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| Lot | Title | Estimate | Hammer price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 527 |
THOMAS TOMPION His Life and Work
R.W. Symonds
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£30 - £50 | - | View |
| 528 |
OWEN JONES: THE SONG OF SONGS
Longman and Co, 1849, chromolithographed illuminated text, with blind embossed calf gothic boards bearing title (some spotting, tape repair to gutter)
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£80 - £120 | £220 | View |
| 529 |
BURKE'S HERALDIC ILLUSTRATIONS WITH EXPLANATORY PEDIGREES
3 vols, London, Edward Churton, 1844, bound in green leather (bindings a/f, some foxing)
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£50 - £100 | £30 | View |
| 530 |
NATURAL HISTORY OF BIRDS
Brightly & Childs, Bungay 1815, with hand coloured plates, volume 1 only
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£40 - £80 | £40 | View |
| 531 |
T .E. LAWRENCE, THE SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM
first public edition 1935, worn condition , with The Illustrated Family Burns, 100 engravings by Evans, William MaKenzie, Glasgow
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£100 - £200 | - | View |
| 532 |
EROTICA: DAVID RUSSELL, 'THE SECRET CARNIVAL'
a pop-up book, Hobart and Maclean, two signed copies, 233 and un-numbered, with Ballivet, 'Initiation Amoureuse', 'Les cousines de la Colonelle', Editions du Condor, 1933 (loose, lacking…
|
£40 - £60 | £80 | View |
| 533 |
EROTICA: DAVID RUSSELL, 'THE SECRET CARNIVAL'
a pop-up book, Hobart and Maclean, two signed copies, 232 and 238, with 'The secret art of Tom Poulton', and other items (7)
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£40 - £60 | £80 | View |
| 534 |
GEORGE MACDONALD FRASER: FOUR SIGNED 'FLASHMAN' FIRST EDITIONS
(one with dedication) ;'Flashman and the Angel of the Lord', 'Flashman and the Dragon'. 'Flashman and the Mountain of Light', and 'Flashman and the Redskins' all with dust jackets (4)
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£300 - £500 | £360 | View |
| 535 |
GEORGE BRANNON: VECTIS SCENERY: VIEWS... IN THE ISLE OF WIGHT
publ. I.O.W. 1830, and T. Nelson and Sons; The Isle of Wight, in a series of views printed in oil colours (2)
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£30 - £50 | £70 | View |
| 536 |
EROTICA: DAVID RUSSELL, 'THE SECRET CARNIVAL'
a pop-up book, Hobart and Maclean, two un-numbered but signed copies, with other erotica (8)
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£30 - £60 | £120 | View |
| 537 |
MATTHEW PRIOR: POEMS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS
London 1718, with engraved frontispiece and title (leather binding repaired), with 1740s-60s Gentlemans' Magazine, and Grand Magazine (some rebound) (5)
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£50 - £100 | £170 | View |
| 538 |
LOUIS WAIN: CAT'S CRADLE, A PICTURE BOOK FOR LITTLE FOLK
Blackie and Son, Ltd, with Robert Ellice Mack; 'Blind man's buff', Miss Corner and Alfd. Crowquill: 'Cinderella and the Glass Slipper', and C. Rossetti; 'Goblin Market', illus. D.C. Calthrop (4)
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£40 - £60 | £90 | View |
| 539 |
EROTICA: DAVID RUSSELL, 'THE SECRET CARNIVAL'
a pop-up book, Hobart and Maclean, two copies (one def.) 222 and 237, with Georges De Saintee Croix; 'Nous Deux', Erotic Print Soc. and other works (6)
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£40 - £60 | £100 | View |
| 540 |
FOLIO SOCIETY: VARIOUS, INCLUDING; MATURIN, CHARLES - ‘MELMOTH THE WANDERER’
1993, with slip case and a further collection of Folio Society books (some wear) (right-hand side of bookcase)
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£60 - £100 | £40 | View |
| 541 |
A SET OF FOUR 'SHOWN TO THE CHILDREN' BOOKS
with mixed other books; including 'Pride and Prejudice' with facsimile MS dedication by the illustrator Hugh Thomson, and two other titles illustrated by Thomson, a few Hardy volumes, etc
|
£50 - £100 | £1,800 | View |
| 542 |
THE FRANKLIN LIBRARY: VARIOUS VOLUMES
leather bound (some affected by damp) with 'Notes from the editors', and a further quantity of other books
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£50 - £100 | £80 | View |
| 543 |
A QUANTITY OF BOOKS OF RAILWAY INTEREST
and others, including Ian Wilson; 'Shipwrecks of the Ulster Coast'
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£30 - £40 | £20 | View |
| 544 |
CHARLES DANA GIBSON: 'OUR NEIGHBOURS'
John Lane, 1905, 'Sketches by Leech', and other books and ephemera
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£30 - £50 | - | View |
| 545 |
A COLLECTION OF DORSET BOOKS
including the Powys Review, Dorset Manor House, Royal Commission 3 vols Dorset, guide books etc
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£40 - £60 | £40 | View |
| 546 |
A QUANTITY OF BOOKS
mostly collector's books on French ceramics; Gien, Quimper, etc
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£30 - £40 | £30 | View |
