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Auction No 372, Category: Books

132 Lots (displaying 121 - 132)

R.W. Billings "Architectural Illustrations and Description of Kettering Church, Northamptonshire", Atchley & Co, 1869,

Lot: 136

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £26
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R.W. Billings Architectural Illustrations and Description of Kettering Church, Northamptonshire, Atchley & Co, 1869, tall 4to, rebacked in leather, gilt, new endpapers, 20 fine engraved plates, interleaved; and Catherine Beale Memorials of the Old Meeting House and Burial Ground, Birmingham, 1882, tall 4to, orig.gilt cloth, some wear, all plates and diagrams but 2 plates loose. (2)

G.F. Handel "The Messiah", Novello, 1902, quarto, orig. cloth, autographed by musicians of the 1930s & 1940s

Lot: 137

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £52
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G.F. Handel The Messiah, Novello, 1902, quarto, orig. cloth, autographed by musicians of the 1930s & 1940s on the first few pages, including Isobel Baillie, Bessie Collins, Malcolm Sargent, Kathleen Ferrier, Margaret Collier, Heddle Nash, Norman Allin and Robert Easton. Internal binding weak o/w VG.    

Paul Dunbar "Les Aventures de Staline", Cirque Divers, 1980, large format s/back,

Lot: 138

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
UNSOLD
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Paul Dunbar Les Aventures de Staline, Cirque Divers, 1980, large format s/back, creasing to top right corner o/w VG; a graphic novel; no internal inscriptions. One of 1000 printed. 58pp

G. Bowers "Leaves from a Hunting Journal", Chatto & Windus, 1880, oblong quarto, pictorial boards, good,

Lot: 139

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £18
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G. Bowers Leaves from a Hunting Journal, Chatto & Windus, 1880, oblong quarto, pictorial boards, good, foxing to endpapers and title page, a few foxmarks elsewhere, 20 coloured plates; and Finch Mason Country Sketches, A.H. Baily, c.1881, oblong quarto, pictorial boards chipped at corners, 20pp of b/w cartoons. (2)          

"Journal Des Dames et Des Modes", Paris, January to March 1808, eighteen issues complete

Lot: 140

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £50
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Journal Des Dames et Des Modes, Paris, January to March 1808, eighteen issues complete, with 21 attractive hand-coloured fashion-plates; loosely bound together in a contemp. worn card cover.        

William Hugh Dalton (Ed.) "The New and Complete English Traveller", A. Hogg, [1794], folio, half-leather, very worn;

Lot: 142

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £130 - £150
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William Hugh Dalton (Ed.) The New and Complete English Traveller, A. Hogg, [1794], folio, half-leather, very worn; generally clean internally; collated as complete with engraved frontispiece,51 plates (many with several views), 18pp of 2 to 4 engraved maps; final 20 leaves damp -stained; few plates torn & need repair; some pages with small tears and other small faults; hole in margin of plate facing p.100. Comprises iv,[iv],696,[xii]pp.

Marchioness of Londonderry "A Journal of a Three Months' Tour In Portugal, Spain, Africa &c". London, 1843

Lot: 143

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £150
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Marchioness of Londonderry A Journal of a Three Months’ Tour In Portugal, Spain, Africa &c. London, 1843, octavo, original gilt cloth, faded, front panel slightly scuffed; fine internally with four lithographed plates including frontispiece portrait, two plates tipped in; 94pp including preface and list of subscribers.

                                                

C. W. Wilson "Picturesque Palestine, Sinai and Egypt", Virtue & Co, [1881], sm.folio, 4 volumes, original gilt cloth, fine;

Lot: 144

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £96
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C. W. Wilson Picturesque Palestine, Sinai and Egypt, Virtue & Co, [1881], sm.folio, 4 volumes, original gilt cloth, fine; foxing to prelims and endpapers, the plates barely affected; internally fine with all plates & maps. (4)

H.H. Hilton "The Rules of Golf", Henry Heath [1927], pocket- size softback

Lot: 145

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £96
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H.H. Hilton The Rules of Golf, Henry Heath [1927], pocket-size softback, peripheral faults to cover and text-block detached, fine internally including attractive fold-out advert for the Henry Heath Golf competiton and Henry Heath hat competition. 64pp

W.Gibson "The Farrier's New Guide" T. Longman, 1735, contemp. leather, worn, 1871 ownership inscription;

Lot: 147

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £15
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W.Gibson The Farrier’s New Guide T. Longman, 1735, contemp. leather, worn, 1871 ownership inscription; frontispiece creased, and seven other VG plates; clean text; together with Weatherby The Racing Calendar for the Year 1815, C.H. Reynell, 1816, front board detached. (2)

Thomas Stoddart "An Angler's Rambles and Angling Songs", Edmonston & Douglas, 1866

Lot: 148

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £15
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Thomas Stoddart An Angler’s Rambles and Angling Songs, Edmonston & Douglas, 1866, original gilt cloth, front inner hinge weak o/w fine; The Angler’s Companion to the Rivers and Lochs of Scotland, Herbert Jenkins, 1923, VG; plus another. (3)

Bernard Darwin "John Gully and his times", Cassell, 1935, original cloth, gilt, worn at extremities;

Lot: 149

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £10
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Bernard Darwin John Gully and his times, Cassell, 1935, original cloth, gilt, worn at extremities; occasional spotting, frontispiece marked, three additional plates. Remainder mark at foot of textblock. The life of a famous prize fighter. 230pp