November’s Fine Books and Manuscripts auction is formed around a large single owner collection from a gentlemen of varied and interesting taste.
From early Western Illuminated Manuscript leaves to private press books and modern first editions and all manner of subjects between. This sale will have something for all collectors at every price point.
Lot 1 - [Law] Coke: The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England. 1670
Sold for £1,125
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 2 - [Law] Paine. The whole proceedings on the trial of an information . . .Dublin, 1793
Sold for £375
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Lot 3 - [Law] Taylor. A Sermon..... Upon the Anniversary of the Gunpowder-Treason, 1638
Estimated at £150 - £200
Lot 6 - Bacon. The Elements of the Common Lawes of England, bound with The Use of the Law, 1639
Estimated at £600 - £800
Lot 14 - Rushworth (John) The Tryal of Thomas Earl of Strafford
Sold for £250
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Lot 19 - Diogenes Laertius, De vita et moribus philosophorum libri X
Sold for £275
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Lot 30 - David kneeling in prayer, leaf from an illuminated manuscript Book of Hours [c.1420-30]
Estimated at £2,000 - £3,000
Lot 31 - Illuminated Book of Hours on vellum, Paris, Gilles Hardouin, [calendar: 1510-1530]
Sold for £5,750
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Lot 32 - Illuminated leaf on vellum. St. James the Apostle, [mid c.12th.]
Estimated at £4,000 - £6,000
Lot 34 - Illuminated manuscript leaf on vellum. The Crucifixion from a Book of Hours, [late c.15th]
Sold for £2,000
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Lot 35 - Illuminated Mss leaf on vellum. St. John seated on Patmos writing his Gospel. [c. 1460-98]
Sold for £3,000
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Lot 36 - Illuminated Mss. A Bishop-Saint. Historiated initial on vellum.[1490]
Sold for £3,750
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Lot 37 - Illuminated vellum leaves. St. Sebastian and St. Denis, [c.1500]
Sold for £875
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Lot 40 - Mann. Der Ewahlte Limited edition, no. 41 of 60 copies signed by the author, NY. 1951
Sold for £1,250
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Lot 41 - Mithobius (Hector) Almanach unde Practica / up dat Jar M.D. LXXXIX
Sold for £750
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Lot 43 - Pococke (Richard) Beschreibung des Morgenlandes und einiger anderer Länder
Sold for £325
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Lot 45 - Thou (Jacques Auguste de) Historiarum sui temporis [with: Commentariorum de Vita Sua]
Sold for £250
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Lot 46 - Virgil.- Pub. Virgilii Maronis Georgicorum libri quatuor, 1741
Sold for £238
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Lot 53 - Holocaust Haggadot [Displaced Persons Camp] Haggadah shel Pesah
Sold for £375
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Lot 55 - Josephus (Flavius) The Famous and Memorable Workes, 1632
Sold for £275
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Lot 62 - Judaica. Collection of Magazines and pamphlets in Hebrew & Yiddish…
Sold for £400
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Lot 68 - Churchill. The Story of the Malakand Field Force. first ed, second issue. 1898
Sold for £375
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Lot 77 - Magna Carta. This Plate being a correct Copy of King John's Great Charter…,[1733]
Sold for £15,000
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Lot 80 - Sainctyon (Lord de) The history of Tamerlan the Great
Sold for £938
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Lot 83 - Waterloo.- Mudford (William) An Historical Account of the Campaign in the Netherlands
Sold for £1,250
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Lot 84 - Alexander [William] Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the English
Sold for £162
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Lot 89 - De Loutherbourg (P. J.) The Romantic and Picturesque Scenery of England and Wales
Estimated at £800 - £1,200
Lot 90 - Fielding. A Picturesque Tour of the English Lakes...,, 1821
Sold for £525
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Lot 92 - Johnson [Samuel] A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
Sold for £575
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Lot 94 - Pyne (William Henry) The History of the Royal Residences
Sold for £3,750
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Lot 95 - Repton (Humphry) & Malins (Edward) The Red Books of Humphry Repton
Sold for £1,188
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Lot 96 - Stow (John) A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster
Sold for £1,750
Includes Buyer's Premium