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Auction date Tuesday 4 November 2025 10:00 - 17:30 GMT

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Tuesday 4th November starting at 10:00am

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Lots per page:

Total lots: 708

Lot Title Estimate Hammer price
504 A COLLECTION OF AMERICAN EPHEMERA
'Beauty Spot' Decals, 1950s 'DIG' magazine, 'American Boy', 'Interview', autograph of Johnny Mercer and Henry Mancini, etc,
£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
£30 - £50 - View
506 THOMAS HARDY: A QUANTITY OF PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINTS
a Vanity Fair print, posters, etc,
£30 - £50 £35 View
507 A QUANTITY OF OLD PHOTOGRAPHS
negatives, and ephemera
£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)
£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)
£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
£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)
£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)
£80 - £120 - View
514 CHARLES DICKENS, THOMAS HARDY
Bronte sisters, Jane Austen etc, various editions including Memorial editions
£30 - £50 £45 View
515 A COLLECTION OF FOXHUNTING BOOKS
ephemera, videos and other items
£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)
£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)
£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…
£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)
£100 - £200 £100 View
526 NEW MAP OF BUCKINGHAM DIVIVED INTO HUNDREDS
C Smith, Strand, 1808 revised edition, with framed history of Buckinghamshire
£30 - £50 - View
527 A QUANTITY OF ORDNANCE SURVEY FOLDING MAPS
Bartholomew's maps, and other items
£30 - £50 - View

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