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| Lot | Title | Estimate | Hammer price | |
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| 474 |
KATHARINE 'KITTY' CHURCH (WEST) 1910-1999: A QUANTITY OF UNUSED POSTCARDS
from Salisbury Library & Galleries retrospective, with posters, and a sketchbook
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£20 - £40 | £20 | View |
| 475 | A COLLECTION OF AUTOGRAPH BOOKS AND DIARIES | £20 - £40 | £20 | View |
| 476 |
THOMAS CARLYLE: A SET OF WORKS, HALF-CALF WITH MARBLED BOARDS
Chapman & Hall, 1890s, 17 vols., and Arthur Bryant; 'Pepys', 3 vols.
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£20 - £40 | £80 | View |
| 477 |
H NOEL WILLIAMS: 'MME RECAMIER AND HER FRIENDS'
limited to 600 copies, signed
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£10 - £20 | £30 | View |
| 478 | A COLLECTION OF RAILWAY INTEREST MAGAZINES | £10 - £20 | £10 | View |
| 479 |
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS
fiction, non-fiction, history, biography, nature, gardening, travel etc.
|
£40 - £60 | - | View |
| 480 |
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS ABOUT THOMAS HARDY
including biographies, literary studies and topographical works
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£40 - -£60 | £55 | View |
| 481 |
'AN IVENTORY OF HISTORICAL MONUMENTS IN THE COUNTY OF DORSET; VOLUME II SOUTH EAST, PART 1, 2, 3
and other Dorset books
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£40 - £60 | £45 | View |
| 482 |
'DIARIES AND CORRESPONDANCE OF JAMES HARRIS, FIRST EARL OF MALMSBURY'
Edited by his grandson, the third Earl, 4 vols. Richard Bentley 1844 (worn); Mrs Jameson: Legens of the Madonna, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1890, and other works by the same author (7), George…
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£40 - £80 | £20 | View |
| 483 |
CHAMBERS' CYCLOPAEDIA OF ENGLISH LITERATURE, VOLUMES I-III,
Darton, F.J.H., The Soul of Dorset, Hodder, The Life and Work of the Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, K.G. Darton
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£10 - £20 | £10 | View |
| 484 |
A SMALL QUANTITY OF MOTORING BOOKS
including Formula One and Sports Cars
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£10 - £20 | - | View |
| 485 |
BAILLIE & ILBERT: 'BRITTEN'S OLD CLOCKS AND WATCHES AND THEIR MAKERS'
Bloomsbury Books London, 1982, ninth edition, and other books on antiques
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£10 - £20 | £15 | View |
| 486 |
THOMAS BINGLEY: 'TALES ABOUT BIRDS...THEIR NATURE, HABITS AND INSTINCTS'
W.Kent & Co, 1861, with 'Birds of Britain' and 'British Birds' (3)
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£10 - £20 | £10 | View |
| 487 |
SHERIDAN, RICHARD BRINSLEY: THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL
llustrated by Hugh Thompson, (spine torn)
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£10 - £20 | £20 | View |
| 488 | A QUANTITY OF BOOKS BY AND ABOUT WILLIAM BARNES AND T. F. POWYS | £40 - £60 | £65 | View |
| 489 |
A COLLECTION OF T. E. LAWRENCE BOOKS
including biographies, studies and early copies of 'The Mint' and 'Letters'
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£40 - £60 | £110 | View |
| 490 |
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS ABOUT DORSET
including history, topography, geology, military and town and place studies
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£20 - £40 | £55 | View |
| 491 |
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS
including history, biography, travel, topography, country, military etc.
|
£20 - £40 | £10 | View |
| 492 |
A COLLECTION OF VINTAGE DORSET GUIDE BOOKS
including Wimborne, Abbotsbury, Corfe Castle, Bridport, Dorchester, Farnham, Poole
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£20 - £40 | £10 | View |
| 493 |
T. WATSON GREIG: 'LADIES' OLD FASHIONED SHOES'
With eleven illustrations, decorated buff boards Publ. David Douglas, Edinburgh 1885
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£50 - £100 | £550 | View |
| 494 |
A BOUND SET OF WALTER SCOTT'S WORKS
Waverley novels and poetry, 60 volumes, 1832 edition, with four other leather bound books
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£20 - £40 | £65 | View |
| 495 |
E. OE. SOMERVILLE M.F.H.: 'SLIPPER'S ABC OF FOX HUNTING'
Longmans, Green, and Co 1903 (some spotting and marks throughout, scuffs to cover)
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£50 - £100 | £95 | View |
| 496 |
LOUIS RAEMAEKERS: 'THE GREAT WAR IN 1916', SIGNED EDITION
The Fine Art Society, 1917 (spotting to plates throughout, some wear to boards)
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£80 - £150 | £90 | View |
| 497 |
LOUIS RAEMAEKERS: 'THE GREAT WAR VICTORY VOLUME', SIGNED EDITION
The Fine Art Society, 1919 (some spots, soiling to boards)
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£80 - £150 | £90 | View |
| 498 |
LOUIS RAEMAEKERS: 'THE GREAT WAR, A NEUTRAL'S INDICTMENT'
Ed. de luxe (but unsigned) The Fine Art Society, 1916 (wear to boards, and to spine)
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£80 - £150 | £80 | View |
| 499 |
FRANCOIS RABELAIS: FIVE VOLUMES
Pantagruel, Gargantua, Tiers Livre unbound, Quo Vadis: Henryk Sienkiewicz (3 vols) and Jounral de Paris, 3 vols. bound
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£40 - £60 | £30 | View |
| 500 |
MORTIMER MEMPES: 'WHISTLER AS I KNEW HIM'
Adam & Charles Black 1904, and other books (poor cond.)
