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| Lot | Title | Estimate | Hammer price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 623 |
POSTCARD ALBUMS AND LOOSE CARDS
including a small collection of Poole and Dorset cards
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£20 - £40 | - | View |
| 624 |
BEKEN OF COWES: 'START SCHOONER RACE - 1908'
photographic print, laid to board, unframed (some marks, lifting) image 40 x 50cm, inscibed verso; 'Brassby Cup1908'
|
£40 - £60 | - | View |
| 625 |
A 'BOURNEMOUTH TRAM DISASTER' POSTCARD
commemorating that event of May 1st 1908 (corner damaged), and a few postcards of Naval and Railway interest, and other items
|
£20 - £40 | £35 | View |
| 626 |
A COLLECTION OF MODERN POSTCARDS
maps and charts, and a 45rpm record of Allan Smethurst, 'The Singing Postman'
|
£20 - £30 | - | View |
| 627 |
A PART SET OF 'MASTERS OF THE POSTER OF THE EIGHTEEN-NINETIES'
Sunday Times edition (three only present), and a collection of 1960s German calendar prints
|
£20 - £40 | £20 | View |
| 628 |
ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
bound volumes for 1851 and 1852 (3)
|
£20 - £40 | £15 | View |
| 629 |
THE BUILDER'S PRACTICAL DIRECTOR
Rebound but otherwise in original condition, 1855, with a bound copy of The Architect and Contract Reporter, July to December 1901
|
£40 - £60 | £10 | View |
| 630 |
PICTURESQUE PALESTINE, SINAI AND EGYPT
Edited by Colonel Wilson, R.E., C.B., F.R.S. London, Virtue and Co, Limited, cloth bound, vols I and III only (of four) (worn)
|
£40 - £80 | £20 | View |
| 631 |
CHARLES DANA GIBSON, THE GIBSON BOOK
2 vols, 1906, with Society Pictures from Punch drawn by George du Maurier, vol 1 only (3)
|
£20 - £40 | - | View |
| 632 |
CERVANTES; THE HISTORY OF DON QUIXOTE, ILLUSTRATED BY GUSTAVE DORE
Cassell Petter and Galpin, London, cloth bound (binding poor, some staining, biro owner's inscription)
|
£40 - £80 | £20 | View |
| 633 |
JENNINGS LTD, GENERAL WOODWORKING CATALOGUE
list for 1921 (worn)
|
£20 - £40 | £10 | View |
| 634 |
ROBERT TOWNSON, TRAVELS IN HUNGARY
London 1797
|
£30 - £50 | £90 | View |
| 635 |
THREE KATE GREENAWAY VOLUMES
including 'Birthday book for children)
|
£30 - £40 | £15 | View |
| 636 |
JOHN HUTCHINS, HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF DORSET
two vols, 1774, complete, some restoration to the binding, bears bookplate of Eton College Library, 1801
|
£300 - £500 | £320 | View |
| 637 |
WILLIAM BAWDWEN, DOMESDAY BOOK FOR THE COUNTY OF DORSET
including John Hutchins, Dissertation on Domesday Book, London 1815
|
£40 - £60 | £120 | View |
| 638 |
BROOKE, RUPERT - 1914 AND OTHER POEMS
first edition, published by Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1915, blue cloth binding, sold together with Brooke, Rupert - Twenty Poems, first edition, published by Sidgwick & Jackson, London 1935…
|
£300 - £400 | £180 | View |
| 639 |
EMERSON - POEMS
Chapman, Brothers 1847
|
£80 - £100 | £10 | View |
| 640 |
JOHN FOWLES, BEHIND THE MAGUS
Colophon Press 1994, no.128 of 232, signed by the author, with Robert Frost, From Snow to Snow, Harold Holt, New York, 1936
|
£20 - £40 | £10 | View |
| 641 |
FIVE BOOKS FROM THE FABER ARIEL POEMS SERIES
No.3, Laurence Binyon, ill. Barnett Freedman; no.6 Wilfrid Gibson ill. John Nash; no.10 W H Davies ill. William Nicholson; no.13 Harold Monro ill. David Jones; no. 32 Henry Newbolt ill. Althea…
|
£70 - £100 | £60 | View |
| 642 | HABERLY, LOYD - TWO VOLUMES - JOHN APOSTATE AND POEMS | £80 - £100 | £50 | View |
| 643 |
A SET OF MACMILLAN CALENDAR READERS 1958
with a collection of Penguin musical scores (18 books)
|
£20 - £40 | £15 | View |
| 644 |
MIXED POETRY INCLUDING AUDEN, MASEFIELD AND DE LA MARE
and MacNeice
|
