Books & Works on Paper, to include the Boxing Collection of Brian and Debbie Watkins

Books & Works on Paper, to include the Boxing Collection of Brian and Debbie Watkins

Date: 24th Aug, 2023 10:00
Location: 1 Roslin Square (Sale)
Catalogue: Download PDF catalogue
Lots: 347

Chiswick Auctions’ Books and Works on Paper sale, on August the 24th, will include the boxing collection of Brian and Debbie Watkins. A lifetime’s passion, it features several exceptionally rare titles previously unrecorded at auction or in public libraries.

Amongst the highlights are a first edition of Jewish boxer Daniel Mendoza’s memoirs, published in 1808 and estimated at £4,000 - 6,000. Although the text is thought to have been written around 1806, when Mendoza spent time in debtor’s prison, some libraries have even called the edition’s existence into question.

Another lot representative of the rarity of the collection is a catalogue of the property auction which followed bare-knuckle boxer Tom Sayers’ death in 1865. His funeral was attended by 10,000 people and descended into a riot, described by The Daily News as “disgraceful”. The copy, estimated at £1,000-1,500, is annotated with the prices achieved, including for Sayers’ loyal mastiff dog “Lion”. Sayers’ tomb, crowned with a statue of Lion, is a landmark of Highgate Cemetery.

Aside from boxing, the sale includes a rare purple variation uncorrected proof copy of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, at £3,000 - 4,000. The purple wrappers indicate an earlier state than the more common version in green and only fifty are thought to have been printed. Also offered is a first edition of pioneering Scottish photographer John Thomson’s Illustrations of China and Its People, 1873 (£3,000 - 4,000).

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Lot 1 - Antiquarian Literature. English and French.

Sold for £250

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Lot 2 - Antiquarian Miscellany.

Sold for £425

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Lot 3 - Architecture.- Cicognara (Leopold) et al.

Sold for £250

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Lot 4 - Architecture.- Durand (Jean Nicolas Louis)

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Lot 5 - Art History.- Baldinucci (Filippo)

Sold for £250

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Lot 7 - Illuminated Manuscript Fragment

Sold for £325

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Lot 8 - Law.- Sabellico (Marco Antonio)

Sold for £62

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Lot 9 - Literature & Language

Sold for £62

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Lot 13 - [Psalterium]

Sold for £250

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Lot 14 - Rome- Torriggio (Francesco Maria)

Sold for £125

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Lot 15 - Vico (Enea)

Sold for £212

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Lot 16 - Szyk. Haggadah

Sold for £100

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Lot 23 - Judaica – Refugee pamphlet

Sold for £688

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Lot 29 - The Ashkenazi Haggadah: & 2 others.

Sold for £112

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Lot 30 - Zionist Pamphlets. Nos. 1- 10.

Sold for £500

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Lot 33 - Sale, trans. Koran, 1795

Sold for £750

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Lot 35 - Document on Vellum, 1649

Sold for £188

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Lot 36 - Napoleon document

Sold for £688

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Lot 37 - Emmanuel, comte de Las Cases & Napoleon Bonaparte

Sold for £750

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Lot 38 - Heraldry.

Sold for £400

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Lot 39 - History.- Popper (Karl R.)

Sold for £688

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Lot 41 - Mahan (Captain A. T.)

Sold for £100

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Lot 48 - Naval Ensigns of the World

Sold for £875

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Lot 49 - [Speidel (Hans)] Soldatentum und Kultur.

Sold for £112

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Lot 51 - Costume.- Shoberl (Frederic [Ed.]

Sold for £2,375

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Lot 56 - Ukraine.- Mercator (Gerard)

Sold for £38

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Lot 60 - Cromek (Thomas Hartley) A view of Asia Minor

Sold for £50

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Lot 63 - Holy Land Souvenier Albums with photography.

Sold for £275

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Lot 66 - Middle East.

Estimated at £300 - £400

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Lot 67 - Palestine

Sold for £138

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Lot 71 - Travel & Exploration.

Sold for £350

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Lot 72 - Anglo-Indian School (mid-19th century)

Sold for £100

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Lot 74 - Hondius (Jodocus) China

Estimated at £800 - £1,200

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Lot 78 - Coello (Francisco) Isla de Cuba

Sold for £150

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Lot 79 - Map. Blaeu. Venezuela. [1635]

Sold for £100

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Lot 81 - § Georgiev (Boris) Albert Einstein 1929

Sold for £450

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Lot 86 - The British Computer Society

Sold for £350

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Lot 88 - Pratt. Flowering Plants, 1899

Sold for £325

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Lot 93 - Thornton (Robert John) Tulips

Estimated at £1,500 - £2,500

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Lot 95 - Binding: English & French

Estimated at £400 - £600

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Lot 96 - Bindings- Literature

Sold for £1,062

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