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| Lot | Title | Estimate | Hammer price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 480 |
A QUANTITY OF EPHEMERA
including photographs of Charterhouse by the Society for Photographing Relics of Old London, 1880, Victorian greetings cards, postcards, engravings, and illustrations from 'The Graphic' etc
|
£40 - £60 | £40 | View |
| 481 |
A LARGE COLLECTION OF WEYMOUTH AND OTHER LOCAL FOOTBALL PROGRAMMES
including: a 1925 Yeovil newsletter, together with a collection of FA Cup Final (5 boxes)
|
£150 - £250 | £3,200 | View |
| 482 |
FRISBY'S BOOTS, DORCHESTER: A CALENDAR FOR 1901
with chromolithograph view, fixed to thin ebonised battens
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£30 - £50 | - | View |
| 483 |
HOLE'S MAP OF ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND (UNFRAMED)
Pryce/Bayly plan of Bridport, other maps, postcards and ephemera
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£30 - £50 | £50 | View |
| 484 |
THOMAE STANISLAI VELASTI
Societatis Jesu DISSERTATIO De Litterarum Graecarum Pronuntiaone, Rome 1751, with old paste-paper decorated cover
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£30 - £50 | £40 | View |
| 485 |
HAROLD WILSON: THE GOVERNANCE OF BRITAIN, SIGNED COPY
Weidenfeld and Nicholson/Michael Joseph, 1976
|
£30 - £50 | - | View |
| 486 |
WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
'Falstaff' edition, published by Bliss Sands and Co. red cloth bound, 1896
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£30 - £50 | £10 | View |
| 487 |
THOMAS HARDY/HARDY PLAYERS: GERTRUDE BUGLER SIGNED COPY
'Tess of the D'Urbervilles' (1983), with Rena Gardiner: Dorset; The Isle of Purbeck (reprint) (2)
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£30 - £50 | £35 | View |
| 488 |
MARGARET THATCHER: SIGNED BOOKS
'The path to power' (two copies), 'The Downing Street years', and 'Statecraft', with Bernard Ingham; 'The slow downfall of Margaret Thatcher', signed, and a presented copy of Robert O. Beatty 'Idaho'…
|
£30 - £50 | £260 | View |
| 489 |
'BIBA; THE BIBA EXPERIENCE', ALWYN W. TURNER, SIGNED
and dedicated copy, Antique Collectors' Club; with A. Turner and S. Thomas; 'Welcome to Big Biba', signed and dedicated by Turner; and B. Hulanicki and Martin Pel; 'The Biba years' (3)
|
£50 - £100 | - | View |
| 490 |
C. BODEN KLOSS: IN THE ANDAMANS AND NICOBARS
The narrative of a cruise in the schooner 'Terrapin', with notices of the islands, their fauna, ethnology, Etc, John Murray, 1903, cloth bound (wear, some staining)
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£30 - £50 | £45 | View |
| 491 |
THREE DORSET BOOKS: WILLIAM BARNES
Poems of Rural life in the Dorset Dialect, London 1905, with 'The Marn'll Book', Blackmore Press, 1952 (bookplate for The British Council), and Cecil P. Goodden; 'The story of the Sherborne Pageant',…
|
£30 - £50 | - | View |
| 492 |
GILFILLAN, REV. GEORGE (Ed) - SIX POETRY VOLUMES
comprising ‘Milton’s Poetical Works’ volumes 1 and 2, ‘The Poetical Works of George Herbert’, together with ‘Less-Known British Poets’, volumes 1-3, all bound in gilt tooled red leather (6)
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£50 - £100 | £45 | View |
| 493 |
THE NONESUCH PRESS, COMPLETE WORKS OF THOMAS OTWAY
Three vols, 1926, 555 of 1250 sets
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£30 - £50 | - | View |
| 494 |
P.F. ROBINSON: RURAL ARCHITECTURE
being a series of designs for ornamental cottages, London, James Carpenter and Son, 1826 (spine detached), and John Britton; Illustrations, graphic and literary, of Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire London…
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£30 - £50 | £60 | View |
| 495 |
THOMAS HARDY: MOMENTS OF VISION AND MISCELLANEOUS VERSES
facsimile of the original, published by Paradine in association with Magdalene College, Cambridge, 1978, numbered 8/200, signed by Walter Hamilton (Master), with slip case (owner inscription)
