Event Date14–28 APR 2021 | Online 20382

Books, Manuscripts, Photographs: From the Middle Ages to the Moon

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Sale Total GBP 1,143,000

14–28 APR 2021

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  • Lot 3

    Anonymous northern French artist

    Book of Hours, use of Troyes, in French and Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum [Troyes, late 15th century]

    EstimateGBP 12,000 - 18,000
    Price realisedGBP 23,750
    Closed 
  • Lot 5

    Anonymous Coptic scribe

    Lives of Saints and devotional readings, in Coptic, decorated manuscript on paper [Egypt, 15th or 16th century]

    EstimateGBP 7,000 - 10,000
    Price realisedGBP 60,000
    Closed 
  • Lot 6

    Workshop of the Huntington Master (fl.1570-1600)

    A leaf from a Dogal Commission, with the arms of the Bon family of Venice [Venice, final quarter 16th century]

    EstimateGBP 4,000 - 6,000
    Price realisedGBP 5,000
    Closed 
  • Lot 7

    Follower of the Master of the Lee Hours

    The Assumption of the Virgin, historiated initial 'O' on a leaf from an illuminated Antiphonal on vellum [Bruges, c.1450s]

    EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000
    Price realisedGBP 5,250
    Closed 
  • Lot 8

    Anonynmous Armenian illuminator

    Four Gospels, in Armenian, illuminated manuscript on vellum, Marunan, Sos (New Julfa, Isfahan), 1703

    EstimateGBP 15,000 - 20,000
    Price realisedGBP 60,000
    Closed 
  • Lot 9

    [Otto F. Ege (1888-1951)]

    Original Leaves from Famous Books. Nine Centuries 1122 A.D.-1923 A.D. [compiled Cleveland, c.1950]

    EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000
    Price realisedGBP 5,000
    Closed 
  • Lot 11

    Edward Jenner (1749-1823)

    Autograph letter to ‘Mr Long’, ‘Bond Street’, [London], 26 June [1801].

    EstimateGBP 4,000 - 6,000
    Price realisedGBP 10,625
    Closed 
  • Lot 12

    Joseph Severn (1793-1872)

    Portrait of John Keats at Wentworth Place on the day of his composing 'Ode to a Nightingale'

    EstimateGBP 20,000 - 30,000
    Price realisedGBP 50,000
    Closed 
  • Lot 13

    Mary Shelley (1797-1851)

    Autograph letter signed ('M.W. Shelley') to Charles Ollier, n.p., 29 April 1835.

    EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000
    Price realisedGBP 4,000
    Closed 
  • Lot 14

    Henri Matisse (1869-1954)

    Important series of approximately 30 autograph letters (of which 25 signed, ‘Henri’, ‘H. Matisse’ or with initials) to his wife, Amélie (‘Mélo’), almost all n.p. [but mostly Tangiers], 16 October – 6 November 1912; with an autograph copy letter signed to Mr Ducet, 26 February 1912.

    EstimateGBP 25,000 - 35,000
    Price realisedGBP 25,000
    Closed 
  • Lot 16

    Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

    Typed letter signed ('Winston S. Churchill') to Slobodan Jovanović (Prime Minister of the Royal Yugoslav government-in-exile in London), 10 Downing Street, 12 July 1942.

    EstimateGBP 4,000 - 6,000
    Price realisedGBP 9,375
    Closed 
  • Lot 17

    Christopher Robin Milne (1920-1996) and Ernest Howard Shepard (1879-1976)

    A collection of letters sent to the publisher Methuen, 1969-1990.

    EstimateGBP 1,500 - 2,500
    Price realisedGBP 1,250
    Closed 
  • Lot 18

    Johannes Duns Scotus (1265-1308)

    Quaestiones in primum librum Sententiarum Petri Lombardi, edited by Antonius Trombetta (1476-1517/18?). Venice: [Printer of Duns Scotus, 'Quaestiones'], for Antonius Bononiensis and Christophorus Bellapiera, 19 November 1472.

    EstimateGBP 12,000 - 18,000
    Price realisedGBP 13,750
    Closed 
  • Lot 19

    Antoninus Florentinus (1389-1459)

    Summa Theologica. Pars III (of four). Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 26 January 1478.

