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Tuesday 12th April starting at 10:00am
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| Lot | Title | Estimate | Hammer price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 432 |
A COLLECTION OF AIRLINE FLIGHT CREW JACKETS
including Lebanese International Airways, Overseas National Airways and others, with other bits of uniform
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£40 - £60 | £25 | View |
| 433 |
A LARGE VICTORIAN SCRAP ALBUM
with Punch cartoons, music cover cuttings, engravings, greetings cards, etc. circa 1870s-'80s
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£30 - £50 | £25 | View |
| 434 |
A FOLD-OUT ANATOMICAL MALE CARD DIAGRAM
probably Philips' popular mannikin, late 19th/20th century (incomplete, missing some elements and folder/cover)
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£20 - £40 | £20 | View |
| 435 |
A SIGNED AIR MAIL LETTER BY LOUIS AND EDWINA MOUNTBATTERN
dated 1944 addressed to Colonel J. Weld
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£30 - £50 | £30 | View |
| 436 |
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS SILVER JUBLIEE RECORD NUMBER 1910-1935
along with the coronation record number 1937 and other souvenir coronation programmes
|
£10 - £20 | £10 | View |
| 437 |
A COLLECTION OF 1950s/60s MECCANO MAGAZINES
together with Scout Annuals from the same era
|
£10 - £20 | - | View |
| 438 |
'GENERAL ORDER BOOK OF THE ROYAL SPELTHORN LEGION ADJUTANT' 1805
Napoleonic period M.S. bound in green vellum
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£300 - £400 | £320 | View |
| 439 | A COLLECTION OF CIGARETTE CARDS | £20 - £40 | £20 | View |
| 440 |
A COLLECTION OF POLICE MANUALS
mostly circa mid 20th century
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£20 - £40 | £15 | View |
| 441 |
A 19TH CENTURY ANTIQUARY'S ALBUM
with maps and drawings and manuscript text relating to South America, the Orkneys, Brittany, British megalithic, and others, with m.s extracts, cuttings etc. mostly c.1870s or earlier
|
£100 - £200 | £150 | View |
| 442 |
A COLLECTION OF EPHEMERA
including a series of unframed prints of indigenous American peoples
|
£20 - £40 | £20 | View |
| 443 |
A COLLECTION OF VINTAGE ADVERTISEMENTS
taken from Punch, The illustrated London News and other publications, contained in plastic sleeve albums
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£10 - £20 | £35 | View |
| 444 |
A COLLECTION OF EPHEMERA AND OTHER ITEMS
contained in a suitcase
|
£20 - £40 | £10 | View |
| 445 |
RONALD FRANKAU; 'OH DEAR DEAR!', ILLUS. LOLA ONSLOW
Warne & Co Ltd 1929, with jacket
|
£20 - £40 | £10 | View |
| 446 |
CLARE LEIGHTON: 'COUNTRY MATTERS', VICTOR GOLLANCZ
1937, with Frances Brett Young, 'Portrait of a village', illus. John Hassall, Heinemann 1937, and H.E. Bates, 'The seasons and the gardener', illus. Tunnicliffe 1941 (3)
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£30 - £50 | £10 | View |
| 447 |
SALTS STATISTICS & CALCULATIONS FOR RAILWAYS AND CANALS 1845
with Salts Railway and Commercial Information, 1850, spine damaged
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£20 - £40 | £15 | View |
| 448 |
ERIC GILL (ILLUS.) 'TROILUS AND CRESSIDA'
'Englished anew by George Philip Krapp', Literary Guild, New York 1932, with Gill; 'In a strange land' and Laurence Whistler, 'The English festivals' W. Heinemann 1947 (jacket torn some wear to all)
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£30 - £50 | £15 | View |
| 449 |
FREDERICK McDERMOTT, LIFE AND WORK OF JOSEPH FIRBANK
Railway contractor, 1887
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£20 - £40 | £25 | View |
| 450 |
HENRY R PALMER, A RAILWAY ON A NEW PRINCIPLE, 1824
complete with maps and charts, in modern binding
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£30 - £50 | £260 | View |
| 451 |
THOMAS BEWICK: 'THE FABLES OF AESOP, AND OTHERS', 2ND ED.
Newcastle 1823, and 'A memoir of Thomas Bewick', London 1862 (ex. Brighton & Sussex Nat. Hist Soc; both with some damage)
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£30 - £50 | £70 | View |
| 452 |
W.H.G. KINGSTON: 'COUNT FUNNIBOS AND BARON STILTKIN, THEIR AND ADVENTURES'
S.P.C.K., C.1880, with 'Willis the pilot' and 'Men of note, their boyhood and schooldays' (3), all in decorated cloth bindings
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£20 - £40 | £15 | View |
| 453 |
SIR JOHN ROSS: 'NARRATIVE OF A SECOND VOYAGE IN SEARCH OF A NORTH-WEST PASSAGE...'
