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Auction date Tuesday 13 May 2025 10:00 - 17:30 BST
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Tuesday 13th May starting at 10:00am

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Total lots: 913

BEKEN & SON, COWES, A PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINT
Lot 673 Sold
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
Hammer price: £10
Estimate: £30 - £50
13 May 2025
13 May 2025
A COLLECTION OF WATCH AUCTION CATALOGUES
Lot 674 Sold
A COLLECTION OF WATCH AUCTION CATALOGUES
Bonhams, Christie's (Amsterdam, New York, Gstaad, etc), and Sotheby's
Hammer price: £40
Estimate: £30 - £50
13 May 2025
13 May 2025
A COLLECTION OF WATCH AUCTION CATALOGUES
Lot 675 Sold
A COLLECTION OF WATCH AUCTION CATALOGUES
including Habsburg Antiquorum, and Heritage
Hammer price: £30
Estimate: £30 - £50
13 May 2025
13 May 2025
A COLLECTION OF WATCH AUCTION CATALOGUES
Lot 676 Sold
A COLLECTION OF WATCH AUCTION CATALOGUES
including Christie's Hong Kong 'Important Watches', May 2014, and others, clocks, jewellery, pens etc
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £30 - £50
13 May 2025
13 May 2025
A LARGE COLLECTION OF WATCH AUCTION CATALOGUES
Lot 677 Sold
A LARGE COLLECTION OF WATCH AUCTION CATALOGUES
including; Christie's (some Geneva) Sotheby's and Bonhams
Hammer price: £70
Estimate: £30 - £50
13 May 2025
13 May 2025
'GILES' (RONALD 'CARL' GILES, 1916-1995) THE FIRST FIFTY SERIES
Lot 678 Unsold
'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)
Estimate: £200 - £300
13 May 2025
13 May 2025
MAYO, C.H. - AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO MAJOR ECCLES
Lot 679 Sold
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 relating to West Hall, Folke
Hammer price: £10
Estimate: £30 - £50
13 May 2025
13 May 2025
HUGH POLLARD, GAME BIRDS REARING PRESERVATION AND SHOOTING
Lot 680 Sold
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
Hammer price: £10
Estimate: £30 - £50
13 May 2025
13 May 2025
HUGH THOMSON: THREE ILLUSTRATED BOOKS;
Lot 681 Sold
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, Sheridan worse wit stained edges and loose leaves) (3)
Hammer price: £35
Estimate: £60 - £120
13 May 2025
13 May 2025
A VICTORIAN FAMILY BIBLE, WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY GUSTAVE DORE
Lot 682 Sold
A VICTORIAN FAMILY BIBLE, WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY GUSTAVE DORE
published by Cassell, with brass clasps (repairs, foxing)
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £30 - £50
13 May 2025
13 May 2025
STEPHENSON, JOHN: 'UNDERSTANDING THREADLINES'
Lot 683 Sold
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 Stephenson; 'The Wright Price Guide for The Reel Man' by Ben Wright, third edition, 2002, limited edition 271/500, signed by the author ; Walker, Richard: 'No need to lie', first edition, 1964, with no dust wrapper; and 'The Savay Chronicles' by Keith Jenkins and Clive Williams, first edition (5)
Hammer price: £60
Estimate: £50 - £100
13 May 2025
13 May 2025
FRANCIS DAY, THE FISHES OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND
Lot 684 Sold
FRANCIS DAY, THE FISHES OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND
Williams & Norgate, London, 1880-1884, 2 vols, with 1904 bookplate, possibly rebound then
Hammer price: £40
Estimate: £60 - £80
13 May 2025
13 May 2025
REV.F O MORRIS, NATURAL HISTORY OF BRITISH MOTHS
Lot 685 Sold
REV.F O MORRIS, NATURAL HISTORY OF BRITISH MOTHS
Bell & Daldy, London 1872, 4 vols
Hammer price: £50
Estimate: £80 - £120
13 May 2025
13 May 2025
THE NONESUCH PRESS, COMPLETE WORKS OF THOMAS OTWAY
Lot 686 Unsold
THE NONESUCH PRESS, COMPLETE WORKS OF THOMAS OTWAY
Three vols, 1926, 555 of 1250 sets
Estimate: £60 - £80
13 May 2025
13 May 2025
THE 'COUNTRY LIFE' LIBRARY OF SPORT: FISHING
Lot 687 Unsold
THE 'COUNTRY LIFE' LIBRARY OF SPORT: FISHING
edited by Horace G. Hutchinson. two volume set (2)
Estimate: £30 - £50
13 May 2025
13 May 2025
HENRY M STANLEY, THE CONGO
Lot 688 Sold
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
Hammer price: £120
Estimate: £150 - £300
13 May 2025
13 May 2025
A GRAND TOUR STYLE SKETCH ALBUM, WITH BRASS CLASP, EARLY 19th CENTURY
Lot 689 Sold
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 of Charles Wentworth Dilke)
Hammer price: £90
Estimate: £40 - £60
13 May 2025
13 May 2025
LIONEL EDWARDS, SCARLET AND CORDUROY
Lot 690 Unsold
LIONEL EDWARDS, SCARLET AND CORDUROY
London 1941, with dust jacket, and other books illustrated by Lionel Edwards
Estimate: £40 - £60
13 May 2025
13 May 2025
HARDY, THOMAS: VARIOUS TITLES
Lot 691 Sold
HARDY, THOMAS: VARIOUS TITLES
all published by Macmillan, various dates, red cloth bound (21)
Hammer price: £60
Estimate: £30 - £50
13 May 2025
13 May 2025
‘BLACK’S GENERAL ATLAS OF THE WORLD’
Lot 692 Sold
‘BLACK’S GENERAL ATLAS OF THE WORLD’
new edition, published by Adam and Charles Black, Edinburgh, 1862, brown three quarter leather bound
Hammer price: £70
Estimate: £50 - £100
13 May 2025
13 May 2025
SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE'S CABINET OF GEMS
Lot 693 Unsold
SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE'S CABINET OF GEMS
With BIOGRAPHICAL and DESCRIPTIVE MEMORIALS, by P.G. Patmore, London 1837 (foxed, water staining)
Estimate: £30 - £50
13 May 2025
13 May 2025
KIPLING, RUDYARD: FOUR TITLES
Lot 694 Sold
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, London 1900, 1903 and 1904 respectively, uniformly bound in three-quarter brown leather (4)
Hammer price: £30
Estimate: £30 - £50
13 May 2025
13 May 2025
MANELLI, FRANCESCO DI AMARETTO: ‘IL DECAMERON DI BOCCACCIO’
Lot 695 Sold
MANELLI, FRANCESCO DI AMARETTO: ‘IL DECAMERON DI BOCCACCIO’
1761, 4to, full calf bound with maroon leather half title
Hammer price: £100
Estimate: £100 - £200
13 May 2025
13 May 2025
TWAIN, MARK: TWO TITLES - ‘THE INNOCENTS ABROAD’ AND ‘THE NEW PILGRIMS’ PROGRESS’
Lot 696 Sold
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 marbled boards (1 book)
Hammer price: £35
Estimate: £50 - £100
13 May 2025
13 May 2025

Total lots: 913

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