Written by Books can be a real enigma when it comes to selling at auction. Often times they don’t sell, and sometimes they surprise us and sell better than we could have possibly imagined. Folio Society books can usually be counted on as a definite seller, and you would think that first editions of collectors books would sell too, but it really can be hit and miss.
Yesterday’s auction was a prime example of this. We had 1st Editions of Ian Rankin’s The Flood, 1st Editions of some of Ian Flemming’s Bond books & some quite unusual books about Mineralogogy. (which one would think would be a very niche market, but they sure seemed to find that niche in this sale!) Here’s a look at the book best seller’s from the 20th July auction.
Lot 454 – Jameson (Robert) Mineralogical Travels through the Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland Islands and mainland Scotland…..Edinburgh: Archibald Constable & Co., 1813, two volumes bound together, rebound
Lot 456 – Imrie (Lieutenant-Colonel) A Description and section of the Grampian Mountains from the Plain of Kincardineshire to the Summit of Mount Battock, 1811, cloth
Lot 449 – MacCulloch (John), A description of the Western Islands of Scotland: A Constable, 1819, three volumes, rebound
Lot 455 – Jameson (Robert) Mineralogy of the Scottish Isles; with mineralogical observations made in a tour through different parts of the mainland of Scotland, and dissertations upon peat and kelp, two volumes, 1st edition, Edinburgh, 1800 rebound
Lot 448 – Buckland (Rev. William) Geology and Mineralogy, 2 vols., first edition, large folding hand coloured lithographed cross section, 86 plates, some double-pate and/or folding, 1836, rebound
Lot 453 – Jameson (Robert) System of Mineralogy, 1804, 1805 & 1808 in three volumes, rebound
Lot 450 – Holdsworth (Joseph) Geology, Minerals, Mines and Soils of Ireland, 1857, rebound