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| Lot | Title | Estimate | Hammer price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 528 |
'THE WORLD'S FAIR or CHILDRENS' PRIZE GIFT BOOK OF THE GREAT EXHIBITION'
Dean and Son, and Ackermann, with; 'Punch's pocket book' for 1847, and 1848, three small books; 'Victoria', 'A Christmas Carol', and a miniature Bible, n olivewood bound Gospel, and a Victorian…
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£30 - £60 | £80 | View |
| 529 |
CHURCHILL, SIR W.S. - TWO TITLES - 'THE SECOND WORLD WAR' AND 'A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH SPEAKING PEOPLES'
both Chartwell Editions, volumes 1-6 and 1-4 respectively, published by the Educational Book Company, 1954 and 1956, red and blue cloth bindings (10)
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£100 - £200 | £150 | View |
| 530 |
BATTLE OF BRITAIN 50th ANNIVERSARY FLYPAST
Published by the Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund, 1990
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£30 - £50 | - | View |
| 531 |
THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY PICTURES SERIES
illustrated volumes with pictorial cloth boards, comprising London Pictures, Irish Pictures, Scottish Pictures from the German Fatherland, Indian Pictures, Swiss Pictures, Norwegian Pictures,…
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£100 - £200 | £200 | View |
| 532 |
HARRY POTTER, SEVEN FIRST EDITIONS
including Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, first US edition 1998
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£100 - £200 | - | View |
| 533 |
OVID'S METMORPHOSES; THOMAS FARNABY
vellum binding (lacking title), with other books incl. John Denham; 'Poems and translations; with the Sophy a Tragedy', Glasgow 1771, and others (some incomplete sets) (10)
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£30 - £50 | £60 | View |
| 534 |
THE BEATLES, YELLOW SUBMARINE
1st edition, New English Library, August 1968
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£30 - £50 | £30 | View |
| 535 |
ALEXANDER HOSIE, MANCHURIA, ITS PEOPLE, RESOURCES AND RECENT HISTORY
1st edition, Methuen London, 1901, signed presentation copy
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- | £90 | View |
| 536 |
MARY SHELLEY, FRANKENSTEIN
rare pocket edition, George Routledge London 1888, with two leather bound books
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£50 - £80 | £320 | View |
| 537 |
HUMBERT WOLFE, PORTRAIT OF HEINE
signed limited edition, Cresset Press London, 1930, green leather binding
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£30 - £50 | - | View |
| 538 |
TWAIN, MARK: TWO TITLES - ‘THE INNOCENTS ABROAD’ AND ‘THE NEW PILGRIMS’ PROGRESS’
8vo, the former published by John Camden Horton, Piccadilly, London, the latter by George Routledge and Sons, The Broadway, Ludgate, London, both bound together in three-quarter red leather with…
|
£100 - £200 | - | View |
| 539 |
ALDOUS HUXLEY, THE DOORS OF PERCEPTION
1st edition, Chatto & Windus London 1954, with other philosophy and spiritual books
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£100 - £200 | £220 | View |
| 540 |
'THE LYRIC' AN ESSAY BY JOHN DRINKWATER
Martin Secker, London 1922 (of 1000 copies) decorative printed boards with buckram spine
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£30 - £50 | - | View |
| 541 |
CANTERI, GULIELMI: ‘LYCOPHRONIS CHALCIDENSIS’
Latin and Greek, 8vo, published by Hieronymum Commelinum, Geneva, 1596, gilt tooled full brown calf binding
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£250 - £500 | £60 | View |
| 542 |
JEAN CALVIN: LE PSAULTIER, Qui est LE LIVRE DES PSEAUMES de DAVID
Chez Jean Crespin 1558, old vellum binding with numerous old inscriptions (lacking frontispiece?)
