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Auction date Tuesday 11 March 2025 10:00 - 17:30 GMT
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Tuesday 11th March starting at 10:00am

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Total lots: 649

THE MOUSE & HIS MASTER; THE LIFE AND WORK OF TERENCE CUNEO
Lot 451 Unsold
THE MOUSE & HIS MASTER; THE LIFE AND WORK OF TERENCE CUNEO
New Cavendish Books, London 1977, in slip case and boxed
Estimate: £100 - £200
11 March 2025
11 March 2025
THOMAS HARDY: TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES
Lot 452 Sold
THOMAS HARDY: TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES
A pure woman, Osgood, McIlvaine and Co, 1895, cloth, gilt with roundel to front, etched portrait, facsimile signature and map (loose pages, damage to last page, other faults)
Hammer price: £10
Estimate: £30 - £50
11 March 2025
11 March 2025
TWO CHILDREN'S BOOKS
Lot 453 Sold
TWO CHILDREN'S BOOKS
Horace Mayhew/George Cruikshank; 'The toothache' (facsimile) and 'Further adventures in Fools Paradise' (poor condition) (2)
Hammer price: £30
Estimate: £30 - £50
11 March 2025
11 March 2025
R. BROOKES: THE GENERAL GAZETTEER
Lot 454 Sold
R. BROOKES: THE GENERAL GAZETTEER
or Compendious Geographical Dictionary, fourth edition, London 1778, with various fold-out maps, cloth bound (damaged)
Hammer price: £60
Estimate: £30 - £50
11 March 2025
11 March 2025
B. PARKER, ILLUSTRATED BY N. PARKER: 'FUNNY BUNNIES'
Lot 455 Sold
B. PARKER, ILLUSTRATED BY N. PARKER: 'FUNNY BUNNIES'
and five other late 19th/20th century children's books (worn condition)
Hammer price: £110
Estimate: £60 - £100
11 March 2025
11 March 2025
ARTHUR SKETCHLEY: A SERIES OF 'YELLOWBACK' 'Mrs BROWN' BOOKS
Lot 456 Sold
ARTHUR SKETCHLEY: A SERIES OF 'YELLOWBACK' 'Mrs BROWN' BOOKS
with pictorial boards, including; 'Mrs Brown at Margate', 'in London', 'at the Paris Exhibition', 'on the Tichborne case', 'at Brighton', 'on the Shah's visit', and others and one plain paperback (13) (poor condition)
Hammer price: £50
Estimate: £30 - £60
11 March 2025
11 March 2025
BUNYAN THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS
Lot 457 Sold
BUNYAN THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS
Adam & Co, Newcastle-on-Tyne, with lithograph colour plates and embossed binding, late 19th century
Hammer price: £15
Estimate: £30 - £50
11 March 2025
11 March 2025
G.R. CLARKE; 'THE HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF THE TOWN AND BOROUGH OF IPSWICH'
Lot 458 Sold
G.R. CLARKE; 'THE HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF THE TOWN AND BOROUGH OF IPSWICH'
published by S. Piper, c.1830 (badly foxed in places), with J.E. Taylor; 'In and about Ancient Ipswich', Jarrold and Sons, 1888 (foxed, other faults) (2)
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £30 - £50
11 March 2025
11 March 2025
DENYS WATKINS-PITCHFORD 'BB' : 'DARK ESTUARY'
Lot 459 Sold
DENYS WATKINS-PITCHFORD 'BB' : 'DARK ESTUARY'
Hollis and Carter 1952, and 'Wild Lone', Eyre and Spottiswoode 1938, and H.M. Kinsley; 'One hundred recipes for the chafing dish' pub. Gorham Mfg Co, New York 1894 (3)
Hammer price: £30
Estimate: £30 - £40
11 March 2025
11 March 2025
BATTLE OF BRITAIN 50th ANNIVERSARY FLYPAST
Lot 460 Unsold
BATTLE OF BRITAIN 50th ANNIVERSARY FLYPAST
Published by the Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund, 1990
Estimate: £50 - £100
11 March 2025
11 March 2025
ELISABETH FRINK SCULPTURE CATALOGUE RAISONNE
Lot 461 Sold
ELISABETH FRINK SCULPTURE CATALOGUE RAISONNE
Pub 1994, and Elisabeth Frink, Sculpture since 1984 and Drawings, Edward Lucie Smith, Pub 1984 (2)
Hammer price: £100
Estimate: £120 - £200
11 March 2025
11 March 2025
A COLLECTION OF BEATRIX POTTER BOOKS
Lot 462 Unsold
A COLLECTION OF BEATRIX POTTER BOOKS
