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Auction No 426, Category: Books

110 Lots (displaying 101 - 110)

Civil Engineering including Hunter "Bridge and Structural Engineers’ Handbook" 1928; Hill "Highway Bridge Design" 1948;

Lot: 119

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th May 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £44
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Civil Engineering including Hunter Bridge and Structural Engineers' Handbook 1928; Hill Highway Bridge Design 1948; Glendinning Principles of Surveying 1950 and Principles and Use of Surveying Instruments 1950, both firsts in d/jkt; and various others. VG/Fine. (19)

"Retrospect of philosophical, mechanical, chemical and agricultural discoveries: being an abridgement of the periodical and other publications..."

Lot: 120

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th May 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £150 - £200
SOLD £150
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Retrospect of philosophical, mechanical, chemical and agricultural discoveries: being an abridgement of the periodical and other publications, English and foreign, relative to arts, chemistry, manufactures, agriculture, and natural philosophy; accompanied, occasionally, with remarks on the merits or defects of the respective papers; and, in some cases, shewing to what other useful purposes inventions may be directed, and discoveries extended, beyond the original view of their authors. J. Wyatt, London, 1806-1815, eight volume set, first edition; octavo, half-leather, gilt, worn and chipped, marbled boards, Vols.1 and 4 lacking title labels. VG internally; occasional foxing, largely confined to title pages and endpapers. A good set and very scarce when complete. (8)

Charles Darwin "The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals", John Murray, 1890, edited by Francis Darwin, 2nd Edition (revised & expanded);

Lot: 121

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th May 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £66
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Charles Darwin The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, John Murray, 1890, edited by Francis Darwin, 2nd Edition (revised & expanded); original cloth, gilt, complete with the seven tissue-guarded plates (some foxing to the tissue-guards).

George Nicholson "The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening", L. Upcott Gill, [1885-1900], set of 12 volumes, publisher's decorated cloth, gilt,

Lot: 122

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th May 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £80 - £120
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George Nicholson The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening, L. Upcott Gill, [1885-1900], set of 12 volumes, publisher's decorated cloth, gilt, complete with the 36 colour plates. A few volumes slightly marked; volume VII has a small puncture hole to the front board which has affected the first plate.

F.B. Kirkman (Ed.) "The British Bird Book", T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1910, 4 vols in 12 parts, tall quarto, printed boards, 200 fine colour plates.

Lot: 123

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th May 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £54
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F.B. Kirkman (Ed.) The British Bird Book, T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1910, 4 vols in 12 parts, tall quarto, printed boards, 200 fine colour plates. Few repairs to spine extremities o/w VG. [Offered on behalf of The National Trust]

Football Programmes,1943-1982, mostly Manchester City Home (60) and Away (22) with much 1960s but including 1943-50 (14, eight pre-1945).

Lot: 124

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th May 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £150
SOLD £230
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Football Programmes, 1943-1982, mostly Manchester City Home (60) and Away (22) with much 1960s but including 1943-50 (14, eight pre-1945). Of the 1960s fourteen are single-sheet programmes for reserves and youth games. Also two F.A. Challenge Cup replays played at Maine Road, plus 1967 England v Scotland and 1969 F.A.Cup Final, three Manchester City season ticket books 1981-82 (intact), and related ephemera. Mixed condition (esp. 1940s), tokens intact throughout. (99 items)

Signed books by Sports celebrities, a collection, 1990s/2000s, mostly football & cricket, five with multiple signatures

Lot: 125

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th May 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £150 - £200
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Signed books by Sports celebrities, a collection, 1990s/2000s, mostly football & cricket, five with multiple signatures, including autographs of Jimmy Greaves, Bobby Charlton, Brian Clough, Gordon Banks, Garry Sobers, George Best, Graeme Sharp, Peter May and various others. Offered ‘as is', a signature of Muhammed Ali does not appear to be genuine. VG condition. Also one unsigned. (10)

Gibson & Pickford "Association Football & the Men Who Made It", Caxton, [1905-06], four vols, pictorial cloth worn and very discoloured,

Lot: 126

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th May 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £64
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Gibson & Pickford Association Football & the Men Who Made It, Caxton, [1905-06], four vols, pictorial cloth worn and very discoloured, fine internally complete with numerous plates (4)

J.H. Goddard "Francis-Barnett Motor Cycles", C. Arthur Pearson, 1957, fine, in VG d/jkt.

Lot: 127

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th May 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £15
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J.H. Goddard Francis-Barnett Motor Cycles, C. Arthur Pearson, 1957, fine, in VG d/jkt.     

Philatelic literature comprising Seymour "The Stamps of Great Britain", RPS,1934, 2 vols, some marginal pencil marks; Lowe "Masterpieces of Engraving"

Lot: 195

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th May 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
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Philatelic literature comprising Seymour The Stamps of Great Britain, RPS, 1934, 2 vols, some marginal pencil marks; Lowe Masterpieces of Engraving, 1943, in fair d/jkt, and The British Postage Stamp of the Nineteenth Century; Melville Postage Stamps in the Making, 1916 (Vol.1) in full leather binding; and 2010 specialised catalogue of GB QE2 definitives in two vols. Fair to fine. (7)