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Tuesday 5th December
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| Lot | Title | Estimate | Hammer price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 668 |
ELLEN TERRY/EDITH CRAIG: TWO VOLUMES SIGNED BY TERRY TO CRAIG, WITH BOOKPLATE 'EDY HER BOOK'
1902' ; two vols. Thomas Hope 'The costume of the ancients' 1875; 'Edy' Craig (Terry's daughter) was a notable force in the theatre and involved in the women's suffrage movement. With a collection of…
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£60 - £100 | £70 | View |
| 669 |
A COLLECTION OF NME (NEW MUSICAL EXPRESS) 1980s
variable condition
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£50 - £100 | £60 | View |
| 670 |
A LARGE QUANTITY OF 'COMMANDO WAR STORIES IN PICTURES'
bundled and listed, the earliest issue 9, the latest 1754; some gaps, some duplicates (condition varies, mainly fair, but earlier numbers scruffier)
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£400 - £600 | £380 | View |
| 671 |
A COLLECTION OF MAGAZINES
including runs of the Old Stortfordian, the Brazen Nose, the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society,, the Friends of the Lake District etc, with a collection of ephemera, much travel related but other…
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£20 - £40 | £5 | View |
| 672 |
A COLLECTION OF JAZZ APPRECIATION SOCIETY BOOKLETS AND OTHERS
1940s-50s, including 'American Jazz' Nos. 1 and 2, 'Junkshopper's discography' 'Hot notes', 'Jazzography' and others, mostly in bespoke individual bindings, and 'Footnote' magazine 1972-80, 'Jazz…
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£100 - £200 | £50 | View |
| 673 |
A QUANTITY OF VANITY FAIR LOOSE PRINTS
two bound 'Sketch' volumes 1893 and 1902, various issues of 'The Sphere', 1920s, and others, and a Royalty and Aristocracy scrap album
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£30 - £50 | £110 | View |
| 674 |
A COLLECTION OF 19th CENTURY ITALIAN GRAND TOUR PHOTOGRAPHS,
art and architecture, with other photographs including portraits, ships etc
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£20 - £40 | £15 | View |
| 675 |
OCCUPATION OF MATABELELAND - A SOUVENIR
Nov. 1933, with 'The Outpost' Christmas and Jubillee Number 1940 (2)
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£20 - £40 | - | View |
| 676 |
FLORENCE UPTON: VARIOUS 'GOLLIWOGG' BOOKS
3 original books, and modern reprints, including Dutch Dolls
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£60 - £100 | £150 | View |
| 677 |
MAX BEERBOHM: SEVEN MEN 1st AMERICAN EDITION
Alfred A. Knopf 1920 no. 1172/2000 (damaged paper cover), with 'And even now' E.P. Dutton , New York 1921 (similar condition) (2)
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£30 - £50 | £20 | View |
| 678 |
MINING/INDUSTRIAL INTEREST: 'MINE PLANT'
by Benjamin Franklin Tillson, New York 1938, with other items of similar interest (5)
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£30 - £50 | £15 | View |
| 679 |
KATE GREENAWAY 'A DAY IN A CHILD'S LIFE'
and 'A Apple pie' , with 'Struwwelpeter' (3) (a/f)
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£30 - £50 | £25 | View |
| 680 |
MOOREHEAD, ALAN, ‘GALLIPOLI’
second impression published by Hamish Hamilton, 1956, brown cloth bound, a handwritten note from Governor of Southern Rhodesia Sir Peveril William Powlett (1954-1959) to Major Paddon dated 5th June…
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£40 - £60 | - | View |
| 681 |
JOSEPH THOMAS PETTIGREW; 'A HISTORY OF EGYPTIAN MUMMIES'
Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman 1834 (some damage, wear)
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£50 - £100 | £200 | View |
| 682 |
DICKENS, CHARLES, ‘MASTER HUMPHREY’S CLOCK’
published by Chapman & Hall, 1840, two three quarter leather bound volumes, together with a Christmas Books copy of ‘The Chimes/Cricket on the Heath’ (3)
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£100 - £200 | - | View |
| 683 |
