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Auction date Tuesday 13 May 2025 10:00 - 17:30 BST

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Total lots: 913

Lot Title Estimate Hammer price
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

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