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Auction date Tuesday 5 August 2025 10:00 - 17:30 BST
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Tuesday 5th August starting at 10:00am

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Total lots: 762

THOMAS TOMPION His Life and Work
Lot 527 Unsold
THOMAS TOMPION His Life and Work
R.W. Symonds
Estimate: £30 - £50
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
OWEN JONES: THE SONG OF SONGS
Lot 528 Sold
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)
Hammer price: £220
Estimate: £80 - £120
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
BURKE'S HERALDIC ILLUSTRATIONS WITH EXPLANATORY PEDIGREES
Lot 529 Sold
BURKE'S HERALDIC ILLUSTRATIONS WITH EXPLANATORY PEDIGREES
3 vols, London, Edward Churton, 1844, bound in green leather (bindings a/f, some foxing)
Hammer price: £30
Estimate: £50 - £100
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
NATURAL HISTORY OF BIRDS
Lot 530 Sold
NATURAL HISTORY OF BIRDS
Brightly & Childs, Bungay 1815, with hand coloured plates, volume 1 only
Hammer price: £40
Estimate: £40 - £80
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
T .E. LAWRENCE, THE SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM
Lot 531 Unsold
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
Estimate: £100 - £200
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
EROTICA: DAVID RUSSELL, 'THE SECRET CARNIVAL'
Lot 532 Sold
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 illustrations), and other items (9)
Hammer price: £80
Estimate: £40 - £60
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
EROTICA: DAVID RUSSELL, 'THE SECRET CARNIVAL'
Lot 533 Sold
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)
Hammer price: £80
Estimate: £40 - £60
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
GEORGE MACDONALD FRASER: FOUR SIGNED 'FLASHMAN' FIRST EDITIONS
Lot 534 Sold
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)
Hammer price: £360
Estimate: £300 - £500
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
GEORGE BRANNON: VECTIS SCENERY: VIEWS... IN THE ISLE OF WIGHT
Lot 535 Sold
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)
Hammer price: £70
Estimate: £30 - £50
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
EROTICA: DAVID RUSSELL, 'THE SECRET CARNIVAL'
Lot 536 Sold
EROTICA: DAVID RUSSELL, 'THE SECRET CARNIVAL'
a pop-up book, Hobart and Maclean, two un-numbered but signed copies, with other erotica (8)
Hammer price: £120
Estimate: £30 - £60
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
MATTHEW PRIOR: POEMS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS
Lot 537 Sold
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)
Hammer price: £170
Estimate: £50 - £100
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
LOUIS WAIN: CAT'S CRADLE, A PICTURE BOOK FOR LITTLE FOLK
Lot 538 Sold
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)
Hammer price: £90
Estimate: £40 - £60
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
EROTICA: DAVID RUSSELL, 'THE SECRET CARNIVAL'
Lot 539 Sold
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)
Hammer price: £100
Estimate: £40 - £60
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
FOLIO SOCIETY: VARIOUS, INCLUDING; MATURIN, CHARLES - ‘MELMOTH THE WANDERER’
Lot 540 Sold
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)
Hammer price: £40
Estimate: £60 - £100
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
A SET OF FOUR 'SHOWN TO THE CHILDREN' BOOKS
Lot 541 Sold
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
Hammer price: £1,800
Estimate: £50 - £100
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
THE FRANKLIN LIBRARY: VARIOUS VOLUMES
Lot 542 Sold
THE FRANKLIN LIBRARY: VARIOUS VOLUMES
leather bound (some affected by damp) with 'Notes from the editors', and a further quantity of other books
Hammer price: £80
Estimate: £50 - £100
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
A QUANTITY OF BOOKS OF RAILWAY INTEREST
Lot 543 Sold
A QUANTITY OF BOOKS OF RAILWAY INTEREST
and others, including Ian Wilson; 'Shipwrecks of the Ulster Coast'
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £30 - £40
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
CHARLES DANA GIBSON: 'OUR NEIGHBOURS'
Lot 544 Unsold
CHARLES DANA GIBSON: 'OUR NEIGHBOURS'
John Lane, 1905, 'Sketches by Leech', and other books and ephemera
Estimate: £30 - £50
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
A COLLECTION OF DORSET BOOKS
Lot 545 Sold
A COLLECTION OF DORSET BOOKS
including the Powys Review, Dorset Manor House, Royal Commission 3 vols Dorset, guide books etc
Hammer price: £40
Estimate: £40 - £60
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
A QUANTITY OF BOOKS
Lot 546 Sold
A QUANTITY OF BOOKS
mostly collector's books on French ceramics; Gien, Quimper, etc
Hammer price: £30
Estimate: £30 - £40
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
ROBERT HICHENS: EGYPT AND ITS MONUMENTS
Lot 547 Sold
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
Hammer price: £35
Estimate: £40 - £60
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
A LEATHER-BOUND SET OF THE WORKS OF TENNYSON
Lot 548 Sold
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
Hammer price: £180
Estimate: £50 - £100
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
Lot 549 Sold
ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
modern illustrated editions; Salvador Dali, Ralph Steadman, Peter Blake etc, and other 'Alice' books (6)
Hammer price: £50
Estimate: £40 - £60
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
A SMALL COLLECTION OF BOOKS ON AFRICA
Lot 550 Sold
A SMALL COLLECTION OF BOOKS ON AFRICA
including William Seabrook; The White Monk of Timbuctoo (10)
Hammer price: £15
Estimate: £30 - £50
5 August 2025
5 August 2025

Total lots: 762

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