Auction No 431, Category: Architecture

16 Lots (displaying 1 - 16)

H. E. Wingfield "An Introduction to the Study of Hypnotism", 1920, 2nd Edn; Hulten "Building Modern Sweden", Penguin, 1951;

Lot: 5

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
UNSOLD
MORE DETAILS

H. E. Wingfield An Introduction to the Study of Hypnotism, 1920, 2nd Edn; Hulten Building Modern Sweden, Penguin, 1951; Ministry of Health Housing Manual 1949, HMS0, plus Supplement; Planning Our New Homes, HMSO, Edinburgh, 1948; Thorn Lighting Ltd Comprehensive Lighting Catalogue 1971/72, many illustrations; and other books & pamphlets, mostly construction and electrical. (71)

Walter Bell "Fleet Street in Seven Centuries", Pitman, 1912, gilt cloth; Burton "At the Sign of the Bible and Anchor," London Press, [1932],

Lot: 46

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £30
MORE DETAILS

Walter Bell Fleet Street in Seven Centuries, Pitman, 1912, gilt cloth; Burton At the Sign of the Bible and Anchor, London Press, [1932], one of 250; Cloake Cottages and Common Fields of Richmond and Kew, 2001, in d/jkt; Sheppard Memorials of St. James's Palace, Longmans, 1894, 2 vols, gilt cloth; John Taylor Our Lady of Battersey, George White, 1925; and another. All with fine b/w plates. (7)

John Thomas Smith "An Antiquarian Ramble in the Streets of London", Richard Bentley, 1846, 2 vols, orig. cloth, gilt,

Lot: 49

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £68
MORE DETAILS

John Thomas Smith An Antiquarian Ramble in the Streets of London, Richard Bentley, 1846, 2 vols, orig. cloth, gilt, cracking to front inner hinge of Vol.1 but still holding. Good clean text.

London topography & history including Charles Gordon "Old Time Aldwych, The Kingsway and Neighbourhood", 1903, maps & plates;

Lot: 50

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £38
MORE DETAILS

London topography & history including Charles Gordon Old Time Aldwych, The Kingsway and Neighbourhood, 1903, maps & plates; Passingham London's Markets, [1935]; Baedeker's London and its Environs, 1898, with all maps; Hugh Phillips The Thames About 1750, Collins, 1951, in d/jkt, and Mid-Georgian London, Collins, 1964, in d/jkt; and various others. (11)

E. Beresford Chancellor "The History of the Squares of London", 1907, gilt cloth, 36 tissue-guarded plates; and two others by Chancellor

Lot: 52

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £40
SOLD £18
MORE DETAILS

E. Beresford Chancellor The History of the Squares of London, 1907, gilt cloth, 36 tissue-guarded plates; and two others by Chancellor comprising The XVIIIth Century in London, 1920, in chipped d/jkt, b/w plates, and London Recalled, 1937, colour & b/w plates after Alister Macdonald. (3)

"An Old York Church. All Hallows in North Street, York", 1908, folio, gilt cloth, No.218 of 500, many plates;

Lot: 65

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
UNSOLD
MORE DETAILS

An Old York Church. All Hallows in North Street, York, 1908, folio, gilt cloth, No.218 of 500, many plates; Caine The Martial Annals of the City of York, 1898, gilt cloth, 60 illustrations; Widdrington Analecta Eboracensia – Some Remaynes of the Ancient City of York, C.J. Clark, 1897, gilt cloth, No.27 of 265, twenty-six plates; Memoirs illustrative of the History and Antiquities of the County and City of York, John Murray, 1847-48, two vols., with plates, title pages foxed; and York Bridgemasters' Accounts, York Archaeological Trust, 2002, 497pp, damage to foot of the spiral binding. (6)

York History, a selection of publications by the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (5), the Ministry of Public Buildings and Works,

Lot: 66

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £30
MORE DETAILS

York History, a selection of publications by the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (5), the Ministry of Public Buildings and Works, and English Heritage. All in fine d/jkts; one with ownership inscription. (7)      

A.P. Purey-Cust "The Heraldry of York Minster", Richard Jackson, 1896, [Vol.2, first volume issued 1890], No.145 of 300, full leather, gilt,

Lot: 67

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £30
MORE DETAILS

A.P. Purey-Cust The Heraldry of York Minster, Richard Jackson, 1896, [Vol.2, first volume issued 1890], No.145 of 300, full leather, gilt, backstrip re-laid, colour tissue-guarded plates; John Browne Fabric Rolls and Documents of York Minster, York, 1863, ‘New Edition', two copies, one rebound, the other with annotations; Hugh the Chanter: The History of the Church of York 1066-1127, Oxford, 1990, in d/jkt; and others, York Minster related. (8)