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£20 - £40 | £10 | View |
| 501 |
A COLLECTION OF 19TH CENTURY CHILDREN'S BOOKS
including Henty, Walter Crane, 'Ornaments Discovered', and others
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£20 - £40 | £20 | View |
| 502 |
IAN FLEMING: THE SPY WHO LOVED ME
inscription, but not signed by author
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£50 - £80 | £30 | View |
| 503 |
THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF WINDSOR: SOTHEBY'S 3 VOL. CATALOGUE
First edition, three vols in slipcase. from the sale September 11-19, 1997 which was not held until February 1998 due to the death of Princess Diana.
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£10 - £20 | £35 | View |
| 504 |
MARSHALL-BALL, ROBIN: 'THE SPORTING RIFLE' , SWAN HILL UK EDN. 1995
with Eric Parker: 'Elements of Shooting' publ. The Field Press, and other books on firearms and gunsports (12)
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£20 - £40 | - | View |
| 505 | A LARGE COLLECTION OF MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS | £30 - £50 | £15 | View |
| 506 |
R. WARNER HAMPSHIRE EXTRACTED FROM THE DOMES-DAY BOOK
London 1789, modern binding
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£20 - £40 | £50 | View |
| 507 |
A. MURRAY, COMPLETE WORKS OF CORNELIUS TACITUS
2 volumes, London 1813, with Boswell's Life of Johnson, 1866
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£20 - £40 | £20 | View |
| 508 |
H. S. K. YAMAGUCHI, WE JAPANESE
descriptions of the customs, manners, ceremonies, festivals, arts and crafts etc. 1935, richly illustrated, cased
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£20 - £40 | £20 | View |
| 509 |
A QUANTITY OF BOOKS ON MAGIC, MYTHOLOGY AND THE OCCULT
together with books on Mexican and Mesoamerican Art and Artists to include volumes on Pre-Columbian art and architecture, through to biographies of Rivera and Kahlo
Provenance: The Studio of Peter… |
£25 - £50 | £20 | View |
| 510 |
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS AND EXHIBITION CATALOGUES BY PETER SNOW AND HIS FRIENDS AND CONTEMPORARIES
to include works by W. Somerset Maugham, D.H. Lawrence and Aldous Huxley that were illustrated by Peter Snow, a book on Greeting Cards by Peter and Maria Snow, and volumes on figures such as Joan…
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£30 - £50 | £25 | View |
| 511 |
A QUANTITY OF FIRST AND LATER EDITIONS
including volumes by T.S. Eliot, Aldous Huxley and W. Somerset Maugham, books on art and other subjects (a lot)
Provenance: The Studio of Peter Snow (1927-2008) Peter Frederick Briscoe Snow was an… |
£30 - £50 | £45 | View |
| 512 |
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS
including Guy Sydenham; 'A Potter's Life' (signed)
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£20 - £40 | £15 | View |
| 513 | A QUANTITY OF FIREARMS AND SWORD COLLECTING BOOKS | £20 - £40 | £25 | View |
| 514 | A COLLECTION OF MILITARY AND NAVAL BOOKS | £20 - £40 | £15 | View |
| 515 |
PHILIP RICKMAN: BIRD PAINTINGS AND SKETCHES, 1979
limited to 500 copies, with a collection of illustrated books on travel and gardens including Mortimer Menpes, Donald Maxwell, Margaret Waterfield and Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale and others
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£50 - £80 | £160 | View |
| 516 |
ADOLF HITLER; 'MEINE KAMPF', ZENTRALVERLAG DER NSDAP
1943
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£30 - £50 | £20 | View |
| 517 |
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY; 'THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND',
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans 1855, four vols
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£40 - £60 | £110 | View |
| 518 |
JAMES AIKMAN: 'THE HISTORY OF SCOTLAND',
Blackie, Fullarton & Co, 1827, with John Struthers, The History of Scotland, Blackie, Fullarton & Co 1827
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£40 - £60 | £50 | View |
| 519 |
SIR WALTER SCOTT: 'THE WAVERLEY NOVELS'
Edinburgh Adam and Charles Black 1868, 4 Vols
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£40 - £60 | £45 | View |
| 520 |
A SET OF CHARLES KINGSLEY NOVELS
(6) Sixpenny Edition C.1889
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£20 - £40 | £25 | View |
| 521 |
GEORGE SALE; 'THE KORAN', LONDON THOMAS TEGG , 1825
two vols
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£20 - £40 | £30 | View |