    EstimateGBP 3,000 - 4,000
    Price realisedGBP 5,250
    Closed 
  • Lot 20

    Bible

    BIBLE, in Latin. With additions by Menardus Monachus. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 6 August 1479.

    EstimateGBP 6,000 - 8,000
    Price realisedGBP 9,375
    Closed 
  • Lot 21

    Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)

    La Commedia. Commentary by Christophorus Landinus (1424-1498) and edited by Piero da Figino (15th century). – ps-DANTE. Il Credo. Venice: Bernardinus Benalius and Matteo Capcasa (di Codeca), 3 March 1491.

    EstimateGBP 4,000 - 6,000
    Price realisedGBP 11,250
    Closed 
  • Lot 22

    Book of Hours

    HORAE, use of Rome, in Latin and French. Paris: Philippe Pigouchet, [after 1492].

    EstimateGBP 10,000 - 15,000
    Price realisedGBP 11,250
    Closed 
  • Lot 23

    Hartmann Schedel (1440-1514)

    Liber chronicarum. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 July 1493.

    EstimateGBP 30,000 - 50,000
    Price realisedGBP 68,750
    Closed 
  • Lot 24

    Thomas Aquinas (c.1225-1274)

    Commentaria in omnes epistolas Sancti Pauli. Edited by Petrus Bergomensis. Basel: Michael Furter, for Wolfgang Lachner, 16 October 1495.

    EstimateGBP 7,000 - 10,000
    Price realisedGBP 11,250
    Closed 
  • Lot 25

    Hartmann Schedel (1440-1514)

    Liber chronicarum [German:] Das Buch der Croniken und Geschichten. Translated by Georg Alt (c.1450-1510). Augsburg: Johann Schönsperger, 18 September 1496.

    EstimateGBP 5,000 - 8,000
    Price realisedGBP 60,000
    Closed 
  • Lot 26

    Bonifacius VIII (Benedetto Gaetano, c. 1235-1303)

    Liber sextus Decretalium. Commentary and additions by Johannes Andreae (c. 1270-1348). Edited by Johannes Chappuis (fl. 1500). Paris: Ulrich Gering and Berthold Rembolt, 1500-1501 [Part I dated 15 October 1500].

    EstimateGBP 3,000 - 4,000
    Price realisedGBP 6,250
    Closed 
  • Lot 27

    Homelies

    Homeliarius super Evangeliis de Tempore et de Sanctis. Basel: Jacobus Wolff de Pfortzheim, for Wolfgang Lachner, 1505.

    EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000
    Price realisedGBP 3,000
    Closed 
  • Lot 29

    Bartosz Paprocki (c.1543-c.1614)

    Ogrod Krolweski [The Royal Garden]. Prague: Daniel Siedlczanski, 1599.

    EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000
    Price realisedGBP 27,500
    Closed 
  • Lot 31

    Gaspare Tagliacozzi (1545-1599).

    De Curtorum Chirurgia per insitionem. Venice: Gasparo Bindoni the younger, 1597.

    EstimateGBP 35,000 - 45,000
    Price realisedGBP 43,750
    Closed 
  • Lot 33

    Giovanni Branca (1571-1640)

    Le machine. Rome: Giacomo Mascardi for Giacomo Manuci, 1629.

    EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000
    Price realisedGBP 3,000
    Closed 
  • Lot 34

    Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) [and Marin Mersenne (1588-1648)].

    Les nouvelles pensees de Galilei ... oùpar des inventions merveilleuses, & des demonstrations inconnuês iusques à present, il est traittéde la proportion des mouvements, tant naturels, que violents, & de tout ce qu'il y a de plus subtil dans les mechaniques & dans la phisique. Traduit d'Italien en François.Paris: Pierre Rocolet, 1639.

    EstimateGBP 10,000 - 15,000
    Price realisedGBP 12,500
    Closed 
  • Lot 35

    Gaspar Schott (1606-1666).

    Mechanica hydraulico-pneumatica ... Accessit experimentum novum Magdeburgicum, quo vacuum alii stabilire, alii evertere conantur. Frankfurt: Heinrich Pingrin of Würzburg for the heirs of Johann Gottfried Schönwetter, 1657-[1658].

    EstimateGBP 1,500 - 2,000
    Price realisedGBP 2,500
    Closed 
  • Lot 38

    Johann Zahn (1641-1707).

