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| Lot | Title | Estimate | Hammer price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 528 | 
					A COLLECTION OF TWENTY FOLIO SOCIETY VOLUMES
					 
						including Carroll, Lewis - ‘Hunting the Snark’, illus. Quentin Blake, one boxed, some with slip cases (20)
					 
				 | 
				£100 - £200 | £30 | View | 
| 529 | 
					BARZILAY, DAVID - ‘THE BRITISH ARMY IN ULSTER’
					 
						volumes 1-3, published by Century 1978, hardbound with dustwrappers (vols 1 and 2 reprints), two other IRA related volumes and eight military books regarding mostly recent conflicts (13)
					 
				 | 
				£50 - £100 | £50 | View | 
| 530 | 
					A COLLECTION OF LEATHER-BOUND BOOKS
					 
						19th century and later, including incomplete set of Johnson's works
					 
				 | 
				£30 - £50 | £40 | View | 
| 531 | 
					CHARLES DICKENS, THOMAS HARDY
					 
						Bronte sisters, Jane Austen etc, various editions including Memorial editions
					 
				 | 
				£30 - £50 | - | View | 
| 532 | 
					A COLLECTION OF ILLUSTRATED CHILDREN'S BOOKS
					 
						20th century, including Rex Whistler 'Hans Andersen', Holbrook Jackson  'Lear', and others, books about illustration, etc
					 
				 | 
				£50 - £100 | £50 | View | 
| 533 | 
					FOLIO SOCIETY: A COLLECTION OF VARIOUS VOLUMES
					 
						some early editions
					 
				 | 
				£50 - £100 | £50 | View | 
| 534 | 
					WALTER SCOTT: WAVERLEY NOVELS, SET OF 48
					 
						printed by Ballantyne & Co for Robert Cadell, Edinburgh, 1833
					 
				 | 
				£100 - £200 | £30 | View | 
| 535 | 
					A COLLECTION OF BOOKS ON ARCHITECTURE
					 
						including Basil F.L. Clarke; 'Parish churches of London', Batsford 1966, and other mostly mid 20th century books on domestic and ecclesiastical architecture (one shelf)
					 
				 | 
				£30 - £60 | £20 | View | 
| 536 | 
					A COLLECTION OF BOOKS ON ART AND ART HISTORY
					 
						including Sacheverell Sitwell; 'Conversation pieces', Batsford 1936, jacket by Rex Whistler, etc (one shelf)
					 
				 | 
				£30 - £50 | £20 | View | 
| 537 | 
					A LARGE INCOMPLETE RUN OF ‘THE STUDIO’ MAGAZINE
					 
						variously bound and in original individual paper wraps, roughly covering years 1900-1913 (198 volumes)
					 
				 | 
				£100 - £200 | £100 | View | 
| 538 | 
					SLIM, FIELD-MARSHALL SIR WILLIAM - ‘DEFEAT INTO VICTORY’
					 
						first edition, published by Cassell 1956, cloth bound with dustwrapper, two other books about Field Marshall Slim and a collection of military books regarding mostly historical conflicts (43)
					 
				 | 
				£100 - £200 | £40 | View | 
| 539 | 
					A FEW 19th CENTURY LEATHER-BOUND BOOKS
					 
						including Hume and Smollett's History of England, other books, and a quantity of 1970s Motor Cycle Mechanics magazines
					 
				 | 
				£30 - £40 | £10 | View | 
| 540 | 
					NEW MAP OF BUCKINGHAM DIVIVED INTO HUNDREDS
					 
						C Smith, Strand, 1808 revised edition, with framed history of Buckinghamshire
					 
				 | 
				£40 - £60 | - | View | 
| 541 | 
					A COLLECTION OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE MAPS
					 
						Saxton, Blome, Kerius, Bowen and other cartographers
					 
				 | 
				£40 - £60 | £45 | View | 
| 542 | 
					A COLLECTION OF MAPS OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
					 
