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Auction No 422, Category: History

14 Lots (displaying 1 - 14)

H.W. Wilson "With the Flag to Pretoria", Harmsworth, 1900, 2 vols, and "After Pretoria:The Guerilla War", Amalgamated Press, 1902, 2 vols,

Lot: 42

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Dec 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
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H.W. Wilson With the Flag to Pretoria, Harmsworth, 1900, 2 vols, and After Pretoria:The Guerilla War, Amalgamated Press, 1902, 2 vols, tall quarto, bound in quarter-leather, gilt, VG, very clean internally, no inscriptions. (4)

Sainty & Meydel-Mankoo (Editors) "World Orders of Knighthood and Merit", Burke’s Peerage & Gentry, 2006, two vols, gilt cloth, in slipcase,

Lot: 43

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Dec 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £80
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Sainty & Meydel-Mankoo (Editors) World Orders of Knighthood and Merit, Burke's Peerage & Gentry, 2006, two vols, gilt cloth, in slipcase, Vol.2 with light crushing to top of spine, fine internally, no inscriptions. Slipcase with split at one corner.

"Burke’s Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage", 2003, 3 volume set in slipcase, small repair to foot of rear hinge of Vol.1 o/w fine;

Lot: 44

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Dec 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
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Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 2003, 3 volume set in slipcase, small repair to foot of rear hinge of Vol.1 o/w fine; and Burke's Landed Gentry of Great Britain – The Kingdom in Scotland (19th Edition, Vol.1), 2001, bound in leather, gilt, fine. (4)

John Lilly "Reports and Pleadings of Cases in Assise, for Offices, Nusances, Lands and Tenements", London, 1719, sm. folio,19th Century half-leather

Lot: 45

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Dec 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £36
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John Lilly Reports and Pleadings of Cases in Assise, for Offices, Nusances, Lands and Tenements, London, 1719, sm. folio, 19th Century half-leather worn at edges, marbled boards; some light foxing, contemp. manuscript annotations to title page and margins of seven pages, underlining to two pages of the preface and few other minor markings. Generally very clean internally. Ownership stamp of a Burnley solicitor to front pastedown; xxxii,129,(7)pp.

F.O. Morris (ed.) "A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland", William Mackenzie [1880],

Lot: 48

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Dec 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
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F.O. Morris (ed.) A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland, William Mackenzie [1880], odd volumes comprising Vols. 1 to 3 (two of each) and Vol.4, all with the coloured plates. Publisher's gilt cloth, some wear. Foxing, mostly to the text and occasionally the plate margins. Hinges weak or cracked, some loose pages. (7)

Basil Kennett "Romae Antiquae Notitia: or, the Antiquities of Rome", London, 1737, tenth edn., 14 fine engraved plates (some folding),

Lot: 49

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Dec 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
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Basil Kennett Romae Antiquae Notitia: or, the Antiquities of Rome, London, 1737, tenth edn., 14 fine engraved plates (some folding), few pages of text with small stains; together with Alexander Adam Roman Antiquities, Edinburgh, 1797, good clean text. Old worn calf bindings; front board of Kennett's work detached, bearing armorial bookplate of Thomas Hunt. (2)

Winston S. Churchill "The World Crisis", Folio Society, 2007, five volume set; and two other Folio Society publications. All VF, in fine slipcases.

Lot: 50

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Dec 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £36
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Winston S. Churchill The World Crisis, Folio Society, 2007, five volume set; and two other Folio Society publications. All VF, in fine slipcases.

Kamen Nevenkin "Fortress Budapest: the siege of the Hungarian capital,1944-45", 2020, two vols, and Szamveber "Last Panzer Battles in Hungary", 2020,

Lot: 51

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Dec 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
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Kamen Nevenkin Fortress Budapest: the siege of the Hungarian capital, 1944-45, 2020, two vols, and Szamveber Last Panzer Battles in Hungary, 2020, all in pictorial boards, front cover of Panzer Battles slightly marked o/w fine, no inscriptions. (3)

WW2 Immigration of European Refugees to the United States: correspondence to Erwin Hirsch of Ohio concerning applications for immigration

Lot: 52

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Dec 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £150
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WW2 Immigration of European Refugees to the United States: correspondence to Erwin Hirsch of Ohio concerning applications for immigration from his brother and family, refugees from Austria and Czechoslovakia, at that time living in the United Kingdom; this archive includes Austrian & Czech ID papers, letters from the National Refugee Service (7), Department of Justice, the US Senate, the War Manpower Commission, and the US Consulate in London, plus a welcome card from The Daughters of the American Revolution with a miniature flag.

Social & Political History, mainly UK related, with many h/bks in d/jkts, a few with ownership inscriptions, VG/VF. (No ex- library) (33).

Lot: 57

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Dec 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £62
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Social & Political History, mainly UK related, with many h/bks in d/jkts, a few with ownership inscriptions, VG/VF. (No ex-library) (33).

The 1926 General Strike, pair of anti-strike posters, one issued in the name of Sir John Simon M.P., each 36 x 24”, with folds;

Lot: 58

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Dec 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
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The 1926 General Strike, pair of anti-strike posters, one issued in the name of Sir John Simon M.P., each 36 x 24”, with folds; and a [Liverpool] Daily Post billboard poster concerning the Mersey Pilot Boat Disaster. VG (3)

"H.M.S. Endurance 1981-82 Deployment: A Season of Conflict", [1983], A4 s/bk, printed wraps, signed by Vivian Fuchs, Rex Hunt, and five others,

Lot: 59

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Dec 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £30
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H.M.S. Endurance 1981-82 Deployment: A Season of Conflict, [1983], A4 s/bk, printed wraps, signed by Vivian Fuchs, Rex Hunt, and five others, a related letter from Lt.Cmdr. Andrew Lockett loosely inserted. 150pp plus 50pp of photo-plates. Scarce. Some wear to corners o/w VG.

David Hume & Tobias Smollett "The History of England with a Continuation to the Present Time", James S. Virtue, [1860], 4to, 12 vols,

Lot: 61

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Dec 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £40
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David Hume & Tobias Smollett The History of England with a Continuation to the Present Time, James S. Virtue, [1860], 4to, 12 vols, publisher's gilt & blind-tooled cloth, a.e.g., wear to spine extremities, 11 (of 12) coloured maps,3 engraved titles, and 94 tissue-guarded steel-engraved plates. Browning to tissue-guards, occasionally with minor offset to plates, the plate of Queen Anne badly foxed, o/w very clean internally. (12)

"The Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography", William Mackenzie, [1858-64], 4to, complete in 16 divisions, 94 (of 96) steel-engraved plates;

Lot: 62

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Dec 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £15 - £30
SOLD £15
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The Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography, William Mackenzie, [1858-64], 4to, complete in 16 divisions, 94 (of 96) steel-engraved plates; publisher's gilt cloth, worn at spine extremities, browning to tissue-guards and few pages with foxing, plates VG/VF. Ownership inscription to front endpaper of one volume. (16)