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

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Tuesday 2 December starting at 10:00am

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Lots per page:

Total lots: 782

Lot Title Estimate Hammer price
623 A COLLECTION OF BOOKS
various subjects, trees, gardens, nature, collecting, literature, topography etc
£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

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