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Auction date Tuesday 6 August 2024 10:00 - 17:30 BST
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Tuesday 6th August starting at 10:00am

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Total lots: 751

A SMALL QUANTITY OF THEATRE PROGRAMMES
Lot 529 Unsold
A SMALL QUANTITY OF THEATRE PROGRAMMES
including 'Photo Finish' by Peter Ustinov, 'Enjoy' by Alan Bennet, and others
Estimate: £20 - £40
6 August 2024
6 August 2024
AN EDWARDIAN ALBUM WITH WATERCOLOUR ILLUSTRATIONS
Lot 530 Sold
AN EDWARDIAN ALBUM WITH WATERCOLOUR ILLUSTRATIONS
drawings, pasted-in photos, verses etc
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £40 - £60
6 August 2024
6 August 2024
A QUANTITY OF EPHEMERA
Lot 531 Sold
A QUANTITY OF EPHEMERA
including Victorian furniture designs, a handwriting tutor, a 1910 flyer for a lecture on Halley's Comet, 'The Edinburgh Evening Courant' April 3 1788, engravings and other items
Hammer price: £25
Estimate: £30 - £50
6 August 2024
6 August 2024
A COLLECTION OF POSTCARDS
Lot 532 Sold
A COLLECTION OF POSTCARDS
mostly British topographical, and mostly pre WW1, cities, towns etc
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £30 - £50
6 August 2024
6 August 2024
A QUANTITY OF DORSET EPHEMERA
Lot 533 Sold
A QUANTITY OF DORSET EPHEMERA
including Pageant programmes for Dorchester 1929, Sydling 1925, Lulworth, and Bradpole, Notes and Queries, Powys Review, and other items
Hammer price: £25
Estimate: £30 - £50
6 August 2024
6 August 2024
THE AENID OF VIRGIL, TRANSLATED BY Mr PITT
Lot 534 Sold
THE AENID OF VIRGIL, TRANSLATED BY Mr PITT
in two volumes, Printed for R. Dodsley, London, 1740, gilt calf (a/f)

Provenance: The Estate of the late Brian Phelan (1934-2024) and Dorothy Bromiley Phelan (1930-2024)
Hammer price: £80
Estimate: £50 - £100
6 August 2024
6 August 2024
ROBINSON AND DAWSON: 'A ROYAL WARREN, OR PICTURESQUE RAMBLES IN PURBECK '
Lot 535 Sold
ROBINSON AND DAWSON: 'A ROYAL WARREN, OR PICTURESQUE RAMBLES IN PURBECK '
London, The Typographic etching Company 1882, with three other books; Abrege de la Vie des Plus Fameaux Peintres, 1762 ( vol IIonly), Historical tales of the Scottish Wars, 1839, and Robinson Crusoe, E.J. Brett's edition (4)
Hammer price: £15
Estimate: £30 - £50
6 August 2024
6 August 2024
HARRY HOUDINI: 'THE UNMASKING OF ROBERT HOUDIN', SIGNED
Lot 536 Sold
HARRY HOUDINI: 'THE UNMASKING OF ROBERT HOUDIN', SIGNED
to the front free endpaper and dated Oct 29 - 1910, The Publishers Printing Co, 1908, pictorial cloth (some wear, soiling)
Hammer price: £1,100
Estimate: £100 - £200
6 August 2024
6 August 2024
COLLECTOR'S BOOKS, INCLUDING 'THE DOULTON LAMBETH WARES'
Lot 537 Sold
COLLECTOR'S BOOKS, INCLUDING 'THE DOULTON LAMBETH WARES'
Desmond Eyles and Louise Irvine, Richard Dennis 2002, and others (6)
Hammer price: £10
Estimate: £20 - £40
6 August 2024
6 August 2024
VERO SHAW: THE ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF THE DOG'
Lot 538 Sold
VERO SHAW: THE ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF THE DOG'
Cassell, Petter, Galpin and Co, circa 1881, with wood engravings and colour plates, half-leather, marbled endpapers
Hammer price: £120
Estimate: £50 - £100
6 August 2024
6 August 2024
MICHAEL ADAMS: 'THE NEW ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL MAGAZINE'
Lot 539 Sold
MICHAEL ADAMS: 'THE NEW ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL MAGAZINE'
published by Alexander Hogg at the King's Arms, Paternoster Row, London, circa 1793 (poor condition), with George Anson; 'A voyage round the world', tenth edition, London 1762 (re-bound) (2)
Hammer price: £50
Estimate: £50 - £100
6 August 2024
6 August 2024
THE NOVELS OF JANE AUSTEN
Lot 540 Unsold
THE NOVELS OF JANE AUSTEN
text based on collations of the early editions by R W Chapman, Clarendon Press Oxford, 1923, limited edition, 5 vols, with The Watsons, a jane Austen fragment concluded by L Oulton, Hutchinson, London
Estimate: £200 - £300
6 August 2024
6 August 2024
A COLLECTION OF GILES ANNUALS
Lot 541 Sold
A COLLECTION OF GILES ANNUALS
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £40 - £60
6 August 2024
6 August 2024
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS OF DORSET INTEREST
Lot 542 Sold
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS OF DORSET INTEREST
periodicals, journals and other ephemera
Hammer price: £40
Estimate: £40 - £80
6 August 2024
6 August 2024
A QUANTITY OF MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS
Lot 543 Sold
A QUANTITY OF MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS
varied subjects and dates (contents of bookcase)
Hammer price: £80
Estimate: £80 - £100
6 August 2024
6 August 2024
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS OF STAGE AND SCREEN INTEREST
Lot 544 Unsold
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS OF STAGE AND SCREEN INTEREST
including two typed and bound scripts; 'It's great to be young' and 'Heaven and Earth' (contents of cabinet)

