Forum Auctions: Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper, 1158, London

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Auction Report
Auction Date
November 21, 2024 - November 21, 2024
Page Size: 394 items in 16 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
51 Miller (Henry, writer, 1891-1980).

38 Autograph Letters, all but one signed, to Zofia Slaboszowska

Pacific Palisades 1965-1979 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 7,560.00
52 Bossewell (John)

Workes of Armorie, first edition, Richard Totell; bound with A Very Proper Treatise

1572, 1573 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
53 Preston (John)

The Saints Qualification

1633 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
54 Ariosto (Lodovico)

Orlando Furioso in English Heroical Verse

1634 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 945.00
55 Preston (John)

Foure Godly and Learned Treatises...

1636 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
56

Bible, English. The Holy Bible

Cambridge 1638 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 4,788.00
57

Broadside.- Die Jovis 13. Januarii. 1641. Whereas Information hath been given to the Parliament ...

Robert Barker 1641 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
58

Broadside.- Servants causing house fires.- Abstract of the clause in the Act of Parliament ...

no place ?c.1708. GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 403.20
59 Dugdale (Sir William)

Monasticon Anglicanum

1655-61-73. GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 1,638.00
60 Shakespeare (William)

The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth

1663-64. GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,016.00
61 Butler (Samuel)

Hudibras

1663-64-78. GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 504.00
62 Milton (John)

Paradise Lost. A Poem in Ten Books

1669 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 12,600.00
63 Bunyan (John)

The Doctrine of Law and Grace Unfolded

1701 GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 756.00
64 Fencing.- Hope (Sir William)

The Compleat Fencing-Master,

1710 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
65 Americana.- Kennett (White)

Bibliothecae Americanae Primordia.

1713 but 1714. GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 2,016.00
66 Whitefield (George)

[Sammelband of 10 Sermons], 1737-38.

1737-38. GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,071.00
67 Gravelot (Hubert Francois), After.

Owen Farrel the Irish Dwarf

Publish'd May ye 27th 1742.'. GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
68

Playbills.- An album of c.110 playbills, c.1757-1851.

1800-1820 (c.45) and 1821-1851 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,386.00
69 [Smollett (Tobias)]

The History and Adventures of an Atom,

1769 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 756.00
70 Smith (Adam)

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 2 vol.,

1776 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 17,640.00
71 Ricardo (David)

On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation

1817 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 10,080.00
72 Slavery.- Clarkson (Thomas)

An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species,

1786 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 6,048.00
73

Bible, English.- The Holy Bible,

1795 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,260.00
74 Collingwood (Cuthbert)

A Plan of the Attack by Lord Nelson of the Combined Fleet, October 21st, 1805,

London 1805 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,386.00
75 Ackermann (Rudolph)

West. Plan of the Platform and Disposition of the Bannerolls,

1806 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,512.00
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