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

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Total lots: 659

Lot Title Estimate Hammer price
457 THE COLLECTED WORKS OF DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI
Edited with preface and notes by William M. Rossetti, two volumes, Ellis and Elvey, London, 1890
£40 - £60 £40 View
458 L. FORBES WINSLOW: MAD HUMANITY
its forms apparent and obscure, C.A. Pearson Ltd, London 1898, with; A.P.W. Philip; A Treatise on Indigestion and its Consequences, London, 1824 (2)
£40 - £60 - View
459 OLIVER GOLDSMITH: A HISTORY OF THE EARTH AND ANIMATED NATURE
four volumes, A. Fullarton and Co, Glasgow, 1832, (worn marbled boards, loose spines)
£50 - £100 £30 View
460 HINTS TOWARDS FORMING THE CHARACTER OF A YOUNG PRINCESS
two volumes, 3rd ed, London, printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1805, calf (worn)
£40 - £60 - View
461 WILLIAM BARRETT: THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE CITY OF BRISTOL
Bristol, William Pine, Wine St, 1789, with fold-out maps and illustrations (two copies; one with marbled boards, the other with detached board, ex Bath Public Library, both worn) (2)
£40 - £80 £40 View
462 JAMES McNEILL WHISTLER: THE GENTLE ART OF MAKING ENEMIES
William Heinemann, London 1890, with E.R. and J. Pennell; The life of James McNeill Whistler (2 copies 1911 and 1925), The Whistler Journal (1921), and T.R. Way; Memories of...Whistler' 1912 (5)
£30 - £60 £30 View
463 BURKE'S HERALDIC ILLUSTRATIONS WITH EXPLANATORY PEDIGREES
3 vols, London, Edward Churton, 1844, bound in green leather (bindings a/f, some foxing)
£100 - £200 - View
464 T .E. LAWRENCE, THE SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM
first public edition 1935, worn condition , with The Illustrated Family Burns, 100 engravings by Evans, William MaKenzie, Glasgow
£200 - £400 - View
465 PLAIN OR RINGLETS 'BY THE AUTHOR OF HANDLEY CROSS..'
illus John Leech, printed for subscribers from plates of the original ed, Bradbury, Agnew and Co, London, with other similar volumes, and The tour of Doctor Syntax in search of the Picturesque, illus…
£30 - £60 - View
466 VICTORIAN BROWN LEATHER PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM
family photos mostly Manchester area and North West, album with floral pages, with Daniel Lyons, American Dictionary of the English Language, New York 1897
£40 - £60 £20 View
467 STAMP COLLECTOR'S FORTNIGHTLY, FOUR VOLUMES
1894 - 1898, cloth bound
£30 - £50 - View
468 JOHN E. SOWERBY (ILLUS): THE GRASSES OF GREAT BRITAIN
described by Charles Johnson, London, Robert Hardwicke, c.1860, with F.E. Tripp: British Mosses, 2 vols, London, George Bell, 1874, F.O. Morris; A History of British Butterflies, London, John C.…
£40 - £60 - View
469 DOMESDAY BOOK, 1783 VOL I ONLY
(poor condition, ex library copy) with Morden's map of Wiltshire (folded), and other books including 19th century bound sheet music, T. Moore; Lalla Rookh, Longman, 1863, Sidney Dark; Paris,…
£40 - £60 £15 View
470 WALTER SCOTT: THE VISION OF DON RODERICK
Edinburgh, James Ballantyne, 1811 (detached boards), with Oeuvres de Victor Hugo, two vols, Brussels, 1843, Rev E. Blomfield; The History of the Martyrs, two vols, Bungay, 1810 (a/f), Taylor's Holy…
£40 - £80 £15 View
471 FOLIO SOCIETY: VARIOUS, INCLUDING; MATURIN, CHARLES - ‘MELMOTH THE WANDERER’
1993, with slip case and a further collection of Folio Society books (some wear) (right-hand side of bookcase)
£150 - £250 - View
472 PRINCE RANJITSINHJI: THE JUBILEE BOOK OF CRICKET
Wm Blackwood and Sons, 3rd ed, 1897, and other books of cricketing interest, including Wisden Almanacks, 1956 - 2010 (with many gaps)
£30 - £50 £60 View
473 FOLIO SOCIETY: VARIOUS VOLUMES
including 'Daphnis and Chloe, illus. Marcel Vertes,1954 (case scruffy), 'The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night', 2 vols, 1958 (no case), others and similar
£40 - £60 £25 View
474 A COLLECTION OF WISDENS
including 1929 and 1946, with Playfair Cricket Annuals, 1948, 1949, 1951, 1952, 1955
£30 - £50 £50 View
475 FOLIO SOCIETY: A VARIED COLLECTION OF VOLUMES
and a few other books
£80 - £120 £70 View
476 ROBERT SABUDA & MATTHEW REINHART: MEGA BEASTS
Encyclopedia Prehistorica; a pop-up book, Candlewick Press, Cambridge, Massschusetts 2007, signed and numbered edition 267/300, in slip case
£80 - £120 £100 View
477 JOHN NORTON: THE MANY FACES OF AMERICA
Elephant Press, 1978, with a collection of books; Sassoon, Greene, Mungo, Hoffmann, etc (9)
£30 - £40 £15 View
478 'THE TEMPLE SHAKESPEARE' PUBLISHED BY J.M. DENT
and a collection of popular editions; Scott, Dickens, Dumas etc, and other books
£30 - £50 £70 View
479 FOLIO SOCIETY: VARIOUS, INCLUDING; DARWIN, CHARLES - ‘THE ESSENTIAL DARWIN’
four volume set, together with a further collection of Folio Society volumes (top shelf of bookcase)
£150 - £250 - View
480 THOMAS HARDY: VARIOUS WORKS
including Two on a tower, Osgood, McIlvaine and Co, 1895, The well-beloved, 2nd ed, A group of noble dames, 1891, Human shows Far phantasies, Macmillan and Co, 1925 reprint (with jacket, a/f),…
£100 - £200 £100 View

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