|
£40 - £60 | £50 | View |
| 496 |
CAMDEN, WILLIAM: ‘THE HISTORY OF…PRINCESS ELIZABETH, LATE QUEEN OF ENGLAND’
third edition, 4to, printed by E. Flesher for Charles Harper, Fleetstreet, 1675, full calf bound with later half title
|
£150 - £250 | £150 | View |
| 497 |
JOHN HUTCHINS: THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE COUNTY OF DORSET
two volumes, W. Bowyer and J. Nichols 1774,leather bound (detached boards, worn)
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£100 - £200 | £110 | View |
| 498 |
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS OF HUNTING/SPORTING INTEREST
including G.J. Whyte-Melville 'Sporting songs and verses', illus. Lionel Edwards, London 1926, F.A. Stewart; 'Hunting countries', and 'Cross country with hounds', Will H. Ogilvie; 'Galloping shoes'…
|
£30 - £60 | £30 | View |
| 499 |
J. PAUL RYLANDS: NOTES ON BOOK-PLATES
(EX LIBRIS), With special reference to Lancashire and Cheshire examples; Liverpool; privately printed, 1889
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£30 - £60 | £35 | View |
| 500 |
KIRBY W.F 'THE BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS OF EUROPE'
with Pouchet 'The Universe' and Bell 'British Quadrupeds' (3)
|
£100 - £200 | £60 | View |
| 501 |
‘CLARE COLLEGE 1326-1926’
volume 1, published by Cambridge University Press, 1928, black cloth bound with card case
|
£30 - £50 | - | View |
| 502 |
MARSHALL'S COMMERCIAL POCKET BOOK FOR 1827
and other books; George Meredith; Lord Ormont and his Aminta, Chapman and Hall, 3 vols 1894, The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson, Macmillan and Co 1890, and others
|
£30 - £50 | - | View |
| 503 |
A COLLECTION OF GAME SHOOTING BOOKS
and similar, including Maj. Sir Gerald Burrard 'The modern shotgun', 3 vols, 4th ed. rev. 1959
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£30 - £60 | £10 | View |
| 504 |
A QUANTITY OF BOUND 'PUNCH' VOLUMES
1896 - 1918, Boy's Own Paper, 1880s, Boys Own Annual, and Bacon's Atlas of the World
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£30 - £50 | £40 | View |
| 505 |
THOMAS HARDY; POCKET EDITION OF PROSE AND POETRY, 27 VOLUMES
including the final two scarce pocket volumes of the poetry, Macmillan and Co, 1920s (varying condition, some presentation copies, some with pasted in cuttings etc)
|
£60 - £120 | £130 | View |
| 506 |
A QUANTITY OF ENGLISH TOPOGRAPHY BOOKS
including London interest
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£30 - £50 | £40 | View |
| 507 |
A QUANTITY OF BOOKS AND MAPS
including OS maps, an early 20th century Bacon's Cycling and Motoring map, Introduction to Braille (pt 2 and 3), and others
|
£30 - £40 | - | View |
| 508 |
'GILES' (RONALD 'CARL' GILES, 1916-1995) THE FIRST FIFTY SERIES
annuals published 1946 -1996 (the cartoons ranging from 1943-1991), unclipped; with various with subsequent 'Collections', 1999 and 2000 calendars, 'Nurse!' special 1975, facsimile 1st series,…
|
£100 - £150 | £100 | View |
| 509 |
BARBARA JONES: FOLLIES & GROTTOES
Constable, 1953, and other books on architecture from the same period; John Piper; 'Buildings and prospects', Laurence Whistler; 'The imagination of Vanbrugh', 'Collins Guide to English Parish…
|
£50 - £100 | £220 | View |
| 510 |
LEWIS CARROLL: ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
various volumes, including Mabel Lucie Attwell illustrated, and other Carroll related books (many in poor condition)
|
£30 - £50 | £200 | View |
| 511 |
NIKOLAUS PEVSNER: THE BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND
Penguin paperback ed. BE 1 - 26, and 23 hardback ed, various editions (variable condition)
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£50 - £100 | £110 | View |
| 512 |
A QUANTITY OF VARIOUS BOOKS AND CATALOGUES ON ARMS & ARMOUR
including several Peter Finer catalogues
|
£30 - £50 | £50 | View |
| 513 |
A COLLECTION OF DORSET RELATED BOOKS
including; volumes of 'Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset' RCHM and 'Domesday Book', Dorset extracts.
