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Auction date Tuesday 2 December 2025 10:00 - 17:30 GMT

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Lots per page:

Total lots: 782

Lot 623 Sold
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS
various subjects, trees, gardens, nature, collecting, literature, topography etc
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £30 - £40
2 December 2025
2 December 2025
Lot 624 Sold
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS
various subjects, gardens, nature, travel, topography, fiction
Hammer price: £40
Estimate: £30 - £50
2 December 2025
2 December 2025
Lot 625 Sold
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)
Hammer price: £130
Estimate: £50 - £100
2 December 2025
2 December 2025
Lot 626 Unsold
A QUANTITY OF OF BIOGRAPHICAL BOOKS
and others
Estimate: £30 - £40
2 December 2025
2 December 2025
Lot 627 Unsold
GOETHE: GOETHES SAMTLICHE WERKE
(in German) 10 vols, Max Hesses Verlag, Leipzig, circa 1900, decorative cloth bound
Estimate: £30 - £50
2 December 2025
2 December 2025
Lot 628 Sold
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 Attwell, Hodder and Stoughton; Mother Goose, illus. Jessie Willcox Smith, Hodder and Stoughton 1938; Charles Kingsley, The Water Babies, illus. Warwick Goble (some with dust jackets or remains of jackets) and eight issues of 'Fragments from France' and '...from all the fronts' (13)
Hammer price: £80
Estimate: £40 - £80
2 December 2025
2 December 2025
Lot 629 Sold
A QUANTITY OF UFO AND SCIENCE FICTION BOOKS
much paperback fiction
Hammer price: £190
Estimate: £50 - £80
2 December 2025
2 December 2025
Lot 630 Sold
A QUANTITY OF MILITARY BOOKS
Hammer price: £15
Estimate: £30 - £50
2 December 2025
2 December 2025
Lot 631 Sold
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
Hammer price: £220
Estimate: £50 - £80
2 December 2025
2 December 2025
Lot 632 Unsold
A QUANTITY OF BOOKS
including Penguin editions (9 compartments of bookcase)
Estimate: £50 - £80
2 December 2025
2 December 2025
Lot 633 Unsold
A QUANTITY OF BIOGRAPHICAL BOOKS
Mitford, West, Waugh, Coward, and other mostly early-mid 20th century figures (three shelves)
Estimate: £40 - £60
2 December 2025
2 December 2025
Lot 634 Sold
A COLLECTION OF NATURAL HISTORY BOOKS
horticultural art and history, etc, many in larger format (one shelf)
Hammer price: £60
Estimate: £40 - £60
2 December 2025
2 December 2025
Lot 635 Sold
JEAN COCTEAU; A COLLECTION OF BOOKS
by and relating to him (one shelf)
Hammer price: £50
Estimate: £50 - £80
2 December 2025
2 December 2025
Lot 636 Sold
A QUANTITY OF DORSET BOOKS
and ephemera, guides, booklets, etc
Hammer price: £70
Estimate: £40 - £60
2 December 2025
2 December 2025
Lot 637 Sold
A QUANTITY OF MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS
history, novels, etc (four shelves)
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £30 - £50
2 December 2025
2 December 2025
Lot 638 Sold
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS ON ENGLISH TOPOGRAPHY
and architecture, etc, including Walter Jerrold; 'The silvery Thames' (two shelves)
Hammer price: £25
Estimate: £30 - £50
2 December 2025
2 December 2025
Lot 639 Sold
AUGUSTUS JOHN: VARIOUS BOOKS, CATALOGUES
and ephemera (one box)
Hammer price: £25
Estimate: £50 - £80
2 December 2025
2 December 2025
Lot 640 Unsold
W.E. LYON (ed.) : 'IN MY OPINION'
'Being a book of dissertations on horses and horsemanship', Constable & Company 1928, and other hunting/fishing books
Estimate: £30 - £50
2 December 2025
2 December 2025
Lot 641 Sold
A QUANTITY OF ART BOOKS
and catalogues
Hammer price: £45
Estimate: £30 - £50
2 December 2025
2 December 2025
Lot 642 Sold
A LARGE QUANTITY OF EARLY ENGLISH TEXT SOCIETY PUBLICATIONS
Hammer price: £160
Estimate: £100 - £200
2 December 2025
2 December 2025
Lot 643 Sold
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS ON RENAISSANCE ART
and others, many Phaidon Press series
Hammer price: £15
Estimate: £30 - £50
2 December 2025
2 December 2025
Lot 644 Sold
A COLLECTION OF AVIATION BOOKS
history, militaria, RAF, aircraft histories etc
Hammer price: £25
Estimate: £30 - £50
2 December 2025
2 December 2025
Lot 645 Sold
A COLLECTION OF AVIATION BOOKS
military, RAF, aircraft histories etc
Hammer price: £25
Estimate: £30 - £50
2 December 2025
2 December 2025
Lot 646 Sold
A QUANTITY OF MIXED BOOKS
including Marie Corelli; 'The sorrows of Satan', etc
Hammer price: £40
Estimate: £30 - £50
2 December 2025
2 December 2025

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