    Oculus artificialis teledioptricus sive telescopium. Nuremberg: Johann Christoph Lochner, 1702.

    EstimateGBP 1,800 - 2,500
    Price realisedGBP 3,500
    Closed 
  • Lot 39

    Luigi Galvani (1737-1798).

    De viribus electricitatis in motu musculari commentarius. [In: De Bononiensi Scientiarum et Artium Instituto atque Academia Commentarii, vol. VII, pp. 363-418]. Bologna: Typographia Instituti Scientiarum, 1791.

    EstimateGBP 8,000 - 12,000
    Price realisedGBP 15,000
    Closed 
  • Lot 44

    Anders Jonas Angström (1814-1874). 

    Recherches sur le spectre solaire [Atlas contenant les longeurs d'onde des raies Frauenhofériennes données en 1/10,000000 de millimètre]. Uppsala: W. Schultz, 1868.

    EstimateGBP 1,500 - 2,000
    Price realisedGBP 2,125
    Closed 
  • Lot 47

    Linus Pauling (1901-1994).

    ‘The Nature of the Chemical Bond. Application of Results Obtained from the Quantum Mechanics and from a Theory of Paramagnetic Susceptibility to the Structure of Molecules’. Offprint from: Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 53, April 1931, pp. 1367-1400.

    EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000
    Price realisedGBP 6,875
    Closed 
  • Lot 48

    Alexander Fleming (1881-1955).

    ‘On the Antibacterial Action of Cultures of a Penicillium, with Special Reference to Their Use in the Isolation of B. Influenzae.’ Reprinted from The British Journal of Experimental Pathology, vol. 10, 1929, pp. 226-38 (here paginated 1-12). [London, 1944].

    EstimateGBP 2,500 - 3,500
    Price realisedGBP 3,000
    Closed 
  • Lot 49

    John Forbes Nash Jr. (1928-2015) and Lloyd Shapley (1923-2016).

    ‘A simple three-person poker game’, pp. 105-116. In: Contributions to the Theory of Games, Volume I. Annals of Mathematics Series, No. 24. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1950.

    EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000
    Price realisedGBP 5,625
    Closed 
  • Lot 50

    William Forsyth Sharpe (b.1934).

    ‘Capital Asset Prices: A Theory of Market Equilibrium under Conditions of Risk,’ pp. 425-442 in: The Journal of Finance, Vol. 19, No. 3, September 1964. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing for the American Finance Association, 1964.

    EstimateGBP 5,000 - 8,000
    Price realisedGBP 6,250
    Closed 
  • Lot 51

    Petrus Apianus (1531-1589) and Reiner Gemma Frisius (1508-1555)

    Charta Cosmographica, cum ventorum propria natura et operatione. Antwerp, 1553.

    EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000
    Price realisedGBP 2,375
    Closed 
  • Lot 54

    Claudius Ptolomaeus (c.100-c.178)

    Geographiae libri octo Graeco-Latini. Amsterdam: Cornelis Nicolai and Jodocus Hondius, 1605.

    EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000
    Price realisedGBP 7,500
    Closed 
  • Lot 55

    Pieter de Marees (fl. 1602)

    Description et recit historial du riche Royaume d'or de Gunea, aultrement nommé, la coste de l'or de Mina. Amsterdam: C. Claesson, 1605.

    EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500
    Price realisedGBP 2,250
    Closed 
  • Lot 57

    Jan Huygen Linschoten (1536-1611)

    Histoire de la navigation de Jean Hugues de Linscot Hollandais et de son voyage es Indes Orientales. Amsterdam: Theodore Pierre, 1610.

    EstimateGBP 12,000 - 16,000
    Price realisedGBP 37,500
    Closed 
  • Lot 59

    Matteo Ricci (1552-1610) – Nicolas Trigault (1577-1628, editor)

    Histoire de l'expedition chrestienne au royaume de la Chine. Translated into French by D. F. de Riquebourg-Trigault. Lyon: Horace Cardon, 1616.

    EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000
    Price realisedGBP 3,500
    Closed 
  • Lot 61

    Cristoforo Borri (1583-1632)

    Relatione della nuova missione delli pp. della Compagnia di Giesu, al regno della Cocincina. Rome: Francesco Corbelletti, 1631

    EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000
    Price realisedGBP 2,000
    Closed 
  • Lot 62

    Charles Plumier (1646-1704). 

