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Auction date Tuesday 5 August 2025 10:00 - 17:30 BST

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Total lots: 762

Lot Title Estimate Hammer price
527 THOMAS TOMPION His Life and Work
R.W. Symonds
£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)
£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)
£50 - £100 £30 View
530 NATURAL HISTORY OF BIRDS
Brightly & Childs, Bungay 1815, with hand coloured plates, volume 1 only
£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
£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)
£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)
£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)
£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)
£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)
£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)
£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)
£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)
£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
£50 - £100 £80 View
543 A QUANTITY OF BOOKS OF RAILWAY INTEREST
and others, including Ian Wilson; 'Shipwrecks of the Ulster Coast'
£30 - £40 £20 View
544 CHARLES DANA GIBSON: 'OUR NEIGHBOURS'
John Lane, 1905, 'Sketches by Leech', and other books and ephemera
£30 - £50 - View
545 A COLLECTION OF DORSET BOOKS
including the Powys Review, Dorset Manor House, Royal Commission 3 vols Dorset, guide books etc
£40 - £60 £40 View
546 A QUANTITY OF BOOKS
mostly collector's books on French ceramics; Gien, Quimper, etc
£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
£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
£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)
£30 - £50 £15 View

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