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Auction:
Tuesday 4th November starting at 10:00am
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| Lot | Title | Estimate | Hammer price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 480 |
THREE 19th CENTURY FRENCH BAYONETS
one cruciform, in scabbard (3)
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£40 - £60 | - | View |
| 481 |
AN 1869 FRENCH BAYONET
with brass grip, in scabbard
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£30 - £50 | £35 | View |
| 482 |
A COLLECTION OF EPAULETTES AND RANK BADGES FOR THE MERCHANT NAVY, ARMY AND POLICE
the British army section including a pair of full dress gold wire epaulettes possibly for a Field Marshall with velvet crown and laurel leaves; a selection of American items including bullion knot…
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£50 - £100 | - | View |
| 483 |
A QUANTITY OF MILITARY WEBBING
and kit, post-war
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£30 - £50 | £30 | View |
| 484 |
A COLLECTION OF 'DELHI SPEARMAN' MAGAZINES
'The Regimental Journal of the 9th/12th Royal Lancers'
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£50 - £100 | £30 | View |
| 485 | A COLLECTION OF MILITARY UNIFORM | £30 - £50 | £60 | View |
| 486 |
A 19th CENTURY HERBARIUM
circa 1870s - 80s, of pressed specimens mounted on card and annotated by hand (some foxing)
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£100 - £200 | £140 | View |
| 487 |
A GROUP OF LONDON TRAM TICKETS
including a 'Last Tram Week July 1952' ticket, and others, with two Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch platform tickets
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£30 - £50 | - | View |
| 488 |
H.C. ('HARRY') BECK: LONDON UNDERGROUND MAP
early pocket edition of the famous diagrammatic underground/tube map, numbered (750M -1-33), printed by Waterlow & Sons Limited, London, Dunstable and Watford, the map with two folds, with …
|
£400 - £800 | - | View |
| 489 |
AN EDWARDIAN ALBUM OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF INDIGENOUS AMERICAN 'INDIANS'
taken against painted backdrops, and annotated, probably William 'Buffalo Bill' Cody's 'Wild West Show', at Olympia, including; 'A group at Olympia, Feb 1903', 'Philip, the biggest Indian at Olympia'…
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£100 - £200 | £320 | View |
| 490 |
A 19th CENTURY SKETCHBOOK
with many sketches after old masters, leather bound 10.5 x 18cm
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£30 - £50 | £30 | View |
| 491 |
A COLLECTION OF RAILWAY EPHEMERA;
waybills, instructions, reports, rules and regulations, etc, for various companies, 19th century and later, mostly contained in two ring binders
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£40 - £80 | £25 | View |
| 492 |
THE BEATLES: OFFICIAL FAN CLUB PHOTO CARD
bearing probably printed signatures (creased, tear), with newspapers from the time of John Lennon's death, and two Beatles books; 'The Beatles Anthology' and 'Imagine John Yoko'
|
£60 - £100 | - | View |
| 493 |
STAR WARS WEEKLY, INCLUDING No. 1, Feb 8, 1978
(Marvel Comics Group) a collection contained in plastic sleeves, in three binders
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£60 - £100 | £90 | View |
| 494 |
A GOOD COLLECTION OF 1930'S BOXING PHOTOS
Photos of different boxers and fights, many annotated/named to the back, with photographer's studio stamps
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£100 - £200 | £360 | View |
| 495 |
A QUANTITY OF EPHEMERA
WWII and later
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£30 - £50 | - | View |
| 496 |
AN INDENTURE, DATED 1675
(framed)
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£40 - £60 | - | View |
| 497 |
A COLLECTION OF RAILWAY EPHEMERA;
including a London Transport 1976 'Visitor's London' map, an unused L and S.W.R number taker's book with marbled covers, and other items
|
£30 - £50 | £20 | View |
| 498 |
A QUANTITY OF PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS
1920s/30s, with other ephemera, football programmes, books etc
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£30 - £50 | £25 | View |
| 499 |
'LITHOGRAPHIC SKETCH OF THE NORTH BANK OF THE THAMES'
'from Westminster Bridge to London Bridge shewing the Proposed Quay...' Published by Hurst and Robinson, London 1825, and other ephemera, including 'Victoria Park Building Estate, Dorchester' details…
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£30 - £50 | £90 | View |
| 500 |
A QUANTITY OF EPHEMERA WITH CONNECTIONS TO STANLEY BALDWIN, PRIME MINISTER
including an invitation to a Mad Hatter's party at Astley Hall; 'R.S.V.P. Mrs Stanley Baldwin', and other items including, a 1918 letter from Princess Victoria regarding the Red Cross Pearl Necklace…
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£30 - £50 | £320 | View |
| 501 |
A COLLECTION OF CIGARETTE CARDS
mostly Player's, many series in modern and original albums, loose, contained in various boxes and an old Blue Bird toffee tin
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£50 - £100 | £30 | View |
| 502 |