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£100 - £200 | £120 | View |
| 543 |
JACK B YEATS: THE TREASURE OF THE GARDEN
a play for the miniature stage, with images hand coloured by Yeats, published by Elkin Mathews, London, 1902
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£100 - £200 | £340 | View |
| 544 |
A.A. MILNE: NOW WE ARE SIX
first published 1927, red cloth, gilt (marked), with Winnie the Pooh second edition 1926, and When we were very young, fifteenth edition 1927 (all with owner inscriptions) (3)
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£40 - £60 | £90 | View |
| 545 |
BOWLES, CHARLES: ‘MODERN WILTS - HUNDRED OF CHALKE’
8vo, printed for the author by Clarence Rutter, Shaftesbury 1830, half green cloth binding with marbled boards
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£50 - £100 | £20 | View |
| 546 |
STARK, FREYA - 'BEYOND EUPHRATES'
first edition, published by John Murray, London, 1951, green cloth bound with dustwrapper, Urban, Samuel - 'The Gentleman's Magazine' volume XII 1789, rebound green three-quarter leather and two…
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£50 - £100 | £50 | View |
| 547 |
SMITH, ADAM - 'AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS'
tenth edition, volume three, printed by A. Strahan for T. Cadell Jnr, Lonon 1802, full calf bound with black and red half titles
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£100 - £200 | - | View |
| 548 |
B.L. PUTNAM WEALE: MANCHU AND MUSCOVITE
1st edition Macmillan London, 1904, with Putnam Weale, Why China Sees Red, 1st edition, Dodd Mead New York, 1925 and another book of Manchurian interest
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- | - | View |
| 549 |
BULWER-LYTTON, EDWARD: TWO TITLES - ‘ERNEST MATRAVERS’ AND ‘THE LAST OF THE BARONS’
first editions, each with volumes 1-3, 8vo, published by Saunders and Otley, London, 1837 and 1843 respectively, all uniformly bound in three-quarter brown leather with marbled boards, the former…
|
£100 - £200 | £95 | View |
| 550 |
‘THE HOLY BIBLE’
French, 8vo, printed by B. Griffin and R. Everingham for F. Vaillant Marchand Libraire, Stand, London 1688, full gilt tooled red calf binding
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£80 - £120 | £190 | View |
| 551 |
BYRON, LORD GEORGE GORDON: ‘WORKS’
volumes 1,2-4-6, 8vo, published by Galignani, Paris, 1818, vellum bound with ‘recycled’ flyleaves (5)
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£50 - £100 | £45 | View |
| 552 |
MANELLI, FRANCESCO DI AMARETTO: ‘IL DECAMERON DI BOCCACCIO’
1761, 4to, full calf bound with maroon leather half title
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£200 - £400 | - | View |
| 553 |
KIPLING, RUDYARD: FOUR TITLES
comprising ‘The Seven Seas’ (7th edition), ‘Barrack Room Ballads’ 17th edition), ‘The Five Nations’ (2nd edition) and ‘Departmental Ditties’ (16th edition), 8vo, all published by Methuen & Co,…
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£50 - £100 | - | View |
| 554 |
CHARLES DICKENS: A TALE OF TWO CITIES
illus. H.K. Browne, Chapman and Hall 1859, modern half-calf with marbled boards (title, frontispiece repaired edges)
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£40 - £60 | £220 | View |
| 555 |
THREE MUSIC BOOKS; 'A POCKET BOOK ROR THE GUITAR'
printed for Longman, Lukey and Broderip, at The Apollo, with 'The Apollo, or Harmonist in Miniature', and 'The life of Fenelon...and...a Letter on Antient and Modern Music', J. Murray 1819 (3) (some…
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£30 - £50 | £120 | View |
| 556 |
'IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE BRONTES' and 'IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF GEORGE ELIOT'
- two photographic scrapbooks, circa 1907, both in later marbled boards with buckram spines, labelled (2)
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£70 - £100 | £70 | View |
| 557 |
SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE'S CABINET OF GEMS
With BIOGRAPHICAL and DESCRIPTIVE MEMORIALS, by P.G. Patmore, London 1837 (foxed, water staining)
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£50 - £100 | - | View |
| 558 |
APPULEII (APULEIUS c. AD 124-170): ‘METAMORPHOSEON’
Latin, with preface by David Ruhnken, 4to, published by Van der Eyk, Leiden, 1786, full calf binding
