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Auction date Tuesday 10 June 2025
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Tuesday 10th June starting at 10:00am

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Total lots: 673

A QUANTITY OF EPHEMERA
Lot 480 Sold
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
Hammer price: £40
Estimate: £40 - £60
10 June 2025
10 June 2025
A LARGE COLLECTION OF WEYMOUTH AND OTHER LOCAL FOOTBALL PROGRAMMES
Lot 481 Sold
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)
Hammer price: £3,200
Estimate: £150 - £250
10 June 2025
10 June 2025
FRISBY'S BOOTS, DORCHESTER: A CALENDAR FOR 1901
Lot 482 Unsold
FRISBY'S BOOTS, DORCHESTER: A CALENDAR FOR 1901
with chromolithograph view, fixed to thin ebonised battens
Estimate: £30 - £50
10 June 2025
10 June 2025
HOLE'S MAP OF ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND (UNFRAMED)
Lot 483 Sold
HOLE'S MAP OF ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND (UNFRAMED)
Pryce/Bayly plan of Bridport, other maps, postcards and ephemera
Hammer price: £50
Estimate: £30 - £50
10 June 2025
10 June 2025
THOMAE STANISLAI VELASTI
Lot 484 Sold
THOMAE STANISLAI VELASTI
Societatis Jesu DISSERTATIO De Litterarum Graecarum Pronuntiaone, Rome 1751, with old paste-paper decorated cover
Hammer price: £40
Estimate: £30 - £50
10 June 2025
10 June 2025
HAROLD WILSON: THE GOVERNANCE OF BRITAIN, SIGNED COPY
Lot 485 Unsold
HAROLD WILSON: THE GOVERNANCE OF BRITAIN, SIGNED COPY
Weidenfeld and Nicholson/Michael Joseph, 1976
Estimate: £30 - £50
10 June 2025
10 June 2025
WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Lot 486 Sold
WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
'Falstaff' edition, published by Bliss Sands and Co. red cloth bound, 1896
Hammer price: £10
Estimate: £30 - £50
10 June 2025
10 June 2025
THOMAS HARDY/HARDY PLAYERS: GERTRUDE BUGLER SIGNED COPY
Lot 487 Sold
THOMAS HARDY/HARDY PLAYERS: GERTRUDE BUGLER SIGNED COPY
'Tess of the D'Urbervilles' (1983), with Rena Gardiner: Dorset; The Isle of Purbeck (reprint) (2)
Hammer price: £35
Estimate: £30 - £50
10 June 2025
10 June 2025
MARGARET THATCHER: SIGNED BOOKS
Lot 488 Sold
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' with enclosed letter from Downing street to the owner (5)
Hammer price: £260
Estimate: £30 - £50
10 June 2025
10 June 2025
'BIBA; THE BIBA EXPERIENCE', ALWYN W. TURNER, SIGNED
Lot 489 Unsold
'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)
Estimate: £50 - £100
10 June 2025
10 June 2025
C. BODEN KLOSS: IN THE ANDAMANS AND NICOBARS
Lot 490 Sold
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)
Hammer price: £45
Estimate: £30 - £50
10 June 2025
10 June 2025
THREE DORSET BOOKS: WILLIAM BARNES
Lot 491 Unsold
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', Sherborne 1906 (3)
Estimate: £30 - £50
10 June 2025
10 June 2025
GILFILLAN, REV. GEORGE (Ed) - SIX POETRY VOLUMES
Lot 492 Sold
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)
Hammer price: £45
Estimate: £50 - £100
10 June 2025
10 June 2025
THE NONESUCH PRESS, COMPLETE WORKS OF THOMAS OTWAY
Lot 493 Unsold
THE NONESUCH PRESS, COMPLETE WORKS OF THOMAS OTWAY
Three vols, 1926, 555 of 1250 sets
Estimate: £30 - £50
10 June 2025
10 June 2025
P.F. ROBINSON: RURAL ARCHITECTURE
Lot 494 Sold
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 1823 (2)
Hammer price: £60
Estimate: £30 - £50
10 June 2025
10 June 2025
THOMAS HARDY: MOMENTS OF VISION AND MISCELLANEOUS VERSES
Lot 495 Sold
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)
Hammer price: £50
Estimate: £40 - £60
10 June 2025
10 June 2025
CAMDEN, WILLIAM: ‘THE HISTORY OF…PRINCESS ELIZABETH, LATE QUEEN OF ENGLAND’
Lot 496 Sold
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
Hammer price: £150
Estimate: £150 - £250
10 June 2025
10 June 2025
JOHN HUTCHINS: THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE COUNTY OF DORSET
Lot 497 Sold
JOHN HUTCHINS: THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE COUNTY OF DORSET
two volumes, W. Bowyer and J. Nichols 1774,leather bound (detached boards, worn)
Hammer price: £110
Estimate: £100 - £200
10 June 2025
10 June 2025
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS OF HUNTING/SPORTING INTEREST
Lot 498 Sold
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' and others (8)
Hammer price: £30
Estimate: £30 - £60
10 June 2025
10 June 2025
J. PAUL RYLANDS: NOTES ON BOOK-PLATES
Lot 499 Sold
J. PAUL RYLANDS: NOTES ON BOOK-PLATES
(EX LIBRIS), With special reference to Lancashire and Cheshire examples; Liverpool; privately printed, 1889
Hammer price: £35
Estimate: £30 - £60
10 June 2025
10 June 2025
KIRBY W.F 'THE BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS OF EUROPE'
Lot 500 Sold
KIRBY W.F 'THE BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS OF EUROPE'
with Pouchet 'The Universe' and Bell 'British Quadrupeds' (3)
Hammer price: £60
Estimate: £100 - £200
10 June 2025
10 June 2025
‘CLARE COLLEGE 1326-1926’
Lot 501 Unsold
‘CLARE COLLEGE 1326-1926’
volume 1, published by Cambridge University Press, 1928, black cloth bound with card case
Estimate: £30 - £50
10 June 2025
10 June 2025
MARSHALL'S COMMERCIAL POCKET BOOK FOR 1827
Lot 502 Unsold
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
Estimate: £30 - £50
10 June 2025
10 June 2025
A COLLECTION OF GAME SHOOTING BOOKS
Lot 503 Sold
A COLLECTION OF GAME SHOOTING BOOKS
and similar, including Maj. Sir Gerald Burrard 'The modern shotgun', 3 vols, 4th ed. rev. 1959
Hammer price: £10
Estimate: £30 - £60
10 June 2025
10 June 2025

Total lots: 673

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