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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

Lot 504 Sold
A QUANTITY OF BOUND 'PUNCH' VOLUMES
1896 - 1918, Boy's Own Paper, 1880s, Boys Own Annual, and Bacon's Atlas of the World
Hammer price: £40
Estimate: £30 - £50
10 June 2025
10 June 2025
Lot 505 Sold
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)
Hammer price: £130
Estimate: £60 - £120
10 June 2025
10 June 2025
Lot 506 Sold
A QUANTITY OF ENGLISH TOPOGRAPHY BOOKS
including London interest
Hammer price: £40
Estimate: £30 - £50
10 June 2025
10 June 2025
Lot 507 Unsold
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
Estimate: £30 - £40
10 June 2025
10 June 2025
Lot 508 Sold
'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, another original 1st series (scruffy condition), an unbound and untrimmed 11th series (a printer's sample?), and an annual of 'Strube' cartoons 1939-44 (Giles predecessor at the Express)
Hammer price: £100
Estimate: £100 - £150
10 June 2025
10 June 2025
Lot 509 Sold
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 Churches', intro. Betjeman, others by Christina Hole, S. Sitwell, R. Dutton etc, most with dust jackets, and Rena Gardiner; 'Portrait of Lacock', N.T. 1971 (general wear, owner inscriptions, etc)
Hammer price: £220
Estimate: £50 - £100
10 June 2025
10 June 2025
Lot 510 Sold
LEWIS CARROLL: ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
various volumes, including Mabel Lucie Attwell illustrated, and other Carroll related books (many in poor condition)
Hammer price: £200
Estimate: £30 - £50
10 June 2025
10 June 2025
Lot 511 Sold
NIKOLAUS PEVSNER: THE BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND
Penguin paperback ed. BE 1 - 26, and 23 hardback ed, various editions (variable condition)
Hammer price: £110
Estimate: £50 - £100
10 June 2025
10 June 2025
Lot 512 Sold
A QUANTITY OF VARIOUS BOOKS AND CATALOGUES ON ARMS & ARMOUR
including several Peter Finer catalogues
Hammer price: £50
Estimate: £30 - £50
10 June 2025
10 June 2025
Lot 513 Sold
A COLLECTION OF DORSET RELATED BOOKS
including; volumes of 'Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset' RCHM and 'Domesday Book', Dorset extracts.
Hammer price: £110
Estimate: £80 - £120
10 June 2025
10 June 2025
Lot 514 Sold
A QUANTITY OF MILITARY INTEREST BOOKS
Hammer price: £60
Estimate: £40 - £60
10 June 2025
10 June 2025
Lot 515 Unsold
A COLLECTION OF ART AND ANTIQUE BOOKS
including; 'A History of English Furniture' by Percy MacQuoid, with other art books.
Estimate: £50 - £100
10 June 2025
10 June 2025
Lot 516 Sold
FIVE VOLUMES 'THE GRAPHIC', BOUND 1870-72
(bindings worn)
Hammer price: £130
Estimate: £40 - £60
10 June 2025
10 June 2025
Lot 517 Sold
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)
Hammer price: £100
Estimate: £50 - £100
10 June 2025
10 June 2025
Lot 518 Sold
CHARLES DICKENS; WORKS
published by Thomas Nelson, 9 Volumes, blue 3/4 leather bound (faded)
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £30 - £50
10 June 2025
10 June 2025
Lot 519 Sold
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 houses of Dorset (10 books)
Hammer price: £40
Estimate: £50 - £100
10 June 2025
10 June 2025
Lot 520 Sold
ROBERT MORDEN (1650-1703) Maps of Wiltshire, Sussex and England
three coloured engravings, the largest measuring 40cm x 47cm (3)
Hammer price: £30
Estimate: £50 - £100
10 June 2025
10 June 2025
Lot 521 Sold
A COLLECTION OF O.S. MAPS
and others, Michelin maps, Crutchley's Railway and Telegraph map of Buckingham, etc
Hammer price: £30
Estimate: £30 - £50
10 June 2025
10 June 2025
Lot 522 Sold
A PAIR OF NEAPOLITAN GOUACHE PAINTINGS OF ERUPTIONS
by day and night, late 19th century, in maple frames, each 44 x 54cm
Hammer price: £140
Estimate: £50 - £100
10 June 2025
10 June 2025
Lot 523 Unsold
CATHIE WHITNEY, MORNING SUMMER II
lithograph, 115/275, 79 x 69, with two framed prints of still lives (3)
Estimate: £30 - £50
10 June 2025
10 June 2025
Lot 524 Sold
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
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £30 - £50
10 June 2025
10 June 2025
Lot 525 Sold
VASE ANGLAISE, AFTER PREVOST
lithograph of roses and other garden flowers, 52 x 69, with other botanical and bird prints
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £30 - £50
10 June 2025
10 June 2025
Lot 526 Unsold
A COLLECTION OF TOPOGRAHICAL PRINTS
mostly London
Estimate: £30 - £50
10 June 2025
10 June 2025
Lot 527 Sold
AFTER COMTE REGIS BOUVIER DE CACHARD: VENETIAN VIEW
colour print on canvas 55 x 70cm, and a further quantity of pictures and prints
Hammer price: £35
Estimate: £40 - £60
10 June 2025
10 June 2025

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