    Description des Plantes de l'Amerique. Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1693.

    EstimateGBP 4,000 - 6,000
    Price realisedGBP 8,750
    Closed 
  • Lot 63

    Joan Blaeu (1596-1673) – Gerard Valck (1652-1726)

    Novus Planiglobii Terrestris per utrumque polum conspectus. Amsterdam: [c.1695].

    EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000
    Price realisedGBP 3,250
    Closed 
  • Lot 64

    Jan Commelin (1629-1692) and Caspar Commelin (1667-1731)

    Horti Medici Amstelodamensis rariorum tam orientalis, quam Occidentalis Indiae, aliarumque peregrinarum Planaturm magno studio ... Beschryvinge en curieuse Afbeeldingen van rare vreemde Oos- West-Indische en andere gewassen. Amsterdam: P. & J. Blaeu, 1697-1701.

    EstimateGBP 12,000 - 18,000
    Price realisedGBP 13,750
    Closed 
  • Lot 65

    Johann Albrecht von Mandelslo (1616-1644)

    Voyages Celebres & remarquables, Faits de Perse Aux Indes Orientales. Translated from German by A. de Wicquefort. Amsterdam: Michel Charles Le Cene, 1727.

    EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000
    Price realisedGBP 3,000
    Closed 
  • Lot 66

    Jean Baptiste Du Halde (1674-1743).

    Description Géographique, Historique, Chronologique, Politique et Physique de l'Empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie Chinoisie. Paris: P.G. Le Mercier, 1735.

    EstimateGBP 7,000 - 10,000
    Price realisedGBP 12,500
    Closed 
  • Lot 67

    Thomas Shaw (1694-1757)

    Voyages ... dans plusieurs provinces de la Barbarie et du Levant: contenant des observations geographiques ... sur les royaumes d'Alger et de Tunis, sur la Syrie, l'Egypte et l'Arabie Petree. The Hague: Jean Neaulme, 1743.

    EstimateGBP 5,000 - 8,000
    Price realisedGBP 6,000
    Closed 
  • Lot 68

    Murdoch Mackenzie, the elder (1712-1797/99)

    Orcades: or a Geographical and Hydrographic Survey of the Orkney and Lewis Islands in eight maps. London: Printed for the Author, 1750.

    EstimateGBP 1,500 - 2,500
    Price realisedGBP 1,750
    Closed 
  • Lot 69

    Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772)

    Description des Débouquements qui sont au Nord de l'Isle de Saint Domingue. Paris: Didot, 1768.

    EstimateGBP 700 - 1,000
    Price realisedGBP 750
    Closed 
  • Lot 70

    Sydney Parkinson (1745-1771)

    A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas, in His Majesty's ship, the Endeavour. London: for Stanfield Parkinson, 1773.

    EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500
    Price realisedGBP 2,500
    Closed 
  • Lot 71

    Constantine John Phipps (1744-1792)

    A Voyage Toward the North Pole Undertaken by His Majesty's Command 1773. London: Printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols for J. Nourse, 1774.

    EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500
    Price realisedGBP 1,250
    Closed 
  • Lot 72

    Alexander Dalrymple (1737-1808)

    A Collection of Voyages chiefly in the Southern Atlantick Ocean. Published from Original M.S.S. London: printed for the author, sold by J. Nourse, P. Elmsly et al, 1775.

    EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000
    Price realisedGBP 3,500
    Closed 
  • Lot 73

    Captain James Cook (1728-1779) – [John Marra]

    Journal of the Resolution's Voyage, in 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775. On Discovery to the Southern Hemisphere ... also a Journal of the Adventure's Voyage, in the years 1772, 1773, and 1774. London: F. Newbery, 1775.

    EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000
    Price realisedGBP 2,500
    Closed 
  • Lot 74

    Georg Forster (1754-1794)

    A Voyage round the World, in His Britannic Majesty's sloop, Resolution. London: for B. White, J. Robson, P. Elmsly, and G. Robinson, 1777.

    EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500
    Price realisedGBP 1,375
    Closed 
  • Lot 76

    Captain James Cook (1728-1779) – William Bayly (1737-1810)

    The Original Astronomical Observations made In the course of a voyage to the northern Pacific Ocean, for the discovery of a North East or North West Passage… By Captain James Cooke [sic] ... published by order of the Commissioners of Longtitude. London: William Richardson, 1782.

