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Auction Name	Online Sale: Books and Works on Paper	Total Sales (GBP)	139,510.30
Auction Date	February 29, 2024 - February 29, 2024	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	64,340.00
Sale Number	#2303	High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	91,860.00
Total Lots	297
Sold Lots	264	Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	73,740.00
% of Lots Sold	88.89%	High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	105,660.00
Unsold Lots	33	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	132.04%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
272	James Sowerby	British Mineralogy, 3 vol. only (of 5)	1804-09	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 4,284.00
34	Quintus Smyrnaeus	Derelictorum ab Homero libri quatuordecim,	[1505].	GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	GBP 4,032.00
270	Pierre Pomet	A Compleat History of Druggs Divided into Three Classes, Vegetable, Animal and Mineral	1712	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 3,528.00
274	Ambroise Pare	Pare (Ambroise) The Workes...Translated out of Latine and compared with the French by Th. Johnson, first English edition	1634	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 3,528.00
87		Charles I and the Treaty of Newport.- Warwick (Sir Philip, politician and historian, 1609-83).- Draft letter with corrections and deletions to Sir Philip Warwick, "A Copie of a Letter to Sr Phili...	1648	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 2,624.00
2	Silius Italicus	Punica, edited by Petrus Justinus Philelphus,	1481	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 2,520.00
1	Gratianus.	[Gratianus]. [Decretum],	[?c.1480].	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 2,394.00
131		Bible, English.- Bible (The): that is, the Holy Scriptures contained in the Olde and Newe Testament,	1577	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 2,394.00
248	Thomas Geminus	[Compendiosa totius anatomie delineatio aere exarata], defective	[?1559]	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 2,394.00
3	Publius Ovidius Naso	Metamorphoseos Libri Moralizati,	1510	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 2,142.00
246	Helkiah Crooke	Mikrokosmographia [graece]. A Description of the Body of Man	1631	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 2,142.00
271	Christoph Wirsung	The General Practice of Physicke, translated by Jacob Morsan, in English	1605	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 2,142.00
26	Santi Solinori	Andrea Palladio and others. [Mirabilia Romae] Le cose maravigliose dell'alma citta di Roma..., first illustrated edition 2 parts in 1	1588	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 2,016.00
103		Politicians.- Collection of letters and postcards	19th century	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 1,574.40
5	Marcus Valerius Martialis	Epigrammata Libri magna...,	1522	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 1,512.00
179	Anna Letitia	Eighteen Hundred and Eleven. A Poem, ,	1812	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 1,386.00
267	Nicholas Culpeper	A Sure Guide, or, The Best and Nearest Way to Physick and Chyrurgery, by Peter Cole	1657	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 1,386.00
181	John Hamilton Reynolds	Safie. An Eastern Tale,	1814	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 1,260.00
90	E. Martin	[Collection of Recipes], manuscript	1737 -- [19th century].	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 1,246.40
14		Jersey provenance.- Bible, French. La Sainte Bible	1550	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 1,197.00
36	Baldassare Castiglione	Il libro del cortegiano	1547	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 1,134.00
139	Jasper Atkinson	Observations on the Reports of the Committees of the Houses of Parliament on the expediency of resuming cash-payments at the Bank of England, in a letter to a frie...	1819	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 1,134.00
247	Andrew Fyfe	A System of the Anatomy of the Human Body, 3 vol., fourth edition,	1820	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 1,134.00
255	Charles Leadbetter	Astronomy of the Satellites of the Earth, Jupiter and Saturn,	1729	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 1,134.00
138	Eliza Haywood	Memoirs of a Certain Island Adjacent to the Kingdom of Utopia	1726	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 1,071.00

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Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD

Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD

Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD

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Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD

Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD

Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
Bid on iGavelAuctions.com: Heller, Joseph, Closing Time, Advance Readers Copy of Uncorrected Proof with a letter from Heller on his personal stationary

Bid on iGavelAuctions.com: Gates, Bill, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, N Y: Knopf, 2021; first edition, with a handwritten note from Bill Gates

Bid on iGavelAuctions.com: Heller, Joseph, Catch-22, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1961, first edition, first printing, first issue dust jacket, inscribed on the front end paper by Heller

Bid on iGavelAuctions.com: Heller, Joseph, Something Happened, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974, first edition, inscribed on the front end paper by Heller

Bid on iGavelAuctions.com: Austen, Jane, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, London: John Murray, 1818, in four volumes
Manuscript Masterpieces from the Schøyen Collection
London auction, 11 June
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Christie’s, Explore now: The Holkham Hebrew Bible. In Hebrew, decorated manuscript on vellum [Toledo, 2nd quarter 13th century]. £1,500,000–3,000,000

Christie’s, Explore now: The Crosby-Schøyen Codex. In Coptic, manuscript on papyrus [Upper Egypt, middle 3rd century / 4th century]. £2,000,000–3,000,000

Christie’s, Explore now: The Geraardsbergen Bible. In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum [Southern Netherlands, late 12th century]. £700,000–1,000,000

Christie’s, Explore now : Jean de Courcy (fl. 1420). The Chronique de la Bouquechardiere. In French, illuminated manuscript on vellum [Paris, c.1480]. £200,000–300,000

Christie’s, Explore now: The ‘Catherine de Medici’ Hours. In Latin and French, illuminated manuscript on vellum [Paris, c.1485]. £120,000–180,000
Freeman’s | Hindman, June 6: MELVILLE, Herman (1819-1891). Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, IN THE BAL FIRST BINDING. $12,000 - $18,000.

Freeman’s | Hindman, June 6: PUZO, Mario (1920-1999). The Godfather. FIRST EDITION, PROOF COPY in wrappers. SIGNED BY PUZO. $3,000 - $5,000.

Freeman’s | Hindman, June 7: HUGHES, Langston. Scottsboro Limited. 1932. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE. INSCRIBED BY HUGHES TO NOEL SULLIVAN. $6,000 - $8,000.

Freeman’s | Hindman, June 7: HOMANN, Johann Baptist, HOMANN HEIRS, and Georg Matthäus SEUTTER. [Composite Atlas]. [maps dated between 1728-1765]. $30,000 - $40,000.

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