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Auction date Tuesday 8 April 2025 10:00 - 17:30 BST
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Total lots: 769

MANELLI, FRANCESCO DI AMARETTO: ‘IL DECAMERON DI BOCCACCIO’
Lot 552 Unsold
MANELLI, FRANCESCO DI AMARETTO: ‘IL DECAMERON DI BOCCACCIO’
1761, 4to, full calf bound with maroon leather half title
Estimate: £200 - £400
8 April 2025
8 April 2025
KIPLING, RUDYARD: FOUR TITLES
Lot 553 Unsold
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, London 1900, 1903 and 1904 respectively, uniformly bound in three-quarter brown leather (4)
Estimate: £50 - £100
8 April 2025
8 April 2025
CHARLES DICKENS: A TALE OF TWO CITIES
Lot 554 Sold
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)
Hammer price: £220
Estimate: £40 - £60
8 April 2025
8 April 2025
THREE MUSIC BOOKS; 'A POCKET BOOK FOR THE GUITAR'
Lot 555 Sold
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 boards detached etc)
Hammer price: £120
Estimate: £30 - £50
8 April 2025
8 April 2025
'IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE BRONTES' and 'IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF GEORGE ELIOT'
Lot 556 Sold
'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)
Hammer price: £70
Estimate: £70 - £100
8 April 2025
8 April 2025
SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE'S CABINET OF GEMS
Lot 557 Unsold
SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE'S CABINET OF GEMS
With BIOGRAPHICAL and DESCRIPTIVE MEMORIALS, by P.G. Patmore, London 1837 (foxed, water staining)
Estimate: £50 - £100
8 April 2025
8 April 2025
APPULEII (APULEIUS c. AD 124-170): ‘METAMORPHOSEON’
Lot 558 Sold
APPULEII (APULEIUS c. AD 124-170): ‘METAMORPHOSEON’
Latin, with preface by David Ruhnken, 4to, published by Van der Eyk, Leiden, 1786, full calf binding
Hammer price: £50
Estimate: £50 - £100
8 April 2025
8 April 2025
‘POETAE HEROICI GRAECI’
Lot 559 Sold
‘POETAE HEROICI GRAECI’
fo, published by Aureliae Allobrogum, 1606, full calf bound with later red leather half title and spine bands
Hammer price: £220
Estimate: £150 - £250
8 April 2025
8 April 2025
STRABONIS (STRABO b 63 B.C.): ‘RERUM GEOGRAPHICARUM’
Lot 560 Sold
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 prominent spine bands and gilt lettered half titles (2)
Hammer price: £150
Estimate: £150 - £250
8 April 2025
8 April 2025
WYNDHAM LEWIS - 'THE APES OF GOD'
Lot 561 Sold
WYNDHAM LEWIS - 'THE APES OF GOD'
and a quantity of early 20th century literature
Hammer price: £100
Estimate: £80 - £100
8 April 2025
8 April 2025
'THONET BENTWOOD & OTHER FURNITURE; THE 1904 ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE'
Lot 562 Sold
'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
Hammer price: £10
Estimate: £30 - £40
8 April 2025
8 April 2025
A QUANTITY OF BOOKS; EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY
Lot 563 Sold
A QUANTITY OF BOOKS; EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY
and other popular editions, with 'Excursions in the County of Suffolk', and others (some bindings poor)
Hammer price: £35
Estimate: £30 - £50
8 April 2025
8 April 2025
A COLLECTION OF 'ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION' PAPERBACKS
Lot 564 Sold
A COLLECTION OF 'ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION' PAPERBACKS
1940s - 50s
Hammer price: £60
Estimate: £60 - £100
8 April 2025
8 April 2025
H W LONGFELLOW THE POETICAL WORKS
Lot 565 Sold
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
Hammer price: £30
Estimate: £50 - £80
8 April 2025
8 April 2025
A COLLECTION OF LEATHER BOUND BOOKS
Lot 566 Sold
A COLLECTION OF LEATHER BOUND BOOKS
and similar, including The Novels of George Eliot, half-calf
Hammer price: £110
Estimate: £40 - £80
8 April 2025
8 April 2025
A COLLECTION OF MIXED BOOKS
Lot 567 Unsold
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
Estimate: £30 - £40
8 April 2025
8 April 2025
THOMAS HARDY: A PAIR OF BLUE EYES
Lot 568 Sold
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, Jonathan Cape, 1963, and works by Kipling, and other mixed books (four boxes)
Hammer price: £45
Estimate: £40 - £80
8 April 2025
8 April 2025
J.R.R. TOLKIEN: THE LORD OF THE RINGS
Lot 569 Sold
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, one sellotaped) (3)
Hammer price: £360
Estimate: £100 - £200
8 April 2025
8 April 2025
BARETTI, JOSEPH - ‘A DICTIONARY, SPANISH AND ENGLISH’
Lot 570 Sold
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.
Hammer price: £30
Estimate: £100 - £200
8 April 2025
8 April 2025
SEARLE, RONALD - 'MERRY ENGLAND, ETC.'
Lot 571 Sold
SEARLE, RONALD - 'MERRY ENGLAND, ETC.'
first edition, published by Perpetua Books, London, 1956, black cloth bound, together with six other children's books (7)
Hammer price: £100
Estimate: £100 - £200
8 April 2025
8 April 2025
‘CHAMBER’S ENCYCLOPAEDIA’
Lot 572 Unsold
‘CHAMBER’S ENCYCLOPAEDIA’
new edition, volumes 1-10, published by William & Robert Chambers, London, 1908, maroon cloth binding (10)
Estimate: £100 - £200
8 April 2025
8 April 2025
A LARGE QUANTITY OF BOUND 'PUNCH' VOLUMES
Lot 573 Unsold
A LARGE QUANTITY OF BOUND 'PUNCH' VOLUMES
1870s - 1960s (varying bindings and condition)
Estimate: £100 - £200
8 April 2025
8 April 2025
‘A SHORT AND FAITHFUL ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF…MR THOMAS CHUBB’
Lot 574 Unsold
‘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
Estimate: £100 - £200
8 April 2025
8 April 2025
A COLLECTION OF DORSET AND HARDY BOOKS
Lot 575 Sold
A COLLECTION OF DORSET AND HARDY BOOKS
including 'The Dorset Year book' and 'Dorset the complete guide'.
Hammer price: £70
Estimate: £40 - £60
8 April 2025
8 April 2025

Total lots: 769

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