LONDON GENERAL; THE STORY OF THE LONDON BUS 1856-1956
and other London books, guides and maps
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£30 - £40 | - | View |
| 503 |
A QUANTITY OF OLD PHOTOGRAPHS
some of colonial groups, and other ephemera
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£30 - £50 | £20 | View |
| 504 |
A COLLECTION OF AMERICAN EPHEMERA
'Beauty Spot' Decals, 1950s 'DIG' magazine, 'American Boy', 'Interview', autograph of Johnny Mercer and Henry Mancini, etc,
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£30 - £60 | £45 | View |
| 505 |
EDDIE STOBART: A COLLECTION OF 'SPOT ON' MAGAZINE
Stobart fan club spotter's guides, calendars, and other Eddie Stobart items
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£30 - £50 | - | View |
| 506 |
THOMAS HARDY: A QUANTITY OF PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINTS
a Vanity Fair print, posters, etc,
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£30 - £50 | £35 | View |
| 507 |
A QUANTITY OF OLD PHOTOGRAPHS
negatives, and ephemera
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£30 - £50 | £20 | View |
| 508 |
'A GRAMMAR OF THE ARABIC LANGUAGE'
with book plate for Monier Williams, D.C.L., Boden Professor of Sanskrit, Oxford (a/f; incomplete, lacking title page etc)
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£30 - £50 | - | View |
| 509 |
COUNT LEO TOLSTOY: 'PATRIOTISM AND CHRISTIANITY'
with a note to English readers by John C. Kenworthy, London, Walter Scott Ltd, 1896, cloth bound
|
£300 - £500 | £300 | View |
| 510 |
EDWARDS, LIONEL: MY HUNTING SKETCH BOOK
together with 'Scene from the Saddle'; 'Sketches in Stable and Kennel'; and 'Thy Servant the Horse' (4)
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£30 - £50 | £25 | View |
| 511 |
LEIGHTON, JOHN (ILLUS) - ‘THE LIFE OF MAN’
first edition, published by Longmans et al, London 1866, green tooled cloth bound
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£50 - £100 | £40 | View |
| 512 |
THE WORKS OF SHAKESPEARE, ILLUS. BY JOHN GILBERT
engraved by The Brothers Dalziel, Edited by Howard Staunton, 3 Vols, George Routledge and Sons, London 1865 (binding scruffy, some loose leaves)
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£50 - £80 | £40 | View |
| 513 |
GUSTAVE DORE: (ILLUSTRATED) DON QUIXOTE
Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, London, Half calf bound with marbled boards (some foxing notably to title and fly leaves, 1876 owner inscription)
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£80 - £120 | - | View |
| 514 |
CHARLES DICKENS, THOMAS HARDY
Bronte sisters, Jane Austen etc, various editions including Memorial editions
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£30 - £50 | £45 | View |
| 515 |
A COLLECTION OF FOXHUNTING BOOKS
ephemera, videos and other items
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£30 - £50 | - | View |
| 516 |
A COLLECTION OF AUCTION CATALOGUES
including Christie's and Sotheby's, covering sales in Toys, Dolls and musical instruments (a lot)
|
£30 - £50 | £20 | View |
| 517 |
A QUANTITY OF MIXED BOOKS
including 'The Peace Egg' and 'Jackanapes' by Juliana Horatia Ewing, and others (mostly in poor condition)
|
£30 - £50 | - | View |
| 518 |
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…
|
£50 - £100 | - | View |
| 519 |
THOMAS HARDY: POCKET EDITION, 27 VOLUMES
plus 'Thomas Hardy's Wessex', all in gilt leather bindings (some variation in colour) (28)
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£200 - £300 | £200 | View |
| 520 |
A QUANTITY OF MIXED BOOKS
R.C.H.M. 'CAMBRIDGE', 1959 (boxed), Ruskin; The stones of Venice (Folio Society), and others on archaeology, architecture, etc (2 shelves)
|
£80 - £120 | £40 | View |
| 521 |
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS; DORSET AND DORSET WRITERS
including Thomas Hardy; 'Life and Art', Greenberg, new York 1925, and others (one shelf)
|
£80 - £120 | £30 | View |
| 522 |
A LARGE COLLECTION OF BOOKS ON ART
collecting, and other subjects (contents of bookcase)
|
£60 - £80 | £160 | View |
| 523 |
A LARGE COLLECTION OF 'THE LONDON MERCURY' MAGAZINE
edited by J.C. Squire, 1920s-30s (varying condition)
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£50 - £100 | £70 | View |
| 524 |
THOMAS HARDY: THE WESSEX EDITION, 1912 TO 1931
24 volumes, all first editions, with the first 20 numbered base of spine I - XX; final three scarce poetry volumes added subsequently, Human Shows and Winter Words a library copy; first 21 volumes…
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£200 - £300 | £450 | View |
| 525 |
'HISTORICAL MAP OF WALES AND MONMOUTH'
published by John Bartholomew and Son Ltd, 1966, framed, 105 x 73cm (some nicotine deposit)
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£100 - £200 | £100 | View |
| 526 |
NEW MAP OF BUCKINGHAM DIVIVED INTO HUNDREDS
C Smith, Strand, 1808 revised edition, with framed history of Buckinghamshire
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£30 - £50 | - | View |
| 527 |
A QUANTITY OF ORDNANCE SURVEY FOLDING MAPS
Bartholomew's maps, and other items
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£30 - £50 | - | View |
