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Auction date Tuesday 7 October 2025 10:00 - 17:30 BST

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Total lots: 720

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

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