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Auction date Tuesday 8 April 2025 10:00 - 17:30 BST

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Lots per page:

Total lots: 769

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…
£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)
£100 - £200 £150 View
530 BATTLE OF BRITAIN 50th ANNIVERSARY FLYPAST
Published by the Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund, 1990
£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,…
£100 - £200 £200 View
532 HARRY POTTER, SEVEN FIRST EDITIONS
including Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, first US edition 1998
£100 - £200 £90 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)
£30 - £50 £60 View
534 THE BEATLES, YELLOW SUBMARINE
1st edition, New English Library, August 1968
£30 - £50 £30 View
535 ALEXANDER HOSIE, MANCHURIA, ITS PEOPLE, RESOURCES AND RECENT HISTORY
1st edition, Methuen London, 1901, signed presentation copy
- £90 View
536 MARY SHELLEY, FRANKENSTEIN
rare pocket edition, George Routledge London 1888, with two leather bound books
£50 - £80 £320 View
537 HUMBERT WOLFE, PORTRAIT OF HEINE
signed limited edition, Cresset Press London, 1930, green leather binding
£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
£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
£30 - £50 - View
541 CANTERI, GULIELMI: ‘LYCOPHRONIS CHALCIDENSIS’
Latin and Greek, 8vo, published by Hieronymum Commelinum, Geneva, 1596, gilt tooled full brown calf binding
£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?)
£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
£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)
£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
£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…
£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
£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
- - 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
£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)
£50 - £100 £45 View

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