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| Lot | Title | Estimate | Hammer price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 623 |
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS
various subjects, trees, gardens, nature, collecting, literature, topography etc
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£30 - £40 | £20 | View |
| 624 |
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS
various subjects, gardens, nature, travel, topography, fiction
|
£30 - £50 | £40 | View |
| 625 |
A QUANTITY OF VINTAGE GARDENING BOOKS
including Mrs C. W. Earle's 'Pot-pourri' series, and a further large quantity of mixed books (contents of AND INCLUDING six low open bookcases)
|
£50 - £100 | £130 | View |
| 626 |
A QUANTITY OF OF BIOGRAPHICAL BOOKS
and others
|
£30 - £40 | - | View |
| 627 |
GOETHE: GOETHES SAMTLICHE WERKE
(in German) 10 vols, Max Hesses Verlag, Leipzig, circa 1900, decorative cloth bound
|
£30 - £50 | - | View |
| 628 |
0SCAR WILDE: THE HAPPY PRINCE, AND OTHER TALES
illustrated by Charles Robinson, Duckworth, 1935; Christie T. Young, Tghe Black Princess, illus. Florence Mary Anderson, The Sheldon Press 1929; J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan & Wendy, illus. Mabel Lucie…
|
£40 - £80 | £80 | View |
| 629 |
A QUANTITY OF UFO AND SCIENCE FICTION BOOKS
much paperback fiction
|
£50 - £80 | £190 | View |
| 630 | A QUANTITY OF MILITARY BOOKS | £30 - £50 | £15 | View |
| 631 |
A QUANTITY OF LEATHER BOUND BOOKS, INCLUDING 'ALL THE YEAR ROUND'
Conder's Modern Traveller, Gloag and Wyatt; 'A book of English gardens', Scott's works, and others
|
£50 - £80 | £220 | View |
| 632 |
A QUANTITY OF BOOKS
including Penguin editions (9 compartments of bookcase)
|
£50 - £80 | - | View |
| 633 |
A QUANTITY OF BIOGRAPHICAL BOOKS
Mitford, West, Waugh, Coward, and other mostly early-mid 20th century figures (three shelves)
|
£40 - £60 | - | View |
| 634 |
A COLLECTION OF NATURAL HISTORY BOOKS
horticultural art and history, etc, many in larger format (one shelf)
|
£40 - £60 | £60 | View |
| 635 |
JEAN COCTEAU; A COLLECTION OF BOOKS
by and relating to him (one shelf)
|
£50 - £80 | £50 | View |
| 636 |
A QUANTITY OF DORSET BOOKS
and ephemera, guides, booklets, etc
|
£40 - £60 | £70 | View |
| 637 |
A QUANTITY OF MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS
history, novels, etc (four shelves)
|
£30 - £50 | £20 | View |
| 638 |
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS ON ENGLISH TOPOGRAPHY
and architecture, etc, including Walter Jerrold; 'The silvery Thames' (two shelves)
|
£30 - £50 | £25 | View |
| 639 |
AUGUSTUS JOHN: VARIOUS BOOKS, CATALOGUES
and ephemera (one box)
|
£50 - £80 | £25 | View |
| 640 |
W.E. LYON (ed.) : 'IN MY OPINION'
'Being a book of dissertations on horses and horsemanship', Constable & Company 1928, and other hunting/fishing books
|
£30 - £50 | - | View |
| 641 |
A QUANTITY OF ART BOOKS
and catalogues
|
£30 - £50 | £45 | View |
| 642 | A LARGE QUANTITY OF EARLY ENGLISH TEXT SOCIETY PUBLICATIONS | £100 - £200 | £160 | View |
| 643 |
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS ON RENAISSANCE ART
and others, many Phaidon Press series
|
£30 - £50 | £15 | View |
| 644 |
A COLLECTION OF AVIATION BOOKS
history, militaria, RAF, aircraft histories etc
|
£30 - £50 | £25 | View |
| 645 |
A COLLECTION OF AVIATION BOOKS
military, RAF, aircraft histories etc
|
£30 - £50 | £25 | View |
| 646 |
A QUANTITY OF MIXED BOOKS
including Marie Corelli; 'The sorrows of Satan', etc
|
£30 - £50 | £40 | View |
| 647 |
KATRINA COOK: BIRDS
Foreword by Jonathan Elphick, Quercus, 2007, with dust cover
|
£50 - £100 | - | View |
| 648 |
A COLLECTION OF AVIATION BOOKS
military, RAF, aircraft histories etc