£100 - £150 | £70 | View |
| 645 |
EDWARD WEDLAKE BRAYLEY, LONDINIANA
Reminiscences of thr British Metropolis, London 1829, 4 vols
|
£50 - £100 | £20 | View |
| 646 |
MARIANNE COLSTON, JOURNAL OF A TOUR
in France, Switzerland and Italy, London 1823, 2 vols, dedication by the author (lacking quarto volume of plates)
|
£20 - £40 | £10 | View |
| 647 |
THOMAS PENNANT, LONDON
1790
|
£50 - £100 | £35 | View |
| 648 |
'THE PRINCE OF WALES BOOK'
published for St. Dunstan's by Hodder & Stoughton, red cloth binding, containing a facsimile signed Edward Prince of Wales letter entreating the public to buy the book
|
£20 - £30 | - | View |
| 649 |
BELLAMY, DAVID: THE MOUSE BOOK
Percy Edwards 'Song Birds', Richard Mabey 'Oak and Company'
|
£10 - £20 | - | View |
| 650 |
JOHN LOUDON McADAM
Remarks on the Present System of Road Making, London 1821, 4th edition, with F S Williams, Our Iron Roads, 1883, 3rd edition
|
£20 - £40 | £10 | View |
| 651 |
DRINKWATER, JOHN - A COLLECTION OF VOLUMES
including a Memorial Exhibition catalogue
|
£300 - £400 | £380 | View |
| 652 |
A COLLECTION OF VINTAGE BOOKS OF RAILWAY INTEREST
some children's books
|
£10 - £20 | £10 | View |
| 653 |
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS: INDUSTRY, ENGINEERING, FARMING
including works by Samuel Smiles, Industries of Great Britain 3 vols etc.
|
£30 - £50 | £80 | View |
| 654 |
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS
including literature, Dickens, Stevenson etc, architecture, bound magazines, Caroline Fox etc.
|
£20 - £40 | £40 | View |
| 655 |
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS, INCLUDING A LEATHER-BOUND 'GRAY'S ELEGY'
numerous Reprint Society/World Books volumes, many with jackets, and others
|
£20 - £40 | £80 | View |
| 656 |
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS ABOUT BRITAIN
including The Beauties of England, 1776, Third Edition and Edward Baines, Lancashire
|
£30 - £50 | £60 | View |
| 657 |
A COLLECTION OF 'THE DORSET YEAR BOOK'
1950s and later
|
£20 - £40 | £25 | View |
| 658 |
A SMALL QUANTITY OF BOOKS
including Dickens' 'Tale of two cities', Rowling; 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince', an R.A.F. log book and others
|
£30 - £50 | £10 | View |
| 659 |
A SMALL QUANTITY OF BOOKS
including a group of books by Alistair Cooke
|
£20 - £40 | - | View |
| 660 |
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS ON BUSES, TRAMS
and trolleybuses
|
£30 - £50 | £15 | View |
| 661 |
DUMAS, TRANSLATED BY I. G. BURNHAM 'CELEBRATED CRIMES'
H.S. Nichols 1895, 6 vols, with other books including a collection Wilbur Smith, Winston Churchill, and other items
|
£30 - £50 | £10 | View |
| 662 |
A LARGE QUANTITY OF MIXED BOOKS
architecture, railways, London, etc (contents of bookcase)
|
£40 - £60 | £10 | View |
| 663 |
BRITISH BIRDS WITH EGGS AND NESTS, 1898
Buckler, Arthur G., six volumes
|
£30 - £50 | £20 | View |
| 664 |
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS ON ART, ANTIQUES, AND COLLECTING
including publications by Antique Collector's Club, and Schiffer
|
£30 - £50 | £160 | View |
| 665 | A COLLECTION OF FOLIO SOCIETY BOOKS | £30 - £50 | £130 | View |
| 666 |
A VARIED COLLECTION OF AUCTION CATALOGUES
from the collection of an interior decorator
|
£30 - £50 | £10 | View |
| 667 |
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS OF BOER WAR INTEREST
(one shelf)
|
£30 - £50 | £20 | View |
| 668 |
ERNEST W. HASLEHURST (ILLUS.) 'OUR BEAUTIFUL HOMELAND'
The Gresham Publishing Co (7 vols)
|
£30 - £50 | £25 | View |
| 669 |
SWINBURNE, WALTER - CHASTELARD
and a quantity of other mixed books
|
£100 - £150 | £340 | View |
| 670 |
A VARIED COLLECTION OF PENGUIN PAPERBACKS
150 (approx)
|
£40 - £60 | £30 | View |
