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Lot 1248Military diary relating to Col. Roberts of Hendre of Killiney - the first entry titled 1st tour to Cashmere, dated 1863
Sold for £60
Lot 1249An envelope addressed to Mr O'Donnell, Gothic Villa, Tunbridge Wells, inscribed 'from The Duke of Wellington
Sold for £30
Lot 1250Giuseppe Garibaldi autograph letter, signed and dated Genoa 3 April 1861
Sold for £200
Lot 1251Anthony Trollope letter
Sold for £420
Lot 1252Selection of early engravings, European City plans 1895-1900, Maps etc (qty)
Lot 1253Selection of postcards all periods, plus photographs, album of shipping interest advertising etc.
Sold for £90
Lot 1254Selection of various ephemera including menus, theatre interest, political, hand drawn dress designs, magazines, auto poster, bookmarks etc.
Sold for £100
Lot 1255Valiant comic - original pen and ink artwork. original Captain Caveman drawing by Bryan Foster, other original illustration and advertising artworks
Sold for £120
Lot 1256Childrens cards, cut out figures and games
Sold for £38
Lot 1257Two boxes of ephemera to include stamps, postcards, photographs etc.
Sold for £50
Lot 1258Selection of 1970s-1980s Unipart calendars mostly in original packaging (20)
Unsold
Lot 1259Stamps GB selection in large blue container including GB 1951 Festival high values mint 1939 high values mint QV to 5/- used GV and GVI to 10/- plus some world issues
Sold for £80
Lot 1260Stamps five albums of illustrated FDC's 1975-1986 period
Sold for £40
Lot 1261Stamps two boxes of FDC's, presentation packs, RAF covers, general world albums, high face value (Qty)
Sold for £70
Lot 1262Postcards two large albums plus loose worldwide selection including used Japanese cards. American cowboys and girls, strong in Europe, mostly Edwardian (Qty)
Lot 1263Postcards military selection to include European regiments and uniforms, Harry Payne cards & others
Lot 1264Programmes FA Cup Final April 29th 1939 Portsmouth v Wolverhampton Wanderers, FA Cup Final April 28th 1934 Manchester City v Portsmouth signed in centre pages by the 1934 Australian Cricket tour...
Sold for £110
Lot 1265Autograph Ricky Hatton and Brother, Matthew Hatton signed Manchester City programme v Southampton 11th May 2003 with ticket
Sold for £20
Lot 1266Alfred Young Nutt, 1847-1924, resident of Windsor Castle for over 40 years, holding positions including Draughtsman, Surveyor to the Dean and Cannons, and Clerk of Works, a collection of letters...
Sold for £10
Lot 1267Rare Italian Noble wedding invitation, Caroline Shirley, Duchess Sforza Cesarine and Principe Giovanni Andrew Colonna requesting the presence to the marriage of Francesco Luca Sforza Cesarini to...
Lot 1268Napoleon and Wellington, depicted in a cockfight, a rare 19th century coloured optical toy lithograph, by William Spooner. “Spooner’s Transformations No. 7, The Rival Heroes or a Fight For the C...
Lot 1269Metal lined wooden truck and one other metal truck containing correspondance to Lt Col. S.E.Prall (Dr.) relating to medical matters, civilian and Military, ledgers, diary and other ephemera.
Lot 1270Cricket memorabilia including Cricketer's Special Reserve Gin 2 full bottles and one empty, Wisden Almanacks, books including autobiographs, Famous Crickets 1920's bound edition etc.
