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Auction No 362, Category: History

28 Lots (displaying 21 - 28)

General Strike Newspapers 1926, a collection comprising "The British Gazette" HMSO (10),

Lot: 75

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £50
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General Strike Newspapers 1926, a collection comprising The British Gazette HMSO (10), The British Worker (10), The Times, The Daily Telegraph (3), Daily Mirror (2), Daily News, Sunday Pictorial, and Daily Graphic. Most with central folds, some dust-affected but all intact. Fair/VG (29)

Margaret Thatcher "The Downing Street Years" 1993, First Edition, in d/jkt, signed by the author. Fine

Lot: 77

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £48
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Margaret Thatcher The Downing Street Years 1993, First Edition, in d/jkt, signed by the author. Fine 

John Franklin "Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea in the years 1819, 20, 21 and 22"

Lot: 78

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £24
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John Franklin Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea in the years 1819, 20, 21 and 22 Charles Tuttle, 1970, quarto, fine h/bk in fair d/jkt; 768pp + colour plates + 4 Maps in rear pocket. 

Edward Baines "History of the Wars of the French Revolution, 1792 to 1815" London, 1817, quarto, 2 volumes,

Lot: 79

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £46
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Edward Baines History of the Wars of the French Revolution, 1792 to 1815, London, 1817, quarto, 2 volumes, later boards overlaid with modern half-morocco, gilt, red title labels, VG; ownership inscriptions of 1962; VG internally with all plates and Maps (4 folding). Also 3 other leather bound 19th Century books. (5)

Description of a Tour in Italy 1869, an original manuscript entered in an exercise book, 66pp,

Lot: 81

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £150 - £250
SOLD £155
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Description of a Tour in Italy 1869, an original manuscript entered in an exercise book, 66pp, written in a clear hand, describing a holiday taken by Captain & Mrs. Armitage, their three children, governess and servant, of Alderley, Cheshire, who sailed via Bristol in October; and subsequent descriptions of a Tour on the Continent 1882 (40pp), the Channel Islands & Brittany 1892 (14pp), and Switzerland & the Tyrol 1893 (2pp). 9 x 7.25”, cloth-covered boards, a little marked. Fine internally.

[Plutarch and Juvenal] Plutarchi Chaeronensis "Quomodo Juveni Audienda sint Poemata" 1694, 105pp,

Lot: 107

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
UNSOLD
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[Plutarch and Juvenal] Plutarchi Chaeronensis Quomodo Juveni Audienda sint Poemata 1694, 105pp, bound with Basilii Magni Oratio ad Juvenes Quomodo cum Fructu Possint Graecorum Libros, 41pp; to which is appended A Catalogue of Books Printed at the Theatre in Oxford, 14pp. Greek text with Latin translation and footnotes by Hugo Grotius. Oxford, 1694, octavo, disbound from a combined volume; engraved title and frontispiece; small corner fault to final leaf otherwise fine. 

John Dryden "The Medall. A Satyre Against Sedition" Jacob Tonson, London, 1682, First Edition (2nd Issue);

Lot: 110

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £150
UNSOLD
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John Dryden The Medall. A Satyre Against Sedition Jacob Tonson, London, 1682, First Edition (2nd Issue); small quarto, disbound from a combined colume; [12] + 20pp. Title page dust-affected o/w VG. (Wing D2311)

[Pliny the younger] C. Plinii Caecilii Secundi "Epistolae et Panegyricus" edited Johannis Minellii,

Lot: 121

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
UNSOLD
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[Pliny the younger] C. Plinii Caecilii Secundi Epistolae et Panegyricus edited Johannis Minellii, J.L. Gleditsch & M.G. Weidmann, 1712, 12mo, worn full leather, gilt, red title label; marble edged & endpapers; title page in red & black; engraved initials; text complete but affected by variable degrees of foxing & browning. [12], 1314pp + extensive index.