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Tuesday 7th November
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| Lot | Title | Estimate | Hammer price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 433 |
A COPY OF THE 21ST WORLD TABLE TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS 1954 PROGRAMME
signed in pencil by Yashio Tomita and four others, together with a quantity of other ephmera including theatre programmes
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£30 - £50 | £10 | View |
| 434 |
FOUR PORTFOLIOS OF VANITY FAIR CARICATURES
Spy, Ape etc, 1870s-1890s
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£30 - £50 | £200 | View |
| 435 |
A LATE 19TH CENTURY WOVEN BOOKMARK - 'THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER'
By Warner MFG. Manufacturing Co. Patterson NJ (New Jersey)19cm long
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£30 - £50 | £20 | View |
| 436 |
A DAY & SON LITHOGRAPH FOLDING MAP, 'THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY'S MAP OF THE TELEGRAPH LINES OF EUROPE 1860'
75cm x 112cm
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£30 - £50 | - | View |
| 437 |
A WWI SILK POSTACRD - 'WE WILL BE VICTORIOUS'
together with four silk Regimental flags (joined as one strip), a copy of the Daily Express May 31st 1940 detailing Allied retreat at Dunkirk and a small collection of military ephemera
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£30 - £50 | £15 | View |
| 438 |
A COLLECTION OF POSTCARDS OF SWITZERLAND
of varying age, and a postcard album containing early 20th century European travel cards
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£30 - £50 | £30 | View |
| 439 |
THREE PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS
Marlborough College and two family albums
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£30 - £50 | £20 | View |
| 440 |
PROGRAMME FOR HANDEL'S MESSIAH SIGNED BY KATHLEEN FERRIER, MALCOLM SARGENT AND OTHERSND OTHERS
performed in the Royal Albert Hall by the Henry Wood Choral Society 3 November 1948. Other signatures include Jessie Wood, George Pizzey, Isobel Baillie and Heddle Nash
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£60 - £120 | £70 | View |
| 441 |
A POSTER; 'DITCHLING HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 98th Annual Show' 1920
'Deck yourselves out in your finest array. Heigh-ho! come to the fair.', with stylised flower basket, printed on laid paper with '-FABRIANO' (incomplete) watermark 46 x 19cm
Provenance: The Estate… |
£20 - £40 | £30 | View |
| 442 |
SOUTHAMPTON AND DORCHESTER RAILWAY
The Act of Parliament for the building of the line, dated 21 July 1845, with an 1897 map of Bournemouth and Swanage showing local railways and a September 1928 Longman's Dorchester and Weymouth…
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£20 - £40 | £40 | View |
| 443 |
BOURNEMOUTH STREET AND TRAM MAP
c1910, with period advertisements
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£20 - £40 | £35 | View |
| 444 |
THE SERVALL GRATE CATALOGUE
issued by Coalbrookdale & Co, 1930s, with period colour plates
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£20 - £40 | £10 | View |
| 445 |
THREE EARLY POSTCARDS OF STEAM VEHICLES
a traction engine, a steam lorry with soldiers and threshing
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£20 - £40 | £35 | View |
| 446 |
DORSET INTEREST: 'A BILL OF THE EXPENSES TAKING 3 MEN TO DOGESTER'
(sic), with an 1845 probate document, and a quantity of 20th century photographic negatives
Provenance: The Estate of the late Roger Peers (1932-2023), Curator of the Dorset County Museum between… |
£20 - £40 | £25 | View |
| 447 |
BOURNEMOUTH & BOSCOMBE ATHLETIC FOOTBALL CLUB
Official Handbook 1948-9, with other sporting programmes and Poole Grammar School Cricket Club fixtures cards, 1930-31, 1932-33 and 1933 seasons
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£30 - £50 | £10 | View |
| 448 |
A COLLECTION OF TRAM POSTCARDS AND PHOTOGRAPHS
many networks and types, mostly 1930s to 1950s, with a small er group of bus and coach postcards
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£30 - £50 | £30 | View |
| 449 |
A COLLECTION OF MARITIME AND AVIATION POSTCARDS
1930s to 1990s, including interiors
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£20 - £40 | £20 | View |
| 450 |
AN EDWARDIAN PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM
containing photos from various eras, and a further collection of ephemera including Christmas number of 'Locomotive Magazine' 1898
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£30 - £50 | £10 | View |
| 451 |
A COLLECTION OF FOOTBALL FIXTURE ANNUALS
published by various newspapers, 1923-24, 1933-34 and 1940s and 1950s seasons, with football match programmes including 1965 Leeds Liverpool cup final and Somerset County Football Association…
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£20 - £40 | £50 | View |
| 452 |
A COLLECTION OF CIGARETTE CARDS, VARIOUS SERIES
and companies, some contained in modern albums and some loose, plus one empty album
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£40 - £60 | £45 | View |
| 453 |
A COLLECTION OF EPHEMERA
catalogues, programmes, magazines, pamphlets etc.
