Forum Auctions: Online Sale: Books and Works on Paper
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Online Sale: Books and Works on Paper | Total Sales (GBP) | 127,606.50 |
| Auction Date | December 11, 2024 - December 11, 2024 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) | 65,300.00 |
| Sale Number | #939 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) | 93,700.00 |
| Total Lots | 307 | ||
| Sold Lots | 275 | Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) | 73,200.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 89.58% | High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) | 105,150.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 32 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 121.36% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | Beckford (William).- Hoskins (G.A.) | Travels in Ethiopia, above the Second Cataract of the Nile |
1835 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 6,930.00 |
| 23 | Beckford (William).- Polo (Marco) | The Travels... |
1818.<br><br> | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 4,032.00 |
| 55 | Manuscripts.- Qur'an |
[c.1850]. | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | GBP 4,032.00 | |
| 230 | Shakespeare (William) | The Works... Revis'd and Corrected |
1709 [-10]. | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 3,528.00 |
| 214 | Foxe (John) | [Foxe's Book of Martyrs] Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable... |
1596. | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | GBP 3,024.00 |
| 31 | Burton (Sir Richard Francis) | Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah |
1855-56. | GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | GBP 2,772.00 |
| 63 | Waley (Arthur, translator) | A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems |
1918 | GBP 250.00 - 350.00 | GBP 2,772.00 |
| 22 | Beckford (William).- Jackson (James Grey) | An Account of the Empire of Marocco, and the Districts of Suse and Tafilelt |
1811 | GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 | GBP 2,520.00 |
| 33 | Champollion (Jean Francois) | Grammaire Egyptienne |
1836[-1841] | GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | GBP 2,394.00 |
| 98 | India.- Bhagavad-G?t? |
[19th century]. | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 2,394.00 | |
| 83 | [Isshin (Ogawa)] | [Hundred Beauties (Singing Girls) in Tokyo] |
c.1895. | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 2,268.00 |
| 215 | [Turberville (George)] | [Noble arte of venerie or hunting; Booke of hunting] |
[1611] | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | GBP 2,016.00 |
| 208 | English Binding.- [Breviary] Portiforium Seu Breviarium |
1557 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 1,890.00 | |
| 17 | Beckford (William).- Rutter (John) | Delineations of Fonthill and its Abbey |
1823 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 1,764.00 |
| 163 | Shippard (William Henry, ) | Shippard's manuscript map of the Middle East, Indian Sub-Continent, and East Asia |
[mid 19th century] | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 1,512.00 |
| 213 | Crouch (Nathaniel) | Delights for the Ingenious |
1684 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 1,512.00 |
| 269 | Pennant (Thomas) | The literary life ... |
1793 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 1,512.00 |
| 42 | Hafez. | Divan |
1791 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 1,386.00 |
| 159 | Thousand and One Nights (The); or, Arabian Nights' Entertainments |
1896 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 1,386.00 | |
| 142 | South East Asia.- Siam, Burma 1923 |
[1923]. | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 1,197.00 | |
| 209 | Holinshed (Raphael) | Historie of Scotlande [The firste volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande] |
[1577] | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 1,197.00 |
| 210 | Holinshed (Raphael) | The firste volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande |
1577 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 1,197.00 |
| 169 | Stack (Capt. George) | A Dictionary, English and Sindhi... |
1849. | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 1,134.00 |
| 59 | Penzer (N.M., editor) | The Ocean of Story, being C.H. Tawney's translation of Somadeva's Katha Sarit Sagara |
1924 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 1,071.00 |
| 60 | Persian-Syriac grammar.- Kita?b-i s?arf va nah?v-i zaba?n-i Fa?rsi? |
1898 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 1,071.00 |
