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Auction date Tuesday, 5 December 2023 10:00 - 17:30 GMT

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Tuesday 5th December

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Total lots: 977

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…
£60 - £100 £70 View
669 A COLLECTION OF NME (NEW MUSICAL EXPRESS) 1980s
variable condition
£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)
£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…
£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…
£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
£30 - £50 £110 View
674 A COLLECTION OF 19th CENTURY ITALIAN GRAND TOUR PHOTOGRAPHS,
art and architecture, with other photographs including portraits, ships etc
£20 - £40 £15 View
675 OCCUPATION OF MATABELELAND - A SOUVENIR
Nov. 1933, with 'The Outpost' Christmas and Jubillee Number 1940 (2)
£20 - £40 - View
676 FLORENCE UPTON: VARIOUS 'GOLLIWOGG' BOOKS
3 original books, and modern reprints, including Dutch Dolls
£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)
£30 - £50 £20 View
678 MINING/INDUSTRIAL INTEREST: 'MINE PLANT'
by Benjamin Franklin Tillson, New York 1938, with other items of similar interest (5)
£30 - £50 £15 View
679 KATE GREENAWAY 'A DAY IN A CHILD'S LIFE'
and 'A Apple pie' , with 'Struwwelpeter' (3) (a/f)
£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…
£40 - £60 - View
681 JOSEPH THOMAS PETTIGREW; 'A HISTORY OF EGYPTIAN MUMMIES'
Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman 1834 (some damage, wear)
£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)
£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…
£30 - £50 £80 View
684 A PHILIPS’ PLANISPHERE
a Collins’ Essential World Atlas and a vintage Road Atlas (3)
£30 - £50 £35 View
685 J. McLEOD: 'A VOYAGE TO AFRICA', (OWNERSHIP INSCR. 'Wm WILBERFORCE')
pub. John Murray 1820
£20 - £30 £170 View
686 FIVE BEATRIX POTTER BOOKS
Frederick Warne, some with jackets (worn)
£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
£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)
£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
£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)
£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…
£40 - £80 £40 View

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