'THE ANTICHRIST OF NIETZSCHE'
version by P.R. Stephenson, illustrated by Norman Lindsay, Fanfrolico Press, London 9/550 on handmade paper (water damaged); with 'The book of fate, formerly in the possession of Napoleon', London…
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£30 - £50 | £80 | View |
| 684 |
A PHILIPS’ PLANISPHERE
a Collins’ Essential World Atlas and a vintage Road Atlas (3)
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£30 - £50 | £35 | View |
| 685 |
J. McLEOD: 'A VOYAGE TO AFRICA', (OWNERSHIP INSCR. 'Wm WILBERFORCE')
pub. John Murray 1820
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£20 - £30 | £170 | View |
| 686 |
FIVE BEATRIX POTTER BOOKS
Frederick Warne, some with jackets (worn)
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£20 - £40 | - | View |
| 687 |
JULIAN HUXLEY: 'ANTS', DOBSON 1949
with T.A. Coward 'The birds of the British Isles and thier eggs', J. Clegg, 'The freshwater life of the British Isles', Detmould 'Life of the Bee' etc
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£30 - £50 | £25 | View |
| 688 |
G. ROBERTS: 'THE HISTORY OF LYME REGIS', LANGDON AND HARKER 1823
and 'The history and antiquities of Lyme Regis and Charmouth' 1834, with Wanklyn; 'Lyme Regis, A retrospect' (2 eds) 1922 and 1927 (4)
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£30 - £60 | - | View |
| 689 |
MAHAN, CAPT. A.T., ‘THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA’
published by Peter Fenelon Collier, New York, 1902, green cloth bound, fly leaf inscribed Major Cecil Pardon OBE
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£30 - £50 | - | View |
| 690 |
CHIANG LEE: THE SILENT TRAVELLER IN LONDON
2nd imp Country life 1938, with 'Cooking with the Chinese flavour' Heinemann 1957, and 'The complete short stories of Saki' (3)
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£20 - £40 | £10 | View |
| 691 |
'EXPERIENCES OF FLAGELLATION'
'A series of remarkable instances of whipping inflicted on both sexes, with curious anecdotes of Ladies...', compiled by 'An amateur Flagellant' London, printed for private circulation 1885; with…
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£40 - £80 | £40 | View |
| 692 |
OSBORNE'S GUIDE TO THE GRAND JUNCTION, OR BIRMINGHAM, LIVERPOOL, AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY
1838
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£30 - £50 | £15 | View |
| 693 |
NEW ZEALAND INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1906-7
British Government Exhibit, compiled by Isidore Spielmann (inscribed by the author to his daughter), with 'Paris International Exhibition, 1900 , The Royal Pavilion' by Spielmann (also inscribed) (2)
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£30 - £50 | £30 | View |
| 694 |
AUSTIN DOBSON: 'PROVERBS IN PORCELAIN', ILLUS. BERNARD PARTRIDGE
Kegan, Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co 1893; partridges own copy No,89, with pasted-in letter from Dobson regarding the illustrations (in poor condition), with a (damaged) edition de luxe copy of J.M.…
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£30 - £60 | £15 | View |
| 695 |
DE LA MOTTE FOUQUE: 'UNDINE' ILLUST. ARTHUR RACKHAM
William Heinemann 1909 (some faults)
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£30 - £50 | £60 | View |
| 696 |
A COLLECTION OF MINIATURE AND SMALL BOOKS
and a book-form vesta case
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£30 - £40 | £25 | View |
| 697 |
JOHN BETJEMAN: SUMMONED BY BELLS
John Murray 1960 (some discolouring)
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£30 - £50 | - | View |
| 698 |
EROTIC PRINT SOCIETY: A SELECTION OF PUBLICATIONS
including signed copy of Tom Poulton, Secret Art, with four books in the Scarlet Library series
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£400 - £500 | - | View |
| 699 |
A COLLECTION OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS
English and German, including Walter Crane, Cecil Aldin, and an early mechanical book
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£30 - £50 | £140 | View |