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£50 - £100 | £50 | View |
| 559 |
‘POETAE HEROICI GRAECI’
fo, published by Aureliae Allobrogum, 1606, full calf bound with later red leather half title and spine bands
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£150 - £250 | £220 | View |
| 560 |
STRABONIS (STRABO b 63 B.C.): ‘RERUM GEOGRAPHICARUM’
two volumes titled ‘Liber XVII’ and ‘Tomis Alter’ respectively comprising thirteen chapters with other sections, fo, published by J. Wolters, Amsterdam, 1707, full calf and tooled binding with…
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£150 - £250 | £150 | View |
| 561 |
WYNDHAM LEWIS - 'THE APES OF GOD'
and a quantity of early 20th century literature
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£80 - £100 | £100 | View |
| 562 |
'THONET BENTWOOD & OTHER FURNITURE; THE 1904 ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE'
(facsimile) Dover Publications Inc. 1980, with 'The Shaker chair', Schiffer 2003, and other books on chairs, chair seating, antiques etc
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£30 - £40 | £10 | View |
| 563 |
A QUANTITY OF BOOKS; EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY
and other popular editions, with 'Excursions in the County of Suffolk', and others (some bindings poor)
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£30 - £50 | £35 | View |
| 564 |
A COLLECTION OF 'ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION' PAPERBACKS
1940s - 50s
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£60 - £100 | £60 | View |
| 565 |
H W LONGFELLOW THE POETICAL WORKS
Nelson & Sons, London, 1866, photographic frontispiece, with other books including Goldsmith, Vicar of Wakefield, John C Nimmo, London 1886 and Thomas Hardy volumes
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£50 - £80 | £30 | View |
| 566 |
A COLLECTION OF LEATHER BOUND BOOKS
and similar, including The Novels of George Eliot, half-calf
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£40 - £80 | £110 | View |
| 567 |
A COLLECTION OF MIXED BOOKS
including Sarah Tytler; 'The life of Her Most Gracious Majesty The Queen', J.S. Virtue, c.1897 (a/f), other books and ephemera of Royal interest, childrens' books, 'I-Spy' books etc
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£30 - £40 | - | View |
| 568 |
THOMAS HARDY: A PAIR OF BLUE EYES
Macmillan and Co 1912 (a/f), with C.J. Rolleston; The age of folly, John Milne 1911 (dedicated copy with author letter) Evelyn Waugh: Vile Bodies, tenth imp. 1930, Ian Fleming; Thrilling cities,…
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£40 - £80 | £45 | View |
| 569 |
J.R.R. TOLKIEN: THE LORD OF THE RINGS
'The Fellowship of the Ring' thirteenth impression 1963; 'The Two Towers' tenth impression 1963 and 'The Return of the King' tenth impression 1963, all with dust jackets (soiled, torn, and clipped,…
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£100 - £200 | £360 | View |
| 570 |
BARETTI, JOSEPH - ‘A DICTIONARY, SPANISH AND ENGLISH’
new edition, printed for F. Wingrave et al, London 1794, full brown leather bound and a quantity of literature and language related volumes.
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£100 - £200 | £30 | View |
| 571 |
SEARLE, RONALD - 'MERRY ENGLAND, ETC.'
first edition, published by Perpetua Books, London, 1956, black cloth bound, together with six other children's books (7)
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£100 - £200 | £100 | View |
| 572 |
‘CHAMBER’S ENCYCLOPAEDIA’
new edition, volumes 1-10, published by William & Robert Chambers, London, 1908, maroon cloth binding (10)
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£100 - £200 | - | View |
| 573 |
A LARGE QUANTITY OF BOUND 'PUNCH' VOLUMES
1870s - 1960s (varying bindings and condition)
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£100 - £200 | - | View |
| 574 |
‘A SHORT AND FAITHFUL ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF…MR THOMAS CHUBB’
printed for John Noon, London, 1747, half brown leather bound with marbled boards and a quantity of books on mixed subjects
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£100 - £200 | - | View |
| 575 |
A COLLECTION OF DORSET AND HARDY BOOKS
including 'The Dorset Year book' and 'Dorset the complete guide'.
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£40 - £60 | £70 | View |
