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Lot	Title	Estimate	Hammer price
673	BEKEN & SON, COWES, A PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINT 40.5 x 50.5cm, unframed (some damage), and a quantity of 19th century and later photographs,; architectural and topographical, incl. 19th cent Lichfield, Staffs, works of art etc	£30 - £50	£10	View
674	A COLLECTION OF WATCH AUCTION CATALOGUES Bonhams, Christie's (Amsterdam, New York, Gstaad, etc), and Sotheby's	£30 - £50	£40	View
675	A COLLECTION OF WATCH AUCTION CATALOGUES including Habsburg Antiquorum, and Heritage	£30 - £50	£30	View
676	A COLLECTION OF WATCH AUCTION CATALOGUES including Christie's Hong Kong 'Important Watches', May 2014, and others, clocks, jewellery, pens etc	£30 - £50	£20	View
677	A LARGE COLLECTION OF WATCH AUCTION CATALOGUES including; Christie's (some Geneva) Sotheby's and Bonhams	£30 - £50	£70	View
678	'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,…	£200 - £300	-	View
679	MAYO, C.H. - AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO MAJOR ECCLES regarding the Major’s purchase of a property in Long Burton, Dorset, together with a copy of Mayo’s Christmas Tide 1928 Long Burton pamphlet, contained in folder containing photographs and ephemera…	£30 - £50	£10	View
680	HUGH POLLARD, GAME BIRDS REARING PRESERVATION AND SHOOTING Philip Rickman illustrations, London 1929, with P R Chalmers, Mine Eyes to the Hills, V Balfour-Browne illustrations, London 1931	£30 - £50	£10	View
681	HUGH THOMSON: THREE ILLUSTRATED BOOKS; J.M. Barrie; 'Quality Street (1901), Oliver Goldsmith; 'She stoops to conquer' (undated ed), and R.B. Sheridan; 'The school for scandal' (undated ed), all Hodder and Stoughton,(some spotting etc,…	£60 - £120	£35	View
682	A VICTORIAN FAMILY BIBLE, WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY GUSTAVE DORE published by Cassell, with brass clasps (repairs, foxing)	£30 - £50	£20	View
683	STEPHENSON, JOHN: 'UNDERSTANDING THREADLINES' 'A Collector's Guide To The Early Fixed Spool Fishing Reels', leather bound copy, limited edition 4/10; together with 'Rosewood to Revolution - The Development Of The Centrepin Fishing Reel' by John…	£50 - £100	£60	View
684	FRANCIS DAY, THE FISHES OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND Williams & Norgate, London, 1880-1884, 2 vols, with 1904 bookplate, possibly rebound then	£60 - £80	£40	View
685	REV.F O MORRIS, NATURAL HISTORY OF BRITISH MOTHS Bell & Daldy, London 1872, 4 vols	£80 - £120	£50	View
686	THE NONESUCH PRESS, COMPLETE WORKS OF THOMAS OTWAY Three vols, 1926, 555 of 1250 sets	£60 - £80	-	View
687	THE 'COUNTRY LIFE' LIBRARY OF SPORT: FISHING edited by Horace G. Hutchinson. two volume set (2)	£30 - £50	-	View
688	HENRY M STANLEY, THE CONGO And The Founding of its Free State, a Story of Work and Exploration, Harper & Brothers, New York, 1885, 2 vols, complete with maps	£150 - £300	£120	View
689	A GRAND TOUR STYLE SKETCH ALBUM, WITH BRASS CLASP, EARLY 19th CENTURY with some drawings, a partly used 19th century lockable ledger (some earlier pages removed), a Baskerville Book of Common Prayer, 1760, and Lois Blanc; 'Lettres sur L'Angleterre' (copy with bookplate…	£40 - £60	£90	View
690	LIONEL EDWARDS, SCARLET AND CORDUROY London 1941, with dust jacket, and other books illustrated by Lionel Edwards	£40 - £60	-	View
691	HARDY, THOMAS: VARIOUS TITLES all published by Macmillan, various dates, red cloth bound (21)	£30 - £50	£60	View
692	‘BLACK’S GENERAL ATLAS OF THE WORLD’ new edition, published by Adam and Charles Black, Edinburgh, 1862, brown three quarter leather bound	£50 - £100	£70	View
693	SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE'S CABINET OF GEMS With BIOGRAPHICAL and DESCRIPTIVE MEMORIALS, by P.G. Patmore, London 1837 (foxed, water staining)	£30 - £50	-	View
694	KIPLING, RUDYARD: FOUR TITLES comprising ‘The Seven Seas’ (7th edition), ‘Barrack Room Ballads’ 17th edition), ‘The Five Nations’ (2nd edition) and ‘Departmental Ditties’ (16th edition), 8vo, all published by Methuen & Co,…	£30 - £50	£30	View
695	MANELLI, FRANCESCO DI AMARETTO: ‘IL DECAMERON DI BOCCACCIO’ 1761, 4to, full calf bound with maroon leather half title	£100 - £200	£100	View
