 |
467 | Lagrange (Joseph-Louis) | Mechanique Analitique, |
1788 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 7,440.00 |
510 | Tartaglia (Niccolo) | Quesiti et Inventioni Diverse, |
1546 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 6,200.00 |
440 | Cardano (Girolamo) | Opus Novum de Proportionibus Numerorum, Motuum, Ponderum, Sonorum, Aliarumque Rerum Mensurandarum... Artis Magnae... De Aliza Regula Liber , |
1570 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | GBP 5,952.00 |
676 | Coleman (Edmund Thomas) | Scenes from the Snow-Fields, |
1859 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | GBP 4,712.00 |
624 | Coronelli (Vicenzo Maria) | Parte Occidentale della China [in set with] Parte Orientale della China, Divisa nelle sue Provincie, |
c.1695 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 4,340.00 |
813 | Speed (John) | A New and Accurat Map of the World, |
1651 1676 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 3,968.00 |
532 | White (Alain C.) | The Christmas Series, |
1905-36 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 3,844.00 |
453 | Euler (Leonhard) | Institutiones Calculi Differentialis cum eius Usu in Analysi Finitorum ac Doctrina Serierum , |
1755 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 3,472.00 |
443 | Cavalieri (Bonaventura) | Geometria Indivisibilibus Continuorum Nova Quadam Ratione Promota, |
1653 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 3,224.00 |
543 | Wisden (John) | Cricketers' Almanack, |
1890-1899. | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 3,224.00 |
584 | West (Leonard) | The Natural Trout Fly and its Imitation, |
[1912 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | GBP 3,100.00 |
451 | Descartes (Rene) | Geometria, |
1659-61 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 2,976.00 |
559 | Alken (Henry) | Grand Leicestershire Steeple Chase, |
1830 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 2,976.00 |
621 | Speed (John) | America with those known parts in that unknowne world, North and South America, |
c. 1676 | GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | GBP 2,976.00 |
466 | Lagrange (Joseph Louis) | [A series of major papers on the calculus of variations and mechanics], in Miscellanea philosophico-mathematica societatis privatae Taurinensis tomus primus [-secundus], |
1759 -1762 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 2,728.00 |
617 | Mitchell (S. Augustus) | A New Map of Texas, Oregon and California, |
1846 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 2,728.00 |
484 | MacLaurin (Colin) | A Treatise of Fluxions, |
1742 | GBP 1,800.00 - 2,200.00 | GBP 2,480.00 |
492 | Newton (Isaac) | Arithmetique Universelle de Newton, translated by Noel Baudeux, |
1802 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 2,356.00 |
535 | Chess sets &c.- Jaques of London. | A Jaques ivory Staunton set, |
19th century | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 2,356.00 |
582 | Walton (Izaak) and Charles Cotton. | The Complete Angler, |
1825 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 2,232.00 |
598 | Alberti (Johann Christoph Ludwig) | Zuid-Afrikaansche Gezichten, |
1810 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 2,232.00 |
705 | Freshfield (Douglas W.) | Across Country from Thonon to Trent, |
1865 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 2,108.00 |