| 547 |
ROBERT HICHENS: EGYPT AND ITS MONUMENTS
with pictures by Jules Guerin, Hodder and Stoughton, 1920, with 'Heath's Book of Beauty', John Ruskin 'Modern painters' (vol IV, part V only), and a further quantity of books
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£40 - £60 | £35 | View |
| 548 |
A LEATHER-BOUND SET OF THE WORKS OF TENNYSON
The People's Edition, Macmillan and Co, 1896, 23 (some wear) in a glazed oak case with Art Nouveau carrying handle
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£50 - £100 | £180 | View |
| 549 |
ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
modern illustrated editions; Salvador Dali, Ralph Steadman, Peter Blake etc, and other 'Alice' books (6)
|
£40 - £60 | £50 | View |
| 550 |
A SMALL COLLECTION OF BOOKS ON AFRICA
including William Seabrook; The White Monk of Timbuctoo (10)
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£30 - £50 | £15 | View |
| 551 |
FOLIO SOCIETY: VARIOUS, INCLUDING; DARWIN, CHARLES - ‘THE ESSENTIAL DARWIN’
four volume set, together with a further collection of Folio Society volumes (top shelf of bookcase)
|
£60 - £100 | £60 | View |
| 552 |
RICHARD WORSLEY: THE HISTORY OF THE ISLE OF WIGHT
A. Hamilton, London 1781 (lacking map, repaired), and other topographical books including Virtue's Picturesque Beauties of Great Britain (Kent), E. Baines, History of the County Palatine of Lancaster…
|
£50 - £100 | £25 | View |
| 553 |
GEORGE MACDONALD FRASER: A COLLECTION OF 'FLASHMAN' FIRST EDITIONS
with dust jackets (10)
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£50 - £100 | £220 | View |
| 554 |
CAPT. W.E. JOHNS: BIGGLES
various titles, many with dust jackets, Brockhampton Press, Dean and Son, etc (some worn)
|
£30 - £50 | £45 | View |
| 555 |
WINSTON CHURCHILL: 'THE SECOND WORLD WAR' BOOK SERIES
full six volumes and two vols 'The World Crisis 1911-1918' by Winston Churchill (8)
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£70 - £100 | £60 | View |
| 556 |
VARIOUS ROYCROFT EDITIONS
including 'The Roycroft Shop', a history written by Elbert Hubbard (10)
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£50 - £100 | £30 | View |
| 557 |
CHARLES STONHAM: THE BIRDS OF THE BRITISH ISLANDS
E. Grant Richards, London 1906, 5 vols, (sunned), with other natural history books, 19th century and later, including Bewick's Birds, 2 vols, Smith's Botany, 3rd ed. 1814, Daniel's Rural Sports, etc…
|
£80 - £150 | £110 | View |
| 558 |
'HINTS TOWARDS FORMING THE CHARACTER OF A YOUNG PRINCESS'
2 vols, London, 1805, and other books including G. Bernard Shaw; The apple cart, and 1920s pocket edition boxed set, Clater's Farrier, Reynolds's Locomotive engine driving, Dr Syntax tour, Handley…
|
£80 - £150 | £40 | View |
| 559 |
A COLLECTION OF MODERN FIRST EDITIONS
Carey, Boyd, Marques, Coetze, Raban etc, all with dust wrappers
|
£100 - £200 | - | View |
| 560 |
VARIOUS EDWARDIAN CHILDRENS' BOOKS
Fables of Aesop, illustrated by E.J. Detmold, The Water Babies, by Jessie Willcox Smith , and others
|
£40 - £60 | £40 | View |
| 561 |
A COLLECTION OF MODERN FIRST EDITIONS
Fowles, Golding, Ishiguru, Du Maurier, McEwen etc
|
£100 - £200 | - | View |
| 562 |
A COLLECTION OF FOLIO SOCIETY BOOKS
various titles and dates
|
£50 - £100 | £50 | View |
| 563 |
GRAHAM GREENE
A collection of 16 titles, some 1st editions
|
£100 - £200 | £120 | View |
| 564 |
A COLLECTION OF ARTIST MONOGRAPHS; CEZANNE, PISSARRO
Renoir, Dufy, etc (one shelf)
|
£40 - £60 | £30 | View |
| 565 |
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS
travel, biography, fiction etc
|
£30 - £50 | - | View |
| 566 |
FOLIO SOCIETY: PLAYS OF SHAKESPEARE
and a further quantity of mixed books
|
£50 - £100 | £60 | View |
| 567 |
A COLLECTION OF ART BOOKS
including monographs, folk art etc
|
£30 - £50 | £25 | View |
| 568 |
A COLLECTION OF FOREIGN TRAVEL BOOKS
Including Middle East, the Americas, deserts, Far East etc
|
£40 - £60 | £25 | View |
| 569 |
COLLECTION OF AUCTION CATALOGUES
modern prints and multiples
|
£30 - £60 | £15 | View |
| 570 |
A QUANTITY OF MIXED BOOKS
art, gardening, etc
|
£30 - £50 | - | View |
| 571 |
FRAMED MAP OF THE WEST PART OF FIFE
with details verso, with two unframed maps
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£30 - £50 | £10 | View |
| 572 |
ROBERT MORDEN: AN ANTIQUARIAN MAP; THE COUNTY PALATINE OF CHESTER
framed, 37 x 44cm
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£30 - £50 | - | View |
| 573 |
JOHN SPEED; 'WIGHT ISLAND' - ISLE OF WIGHT
C.1611 or later, possibly from 'The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine', sold by Thomas Bassett and Richard Chiswell, coloured, 38.5 x 51cm approx, in a double-sided glazed frame 59.5 x 72cm…
|
£150 - £250 | - | View |
| 574 |
WILLIAM HOLE AFTER CHRISTOPHER SAXTON: YORKSHIRE
North Riding and East Riding (2), with three 19th century topographical prints of Yorkshire, and an oil on board portrait of Hannah Hauxwell by Pam Grant (6)
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£100 - £200 | £60 | View |