696	TWAIN, MARK: TWO TITLES - ‘THE INNOCENTS ABROAD’ AND ‘THE NEW PILGRIMS’ PROGRESS’ 8vo, the former published by John Camden Horton, Piccadilly, London, the latter by George Routledge and Sons, The Broadway, Ludgate, London, both bound together in three-quarter red leather with…	£50 - £100	£35	View
697	E SOMERVILLE, SLIPPER'S ABC OF FOX HUNTING Longmans, Green & Co, 1903	£50 - £80	£45	View
698	A COLLECTION OF LATE 19th CENTURY LITERATURE H S Merriman and others, some illustrated	£40 - £60	£10	View
699	O’NEILL, ELIZABETH - ‘A NURSERY HISTORY OF ENGLAND’ published by T&E Jack, London, pictorial boards, a leather bound copy of The Army List 1820, and a collection of mixed interesting books (8)	£50 - £100	£10	View
700	W.G. THOMSON; A HISTORY OF TAPESTRY from the earliest times to the present day, Hodder and Stoughton, 1930, with two Eton College presentation copies of Thomas Gray's poems, and other books	£30 - £50	£10	View
701	‘CHAMBER’S ENCYCLOPAEDIA’ new edition, volumes 1-10, published by William & Robert Chambers, London, 1908, maroon cloth binding (10)	£50 - £100	-	View
702	A QUANTITY OF ART AND OTHER BOOKS including a facsimile of Durer's Apocalypse, intro. Erwin Panofsky	£30 - £50	£70	View
703	‘A SHORT AND FAITHFUL ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF…MR THOMAS CHUBB’ printed for John Noon, London, 1747, half brown leather bound with marbled boards and a quantity of books on mixed subjects	£50 - £100	£40	View
704	IRVING, WASHINGTON - ‘THE ALHAMBRA’ new edition, published by Bell & Daldy, London 1870, three quarter brown leather bound with marbled boards, together with a collection of antiquarian literature and other books	£100 - £200	£280	View
705	THE WORKS OF CHARLES DICKENS and John Forster, The life of Dickens, 15vols, Chapman and Hall, half calf bound, late 19th century	£50 - £100	£70	View
706	THE LONSDALE LIBRARY vols 1-3, 6, 7, 10, 13, 22, 23 and 26, buff cloth bound (10)	£30 - £50	-	View
707	‘THE PLAYS OF WILLIAM SHAKSPERE’ new edition, with notes by Alexander Chalmers, volumes 1-8, printed for Longman & Co, London, 1847, gilt tooled brown leather bound (8)	£100 - £200	£100	View
708	BUCHAN, JOHN, 'THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME - FIRST PHASE' published by Thomas Nelson and Son, London, complete with folding map, blue paper bound, together with thirty other war-related books by John Buchan (31)	£30 - £50	£30	View
709	JOHNSTON, EDWARD: ‘WRITING & ILLUMINATING, & LETTERING’ published by Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, London 1948, full black leather bound, together with Lloyd, Teresa - ‘Jesus for Little Folk’, published by Sands & Co., London 1938, half leather bound…	£50 - £100	£30	View
710	FOLIO SOCIETY: A COLLECTION OF VARIOUS VOLUMES including the works of Dickens, and others	£80 - £100	£100	View
711	A COLLECTION OF BOOKS including Rigg, The Decameron, Beattie, Castles and Abbeys of England, varied literature and history etc	£30 - £50	£10	View
712	A LARGE QUANTITY OF MIXED BOOKS (contents of tall bookcase and adjoining four shelves to left)	£30 - £50	£10	View
713	A QUANTITY OF MIXED BOOKS art, literature, etc (contents of dresser)	£30 - £50	£10	View
714	A COLLECTION OF SORTING, NATURE AND WILDLIFE BOOKS including hunting and shooting, Lonsdale Library, Allen's Naturalist Library, etc.	£40 - £60	£120	View
715	A QUANTITY OF MIXED BOOKS art, biography etc (under piano)	£30 - £40	£25	View
716	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)	£100 - £200	-	View
717	H.F. WITHERBY (Ed) THE HANDBOOK OF BRITISH BIRDS 2nd ed, 5 vols, London 1943, with R. Bowdler Sharpe; 'Sketch-book of British birds', SPCK, 1896, and other books on natural history and gardening	£30 - £50	£60	View
718	A 19TH CENTURY ORDNANCE SURVEY FOLDING MAP OF DORSETSHIRE linen back, sold by Edward Stanford, Charing Cross, London, with accompanying diagram, contained in red cloth bound slip case	£30 - £50	£35	View
719	A COLLECTION OF ORDNANCE SURVEY SCALE 1: 2500 (25 inches to mile) 56 MAP SHEETS OF DORSET early 1960s revision, mostly north Dorset, Blandford etc	£30 - £50	£10	View
720	JOHN NORDEN; MAP OF 'HAMSHIRE' (HAMPSHIRE) , ENGRAVED BY WILLIAM HOLE coloured, framed 34 x 40cm (some toning)	£40 - £60	£45	View

Total lots: 913

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