Chiswick Auctions: Books and Works on Paper
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Books and Works on Paper | Total Sales (GBP) | 177,321.00 |
| Auction Date | November 27, 2024 - November 27, 2024 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) | 91,370.00 |
| Sale Number | #112724 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) | 128,270.00 |
| Total Lots | 273 | ||
| Sold Lots | 223 | Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) | 113,920.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 81.68% | High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) | 160,270.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 50 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 110.64% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 162 | Illustrations by John Buckland-Wright. Keats (John) | Endymion: A Poetic Romance, |
GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 23,310.00 | |
| 46 | A large collection of 156 Indian Miniatures painted in gouache on mica |
[c.1850-60] | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 11,340.00 | |
| 108 | Lewis (C.S.) | [The Chronicles of Narnia] |
1950-55 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | GBP 8,190.00 |
| 182 | Cheney (John) | An Historical List or Account of all the Horse-Matches Run, and of all the Plates and Prizes run for in England...in 1729 [-34; 36-50], |
1729 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 6,930.00 |
| 158 | Buckland-Wright (John) Artist/Illustrator. | Original Working Sketch Books. Notes. Paris 1934-1939, London 1940 -- [1953] |
[1934-53] | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | GBP 6,300.00 |
| 134 | Milton (John) -- | Paradise Lost: A Poem, |
1937 | GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | GBP 5,544.00 |
| 39 | de Brocktorff (Charles Frederick) [Brockdorff] attributed to, | Malta, a pair of character studies |
GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 5,040.00 | |
| 105 | Osborne (John) | Look Back in Anger, |
GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | GBP 4,032.00 | |
| 21 | Goodwin (Thomas) | [A childe of light vvalking in darkness, or, A treatise shewing the causes by which, the cases wherein, the ends for which God leaves his children to distresse of conscience: |
GBP 250.00 - 350.00 | GBP 3,528.00 | |
| 161 | Halcyon. Quarterly magazine for book, printing and graphic art. |
1940 - 42 | GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | GBP 3,528.00 | |
| 114 | Pulp Science Fiction. A large collection of magazines and periodicals, including: |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 2,142.00 | ||
| 159 | Buckland-Wright (John) Artist/Illustrator. | Original Working Sketch Book, 1934, 1935,1936 |
1934, 1935, 1936 | GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | GBP 2,142.00 |
| 215 | Burne-Jones (Sir Edward Coley) | The Golden Stairs, |
GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 2,016.00 | |
| 82 | Dickens (Charles) | A Christmas Carol, |
1843 | GBP 700.00 - 900.00 | GBP 1,890.00 |
| 128 | Cranach Press. | Canticum Canticorum Salamonis, |
1931 | GBP 1,500.00 - 1,800.00 | GBP 1,890.00 |
| 185 | Vischer (Peter) editor, | Polo Magazine, |
1927-36 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 1,890.00 |
| 19 | Sibbes (Richard) | An Exposition of the Third Chapter of the Epistle of St. Paul to the Philippians: also two sermons of Christian watchfulnesse..... |
1639 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 1,764.00 |
| 47 | Carpenter (Percy) after, | Hog Hunting in Lower Bengal, |
1861 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 1,638.00 |
| 192 | Beck (H. C.). | Map of London's Underground Railways, |
1933 & 1940 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 | GBP 1,638.00 |
| 202 | Halliwell (Albert Edward) | London Underground, four poster designs for The Royal Tournament and Trooping the Colour, Olympia Stations, |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 1,638.00 | |
| 270 | Piranesi (Francesco) & Desprez (Louis-Jean) after | Fuoco artificiale detto la Girandola, Che s'incendia sul Castel S. Angelo gia Mausoleo d'Elio Adriano, |
GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | GBP 1,638.00 | |
| 49 | Ogilby (John) | Asia, The First Part [all published] being an Accurate Description of Persia and the Several Provinces therof. The Vast Empire of the Great Mogul and other parts of India and their Several Kingdoms and Regions..., |
1673 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 1,512.00 |
| 126 | Horatius Flaccus (Quintus) | Carmina Sapphica, |
1903 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 1,512.00 |
| 119 | Weird fiction: Arkham House, publishers. A collection of 29 First editions, all in original cloth and dust jackets, including: |
GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 1,386.00 | ||
| 163 | Buckland-Wright (John) | Erotica. |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 1,386.00 |
