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

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Lots per page:

Total lots: 762

Lot Title Estimate Hammer price
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)
£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)
£70 - £100 £60 View
556 VARIOUS ROYCROFT EDITIONS
including 'The Roycroft Shop', a history written by Elbert Hubbard (10)
£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
£30 - £50 £10 View
572 ROBERT MORDEN: AN ANTIQUARIAN MAP; THE COUNTY PALATINE OF CHESTER
framed, 37 x 44cm
£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)
£100 - £200 £60 View

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