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£20 - £40 | £10 | View |
| 454 |
A FOLIO OF MUSEUM/EXHIBITION POSTERS
many for Dorset County Museum, Reynolds Stone, Elisabeth Frink, Henry Moore, Michael Upton etc, many duplicates
Provenance: The Estate of the late Roger Peers (1932-2023), Curator of the Dorset… |
£30 - £50 | £100 | View |
| 455 |
A QUANTITY OF VANITY FAIR AND SPY PRINTS
all unframed, in plastic wrappers, mostly 1870s, with a damaged and incomplete copy of George Walker, The Costume of Yorkshire in 1814
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£50 - £100 | £100 | View |
| 456 |
A LATE 19TH STEVENGRAPH BOOKMARK - 'A BIRTHDAY WISH'
20.5cm long, a Harvey Barton 'A Cornish Litany' ghostly postcard and a quantity of postcards, greetings cards and ephemera
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£50 - £100 | £20 | View |
| 457 |
A LARGE COLLECTION OF ROYAL EPHEMERA
guide books, newspapers, books, postcards etc
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£30 - £50 | £10 | View |
| 458 |
A LARGE COLLECTION OF EPHEMERA
transport, sport, trade catalogues, theatre and other programmes, pamphlets, documents, military, travel etc.
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£20 - £40 | £25 | View |
| 459 |
A SUBSTANTIAL RUN OF NOTES AND QUERIES FOR SOMERSET AND DORSET MAGAZINES
from the 1930s to the 1990s
Provenance: The Estate of the late Roger Peers (1932-2023), Curator of the Dorset County Museum between 1959 and 1992 |
£20 - £40 | - | View |
| 460 |
A COLLECTION OF 19th CENTURY ITALIAN GRAND TOUR PHOTOGRAPHS,
art and architecture, with other photographs including portraits, ships etc
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£30 - £50 | - | View |
| 461 |
BARRETT, C.R.B.: 'SOMERSETSHIRE: HIGHWAYS, BYWAYS AND WATERWAYS'
signed limited edition no. 55 of 65, published by Bliss, Sands and Foster, London 1894, in three-quarter leather binding
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£30 - £40 | - | View |
| 462 |
ST. JOHN.HOPE, W.H. & BRAKSPEAR, HAROLD: 'THE CISTERCIAN ABBEY OF BEAULIEU IN THE COUNTY OF SOUTHAMPTON'
reprinted from the Archaeological Journal, published by Harrison & Sons, London 1906, the title page with handwritten inscription 'With the author’s compliments, and dated 28th February 07, in…
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£20 - £30 | £15 | View |
| 463 |
HUTCHINS, JOHN: 'THE HISTORY OF THE BLANDFORD DIVISION OF THE COUNTY OF DORSET'
reprinted from Hutchins Celebrated History, published by J. Russell Smith, London 1860, in brown cloth binding, together with two paper bound copies of ‘History and Antiquities of the County of…
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£40 - £60 | £20 | View |
| 464 |
POUNCY, HARRY: 'A SHORT HISTORY OF THE OLD KING'S ARMS HOTEL, DORCHESTER'
type proof copy, in loose card folder (poor condition)
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£20 - £30 | £60 | View |
| 465 |
SHELL GUIDE WILTSHIRE
1st edition 1935, spiral bound, edited by Robert Byron
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£50 - £80 | £10 | View |
| 466 |
COMBE, THOMAS, PRINTER: 'MEMORIALS OF A PARISH IN CODFORD ST. MARY'
sold by John Henry Parker, Oxford 1844, in three-quarter black leather binding; together with two other volumes, 'The History of Warminster' and 'Memorials of Wilton', both cloth-bound (3)
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£40 - £60 | £10 | View |
| 467 |
SAVAGE, JAMES: 'THE HISTORY OF DORCHESTER AND ITS ENVIRONS'