Provenance: The Estate of the late Brian Phelan (1934-2024) and Dorothy Bromiley Phelan (1930-2024)
Estimate: £40 - £80
6 August 2024
6 August 2024
CHARLES DICKENS: LITTLE DORRITT
Lot 545 Sold
CHARLES DICKENS: LITTLE DORRITT
Bradbury and Evans, London 1857, with David Copperfield, 1850 (both poor copies), further Dickens' works, and other books, mostly leather-bound (poor condition)

Provenance: The Estate of the late Brian Phelan (1934-2024) and Dorothy Bromiley Phelan (1930-2024)
Hammer price: £90
Estimate: £50 - £100
6 August 2024
6 August 2024
WITHDRAWN
Lot 546 Unsold
WITHDRAWN
Estimate: £20 - £40
6 August 2024
6 August 2024
TWENTY FIVE HEIMTEXTIL TRADE CATALOGUES
Lot 547 Unsold
TWENTY FIVE HEIMTEXTIL TRADE CATALOGUES
for the annual event held in Frankfurt 1970s-1990s, together with a copy of The International Contract Furnishing catalogue June 1971
Estimate: £30 - £50
6 August 2024
6 August 2024
WILLIAM BARNES: A COLLECTION OF BOOKS
Lot 548 Sold
WILLIAM BARNES: A COLLECTION OF BOOKS
various, with periodicals and ephemera
Hammer price: £45
Estimate: £50 - £100
6 August 2024
6 August 2024
FORESTER, C.S., Mr Midshipman Hornblower
Lot 549 Unsold
FORESTER, C.S., Mr Midshipman Hornblower
Fifth impression, September 1950, hardbound with dust wrapper, and a large quantity of fiction and non fiction books including some of Dorset interest
Estimate: £100 - £200
6 August 2024
6 August 2024
A QUANTITY OF MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS
Lot 550 Sold
A QUANTITY OF MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS
including works by Sir Frederick Treves; 'The Elephant Man, and other reminiscences', Cassell 1923, Finn and Robinson, 'Birds of our country', childrens' books and others
Hammer price: £80
Estimate: £30 - £50
6 August 2024
6 August 2024
HERON BOOKS: A COLLECTION
Lot 551 Sold
HERON BOOKS: A COLLECTION
Hardy, Wodehouse, Galsworthy, the Brontes, and others, and Folio Society editions of Austen and Gaskell and others
Hammer price: £50
Estimate: £80 - £120
6 August 2024
6 August 2024
A COLLECTION OF ANTIQUES REFERENCE BOOKS
Lot 552 Sold
A COLLECTION OF ANTIQUES REFERENCE BOOKS
many Antiques Collector's Club publications and others, the majority on pottery and porcelain, and a further quantity of books of history and gardening and other interests
Hammer price: £140
Estimate: £100 - £150
6 August 2024
6 August 2024
A QUANTITY OF ARMS AND ARMOUR AUCTION CATALOGUES
Lot 553 Sold
A QUANTITY OF ARMS AND ARMOUR AUCTION CATALOGUES
from the 1960's and 1970's including Christie's and Sotheby's (a lot)
Hammer price: £30
Estimate: £30 - £50
6 August 2024
6 August 2024
A LARGE COLLECTION OF MILITARY INTEREST BOOKS
Lot 554 Sold
A LARGE COLLECTION OF MILITARY INTEREST BOOKS
Hammer price: £60
Estimate: £100 - £200
6 August 2024
6 August 2024
HISTORICAL MONUMENTS IN THE COUNTY OF DORSET
Lot 555 Sold
HISTORICAL MONUMENTS IN THE COUNTY OF DORSET
volumes I - V, R.C.H.M. (8 books)
Hammer price: £70
Estimate: £40 - £60
6 August 2024
6 August 2024
A COLLECTION OF ORNITHOLOGICAL BOOKS
Lot 556 Unsold
A COLLECTION OF ORNITHOLOGICAL BOOKS
including Brown/Amadon 'Eagles, hawks and falcons of the world' Shirihai/Svensson 'Handbook of Western Palearctic Birds' two vols, and others
Estimate: £50 - £100
6 August 2024
6 August 2024
THE COMPLETE COLLECTION OF RANDOLPH CALDECOTT'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE 'GRAPHIC'
Lot 557 Unsold
THE COMPLETE COLLECTION OF RANDOLPH CALDECOTT'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE 'GRAPHIC'
printed by Edmund Evans, preface by Arthur Lockyer, George Routledge and Sons, London 1889, numbered 393 of 1250 (binding poor), with three other Caldecott items (4)