|
£30 - £50 | £20 | View |
| 649 |
A COLLECTION OF FISHING BOOKS
including Falkus, Hugh: 'Salmon Fishing', Morgan, Paul and Friends: 'Salt Water Fly Fishing'; Bucknall, Geoffrey: 'To Meet the First March Brown', Seangler: 'Flatfish (How to Catch Them)'; Fethney, J…
|
£30 - £50 | - | View |
| 650 |
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS ON TRAINS
Including the 'Track atlas of mainland Britain', with a small collection of railway DVDs
|
£30 - £50 | £15 | View |
| 651 |
A LARGE VINTAGE FRENCH MAP OF THE SOVIET UNION
by Librarie Hatier, Rue d'Assas, Paris, in a modern frame with perspex glazing, 126 x 201cm (previously hung unframed, some damage and folds with tape)
|
£300 - £400 | £200 | View |
| 652 |
A QUANTITY OF VARIOUS MAPS
including an 18th century plan of Hotel Royal de l'Ecole Militaire, Paris, maps by John Cary, etc
|
£30 - £50 | £30 | View |
| 653 |
INDISTINCTLY SIGNED, 20th CENTURY
'The Somnambulist', oil on card/paper, framed and glazed, 88 x 68cm
|
£100 - £200 | - | View |
| 654 |
A MID 19th CENTURY PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN
oil on board, in gilt frame, 60 x 55.5cm (cracqulure, losses to frame)
|
£40 - £60 | £30 | View |
| 655 |
A PAIR OF MID 19th CENTURY FULL-LENGTH SILHOUETTE PORTRAITS
in bird's-eye maple frames (one missing gilt slip), 34.5 x 30.5cm, and another portrait of a lady, similarly framed, 27.5 x 23.5cm (3)
|
£50 - £100 | £150 | View |
| 656 |
CHAS. G LEWIS AFTER HENRY CALVERT; THE CHESHIRE HUNT
etching, 19th century, in a modern frame 79 x 106cm, and a panoramic view of Liverpool in the 19th century (2)
|
£50 - £100 | £30 | View |
| 657 |
KENNETH McDONAGH, BARON VON RICHTHOFEN
signed print, with Kenneth McDonagh, Camel Flight, signed print, David Shepherd, Re-Supply at Sarfait, J F Mitchell, Eastchurch Pioneers, signed print, Red Arrows photograph
|
£30 - £50 | - | View |
| 658 |
KENNETH YOUONS, AMONGST THE CLOUDS
oil on canvas, 110cm wide
|
£40 - £60 | £50 | View |
| 659 |
DES ARMOUR, THE SAXON CHURCH, WAREHAM
oil on canvas, 1969, with Des Armour, West Bay, oil on canvas 1988
|
£40 - £60 | £80 | View |
| 660 |
STEPHEN HILL, BAR DES BASSINS
coloured pencil drawing, 1984, 73cm wide
|
£30 - £50 | £30 | View |
| 661 |
BRYAN PICKARD: 'BEACH DREAMING', WATERCOLOUR
dated 2004, framed, 33.5 x 44cm
|
£40 - £60 | - | View |
| 662 |
JULIAN HALSBY RBA: 'OCTOBER SUNSET, VENICE
(From the Hotel Gabrielli), oil on board, framed, 38 x 48.5cm, and an oil on board country scene with gate, monogrammed 'JN' (2)
|
£30 - £50 | £60 | View |
| 663 |
G (or S) SNOW: 'PAPER FLOWERS'
oil on board, framed and glazed 42.5 x 32cm
|
£40 - £60 | - | View |
| 664 |
J. LANGLEY: 'CIRCUS', ETCHING
a/p, 1990, and Mark Beaven, etching a/p, 1982 (2)
|
£40 - £60 | £35 | View |
| 665 |
JOKA VAN WIJK: 'HIDDEN MESSAGES'
2021, stoneware ceramic tiles, in a glazed box frame, 42 x 42cm
|
£40 - £60 | £50 | View |
| 666 |
ERNEST FEDARB 1905 - 2005: 'LANDSCAPE NEAR LE BARROUX'
watercolour, and 'Olives in Vaucluse', watercolour, each 28.5 x 3.5cm framed (both with Mall Galleries labels, 1983) (2)
|
£40 - £80 | £40 | View |
| 667 |
MICHAEL TURNER, FINAL ENCOUNTER
signed print, with Jeff Pritchard,, Spitfire Escort, signed print, J W Mitchell, Safe Escort, signed print, Coulson, Spitfire. Coulson, Into Battle
|
£30 - £50 | £30 | View |
| 668 | A 1960s OIL PAINTING, GERMAN TOWNSCAPE | £50 - £80 | - | View |
| 669 |
'ABBAS': (AFRICAN) ZEBRA AND FOAL
with exotic birds above, oil on canvas, the stretcher 61 x 61cm (screwed to back of ill-fitting frame)
|
£40 - £60 | £35 | View |
| 670 |
BOB TUCKER: LANDSCAPE WITH SHEEP GRAZING
oil in canvas, in gilt frame, 50 x 60cm, and a framed and signed Arthur Read print (2)
|
£30 - £40 | £25 | View |