Sold for £46
Lot 1271Circus posters Chipperfields 'Trowbridge', 'Salisbury', 'Bromsgrove', Sir Robert Fossetts 'Woking' Cuttle and Austens 'Granby Halls' (5)
Lot 1272Circus posters Robert Brothers 'Southend', 'Bedford' Circus Reco 'Shaftesbury', Chipperfields 'Bungley Hall' Circus Hoffman 'Ashington' (5)
Lot 1273Circus posters Gerry Cottles Circus 'Enfield', 'Bournemouth', Circus Reco 'Penzance', Chipperfields Bromsgrove, Sir Robert Fossetts 'Colchester' (5)
Lot 1274Circus posters Sir Robert Fossetts 'Newton Abbot', Oxford, Robert Brothers 'Leyton', 'Wembley', Gerry Cottles (no venue) (5)
Lot 1275Circus posters Sir Robert Fossetts 'Brighton', 'Truro', 'South Shields', 'Newcastle', 'Gateshead', Tom Arnolds Sleeping Beauty Robert Brothers 'Newcastle', Bertram Mills 'Olympia' (8)
Lot 1276Pamela Chandler photographic portrait print of J R Tolkien
Lot 1277Stamps World accumulation in albums and loose, all periods, plus covers and postcards
Lot 1278Stamps GB and world selection in albums, stockbooks, loose on/off paper, FDC's, presentation packs etc
Lot 1300Wilkie Collins, English novelist and playwright, 1824-1899. Rare signed first edition copy of Heart And Science Vol 1, 1883. Printed by Spottiswoode & co. The first title page inscribed in i...
Sold for £680
Lot 1301New Naturalist, twenty four titles, including early and first editions. Provenance: Estate of John Burton (1944-2022), renowned conservationist and ecologist, founder of the World Wide Land Cons...
Lot 1302James Cowles Pritchard - Researches into the Physical History of Mankind, London, 4 volumes (1, 2, 3, 5), third edition, 1836-47, with handcoloured engravings, together with Discoveries and Adv...
Lot 1303Lord Byron - The Works, published John Murray 1819, 3 vols.
Lot 1304Collection of natural history and collectible books. (2 boxes)
Sold for £140
Lot 1305David Bannerman - Birds of the British Isles, illustrated by George Lodge, 12 Vols, 1st edition
Lot 1306W.H. Hudson, collection of works
Lot 1307Davies - The Innkeeper and Butler’s Guide, or a Directory in the Making and Managing of British Wines; 6th edition
Lot 1308James Miller - Mahomet the Imposter, 1744, chapbook presented in vellum binding
Lot 1309Alex J Vaughan - Modern Bookbinding, 1950, in fine modern binding
Sold for £75
Lot 1310The Art of Cookery, 1770 new edition, full calf, together with Aesop's Fables, English/Latin edition 1731, Samuel Johnson - The Prince of Abissinia, 1775 5th edition. (3)
Lot 1311Thomas Beedome - Select Poems, Nonesuch press 1928, limited edition 956/1250, vellum bound with slip case, together with Tablet of Memory, 1807, good modern binding, Works of Tennyson, 1899, Mis...
Lot 1312S C Hall - Baronial Halls, 1881, folio, two vols, together with James Cromar Watt - Examples of Greek and Pompeian decorative work, 1897. (3)
Sold for £55
Lot 1313Charles Dickens - Old Curiosity Shop, illustrated Frank Reynolds
Lot 1314Peter Muilman - A New and Complete History of Essex
Lot 1315J K Rowling - Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone, 1999 deluxe edition 8th print, signed by the author
Sold for £320
Lot 1316Interesting early to mid 19th century autograph book containing many signatures, to include amongst others: David Brewster, British Scientist and Inventor, 1781-1868. Henry Drummond, Scottish Bi...
Lot 1317Volume X The Botanical Magazine of Flower Garden displayed by William Curtis. Published in 1796, 36 hand coloured plates
Lot 1318Histoire de la Mode en France par Augustin Challamel 21 hand coloured plated each with tissue guards. Published in 1881
Lot 1319Folio Society books including history, poetry. (2 boxes)
Sold for £130
Lot 1320Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, The Irish Question, 1886, with signed letter by Gladstone to inside cover
Lot 1321Michael Bond - Paddington bear pop up book
Lot 1322J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, first edition, 15th printing, hardback
Lot 1323Graham Sutherland signed and dedicated first edition
Lot 1324John Betjeman - Summoned by Bells first edition and signed John Major autobiography (2).
