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Auction date Tuesday 5 November 2024

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Tuesday 5th November starting at 10:00am

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Lots per page:

Total lots: 749

Lot Title Estimate Hammer price
529 CHARLES WARNE: 'ANCIENT DORSET'
illustrated with plates and woodcuts, Bournemouth 1872, with 'The Celtic tumuli of Dorset' by the same author, London 1866; and Heath and Prideaux, 'Some Dorset Manor houses', London 1907 (3) (a/f)
£30 - £50 £40 View
530 C.J.S. THOMPSON; 'THE QUACKS OF OLD LONDON'
J.B. Lippincott Co, Philadelphia 1929; with three other books of medical history interest, and Jennings' Family cookery and receipt book (5)
£30 - £50 £25 View
531 JOHN R. WISE; THE NEW FOREST, ITS HISTORY AND ITS SCENERY
Artist's edition, with India laid illustrations, Henry Sotheran and Co, London 1883, no. 76 of 350 (boards scruffy, endpapers stained)
£40 - £60 £80 View
532 JOHN SPEED; 'THE HISTORIE OF GREAT BRITAINE
UNDER THE CONQUESTS OF THE ROMANS, SAXONS, DANES AND NORMANS...' second edition, printed by John Beale for George Humble, London 1623; no maps but with illustrations and ornaments throughout (poor…
£40 - £80 £160 View
533 THREE VOLUMES OF' PUNCH' 78 , 79 AND 87
1880/1884 (bindings poor)
£30 - £50 - View
534 A QUANTITY OF ANTIQUARIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE £30 - £50 £40 View
535 A COLLECTION OF BOOKS AND EPHEMERA OF BOURNEMOUTH INTEREST
including a (damaged) copy of 'The illustrated Historical and Picturesque guide to Bournemouth', Brannon, 1858, other guides, commemorative issues, etc
£30 - £60 £70 View
536 A COLLECTION OF 18th CENTURY 'THE UNIVERSAL MAGAZINE'
and others similar; The Scot's Magazine', 'The gentleman's Magazine', 'The Lady's Magazine', 'London Review' etc, with 'Kirby's Museum' Kerr's 'Voyages and Travels' (in poor condition)
£30 - £50 £240 View
537 RANDOLPH S. CHURCHILL: 'WINSTON S. CHURCHILL'
vol I 'YOUTH', Heinemann 1966 (2 copies, jackets def), with works by W.S. Churchill, and other books
£30 - £50 - View
538 A QUANTITY OF CHILDRENS' BOOKS
Edwardian theatre magazines, other books and cut-out toy sheets etc
£30 - £40 £35 View
539 CHARLES DICKENS; MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT
Chapman and Hall 1849, with Our mutual friend (2 vols in one), and other Dickens works (7)
£30 - £60 £80 View
540 JOSHUA SPRIGGE; 'ANGLIA REDIVIVA; ENGLAND'S RECOVERY
BEING THE HISTORY of the Motions, Actions, and Successes of the Army under the Immediate Conduct of His Excellency Sr Thomas Fairfax...' printed by R.W. for John Partridge, London 1647, with woodcut…
£300 - £500 £850 View
541 'CROMWELLIANA. A CHRONOLOGICAL DETAIL OF EVENTS
IN WHICH OLIVER CROMWELL WAS ENGAGED, FROM THE YEAR 1642 TO HIS DEATH 1658...' printed for Machell Stace by George Smeeton, Charing Cross 1810, some plates (board detached)
£40 - £60 £30 View
542 HUTCHINSON, GREGORY AND LYDEKKER: ' THE LIVING RACES OF MANKIND'
two vols, Hutchinson and Co, London c.1905, with Sir Robert Ball; 'The Story of the Heavens', Cassell and Company, 1897 (3)
£30 - £50 £20 View
543 THOMAS BEWICK; A HISTORY OF BRITISH BIRDS
2 volumes, sixth edition, Newcastle 1826, calf bound (def) (spotting, notably to title page and free endpapers)
£60 - £120 £50 View
544 LODOVICO ARIOSTO; ORLANDO FURIOSO
4 volumes, G. Baskerville, Birmingham 1773 'per P. Molini di Librajo dell' Accademia Reale, e G. Molini', calf, gilt, with pink silk linings, eng. frontispiece, no plates
£50 - £100 £130 View
545 'THE SHORTER POEMS OF JOHN MILTON WITH TWELVE ILLUSTRATIONS BY SAMUEL PALMER'
London, Seeley and Company 1889, full vellum (soiled) with gilt title and decorations to the spine, and ruled gilt lines to covers (spotting, notably to endpapers, some tissue guards etc)
£100 - £200 £140 View
546 THE DRAMATIC WORKS OF SHAKSPEARE
8 vols, calf, Chiswick; printed by C. and C. Whittingham 1828 (a/f, damage to bindings)
£40 - £60 £20 View
547 WILLIAM CAMDEN: ANNALS, OR THE HISTORY OF THE MOST RENOWNED AND VICTORIOUS PRINCESS ELIZABETH
trans. R.N. Gent, Third ed. printed by T. Harper for B. Fisher, London 1635, with engraved portrait and title, and additional title, probably original binding with near contemporary inscription, and…
£200 - £400 £380 View
548 THE WORKS OF LAURENCE STERNE
London, J Johnson, G & J Robinson etc, 1802, 7 vols, original binding but renewed spines
£60 - £80 £70 View
549 JOHN CHARLTON (ILLUST): 'TWELVE PACKS OF HOUNDS'
- A collection of Drawings and Sketches, Simkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co Ltd 1891 (a/f)
£30 - £60 - View
550 'LIFE, TRAVELS AND REMINISCENCES OF JONATHAN CEREDIG DAVIES'
Llanddewi Brefi, 1927, privately printed by the author himself for private circulation (from an edition of 58) (inscribed by the author),
£30 - £50 - View
551 REV. F. O. MORRIS; NESTS AND EGGS OF BRITISH BIRDS
3 volumes, second edition, London 1875, gilt pictorial cloth, (some wear, spotting, tears, title page uncut)
£80 - £150 £160 View
552 JOHN PHILIP SOUSA 1854-1937; 'THE FIFTH STRING'
inscribed copy of 1907 Bobbs-Merrill Co edition, with letter of dedication on Sousa's own headed paper to actor George Arliss 1868-1946
£40 - £60 £45 View

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