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| Lot | Title | Estimate | Hammer price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 385 |
A QUANTITY OF MILITARY WEBBING
and other militaria
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£40 - £60 | £20 | View |
| 386 |
BATTLE OF WATERLOO FRAMED CIGARETTE CARDS
a pair of golf cigarette cards mounted; bundle of cigarette cards - dogs
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£30 - £50 | £25 | View |
| 387 |
A COLLECTION OF IRISH GUARDS MEMORABILIA
including a framed photograph of the Presenting of Colours, 1927, books, badges and other militaria
|
£30 - £50 | - | View |
| 388 |
CAPTAIN JOHN WILKINS, ROYAL FLEET AUXILIARY: HIS ROYAL NAVAL BLACK WOOLLEN GREATCOAT BY CROMBIE OF ABERDEEN
together with his three piece dress uniform, three jackets (two with oak leaves), a pair of trousers and leather belt by Friedeberg of Portsea
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£150 - £200 | £100 | View |
| 389 |
CHARLES CLARK'S ENGRAVED ALPHABETS TWELVE DIFFERENT STYLES
London, early 19th century
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£30 - £50 | £50 | View |
| 390 |
AN HMS VALIANT MENU DATED NEW YEARS EVE 1916
the top with crest and motto ‘Valiant Yet Vigilant’, illustrated with two ships and caption ‘Look You?? That’s a Nassau Class’, the reverse signed in pencil by the crew, 15.5cm x 9cm, together with…
|
£100 - £200 | £50 | View |
| 391 |
AN AUTOGRAPHED AUSTRALIAN XI CORONATION TOUR TEAM SHEET
featuring Lindsay Hassett as captain, 26cm x 21cm
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£30 - £50 | £15 | View |
| 392 |
A PAIR OF CHROMOLITHOGRAPHED CAT GREETINGS CARDS
and a Raphael Tuck Cat calendar for 1905, framed and glazed
|
£60 - £80 | - | View |
| 393 |
‘SNAFFLES - BEING A SELECTION OF HIS HUNTING AND RACING PRINTS’
limited edition 421/750, published by Millwood Press, signed by Princess Anne, red cloth bound with solander box
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£100 - £200 | £160 | View |
| 394 |
THOMAS HARDY: THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE, 2 VOLS
1st ed, orig. cloth (vol I with replacement endpapers, vol II ex library copy, boards bumped etc)
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£60 - £100 | £1,050 | View |
| 395 |
THOMAS HARDY: TWO ON A TOWER, 3 VOLS
1st ed but rebound library edition, without half title pages, with; A group of noble dames, Mellstock ed of 500 copies (vol XXII) cloth gilt (marks) (4)
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£60 - £100 | £260 | View |
| 396 |
HEMINGWAY, ERNEST, 'ACROSS THE RIVER AND INTO THE TREES'
first edition, published by Jonathan Cape, 1950, with dust wrapper (poor condition)
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£50 - £100 | - | View |
| 397 |
PENGUIN MODERN PAINTERS
Graham Sutherland, Paul Nash, Edward Bawden, Duncan Grant, 1943-46
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£30 - £50 | - | View |
| 398 |
C S FORESTER, RANDALL AND THE RIVER OF TIME
1st edition, Michael Joseph, 1951, with clean dust wrapper by Biro, with Colin MacInnes To The Victor The Spoils, 1st edition, MacGibbon & Kee, 1950, damaged dust wrapper
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£30 - £50 | - | View |
| 399 |
PETER DRAFFIN: 'POP', ILLUSTATIONS BY MARTIN SHARP
1st edition, Scripts PTY, London and Australia, 1967
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£30 - £50 | £50 | View |
| 400 |
HOPKINSON, TOM, 'MIST IN THE TAGUS' AND 'DOWN THE LONG SLIDE'
both first editions, published by Hogarth Press 1946 and 1949, with dust wrappers, together with other books
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£50 - £100 | £15 | View |
| 401 |