some early 20th century editions, with Walter Crane; 'The baby's opera', 'The English Struwwelpeter' 'Swollen-headed William (After the German!)', and 'The yellow fairy book' 1894 and 1903 (many in poor condition)
Estimate: £40 - £60
11 March 2025
11 March 2025
AUTOGRAPHS: CECIL BEATON; 'THE AGE OF ROCOCO'
Lot 463 Sold
AUTOGRAPHS: CECIL BEATON; 'THE AGE OF ROCOCO'
Shirley Maclaine;a letter, with 'Don't fall off the mountain', and Ralph Richardson; self portrait on paper, tucked into a copy of Harold Nicolson Diaries and letters, all from the collection of costume designer Anthony Powell (3)
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £30 - £50
11 March 2025
11 March 2025
FELIX MENDLESSOHN BARTHOLDY: ELIJAH, AN ORATORIO, SCORE
Lot 464 Sold
FELIX MENDLESSOHN BARTHOLDY: ELIJAH, AN ORATORIO, SCORE
published Ewer and Co London, and Jousse's Piano-forte Preceptor (lacking title page) (2)
Hammer price: £30
Estimate: £30 - £50
11 March 2025
11 March 2025
'THE BOY'S OWN ANNUAL', VARIOUS ISSUES
Lot 465 Sold
'THE BOY'S OWN ANNUAL', VARIOUS ISSUES
with other similar books; 'Chums', 'The Union Jack', 'Young England' etc, and 'Strand Magazine' III, 1892 (with Sherlock Holmes story) (centre section of bookcase)
Hammer price: £40
Estimate: £30 - £60
11 March 2025
11 March 2025
A COLLECTION OF DECORATIVE CLOTH-BOUND BOOKS
Lot 466 Sold
A COLLECTION OF DECORATIVE CLOTH-BOUND BOOKS
late 19th century, and similar (some in poor condition) (five shelves)
Hammer price: £120
Estimate: £30 - £60
11 March 2025
11 March 2025
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS AND MAPS
Lot 467 Sold
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS AND MAPS
including Ladybird Books, history, religion etc, OS and other maps from 1940s onwards
Hammer price: £15
Estimate: £30 - £50
11 March 2025
11 March 2025
A QUANTITY OF MIXED BOOKS
Lot 468 Sold
A QUANTITY OF MIXED BOOKS
including a family Bible, prayer books, a leather-bound 'Midget Shakespeare, Meyers 'Konversations Lexicon', Mrs Beetons, 1954 Beano Book, a few 'MAD' magazines etc (three shelves)
Hammer price: £70
Estimate: £30 - £40
11 March 2025
11 March 2025
MRS GATTY: THE SEAWEEDS OF GREAT BRITAIN
Lot 469 Sold
MRS GATTY: THE SEAWEEDS OF GREAT BRITAIN
Bell and Daldy 1872 (2 vols), and a further collection of French and English illustrated books on natural history and human anatomy, a scrapbook and other items
Hammer price: £50
Estimate: £40 - £80
11 March 2025
11 March 2025
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS OF THOMAS HARDY INTEREST
Lot 470 Sold
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS OF THOMAS HARDY INTEREST
including a few Thomas Hardy year books
Hammer price: £45
Estimate: £40 - £60
11 March 2025
11 March 2025
A COLLECTION OF DORSET BOOKS
Lot 471 Sold
A COLLECTION OF DORSET BOOKS
and others
Hammer price: £45
Estimate: £30 - £50
11 March 2025
11 March 2025
A COLLECTION OF MIXED BOOKS
Lot 472 Unsold
A COLLECTION OF MIXED BOOKS
including Sassoon; 'Memoirs of a fox-hunting man' 2nd imp. 1929, Graham Greene; 'Monsignor Quixote', BH, 1982, 'The bomb party, BH, 1980, Raymond Mungo; 'Return to sender' (signed), Eva Hoffman; 'The secret' (signed), and others (8)
Estimate: £30 - £50
11 March 2025
11 March 2025
INSCRIPTIONES PEDEMONTANAE INFIMI AEVI ROMAE EXSTANTES
Lot 473 Sold
INSCRIPTIONES PEDEMONTANAE INFIMI AEVI ROMAE EXSTANTES
Rome 1766, modern buckram binding
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £30 - £50
11 March 2025
11 March 2025
CICERO: OPERA M. TULLII CICERONIS
Lot 474 Sold
CICERO: OPERA M. TULLII CICERONIS
Carolum Stephanum, Paris 1554/5 (vol. title pages dated 1554) vol 1 and 2 in one, worn calf binding, (re-backed) woodcut printer's ornaments and capitals
Hammer price: £160
Estimate: £50 - £100
11 March 2025
11 March 2025

Total lots: 649

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