A first edition of Jane Austen's Emma (1816) in original boards, with the early ownership inscription of Maria North, Lady Guilford, sold for £82,550 at Sotheby's on November 8.
The Chiswick Auctions sale of November 29 included an apparently unpublished manuscript account of a trip from Jamaica through North America and on to England in 1764, which sold for £30,000.
At Christie's Paris on November 22 James de Rothschild's copy of Thomas and William Daniell's Oriental Scenery sold for €604,800 (over estimates of €100,000–150,000).
A fourteenth-century manuscript on astronomical motion, possibly English in origin and once in the collections of Sir Thomas Phillipps, sold at Doyle on November 7 for $31,500.
Forty-seven letters and other pieces of correspondence from Georgia O'Keeffe to her travel agent Donald Ferguson realized $112,500 at Swann Galleries on October 26.
At Freeman's on September 27, a first edition of Agricola's De Animantibus Subterraneis Liber (1549) sold for $37,800, over estimates of just $1,500–2,500.
Happy New Year to all - much looking forward to much interesting auction sales in 2024!