Lot 1325Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 1852 U.K. edition
Sold for £32
Lot 1326Decorative bindings and collectible books
Lot 1327Collection of books relating to Norfolk
Lot 1328Collection of books relating to Suffolk
Lot 1329Collection of East Anglian Art books
Lot 1330Collection of books relating to Benjamin Britten
Lot 1331Children's and other collectable books
Sold for £65
Lot 1332Books: Eight volumes of The General Stud Book, leather bound
Lot 1333Twelve early 19th editions of the Ipswich Journal
Lot 1334Bookbinder's Edition: Samuel Johnson - A Dictionary of the English Language, Folio Society, 2006. Facsimile Edition, half leather, marbled papered boards, full marbled edges, in slipcase, number...
Sold for £340
Lot 1335Collection of Folio Society books (3 boxes)
Sold for £280
Lot 1336Folio Society books, 5 boxes
Lot 1337Mixed books including poetry and some signed
Lot 1338Collection of Tolkien works
Sold for £230
Lot 1339The Alhamambra by Geoffrey Crayon 1832
Lot 1340Mervyn Peake - The Gormenghast trilogy: Titus Groan, 1946, published Reynal & Hitchcock (possibly 1st American edition); Gormenghast, 1950; Titus Alone, 1959, the latter two first U.K. editi...
Sold for £180
Lot 1341The Poems of John Keats - published Florence Press, 1915 two volumes, No 180 of a Limited Edition on hand-made paper of 250, vellum bound
Sold for £220
Lot 1342Arthur Rackham - good collection of illustrated books including A Midsummer Nights Dream, March 1914 new impression; The Romance of King Arthur, 1917; Cinderella 1919 (with dust jacket); English...
Sold for £760
Lot 1343Archibald Williams - Petrol Peter, ill A Wallis Mills, L, Methuen, circa 1906, 4to, board ends
Lot 1344Enid Blyton - The Island of Adventure, illustrated by Stuart Tresilian, published by Macmillan, 1944, 1st edition, with dust jacket, and various other Blyton 1st editions, including The Naughti...
Sold for £1,100
Lot 1345W. H. St Hope John - Windsor Castle, an Architectural History, pub. Country Life 1913, Folio - 2 vol.. Red cloth. Illustrated from photographs and coloured prints and a supplementary portfolio o...
Lot 1346Private Press including - E. Powys Matthews - A Circle of the Seasons, Golden Cockerel Press, 1929, illustrated Robert Gibbings, numbered 419/500 Michael Fairless - The Road Mender, 1920, limite...
Sold for £170
Lot 1347Sylvia Plath - Ariel, London, Faber and Faber, 1965. First edition, in unclipped dust jacket, together with Crossing the Water, 1971 first edition. (2)
Sold for £400
Lot 1348Hugh Thomson (Illustrator), Goldsmith - She Stoops to Conquer, ornate cloth binding and original box case, together with As you Like it, illustrated by Thomson
Lot 1349Good collection of decorative cloth bindings, illustrated by Hugh Thomson and others
Sold for £2,900
Lot 1350H.E. Bates - The Larkin Family novels, first editions, including 'Breath of French Air', 1959, 'When the Green Woods Laugh', 1960, with dust jackets
Lot 135120th century literature including first editions
Lot 1352Gertrude Jekyll publications - 7 titles, in cloth bindings
Lot 1353Alexander Pope - The Works, nine volumes (of ten?), 1757 in uniform calf bindings, and various other antiquarian bindings
Lot 1354Thomas Boreham - A description of three hundred animals, viz. beasts, birds, fishes, serpents, and insects. With a particular account of the manner of their catching of whales in Greenland, exte...
Sold for £640
Lot 1355Children's illustrated books including Rene Bull - Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam; Cecil Aldin - Dogs of Character; Dulac - Arabian Nights, various others, 1 box.
Sold for £190
Lot 1356The Roly Poly Pudding by Beatrix Potter, first edition, second impression 1908, cloth boards
Lot 1357Decorative bindings. (2 boxes)
Sold for £240
Lot 1358Collection of miniature books
Lot 1359Elizabeth Batty - Italian Scenery From Drawings Made in 1817, with 60 plates, Rodwell and Martin, 1820, full calf, reinforced
Lot 1360Collection of poetry, mainly first editions
Lot 1361Poem of the Month club
Lot 1362Two rare Edward Ardizonne books
Lot 1363Edward Ardizonne illustrated - mainly first editions
Lot 1364W H Davies - six publications