Benson & Jefferson "Picturesque York", 1886, gilt cloth, sepia plates; and other York illustrated works including Hugh Murray "Doctor Evelyn’s York"

Lot: 68

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £30
MORE DETAILS

Benson & Jefferson Picturesque York, 1886, gilt cloth, sepia plates; and other York illustrated works including Hugh Murray Doctor Evelyn's York, 1983; Wilson & Mee The Fairest Arch in England: Old Ouse Bridge, York, 2002; and Smith Hob Moor: Historic Stray and Local Nature Reserve. Benson's Picturesque York with some discolouration to the boards. (19)     

York History, Architecture and Biography, including Cooper "The History of the Castle of York", 1911, gilt cloth, b/w plates;

Lot: 73

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £20
MORE DETAILS

York History, Architecture and Biography, including Cooper The History of the Castle of York, 1911, gilt cloth, b/w plates; Twyford York and York Castle, 1883, gilt cloth; Purey-Cust Picturesque Old York, 1909, gilt cloth, No.8 of 100, thirty-four tissue-guarded plates; three works concerning the Rowntree family; and various others, many in d/jkts. (18)     

The Assassination of Spencer Perceval, 1812, comprising a hand- coloured etching by Dennes Dighton of the assassin John Bellingham at the Old Bailey,

Lot: 82

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
UNSOLD
MORE DETAILS

The Assassination of Spencer Perceval, 1812, comprising a hand-coloured etching by Dennes Dighton of the assassin John Bellingham at the Old Bailey, and an Act of Parliament to provide for the widow & children of Spencer Perceval. Also four other Acts including an 1842 Act for establishing a Prison at Pentonville, and two concerning Prisons at Millbank and Perth. The print 29 x 21cm, with some browning and manuscript annotations. (6)

Charles Welch "History of the Tower Bridge, and other bridges over the Thames", London, 1894, extra-illustrated with additional plates tipped in,

Lot: 102

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
UNSOLD
MORE DETAILS

Charles Welch History of the Tower Bridge, and other bridges over the Thames, London, 1894, extra-illustrated with additional plates tipped in, few newscuttings laid down on final two leaves, half-leather, gilt; Dasent Piccadilly in Three Centuries with some account of Berkeley Square and The Haymarket, Macmillan, 1920, in chipped d/jkt; and other London titles. (12)

"Journal of Architectural Conservation" (USA), from Vol.1, No.1, 1995-2000, 18 issues; "Architectural History" Vol.1 to Vol.15, 1958-72, 12 issues

Lot: 106

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £40
SOLD £22
MORE DETAILS

Journal of Architectural Conservation (USA), from Vol.1, No.1, 1995-2000, 18 issues; Architectural History Vol.1 to Vol.15, 1958-72, 12 issues; and Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (USA), 1967-78, 14 issues, plus an off-print. Two of the third title with abrasions to front cover o/w fine. (45)

Vernacular Architecture: various softback publications with many journals, plus reports, monographs etc. Country-wide, some emphasis on Scotland.

Lot: 107

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £40
SOLD £42
MORE DETAILS

Vernacular Architecture: various softback publications with many journals, plus reports, monographs etc. Country-wide, some emphasis on Scotland. 1970s/2000s (71)

Architectural works, mostly large format & illustrated, including Brandwood "The Architecture of Sharpe, Paley and Austin", 2012, signed by the author

Lot: 134

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £15 - £30
SOLD £10
MORE DETAILS

Architectural works, mostly large format & illustrated, including Brandwood The Architecture of Sharpe, Paley and Austin, 2012, signed by the author; Nussbaum German Gothic Church Architecture, 2000; Cresti & Rendina Palazzi of Rome, 1998, and similar; together with G.H. West Gothic Architecture in England and France, 1927, revised edition; and a related softback. (9)

"Post-War Building Studies: The Lighting of Buildings", HMSO, 1944, printed wraps, 164pp plus 8 plates; and six related pamphlets, 1944-45.,

Lot: 137

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £15 - £30
UNSOLD
MORE DETAILS

Post-War Building Studies: The Lighting of Buildings, HMSO, 1944, printed wraps, 164pp plus 8 plates; and six related pamphlets, 1944-45., two with library stamps. (7)