    EstimateGBP 10,000 - 15,000
    Price realisedGBP 13,750
    Closed 
  • Lot 77

    Japan – Kyoto

    Kyoto Kaisei Saiken Ezu. Kyoto: Tenmei era, c.1784

    EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000
    Price realisedGBP 2,500
    Closed 
  • Lot 78

    John Mount (1725-1786), Thomas Page III (1730-1781) and William Mount II (1753-1815)

    The English Pilot. The Fourth Book describing the West-India Navigation, from Hudson's Bay to the River Amazones. London: Mount and Page, 1784.

    EstimateGBP 3,000 - 4,000
    Price realisedGBP 5,250
    Closed 
  • Lot 79

    Jan Barend Elwe (fl. 1785-1809)

    Mappe monde ou description du globe terrestre & aquatique. Amsterdam: 1792

    EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000
    Price realisedGBP 2,500
    Closed 
  • Lot 80

    Martin Sauer (fl. 1785-1806)

    An account of a geographical and astronomical expedition to the northern parts of Russia ... by Commodore Joseph Billings in the years 1785, &c. to 1794. London: 1802.

    EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500
    Price realisedGBP 2,250
    Closed 
  • Lot 81

    Hydrographical Office, British Admiralty

    Coast of South America from the River of the Amazons to the Bay of Panama [thus titled on letterpress contents]. London: Hydrographical Office, various dates and sizes, 1807-1819.

    EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000
    Price realisedGBP 2,750
    Closed 
  • Lot 82

    Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles (1781-1826)

    Code of Provisional Regulations for the Judicial and Police Departments at Batavia Samarang and Sourabaya. Jakarta: A.H. Hubbard at the Honorable Company's Printing Office, 1812.

    EstimateGBP 10,000 - 15,000
    Price realisedGBP 11,250
    Closed 
  • Lot 83

    Vicente Tofino de San Miguel (1732-1795)

    Espana Maritima, or Spanish Coasting Pilot. London: W. Faden, 1812

    EstimateGBP 1,800 - 2,500
    Price realisedGBP 2,000
    Closed 
  • Lot 84

    Matthew Flinders (1774-1814)

    A Voyage to Terra Australis; undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802, and 1803, in his Majesty's Ship the Investigator. London: W. Bulmer and Co. for G. and W. Nicol, 1814.

    EstimateGBP 8,000 - 12,000
    Price realisedGBP 15,000
    Closed 
  • Lot 85

    Manuscript Ship's Logs of William Lord, midshipman.

    Two ship’s logs, aboard the HMS Shamrock and the HMS Investigator, North Sea, 26 January 1823 – 26 October 1829.

    EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500
    Price realisedGBP 1,250
    Closed 
  • Lot 86

    William Henry Smyth (1788-1865)

    Memoir Descriptive of the Resources, Inhabitants, and Hydrography of Sicily and its Islands. London: J. Murray, 1824.

    EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500
    Price realisedGBP 3,000
    Closed 
  • Lot 87

    Phillip Parker King (1791-1856)

    [Atlas of King’s Charts of Australia.] London: Hydrographical Office of the Admiralty, 1824-1826.

    EstimateGBP 5,000 - 8,000
    Price realisedGBP 10,625
    Closed 
  • Lot 88

    Johann Baptist von Spix (1781-1826)

    Animalia nova sive species novae testudinum [– Ranarum]. Munich: 1824. [With:] – Serpentum Brasiliensium species novae. Munich: 1824; [With:] – Animalia nova sive species novae lacertarum. Leipzig: 1825; [And:] – Testacea fluviatilia. Leipzig: 1827.

    EstimateGBP 6,000 - 9,000
    Price realisedGBP 6,875
    Closed 
  • Lot 89

    Wilhelm Beer (1797-1850) and Johann Madler (1794-1874)

    Mappa Selenographica. Berlin: Simon Schropp, 1834.

    EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000
    Price realisedGBP 3,000
    Closed 
  • Lot 91

    Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882) — Robert Fitzroy (1805-1865, editor)

    Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle. London: Henry Colburn, 1839.

    EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000
    Price realisedGBP 30,000
    Closed 
  • Lot 92

    Bible, in Tahitian

    Te Biblia moa ra ... E ua faa au maite hia i na parau tumu ra, e ua hope hoi i te faa titiaifaro hia. London: William Watts for The British and Foreign Bible Society, 1847

    EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500
    Price realisedGBP 1,125
    Closed 
  • Lot 93

    Phillip Parker King (1791-1856) and Robert FitzRoy (1805-1865)

    [South America Pilot.]Sailing Directions For South America. Part II. La Plata, Patagonia, Magellan Strait, Tierra Del Fuego, Falkland Islands, Staten Island, Chile, Bolivia, And Peru ... Third Edition. London: Hydrographic Office, Admiralty. 1851.

    EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500
    Price realisedGBP 3,500
    Closed 
  • Lot 94

    Alexander George Findlay (1812–1875)

    A Directory for the Navigation of the Indian Ocean. London: Richard Holmes Laurie, 1866.

    EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000
    Price realisedGBP 2,250
    Closed 
  • Lot 95

    Pascal Xavier Coste (1787-1879)

    Monuments modernes de la Perse mesurés, dessinés et décrits. Paris: A. Morel, 1867.

    EstimateGBP 7,000 - 10,000
    Price realisedGBP 8,750
    Closed 
  • Lot 96

    British Antarctic Expedition, 1907-1909 – Ernest Henry Shackleton (1847-1922)

    The Heart of the Antarctic. Being the story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909. London: William Heinemann, 1909.

    EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500
    Price realisedGBP 8,125
    Closed 
  • Lot 108

    Palestine – The End of British Rule

    Palestine. Termination of the Mandate. 15th May, 1948. London: HMSO, 1948.

    EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000
    Price realisedGBP 2,500
    Closed 
  • Lot 109

    Declaration of the Independent State of Israel

    Iton Rishmi, Official Gazette of Israel. Tel Aviv: 14 May 1948

    EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000
    Price realisedGBP 2,500
    Closed 
  • Lot 111

    World War II

    The Mass Extermination of Jews in German Occupied Poland. London: Hutchinson for the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, [1943].

    EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500
    Price realisedGBP 2,000
    Closed 
  • Lot 114

    United States Geological Survey and The Arabian American oil Company

    Arabian Peninsula. Washington DC: Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Ministry of Finance, 1958 and 1963.

    EstimateGBP 4,000 - 6,000
    Price realisedGBP 4,000
    Closed 
  • Lot 117

    Daniel Defoe (c.1660-1731).

    The Fortunate Mistress: Or, A History of the Life and Vast Variety of Fortunes of Mademoiselle de Beleau, Afterwards Called the Countess de Wintselsheim, in Germany, Being the Person known by the Name of the Lady Roxana, in the Time of King Charles II. London: printed for T. Warner; W. Meadows; W. Pepper; S. Harding and T. Edlin, 1724.

    EstimateGBP 5,000 - 7,000
    Price realisedGBP 13,750
    Closed 
  • Lot 118

    Charles Lutwidge Dodgson – 'Lewis Carroll' (1832-1898)

    The Hunting of the Snark. London: Macmillan and Co., 1876.

    EstimateGBP 5,000 - 7,000
    Price realisedGBP 7,500
    Closed 
  • Lot 120
    EstimateGBP 10,000 - 15,000
    Price realisedGBP 25,000
    Closed 
  • Lot 122

    Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)

    Detstvo i otrochestvo. [Childhood and Boyhood.] St Petersburg: Eduard Prats, 1856. [Bound with:] Aleksandr Sergeevich Griboedov (1795-1829). Gore ot uma. [Woe from Wit]. St Petersburg: Nicolay Tiblen, 1862.

    EstimateGBP 2,800 - 3,500
    Price realisedGBP 3,250
    Closed 
  • Lot 123

    Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881).

    Crime and Punishment. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1886.

    EstimateGBP 2,800 - 3,500
    Price realisedGBP 7,500
    Closed 
  • Lot 125

    Constantine Peter Cavafy (1863-1933)

    Ποιήματα [Poems 1905-1915]; [and:] – [Poems 1916-1918]. Alexandria: Th. Kasimati and K. Iona, 1930-1929.

    EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000
    Price realisedGBP 3,250
    Closed 
  • Lot 126

    Charlie Mackesy (b. 1962)

    Seaside scene and Girl with Cat

    EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500
    Price realisedGBP 2,250
    Closed 

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