						Moll, Seller, Kitchen and other cartographers
					 
				 | 
				£40 - £60 | £20 | View | 
| 543 | 
					A COLLECTION OF MAPS
					 
						Dorset, Hertford etc, various dates
					 
				 | 
				£40 - £60 | £220 | View | 
| 544 | 
					TWO 19th CENTURY SATIRICAL PRINTS;
					 
						'Elegant manners'  by Richard Dighton, and 'A view taken from the Town Hall, Oxford' by 'Tim Quiz', both in maple frames (2)
					 
				 | 
				£30 - £50 | £45 | View | 
| 545 | 
					A THEATRICAL TINSEL PICTURE BY HODGSON
					 
						'Mr BLAND as PLUTO, in Olympic Devils, London, the print Published March 19th 1832 by Orlando Hodgson, 10 Cloth Fair , No.95, with applied silks and tinselling (some possibly restored/applied later),…
					 
				 | 
				£150 - £200 | £130 | View | 
| 546 | 
					A THEATRICAL/PANTOMIME TINSEL PICTURE BY FAIRBURN
					 
						'MISS VINCENT as PRINCE ALADDIN' the print published Jan 19th 1837 by J. Fairburn, 110 Minories, with applied silks and tinselling (probably restored/applied later), in a maple frame, 38 x 33cm
					 
				 | 
				£150 - £200 | £160 | View | 
| 547 | 
					A FOLDER OF OLD PRINTS
					 
						various subjects, mostly 19th century
					 
				 | 
				£30 - £50 | £35 | View | 
| 548 | 
					PETER S. BRITTON: 'LONG TAILED TITS'
					 
						watercolour, and other similar bird studies by the same artist, and two other ornithological prints (8)
					 
				 | 
				£30 - £50 | £80 | View | 
| 549 | 
					A COLLECTION OF FISH PRINTS
					 
						19th century
					 
				 | 
				£30 - £50 | £40 | View | 
| 550 | 
					A COLLECTION OF PRINTS AND WATERCOLOURS
					 
						and a (damaged) Georgian silkwork picture
					 
				 | 
				£30 - £50 | - | View | 
| 551 | 
					RICHARD HALFNIGHT, RIVERSIDE VILLAGE IN SUMMER
					 
						signed etching, 1887, 86cm wide, with another pastoral scene under a stormy sky, etched by T Chauvel, 1888
					 
				 | 
				£40 - £60 | - | View | 
| 552 | 
					REYNOLDS STONE: BRIDE VALLEY
					 
						mixed media, chalks/ink, signed
					 
				 | 
				£50 - £100 | £70 | View | 
| 553 | 
					19th CENTURY, INDISTINCTLY SIGNED; F. HILLER (?)
					 
						'Fast falls the even tide', a Scottish view, oil on canvas, in a gilt frame,  44 x 54cm
					 
				 | 
				£40 - £60 | £30 | View | 
| 554 | 
					MYLES BIRKET FOSTER (1825-1899), RIVER LANDSCAPE WITH FISHERMEN
					 
						watercolour, sold by Jeremy Maas gallery, 40cm wide, with another watercolour
					 
				 | 
				£40 - £60 | - | View | 
| 555 | 
					THOMAS BUSH HARDY 1842 -97: SHOREHAM, WHIT MONDAY
					 
						pencil sketch, annotated for working-up, framed 38 x 51cm
					 
				 | 
				£30 - £50 | £20 | View | 
| 556 | 
					R.H. LIETKE (EARLY 20th CENTURY): RIVER VIEW WITH BARGES
					 
						1906, watercolour, framed, 33 x 53cm
					 
				 | 
				£30 - £50 | - | View | 
| 557 | 
					HILARY DALTRY (CONTEMPORARY) 'The Kore with Almond Eyes'
					 