Provenance: The Estate of the late Brian Phelan (1934-2024) and Dorothy Bromiley Phelan (1930-2024)
Estimate: £30 - £60
6 August 2024
6 August 2024
'THE RAILWAY MAGAZINE' VOLUMES I - VII, 1897 - 1900
Lot 558 Sold
'THE RAILWAY MAGAZINE' VOLUMES I - VII, 1897 - 1900
cloth bound (some damage)
Hammer price: £50
Estimate: £50 - £100
6 August 2024
6 August 2024
A LARGE COLLECTION OF CHILDREN’S FICTION AND ACADEMIC BOOKS
Lot 559 Sold
A LARGE COLLECTION OF CHILDREN’S FICTION AND ACADEMIC BOOKS
including a quantity of Topper and other comic annuals, together with a quantity of Enid Blyton and Man from U.N.C.L.E. paperbacks
Hammer price: £40
Estimate: £50 - £100
6 August 2024
6 August 2024
A COLLECTION OF FICTION BOOKS
Lot 560 Sold
A COLLECTION OF FICTION BOOKS
including John Galsworthy; 'Maid in waiting' W. Heinemann Ltd. 1931, works by Arthur Ransome (later eds), and a group of countryside/wildlife interest books (many in poor condition)
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £30 - £50
6 August 2024
6 August 2024
JEFFERY FARNOL: VARIOUS WORKS
Lot 561 Sold
JEFFERY FARNOL: VARIOUS WORKS
Sampson, Low, Marston and Co, Ltd, blue calf, (21, some covered in plastic) contained in an oak book trough
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £30 - £50
6 August 2024
6 August 2024
HANDBOOK OF THE BIRDS OF EUROPE, THJE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
Lot 562 Sold
HANDBOOK OF THE BIRDS OF EUROPE, THJE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
Ed. Cramp/Simmons/Perrins, 9 volumes, R.S.P.B. Oxford University Press 1977 (some discolouring, tears to wrappers)
Hammer price: £100
Estimate: £100 - £200
6 August 2024
6 August 2024
HANDBOOK OF THE BIRDS OF THE WORLD
Lot 563 Unsold
HANDBOOK OF THE BIRDS OF THE WORLD
Lynx Edicions, Barcelona 1992, 16 volumes (some discolouration to wrappers)
Estimate: £600 - £800
6 August 2024
6 August 2024
BEATRIX POTTER: VARIOUS BOOKS ABOUT POTTER
Lot 564 Sold
BEATRIX POTTER: VARIOUS BOOKS ABOUT POTTER
Judy Taylor; 'Beatrix Potter and peter Rabbit', 'The V and A collection', 'The complete Tales', and a booklet 'The tale of London Past' (B.P's archaeological paintings), postcard books and a Wedgwood children's tea set, and other children's books

Provenance: The Estate of the late Brian Phelan (1934-2024) and Dorothy Bromiley Phelan (1930-2024)
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £30 - £50
6 August 2024
6 August 2024
A COLLECTION OF MODERN FICTION BOOKS
Lot 565 Sold
A COLLECTION OF MODERN FICTION BOOKS
including Le Carre, Renault, Storey, Lessing and others (contents of cabinet)