M A GREENWOOD, THE ANCIENT PLATE OF THE DRAPER'S COMPANY
Oxford 1930, with Edward H Pinto, Treen and other wooden bygones, Bell & Sons 1969, and Raymond Lister, Decorative Cast Ironwork in Great Britain, Bell & Sons 1960
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£30 - £50 | - | View |
| 402 |
ROYAL CORTISSOZ AUGUSTUS SAINT GAUDENS
1st edition, Houghton Mifflin, Boston and New York, 1907, with R H Wilenski, The Meaning of Modern Sculpture, 1st edition, Faber & Faber 1932, and H H Arnason, Jean Antoine Houdon, Edita Denoel,…
|
£30 - £50 | £10 | View |
| 403 |
RICHARD F. BURTON: PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF A PILGRIMAGE TO AL-MADINAH & MECCA
two vols, George Bell 1907, with R.H. BLYTH; 'Haiku', four vols, 1964-66 (latter with jackets)
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£40 - £60 | £60 | View |
| 404 |
CHURCHILL, WINSTON S., - ‘THE SECOND WORLD WAR’
volumes I-VI, first editions 1948-1954, with dustwrappers (except volume V), together with ‘The River War’, reissue published by Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1933 (7)
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£100 - £200 | - | View |
| 405 |
A QUANTITY OF VICTORIAN AND LATER CHILDRENS' BOOKS
including works by E. Nesbit and others
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£30 - £50 | £25 | View |
| 406 |
NEVILE R. WILKINSON: WILTON HOUSE PICTURES, Vol 1
introduction by Sidney Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, Chiswick Press 1907, 139/300 bookplate signed by the author, cloth (some marks, spotting to ends) (Vol. 1 only)
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£30 - £50 | - | View |
| 407 |
A QUANTITY OF MID 20TH CENTURY PENGUIN, PUFFIN AND PELICAN BOOKS
including Dalton, Hugh - ‘Hitler’s War’ (60)
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£100 - £200 | £80 | View |
| 408 |
A COLLECTION OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS AND ANNUAL
Sooty, Pinky & Perky, Robin, Toby etc
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£30 - £50 | £20 | View |
| 409 |
‘TARGETS ATTACKED BY THE EIGHTH AIR FORCE 1942-1943’
five other WWII pamphlets and a quantity of WWII related and other 20th Century books
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£100 - £200 | £70 | View |
| 410 |
A COLLECTION OF LIONEL EDWARDS ILLUSTRATED BOOKS
various authors
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£50 - £80 | - | View |
| 411 |
A FEW DORSET BOOKS
including W.R. Rutland; 'Thomas Hardy, A Study of his Writings and their Background' (1962 reissue), Archaeologica vol 105, 1976 (ref to Maumbury Rings excavations), and other books; 'Britain in…
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£30 - £50 | £25 | View |
| 412 |
A QUANTITY OF MILITARY INTEREST BOOKS
some firearms interest, knot tying etc
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£30 - £50 | £30 | View |
| 413 |
SETS OF DICKENS' WORKS
incomplete, leather bound, one set by Chapman and Hall, with H K Browne illustrations, with other 19th century books
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£200 - £400 | £100 | View |
| 414 |
TERRY PRATCHETT/STEPHEN BAXTER: A COLLECTION OF DISCWORLD AND OTHER BOOKS
including the Discworld Graphic Novels, with Max Hastings; 'Operation pedestal' and 'Chastise' (in one vol) (11)
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£30 - £50 | £30 | View |
| 415 |
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS, MOSTLY ON ANTIQUES
including Antiques Collector's Club volumes, with other books on Boswell and Johnson, history etc (9 shelves)
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£50 - £100 | £90 | View |
| 416 |
THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA
eleventh edition, published by The Encyclopaedia Britannica Company, 1911, brown cloth bound (29 volumes)
|
£200 - £300 | - | View |
| 417 |
THE FOLIO SOCIETY: A COLLECTION OF VARIOUS BOOKS
including Pevsner's Cathedrals of England, history and military history, Churchill's The second World War, and others (some unopened in shrink wrap)
|
£100 - £200 | £650 | View |
| 418 |
A.R. HORWOOD: BRITISH WILD FLOWERS
in their natural haunts, 6 volumes, Gresham Publishing Co, 1919, half calf, with Cassell's History of India, (vol 2 only), and other books
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£30 - £60 | £40 | View |
| 419 |
A COLLECTION OF HISTORY BOOKS AND OTHERS
biography etc, some of William Beckford/Fonthill interest, including issues of the Beckford society Journal
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£30 - £60 | £130 | View |
| 420 |
A COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS
including 'Snowdon -A life in view', Rizzoli, 2014 (with facsimile signature) and others, Lichfield,. Carleton Watkins, Beaton, Levine, some items of German Third Reich interest, etc
|
£60 - £100 | £60 | View |
| 421 |
GIBSON, JOHN (1750-1792), COLOURED ENGRAVING, MAP OF THE ROAD FROM LONDON TO LANDS END
produced for the Gentleman's Magazine, 19 x 44cm, in later Hogarth frame and glazed
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£20 - £40 | £20 | View |
| 422 |
ROBERT MORDEN: MAP OF DORSETSHIRE
coloured, framed 53 x 59cm (badly spotted)
|
£30 - £50 | - | View |
| 423 |
ROBERT MORDEN: MAP OF SOMERSETSHIRE
framed, 41 x 48cm (toned), with two maps, Padstow Bay and Penzance Bay (3)
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£30 - £50 | £50 | View |
| 424 |
AN UNSIGNED PORTRAIT OF BOY'S HEAD
with plumed velvet cap, oil on canvas, in gilt frame 57 x 50cm
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£40 - £80 | £260 | View |
| 425 |
ASCRIBED TO WILLIAM TURNER (OF OXFORD) 1789-11862:
'View of the west country', oil on board, gilt frame 35 x 43cm (labels verso)
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£80 - £150 | £120 | View |
| 426 |
A.H. HEATH, 19th CENTURY: COASTAL VIEW
with ships in port, against a cloudy sky with rainbow, oil on board (?) glazed and framed 35 x 48cm, indistinct inscription to back board
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£50 - £100 | £60 | View |
| 427 |
ANTONIO DA TRENTO c.1508-1550: THE TIBURTINE SIBYL AND EMPEROR AUGUSTUS
after Parmigianino, chiaroscuro woodcut in black and green/brown, the sheet 35 x 26cm, in a lined mount and old gilt frame
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£200 - £400 | £1,400 | View |
| 428 |
EDME BOUCHARDON 1698-1762; THE 'CRIES OF PARIS' SERIES
ten etchings with engraving mostly by 'C*S*', in moulded gilt frames 39 x 33cm (10)
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£100 - £200 | £320 | View |
| 429 |
ENGLISH SCHOOL, 19TH CENTURY A pair of studies of cattle in landscapes
watercolours, each 23.5cm x 34cm (2)
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£50 - £100 | - | View |
| 430 |
IMPASTO HILLSIDE VIEW
a black and white print by Susan Woolfenden, 72 x 70cms and two maps, somerset/Wiltshire, Surrey/Kent (4)
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£30 - £50 | £30 | View |
| 431 |
JAN (20th CENTURY DUTCH), Still life vase of flowers,
signed, oil painting, canvas 60cm x 75cm, gilt frame
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£150 - £250 | - | View |
| 432 |
19TH CENTURY ENGLISH SCHOOL, An Italian country couple
the lady depicting holding spindle and distaff, the gentleman leaning against a pedestal, watercolours, 35cm x 25cm, dated Rome February and March 1857, later gilt frames (2)
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£100 - £200 | £50 | View |
