150 lots sold

Total: £686,500 /$1,054,464 /€963,846

     75% sold by lot

199 lots offered

$ 1.536= £1 / € 1.404=£1

    87% sold by value

Lot  

Description

Estimate (£)

Price Realised

Buyer

100

Herman SCHLEGEL (1804-1884) and Abraham Henrik Verster DE WULVERHORST (1796-1882). Traité de Fauconnerie. Leiden and Düsseldorf: Arnz & Comp., 1844-1853

25,000-35,000

£33,750

$51,840

€47,385

UK Private

151

John Frederick HERRING (1795-1865). Portraits of the Winning Horses of the Great St. Leger Stakes, at Doncaster, from the year 1815 to the present year inclusive. Doncaster: Sheardown and Son & London: W. Sams, [1824]

12,000-18,000

£27,500

$42,240

€38,610

UK Trade

5

HAVELL, Robert and Son, publishers. A Series of Picturesque Views of Noblemen’s and Gentlemen’s Seats, with Historical & Descriptive Accounts of Each Subject. London: R. Havell & Son, 1823

20,000-30,000

£25,000

$38,400

€35,100

US Trade

Rupert Neelands, Head of Sale and Specialist, Books and Manuscripts, Christie’s London: “This single owner collection included many works in exceptional condition and the market clearly responded very favourably to this. As always, great works stand the test of time, as Herring’s ‘Portraits of the Winning Horses of the Great St. Leger Stakes, at Doncaster’, and works by revered illustrator Henry Alken attest. We look forward to our South Kensington sale and the two special single owner sales in June -Anthony Hobson and Jean A. Bonna.”

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Estimates do not include buyer’s premium. Sales totals are hammer price plus buyer’s premium and do not reflect costs, financing fees or application of buyer’s or seller’s credits.