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

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Total lots: 769

Lot Title Estimate Hammer price
552 MANELLI, FRANCESCO DI AMARETTO: ‘IL DECAMERON DI BOCCACCIO’
1761, 4to, full calf bound with maroon leather half title
£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,…
£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)
£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…
£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)
£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)
£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
£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
£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…
£150 - £250 £150 View
561 WYNDHAM LEWIS - 'THE APES OF GOD'
and a quantity of early 20th century literature
£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
£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)
£30 - £50 £35 View
564 A COLLECTION OF 'ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION' PAPERBACKS
1940s - 50s
£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
£50 - £80 £30 View
566 A COLLECTION OF LEATHER BOUND BOOKS
and similar, including The Novels of George Eliot, half-calf
£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
£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,…
£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,…
£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.
£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)
£100 - £200 £100 View
572 ‘CHAMBER’S ENCYCLOPAEDIA’
new edition, volumes 1-10, published by William & Robert Chambers, London, 1908, maroon cloth binding (10)
£100 - £200 - View
573 A LARGE QUANTITY OF BOUND 'PUNCH' VOLUMES
1870s - 1960s (varying bindings and condition)
£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
£100 - £200 - View
575 A COLLECTION OF DORSET AND HARDY BOOKS
including 'The Dorset Year book' and 'Dorset the complete guide'.
£40 - £60 £70 View

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