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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

Total lots: 751

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