Provenance: The Estate of the late Brian Phelan (1934-2024) and Dorothy Bromiley Phelan (1930-2024)
Hammer price: £70
Estimate: £40 - £80
6 August 2024
6 August 2024
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS ON ART AND ANTIQUES
Lot 566 Sold
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS ON ART AND ANTIQUES
including '50 Ans d'art moderne' catalogue Palais International des Beaux-Arts, Brussels 1958 (contents of bookcase)

Provenance: The Estate of the late Brian Phelan (1934-2024) and Dorothy Bromiley Phelan (1930-2024)
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £40 - £80
6 August 2024
6 August 2024
THE DOROTHY BROMILEY PHELAN ARCHIVE: A COLLECTION OF BOOKS ON NEEDLEWORK
Lot 567 Sold
THE DOROTHY BROMILEY PHELAN ARCHIVE: A COLLECTION OF BOOKS ON NEEDLEWORK
and textiles, particularly embroidery, including catalogues, booklets and other publications, as well as a large number of editions of 'Florentine Canvaswork' by Dorothy Phelan (four shelves)

Provenance: The Estate of the late Brian Phelan (1934-2024) and Dorothy Bromiley Phelan (1930-2024)
Dorothy Bromiley Phelan was a British film, stage and television actress. In later life she became…
Hammer price: £140
Estimate: £40 - £80
6 August 2024
6 August 2024
A LARGE QUANTITY OF MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS
Lot 568 Sold
A LARGE QUANTITY OF MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS
including works by Frank Kermode (11 shelves)

Provenance: The Estate of the late Brian Phelan (1934-2024) and Dorothy Bromiley Phelan (1930-2024)
Hammer price: £50
Estimate: £40 - £80
6 August 2024
6 August 2024
A COLLECTION OF PENGUIN AND PELICAN PAPERBACK BOOKS
Lot 569 Sold
A COLLECTION OF PENGUIN AND PELICAN PAPERBACK BOOKS
and others (many in poor condition)

Provenance: The Estate of the late Brian Phelan (1934-2024) and Dorothy Bromiley Phelan (1930-2024)
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £30 - £50
6 August 2024
6 August 2024
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS
Lot 570 Sold
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS
various subjects, with some early Michelin and Bartholomew's road maps
Hammer price: £50
Estimate: £30 - £50
6 August 2024
6 August 2024
A LARGE QUANTITY OF MISCELLANEOUS PAPERBACK BOOKS
Lot 571 Sold
A LARGE QUANTITY OF MISCELLANEOUS PAPERBACK BOOKS
Provenance: The Estate of the late Brian Phelan (1934-2024) and Dorothy Bromiley Phelan (1930-2024)
Hammer price: £40
Estimate: £40 - £80
6 August 2024
6 August 2024
A QUANTITY OF BIOGRAPHICAL BOOKS
Lot 572 Sold
A QUANTITY OF BIOGRAPHICAL BOOKS
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £40 - £80
6 August 2024
6 August 2024
A QUANTITY OF MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS
Lot 573 Sold
A QUANTITY OF MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS
Hammer price: £60
Estimate: £40 - £80
6 August 2024
6 August 2024
A 19th CENTURY FISHING VILLAGE STREET SCENE
Lot 574 Sold
A 19th CENTURY FISHING VILLAGE STREET SCENE
oil on canvas, gilt slip frame 46 x 31cm
Hammer price: £35
Estimate: £20 - £40
6 August 2024
6 August 2024
A GROUP OF SIX OVAL SILHOUETTES ON PAPER
Lot 575 Sold
A GROUP OF SIX OVAL SILHOUETTES ON PAPER
19th century, all contained in ebonised frames with acorn fronted hangers, two of gentlemen with cravats, and another with a flat peaked cap; two of ladies, one with bonnet and the other with girandole earrings; and one of a child with ribbon in hair; the largest 10cm high (excluding frame) (6)
Hammer price: £120
Estimate: £40 - £60
6 August 2024
6 August 2024
A PAIR OF 19th CENTURY CHINESE PITH PAINTINGS
Lot 576 Sold
A PAIR OF 19th CENTURY CHINESE PITH PAINTINGS
in simulated bird's-eye maple frames 20 x 24cm
Hammer price: £70
Estimate: £30 - £50
6 August 2024
6 August 2024

Total lots: 751

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