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Auction date Tuesday 2 September 2025 10:00 - 17:30 BST

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Lots per page:

Total lots: 684

Lot Title Estimate Hammer price
503 A COLLECTION OF DORSET BOOKS
including John Symonds Udal; 'Dorsetshire folk-lore', with a fore-say by William Barnes, Hertford, 1922, R.C.H.M. Inventory of historical monuments (3), and others (23 items)
£40 - £60 £30 View
504 GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE and HISTORICAL CHRONICLE
1749 and later, 6 vols (mostly re-bound), and J. Bartlett; 'The Gentleman's Farriery', London 1770 (7)
£40 - £60 £170 View
505 WILSON S. ARMISTEAD: 'TROUT WATERS'
Management and angling, A and C. Black Ltd, London 1920, with F.E. Hulme; Familiar wild flowers, 2 vols, and other books, some in leather / half calf bindings
£30 - £50 £30 View
506 THE ASHLEY LIBRARY, A CATALOGUE
of printed books, manuscripts and autographed letters, Thomas James Wise, 200 copies for private circulation, London 1930 (7 vols only of 11, ex- Manchester Public Free Library)
£50 - £100 - View
507 BAILEY'S MAGAZINE OF SPORTS & PASTIMES
a 20 vol run 1899 - 1908, with a single 1895 vol, and another 1902 (22)
£40 - £60 £20 View
508 A COLLECTION OF KING PENGUIN BOOKS
47 including duplicates, some with dust jackets (some scruffy)
£40 - £60 £150 View
509 A COLLECTION OF BOOKS OF LONDON INTEREST
19th-20th century (two shelves)
£30 - £50 £35 View
510 A QUANTITY OF BOOKS ON CERAMICS
various world ceramics; monographs, Northern Ceramic Society Journals, etc
£40 - £60 £60 View
511 A QUANTITY OF DORSET BOOKS
and ephemera
£30 - £60 £35 View
512 A GROUP OF OVERSIZE BOOKS
various subjects, mostly comic and illustration related
£30 - £50 £50 View
513 A COLLECTION OF ART HISTORY BOOKS
monographs, etc, some foreign language
£40 - £60 £25 View
514 PAUL ATTERBURY: MOORCROFT, REVISED EDITION
Dennis and Edwards, 1993, with Frazer Street; William Moorcroft, The Phoenix Years, Neil Swindells; William Moorcroft, Behind The Glaze, and a quantity of Moorcroft Collectors Club newsletters and…
£30 - £50 £20 View
515 A QUANTITY OF BOOKS ON LONDON
including a guide to 10 Downing St signed by Tony Blair, and other topography books
£30 - £50 £20 View
516 RICKE/GRONERT: 'GLAS IN SCHWEDEN 1915-1960'
Prestel-Verlag, 1987, with G. Ecke; 'Chinese Domestic furniture', Tuttle, 1962, and other books on Asian and European art/antiques, including Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society (one shelf)
£30 - £50 £20 View
517 A COLLECTION OF INTERESTING MIXED BOOKS
including Ladybird books, Puffin Picture Books, Beatrix Potter, some old leather-bound books, etc (many in poor condition) (4 shelves)
£30 - £50 £30 View
518 A LARGE COLLECTION OF RUPERT ANNUALS
1950s onwards, various sizes, varied condition, including later reprints and combined editions, with other Rupert books , magazines, calendars
£80 - £100 £80 View
519 THE NEW NATURALIST: WILD FLOWERS OF CHALK AND LIMESTONE
by J.E. Lousley 2nd ed. 1969 (ex library copy), and other mixed books on art, gardening, etc
£30 - £40 - View
520 A SET OF DICKENS WORKS
with other novels, and a set of encyclopedias, contained in an oak open bookcase
£30 - £50 £35 View
521 JOHN SPEED; 'WIGHT ISLAND' - ISLE OF WIGHT
C.1611 or later, possibly from 'The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine', sold by Thomas Bassett and Richard Chiswell, coloured, 38.5 x 51cm approx, in a double-sided glazed frame 59.5 x 72cm…
£80 - £150 - View
522 A COLLECTION OF ADMIRALTY CHARTS
mostly southern British coastal waters, 1930s -1950s
£30 - £50 £45 View
523 MAP OF PARIS, PRINTED ON CLOTH
after the original 1837 map by L. Mathias, on battens 108cm wide
£30 - £50 £65 View
524 A PAIR OF 19th CENTURY COASTAL SCENES
watercolour, in oval mounts and rectangular moulded and gilt frames, 33 x 40cm (2)
£30 - £50 £40 View
525 A QUANTITY OF PRINTS
and other framed items
£130 - £50 - View
526 DAVID SHEPHERD: 'MISTY MORN', SIGNED PRINT
Ref ZS 2510, framed, 84 x 74cm
£40 - £60 - View

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