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Auction date Tuesday 11 March 2025 10:00 - 17:30 GMT

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Lots per page:

Total lots: 649

Lot Title Estimate Hammer price
451 THE MOUSE & HIS MASTER; THE LIFE AND WORK OF TERENCE CUNEO
New Cavendish Books, London 1977, in slip case and boxed
£100 - £200 - View
452 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)
£30 - £50 £10 View
453 TWO CHILDREN'S BOOKS
Horace Mayhew/George Cruikshank; 'The toothache' (facsimile) and 'Further adventures in Fools Paradise' (poor condition) (2)
£30 - £50 £30 View
454 R. BROOKES: THE GENERAL GAZETTEER
or Compendious Geographical Dictionary, fourth edition, London 1778, with various fold-out maps, cloth bound (damaged)
£30 - £50 £60 View
455 B. PARKER, ILLUSTRATED BY N. PARKER: 'FUNNY BUNNIES'
and five other late 19th/20th century children's books (worn condition)
£60 - £100 £110 View
456 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…
£30 - £60 £50 View
457 BUNYAN THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS
Adam & Co, Newcastle-on-Tyne, with lithograph colour plates and embossed binding, late 19th century
£30 - £50 £15 View
458 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)
£30 - £50 £20 View
459 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)
£30 - £40 £30 View
460 BATTLE OF BRITAIN 50th ANNIVERSARY FLYPAST
Published by the Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund, 1990
£50 - £100 - View
461 ELISABETH FRINK SCULPTURE CATALOGUE RAISONNE
Pub 1994, and Elisabeth Frink, Sculpture since 1984 and Drawings, Edward Lucie Smith, Pub 1984 (2)
£120 - £200 £100 View
462 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…
£40 - £60 - View
463 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…
£30 - £50 £20 View
464 FELIX MENDLESSOHN BARTHOLDY: ELIJAH, AN ORATORIO, SCORE
published Ewer and Co London, and Jousse's Piano-forte Preceptor (lacking title page) (2)
£30 - £50 £30 View
465 '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)
£30 - £60 £40 View
466 A COLLECTION OF DECORATIVE CLOTH-BOUND BOOKS
late 19th century, and similar (some in poor condition) (five shelves)
£30 - £60 £120 View
467 A COLLECTION OF BOOKS AND MAPS
including Ladybird Books, history, religion etc, OS and other maps from 1940s onwards
£30 - £50 £15 View
468 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)
£30 - £40 £70 View
469 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
£40 - £80 £50 View
470 A COLLECTION OF BOOKS OF THOMAS HARDY INTEREST
including a few Thomas Hardy year books
£40 - £60 £45 View
471 A COLLECTION OF DORSET BOOKS
and others
£30 - £50 £45 View
472 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…
£30 - £50 - View
473 INSCRIPTIONES PEDEMONTANAE INFIMI AEVI ROMAE EXSTANTES
Rome 1766, modern buckram binding
£30 - £50 £20 View
474 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
£50 - £100 £160 View

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