two copies, both published by Weston, Dorchester 1832 and 1833, in card and leather bindings respectively (2)
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£40 - £60 | £70 | View |
| 468 |
WANKLYN, C., ‘LYME REGIS’
Published by Arthur Humphreys, London, 1922, grey cloth and blue card binding
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£30 - £40 | £10 | View |
| 469 |
BRAYE, JOHN (EDITOR): 'SWANAGE'
second edition published by William Henry Everett & Son, London 1890, in card binding with printed cover, handwritten annotation to the front noting that this is 'Richard Hine of Beaminster’s…
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£40 - £60 | £20 | View |
| 470 |
ROBINSON, WILLIAM: 'THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITES OF THE PARISH STOKE NEWINGTON'
first edition printed for John Nichols, London 1820, gilt-tooled brown leather binding
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£50 - £70 | £40 | View |
| 471 |
ROBINSON, WILLIAM: 'THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITES OF THE PARISH OF EDMONTON'
printed for the author and sold by J. Nicholls et al, London 1819, in three-quarter brown leather binding
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£40 - £60 | £25 | View |
| 472 |
GARROW, REVEREND DW: 'THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF CROYDON’
printed for W. Annan, Croydon 1818, in three-quarter red leather binding with marble boards
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£50 - £70 | £70 | View |
| 473 |
FERREY, BENJAMIN: 'THE ANTIQUITIES OF THE PRIORY OF CHRISTCHURCH, HANTS'
printed for Benjamin Ferrey, London 1834, scarce first issue with a history of Christchurch, later four brown calf binding
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£60 - £80 | £20 | View |
| 474 |
ADAMS, THOMAS: 'A HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT TOWN OF SHAFTESBURY'
published by Adams, Shaftesbury, 1808, in card binding
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£20 - £40 | £100 | View |
| 475 |
SYDENHAM, JOHN, ‘BAAL DUROTRIGENSIS, A DISSERTATION ON THE ANTIENT COLOSSAL FIGURE AT CERNE, DORSETSHIRE’
published by Pickering, Piccadilly, 1842, blue cloth bound
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£30 - £50 | £10 | View |
| 476 |
PRITCHARD, JOHN E: 'BRISTOL TOKENS'
reprinted from the Numismatic Chronicle, London 1899, in blue cloth binding, together with Hutton, Stanley, ‘Bristol and its Famous Associations’, published by Arrowsmith, Bristol, 1907, vellum bound…
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£20 - £30 | £10 | View |
| 477 |
THE STUDIO: MODERN MASTERS OF ETCHING, ALPHONSE LEGROS
1926, with F.S. Meyer 'A handbook of ornament', Batsford 1896, and other books
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£20 - £30 | £10 | View |
| 478 |
OLIVER, REVEREND GEORGE: 'THE HISTORY OF EXETER'
printed by R. Cullum, Exeter 1821, in later three-quarter brown leather binding
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£30 - £40 | £65 | View |
| 479 |
WAYEN, J: 'THE HISTORY MILITARY AND MUNICIPAL OF THE ANCIENT BOROUGH OF DEVIZES'
published by Longman, Brown & Co. London 1859, in brown three-quarter leather binding (with damage and foxing)
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£20 - £30 | £10 | View |
| 480 |
WEBB, F: 'SOMERSET A POEM'
sold by Edward Bentley, London 1811, in blue cloth binding
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£30 - £40 | £10 | View |