during the years 1829,1830, 1831, 1832, 1833, cloth bound (def. poorly cut pages, discoloured)
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£20 - £40 | £25 | View |
| 454 |
A BOOK OF BIRDS, CIRCA EARLY 19TH CENTURY
with 88 coloured plates, two vols. in one, but lacking title pages of both, and other pages, the plates hand-coloured (sold as a collection of plates)
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£50 - £100 | £110 | View |
| 455 |
WALTER CRANE: 'LINE & FORM', GEORGE BELL
1900, with 'The bases of design', 1898 (2) (some spotting)
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£40 - £80 | £30 | View |
| 456 |
PAUL GALLICO: 'SNOWFLAKE', MICHAEL JOSEPH
1952 (with dust jacket), H.G. Wells, Tono-Bungay, 1909 and other Wells works
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£30 - £50 | - | View |
| 457 |
A SMALL COLLECTION OF PUFFIN PICTURE BOOKS
and various vintage children's books
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£30 - £50 | £25 | View |
| 458 |
ARTHUR RANSOME: 'GREAT NORTHERN', JONATHAN CAPE
1947, and three later Ransome editions, two with jackets (wear)
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£30 - £50 | £15 | View |
| 459 |
A.A. MILNE: MORE 'VERY YOUNG' SONGS, METHUEN & CO. LTD.
1928,with (damaged) jacket, with 'When we were very young', 5th ed. 1924 (2)
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£20 - £40 | £10 | View |
| 460 |
W. GRAHAM ROBERTSON: 'GOLD, FRANKINCENSE, AND MYRRH. AND OTHER PAGEANTS'
John Lane, the Bodley Head 1907 (jacket damaged), with 'The book of Lovat Claude Fraser' by Haldane Macfall, J.M.Dent 1923 (worn) (2)
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£40 - £60 | £10 | View |
| 461 |
W HEATH ROBINSON RAILWAY RIBALDRY
and other books published by the GWR, SR and BR, some for children
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£30 - £50 | £15 | View |
| 462 |
WALTER CRANE: (ILLUS.) 'KING ARTHUR'S KNIGHTS'
retold by Henry Gilbert, T.C & E.C Jack, Edinburgh & London 1911, gilt cloth boards, with 'Bric-a-brac stories' Mrs Burton Harrison, Charles Scribner's Sons 1885 (frontispiece missing) (2)
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£30 - £50 | £35 | View |
| 463 |
THE HADDON HALL LIBRARY: FIVE VOLUMES
including 'Our gardens (2), 'Bird watching', 'Fly fishing', and 'Hunting' (all with some wear)
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£30 - £50 | £80 | View |
| 464 |
ASPREYS: A SET OF LEATHER-BOUND REFERENCE BOOKS
in a mahogany rack (faded, label missing from rack, lower section vacant)
|
£20 - £40 | £55 | View |
| 465 |
PHILIP PULLMAN, 'THE AMBER SPYGLASS' , SCHOLASTIC LONDON
(signed) with three other Philip Pullman books
|
£40 - £60 | £30 | View |
| 466 |
RUDYARD KIPLING: 'KIM' NEW YORK
Doubleday, Page & Company 1901, with 'The seven seas' (103, 9th ed.) re-bound in half leather, and two other Kipling works (4)
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£20 - £40 | £15 | View |
| 467 |
PULLMAN (PHILIP), HIS DARK MATERIALS (3 VOLS)
All first editions, first impressions, Rare Impression of 'His Dark Materials Northern Lights' (owners name written on first page) , 'The Amber Spyglass' has foxing to the edges of pages
|
£500 - £600 | £460 | View |
| 468 |
CHARLES DARWIN: 'INSECTIVOROUS PLANTS'
John Murray, 1875 (library copy), with four other Darwin works, 'The primrose and Darwinism' ('by A Field naturalist'), Grant Richards 1902, G.E. Lodge; 'Memoirs..', and an engraving of Darwin, with…
|
£30 - £50 | £170 | View |
| 469 | A COLLECTION OF BOOKS | £20 - £40 | £10 | View |
| 470 |
EASTON PRESS: VARIOUS LEATHER-BOUND VOLUMES
collector's editions
|
£120 - £180 | £360 | View |
| 471 | A COLLECTION OF CHILDRENS BOOKS | £20 - £40 | £20 | View |
| 472 |
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS ON ANTIQUE SILVER
country house interest, art, history etc.
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£30 - £50 | £20 | View |
| 473 |
A LARGE COLLECTION OF RAILWAY BOOKS
including British historical, regional, old and modern, southern and west country, buildings, steam to BR, narrow gauge, plus two boxes of European and international
|
£30 - £50 | £260 | View |
| 474 | A COLLECTION OF ARCHITECTURE BOOKS | £50 - £100 | £180 | View |
| 475 | A COLLECTION OF MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS | £30 - £50 | £20 | View |
| 476 |
A COLLECTION OF 'CURRENT LAW' BOOKS
with other similarS
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£20 - £40 | £10 | View |
| 477 |
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS OF MOTORING INTEREST
Ferrari, Maserati, Aston Martin, etc.
|
£60 - £80 | £170 | View |
| 478 | WINSTON CHURCHILL, VARIOUS WORKS | £20 - £40 | £20 | View |
| 479 |
A COLLECTION OF 18TH CENTURY AND LATER LEATHER-BOUND BOOKS
including Flavius Josephus, Balzac, and others (incomplete sets, some in poor condition)
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£30 - £50 | £40 | View |
