Top 10 Most Expensive Sales in January 2012
Carta Executoria de Hidalguia otorgada por Felipe II en favor de Rodrigo Gallego
Casino Royale by Ian Fleming - £29,728
Signed first edition of the 1953 Jonathan Cape publication of Casino Royale, the first James Bond novel; this copy has also been inscribed by Fleming "To/ _____ ______/Something for the/flight/from the author".
2. Carta Executoria de Hidalguia otorgada por Felipe II en favor de Rodrigo Gallego by Ejecutoria - £6,080
Published in 1570, this document is a letter confirming the nobility of Rodrigo Gallego. It includes 42 leaves with a beautiful plant motif.
3. Lysistrata by Aristophanes - £4,638
Published in 1934 by the Limited Editions Club and illustrated by Pablo Picasso, this book contains six original etchings and 40 line drawings by Picasso. The book was limited to 1500 copies, this is #462, and was signed on the colophon by Picasso.
4. Der Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse - £4,220
First edition, written in German, published by G. Fischer Verlag in Berlin in 1927.
5. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley - £4,158
First UK edition, published 1932 by Chatto & Windus, inscribed "For. with good wishes, Aldous Huxley, 1939" by Huxley on the front page.
Published between 1918 and 1927 in 15 volumes all of which were first edition except From Swann's Way, which was the 1919 edition and In the Shadow of Young Girls in Bloom which was a third edition.
7. Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire - £3,519
First edition published in 1857 containing the telltale printing errors including page 45 being numbered as page 44, as well as "Feurs" in the headline on pages 31 and 108.
8. Bergomatis Lexicon by Ambrogio Calepino - £3,390
New edition of this remarkable dictionary of the Latin language that contains locutions of the most noteworthy authors, as well as information on the meaning of philosophical terms, as they pertained to the great thinkers of the time.
9. Voyages Pittoresques et Romantiques dans L'Ancienne France by C. Nodier & J. Taylor - £3,255
Two volumes published between 1820 and 1825 containing 235 full-page plates of an illustrated tour of Old France.
10.Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - £3,198
This was the first appearance of Dostoyevsky’s classic in English, published by Thomas Y. Crowell in 1886; first US edition.
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