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Auction date Tuesday 16 January 2024 10:00 - 17:30 GMT

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Tuesday 16th January starting at 10:00am

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Lots per page:

Total lots: 826

Lot 549 Sold
NICOLAS JEAN DE DIEU SOULT (1769-1851), FRENCH MINISTER OF WAR: A HANDWRITTEN LETTER TO M. MIZBEL, MEMBER OF THE LONDON INSTITUTE
dated 3rd October 1833, thanking Mizbel for his offer of mango trees and requesting 12 trees destined for the ‘African colony’, 23cm x 18cm; together with a portrait engraving of Soult 21cm x 17cm (2)
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £40 - £60
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
Lot 550 Sold
ENID BLYTON HAND WRITTEN LETTER WITH CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY
the letter dated May 25.42 to Mr J Horace Knowles illustrator. Dear Mr Knowles thank you for your letter. I am delighted of course that the drawings are going to be just right. I've written to Methuens to ask them for their latest date, then I'll let you know..... the letter goes on to say 'I have plenty more books coming along and will ask you to do some of these as soon as ever you have time' .... Am so much looking forward to seeing the Far Beyond drawings. You are a brick to do them so carefully for me.
Hammer price: £70
Estimate: £100 - £200
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
Lot 551 Unsold
NELSON MANDELA: AN AUTOGRAPHED PHOTOREPRODUCTION PRINT
of Mandela with Princess Diana, dated 1990, and another photo with Archbishop Desmond Tutu, with a letter from the Office of The President signed by V. Engel, Private Secretary acknowledging reciept of the request and mentioning the photos;
obtained by the vendor's husband, after writing to Archbishop Tutu
Estimate: £100 - £200
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
Lot 552 Sold
TWO VICTORIAN MUSICAL PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS
with some contents, (both movements in overhauled working order)
Hammer price: £30
Estimate: £20 - £40
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
Lot 553 Sold
A VICTORIAN PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM OF DORSET INTEREST
Bradford Peverell including interiors of the Rectory, Porchester church, rebuilding of Stratton Church, Stratton Mill, snow storm at Bradford Peverell 1889, garden scenes, Poole Harbour, ships at Portsmouth etc, circa 1889/90
Hammer price: £170
Estimate: £50 - £100
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
Lot 554 Sold
A COLLECTION OG MOTOR BIKE BROCHURES
to include Triumph, Vespa, Royal Enfield and many more
Hammer price: £220
Estimate: £30 - £50
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
Lot 555 Sold
THE SEAMAN'S SIGNAL MANUAL
dated June 1893; a souvenir letter card of HMS Hood; and a Queen Mary badge (3)
Hammer price: £18
Estimate: £30 - £50
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
Lot 556 Sold
A PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM: STEAMERS AT LULWORTH, PORTLAND QUARRIES
and others, family snapshots etc circa 1920s, and other albums including 1920s and '30s holidays in USA, paddle steamers, etc (5)
Hammer price: £60
Estimate: £30 - £60
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
Lot 557 Sold
A QUANTITY OF EDWARDIAN AND LATER POSTCARDS
varied subjects, in albums (5)
Hammer price: £100
Estimate: £30 - £60
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
Lot 558 Sold
A PHOTO OF A TRACTION ENGINE HAULING BLOCKS OF PORTLAND STONE
'F.J.Barnes Ltd, Portland', circa 1920s/30s, and other ephemera, some of Dorset interest
Hammer price: £70
Estimate: £40 - £60
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
Lot 559 Sold
A QUANTITY OF DORSET NATURAL HISTORY AND ARCHAELOGICAL SOCIETY BOOKS
and Proceedings
Hammer price: £10
Estimate: £50 - £100
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
Lot 560 Sold
A 1930s SCRAPBOOK, 'TRAINS, AEROPLANES, SHIPS- Etc'
and other ephemera, some of Dorset interest
Hammer price: £45
Estimate: £20 - £40
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
Lot 561 Sold
A COLLECTION OF EPHEMERA
including American postcard souvenir sets, others, stamps, a few 'Guinness' postcards and other items, contained in a filing drawer
Hammer price: £10
Estimate: £30 - £40
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
Lot 562 Sold
A COLLECTION OF AMATEUR CB RADIO HAM QSL/QSO CARDS
from many international locations, mostly 1990s
Hammer price: £30
Estimate: £40 - £80
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
Lot 563 Sold
A VICTORIAN PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM
to include images of towns, cathedrals, Suez, Paris and more with a scrap book and 'Railway Machinery' a treatise on the Mechanical Engineering of Railways by Daniel Kinnear Clark
Hammer price: £100
Estimate: £50 - £80
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
Lot 564 Unsold
FRAMED SIGNED 'JAN MOLBY' PICTURE
authentic autograph of former Liverpool and Danish footballer Jan Molby
Estimate: £50 - £80
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
Lot 565 Sold
KATHLEEN HALE, ORLANDO THE MARMALADE CAT
A Camping Holiday, His Silver Wedding, A Trip Abroad, Buys a Farm
Hammer price: £70
Estimate: £20 - £40
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
Lot 566 Sold
JOSEPH STRUTT, SPORTS AND PASTIMES OF THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND
London 1845, with John Brand, Observations on the Popular Antiquities of the People of England, , London 1849, 3 vols
Hammer price: £140
Estimate: £50 - £80
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
Lot 567 Sold
A COLLECTION OF ILLUSTRATED BOOKS
various artists including Lawson Wood, Harry Rowntree etc
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £20 - £40
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
Lot 568 Sold
REV ROBERT STEHEN HAWKER of MORWENSTOW
a collection of books by or about this famous Cornish poet and eccentric
Hammer price: £45
Estimate: £20 - £40
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
Lot 569 Sold
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS BY JOCELYN GREENE
mostly 1st editions
Hammer price: £100
Estimate: £20 - £40
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
Lot 570 Sold
W TUNNICLIFF. SURVEY OF THE WESTERN CIRCUIT
the Counties of Hants, Wilts, Dorset, Somerset, Devon and Cornwall, Salisbury 1791, recent leather binding
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £50 - £80
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
Lot 571 Sold
SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER ELINOR BARLEY
Cresset Press 1930, limited edition of 350, this no. 182, signed by the author
Hammer price: £25
Estimate: £60 - £80
16 January 2024
16 January 2024
Lot 572 Sold
COLETTE LES VRILLES DE LA VIGNE
Le Livre Moderne Illustre, J Ferenczi & Fils Pais, 1923
Hammer price: £10
Estimate: £20 - £40
16 January 2024
16 January 2024

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