|
£80 - £120 | £110 | View |
| 514 | A QUANTITY OF MILITARY INTEREST BOOKS | £40 - £60 | £60 | View |
| 515 |
A COLLECTION OF ART AND ANTIQUE BOOKS
including; 'A History of English Furniture' by Percy MacQuoid, with other art books.
|
£50 - £100 | - | View |
| 516 |
FIVE VOLUMES 'THE GRAPHIC', BOUND 1870-72
(bindings worn)
|
£40 - £60 | £130 | View |
| 517 |
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS ON ARCHITECTURE
including 'Our National Cathedrals', Ward, Lock and Co, 1889 (3 vols), various on country houses, and others, and some books on other subjects (some in worn condition) (4 shelves)
|
£50 - £100 | £100 | View |
| 518 |
CHARLES DICKENS; WORKS
published by Thomas Nelson, 9 Volumes, blue 3/4 leather bound (faded)
|
£30 - £50 | £20 | View |
| 519 |
AN INVENTORY OF THE HISTORICAL MONUMENTS IN THE COUNTY OF DORSET
R.C.H.M. vol I, vol II (pts 1-3), volIII (pts 1-2), vol IV, and Heath and Prideaux; Some Dorset manor houses, Malachi Blake; The fire at Blandford Forum (1860 reprint), and Arthur Oswald; Country…
|
£50 - £100 | £40 | View |
| 520 |
ROBERT MORDEN (1650-1703) Maps of Wiltshire, Sussex and England
three coloured engravings, the largest measuring 40cm x 47cm (3)
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£50 - £100 | £30 | View |
| 521 |
A COLLECTION OF O.S. MAPS
and others, Michelin maps, Crutchley's Railway and Telegraph map of Buckingham, etc
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£30 - £50 | £30 | View |
| 522 |
A PAIR OF NEAPOLITAN GOUACHE PAINTINGS OF ERUPTIONS
by day and night, late 19th century, in maple frames, each 44 x 54cm
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£50 - £100 | £140 | View |
| 523 |
CATHIE WHITNEY, MORNING SUMMER II
lithograph, 115/275, 79 x 69, with two framed prints of still lives (3)
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£30 - £50 | - | View |
| 524 |
A COLLECTION OF PRINTS OF BRITISH MILITARY UNIFORMS
early 18th to late 19th centuries, with three prints of naval vessels, and one of a mounted soldier
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£30 - £50 | £20 | View |
| 525 |
VASE ANGLAISE, AFTER PREVOST
lithograph of roses and other garden flowers, 52 x 69, with other botanical and bird prints
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£30 - £50 | £20 | View |
| 526 |
A COLLECTION OF TOPOGRAHICAL PRINTS
mostly London
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£30 - £50 | - | View |
| 527 |
AFTER COMTE REGIS BOUVIER DE CACHARD: VENETIAN VIEW
colour print on canvas 55 x 70cm, and a further quantity of pictures and prints
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£40 - £60 | £35 | View |