| 700 |
WALFORD, EDWARD, ‘THE COUNTY FAMILIES OF THE UNITED KINGDOM’
published by Chatto & Windus, 1881, red cloth bound, two Kelly’s Directories and an Army and Navy 1935-6 price list (4)
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£30 - £50 | £15 | View |
| 701 |
‘REPORT ON THE CITY AND COUNTY OF BRISTOL’
printed by James & Luke Hansard, London, 1835, brown three quarter leather bound, ex libris FW Morris, John E Pritchard and Terence Bryant Bristol Collection (repaired spine)
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£20 - £40 | £30 | View |
| 702 |
‘RYDE CARNIVAL 1951 LUCKY PROGRAMME’
No. 4513, with supplementary programme, the Royal Isle of Wight Agricultural Society 51st show catalogue, July 1947, and eight other pamphlets of Isle of Wight interest (10)
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£10 - £20 | £130 | View |
| 703 |
BARRETT, C.R.B.: 'SOMERSETSHIRE: HIGHWAYS, BYWAYS AND WATERWAYS'
signed limited edition no. 55 of 65, published by Bliss, Sands and Foster, London 1894, in three-quarter leather binding
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£10 - £20 | £5 | View |
| 704 |
MAXWELL, GAVIN, 'HOUSE OF ELRIG'
uncorrected proof copy, published by Longmans, 1965, paper bound, together with six other books (7)
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£50 - £70 | £140 | View |
| 705 |
EDWARD BAWDEN LIFE IN AN ENGLISH VILLAGE
King Penguin, 1949, with a collection of other King Penguins
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£30 - £50 | £50 | View |
| 706 |
RONALD BLYTHE, DECADAL
Enitharmon Press, 2015, limited edition 26/100, signed by author, with Ronald Blythe, Time by the Sea, Faber, 2013, 1st edition
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£30 - £50 | £30 | View |
| 707 |
BEATTY, WILLIAM: 'AUTHENTIC NARRATIVE OF THE DEATH OF LORD NELSON'
printed by T. Davison, Whitefriars, for T. Cadell and W. Davies, London, 1807, three-quarter brown leather binding, the inside board with Rochetts bookplate
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£150 - £250 | £150 | View |
| 708 |
FRANCES HODGKINS
a collection of books, catalogues and ephemera relating to this famous New Zealand artist, including 35mm slides of paintings
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£20 - £40 | £70 | View |
| 709 |
HIEOVER, HARRY, ‘THE STUD’
published by Longman, Brown et al, 1849, green half leather bound
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£10 - £20 | £5 | View |
| 710 |
AMANDA LOCKHART: "THE ART OF THE CHASE"
introduction by Robin Lane Fox; and "The Art of the Race" by Amanda Lockhart, with additional pictures by Dan Abraham, introduction by Sir Mark Prescott (2)
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£10 - £20 | £10 | View |
| 711 |
A COLLECTION OF SHELL GUIDES
including Mid Western Wales, South West Wales, East Sussex, Surrey, Cornwall, Oxfordshire, Northumberland, Kent, Derbyshire
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£20 - £40 | £30 | View |
| 712 |
A COLLECTION OF PERSIAN MANUSCRIPT PAGES
in leather folders, some with illuminated panels, probably 19th century, with a cardboard containing an early Korean painting on linen
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£50 - £80 | £280 | View |
| 713 |
CHARLES WARNE FSA, ANCIENT DORSET
The Celtic, Roman, Saxon and Danish Antiquities of the County, Bournemouth 1872
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£30 - £50 | £15 | View |
| 714 |
SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON. J.W. BUTCHER
Shifting Sands by N.N.E. Bray, Unicorn Press, London, Robinson Crusoe, Hutchinson and Co, London,
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£30 - £50 | - | View |
| 715 |
BRITAIN IN PICTURES
a collection of eight titles , including Cecilia Sempill English Pottery and Porcelain and Enid Marx English Popular and Traditional Art, with Frank Dobson British Artists of Today series, 1926
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£20 - £40 | £20 | View |
