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Auction Name
Online: Books and Works on Paper
Auction Date
07/31/2025 - 07/31/2025
Sale Number
#1010
Total Lots
294
Sold Lots
282
Lots Sold
95.92%
Unsold Lots
12
Total Sales (GBP)
160,045.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
80,010.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
113,390.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
82,730.00
High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
117,270.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
136.48%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
282 Blackwell (Elizabeth)

A Curious Herbal, Containing Five Hundred Cuts, of the most useful Plants, which are now used in the Practice of Physick

1739 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 4,064.00
31

Periodicals.-Museum Rusticum et Commerciale...

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 2,794.00
18 Heresbach (Conrad)

Fovre bookes of husbandrie...

1586 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 2,794.00
32 N[orden] (J[ohn])

Surveying.-The Surueyors dialogue

1607 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 2,540.00
260 Moxon (Joseph)

Perspective.-Practical Perspective, or Perspective made easie

1670 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 2,413.00
70 Mongez (Antoine)

Tableaux, statues, bas-reliefs et camees, de la Galerie de Florence

1819 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 2,413.00
166 Charnock (John)

Maritime.-An History of Marine Architecture

1800-02 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 2,159.00
161 Newton (Sir Isaac)

Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John

1733 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 2,159.00
164 [Steel (David)]

Maritime.-The Elements and Practice of Rigging and Seamanship

1794 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 2,032.00
157 Blome (Richard)

The Gentlemans Recreation

1686 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 2,032.00
228 Shakespeare (William)

Nonesuch Press.-Shakespeare (William) The Works

1929-33 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,905.00
179 Dean (H[enry])

Magic & Conjuring.-The Whole Art of Legerdemain; or, Hocus Pocus in Perfection

[?1790] GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,905.00
14 [Fitzherbert (John)]

The Boke of hvsbandry

1548 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,905.00
170 Barrow (Sir John)

Maritime.-The Life of George Lord Anson

1839 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,905.00
200 Fossati (Giorgio)

Raccolta di Varie Favole...

1744 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,905.00
168 Serres (Dominick and John Thomas)

Maritime.-Liber Nauticus

1805-06 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 1,905.00
19 Heresbach (Conrad)

Boies Penrose copy.-The VVhole art and trade of husbandry

1614 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,778.00
46 Young (Arthur)

The Farmer's Guide in Hiring and Stocking Farms

1770 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,651.00
56 Cutler (Thomas W.)

Ornament and Design.-A Grammar of Japanese Ornament and Design

1880 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,651.00
38 Ringsted (Josiah)

The Farmer. Comprehending the several most interesting objects and beneficial practices in the culture of wheat, rye, Barley...

[?1781] GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,651.00

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