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Auction date Tuesday 10 May 2022 11:00 - 18:30 BST

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Lots per page:

Total lots: 680

Lot Title Estimate Hammer price
438 'GENERAL ORDER BOOK OF THE ROYAL SPELTHORN LEGION ADJUTANT' 1805
Napoleonic period M.S. bound in green vellum
£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
£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
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)
£30 - £50 £10 View
447 SALTS STATISTICS & CALCULATIONS FOR RAILWAYS AND CANALS 1845
with Salts Railway and Commercial Information, 1850, spine damaged
£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)
£30 - £50 £15 View
449 FREDERICK McDERMOTT, LIFE AND WORK OF JOSEPH FIRBANK
Railway contractor, 1887
£20 - £40 £25 View
450 HENRY R PALMER, A RAILWAY ON A NEW PRINCIPLE, 1824
complete with maps and charts, in modern binding
£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)
£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
£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)
£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)
£50 - £100 £110 View
455 WALTER CRANE: 'LINE & FORM', GEORGE BELL
1900, with 'The bases of design', 1898 (2) (some spotting)
£40 - £80 £30 View
456 PAUL GALLICO: 'SNOWFLAKE', MICHAEL JOSEPH
1952 (with dust jacket), H.G. Wells, Tono-Bungay, 1909 and other Wells works
£30 - £50 - View
457 A SMALL COLLECTION OF PUFFIN PICTURE BOOKS
and various vintage children's books
£30 - £50 £25 View
458 ARTHUR RANSOME: 'GREAT NORTHERN', JONATHAN CAPE
1947, and three later Ransome editions, two with jackets (wear)
£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)
£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)
£40 - £60 £10 View
461 W HEATH ROBINSON RAILWAY RIBALDRY
and other books published by the GWR, SR and BR, some for children
£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)
£30 - £50 £35 View

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