						Signed, titled and inscribed 'Athens 1988' in pencil to the margin, numbered 2/30, etching, the image 32.5cm x 26.5cm
					 
				 | 
				£30 - £50 | - | View | 
| 558 | 
					THE SPERRY HOMESTEAD, WESTVILLE, CONN
					 
						artist unknown, 76cm wide, with Hilary Hoyland, Garden, Late Afternoon, watercolour
					 
				 | 
				£40 - £60 | £40 | View | 
| 559 | 
					JOHN TENNENT, MOORHENS
					 
						lithograph, No. 54/90, 1980
					 
				 | 
				£40 - £60 | £10 | View | 
| 560 | 
					TINNE ROCHESTER, DRAWING FOR THE SNOW QUEEN
					 
						watercolour, 39cm wide
					 
				 | 
				£30 - £50 | £20 | View | 
| 561 | 
					HILMA M ARMITAGE, SEASIDE STILL LIFE
					 
						watercolour, 1937, 57cm wide
					 
				 | 
				£40 - £60 | £60 | View | 
| 562 | 
					FISHING BOAT ON THE SHORE
					 
						artist unknown, oil on canvas, 55cm wide, with a watercolour of a similar subject
					 
				 | 
				£30 - £50 | £15 | View | 
| 563 | 
					JACOB KRAMER: THE ITALIAN WOMAN
					 
						coloured chalk/pastel, signed  and with old label to back of frame 36 x 46.5cm
					 
				 | 
				£50 - £100 | £320 | View | 
| 564 | 
					FRANK LEWIS EMANUEL (1865-1948), THE ARTIST AND HIS MUSE
					 
						pen drawing, 28cm wide, with Sir Hugh Casson, Landing Stage, watercolour
					 
				 | 
				£30 - £50 | £20 | View | 
| 565 | 
					HILMA ARMITAGE, STILL LIFE
					 
						watercolour, 38cm wide, with a landscape study, artist unknown
					 
				 | 
				£30 - £50 | £30 | View | 
| 566 | 
					PORTRAIT OF AN INDIAN MAN, REVERSE PAINTING ON GLASS
					 
						artist unknown, 38cm wide
					 
				 | 
				£40 - £60 | £35 | View | 
| 567 | 
					A. KING: PORTRAIT OF LONG HAIRED COLLIES
					 
						oil on board, framed and glazed, 40 x 50cm
					 
				 | 
				£30 - £50 | £15 | View | 
| 568 | 
					J.H. CORNFORD: DANCERS IN HISTORICAL COSTUME
					 
						a pair of watercolours, one dated '09, framed  27 x 22cm (2)
					 
				 | 
				£30 - £50 | - | View | 
| 569 | 
					20th CENTURY SCHOOL, IN THE 19th CENTURY STYLE:
					 
						coastal scene, with figures to the shore, oil on board, in a gilt frame, 27 x 32cm
					 
				 | 
				£40 - £60 | £40 | View | 
| 570 | 
					HARRY HINE (1845-1941), LITCHFIELD CATHEDRAL
					 
						watercolour, 1892, 55cm wide, with four other watercolours
					 
				 | 
				£40 - £60 | £10 | View | 
| 571 | 
					AFTER THE REV.M PETERS RA, THE FORTUNE TELLER
					 
						coloured mezzotint, published 1786, 67cm wide, with a collection of paintings, prints and other items
					 
				 | 
				£30 - £50 | £20 | View | 
| 572 | 
					WINTER MOSCOW VIEW, RUSSIAN SIGNATURE ILLEGIBLE
					 
						woodcut, 53cm wide, with three other drawings and prints
					 
				 | 
				£40 - £60 | £40 | View | 
| 573 | 
					BERNARD DUNSTAN: STANDING NUDE
					 
						lithograph,  in mount, 58 x 60cm
					 
				 | 
				£40 - £60 | £45 | View | 
| 574 | 
					MACE (20th CENTURY): A VIEW OF WEST BAY, DORSET
					 
						oil n board, framed,  43 x 56cm, with Rn Hall, Nude watercolour, a Terry Whitworth print of Hardy's Birthplace, and an oil on board interior study (4)
					 
				 | 
				£40 - £60 | £35 | View | 
| 575 | 
					KATHLEEN CADDICK, HILL RIDGE AND RIVER ISLAND
					 
						limited edition coloured prints, both no.12/250, 61 cms wide, with Henri Fourday, coloured print of a French mill
					 
				 | 
				£40 - £60 | £10 | View |