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Auction No 358, Tag: Antiquarian

8 Lots (displaying 1 - 8)

Anne Pratt "The Flowering Plants and Ferns of Great Britain", SPCK, 1860s

Lot: 36

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Mar 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £250 - £300
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Anne Pratt The Flowering Plants and Ferns of Great Britain, SPCK, 1860s, octavo, complete in 3 volumes, worn half-leather, gilt, with 297 coloured plates (one with a corner torn away) plus one uncoloured. Some minor spotting to plates (confined to borders), some marks in text and occasionally at foot of plates. (3)

W.J. Lucas "British Dragonflies", L. Upcott Gill, 1900, 1st Edition,

Lot: 37

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Mar 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £120
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W.J. Lucas British Dragonflies, L. Upcott Gill, 1900, 1st Edition, rebound with original decorated cloth over new boards & endpapers, some external wear; uncut two sides; fine internally with 27 coloured plates. 356pp + prelims, adverts & plates.

John Henry Leech "British Pyralides, including the Pterophoridae", R.H.Porter, 1886, 1st Edition,

Lot: 38

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Mar 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
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John Henry Leech British Pyralides, including the Pterophoridae, R.H.Porter, 1886, 1st Edition, original gilt cloth, worn at extremities, front inner hinge weak; ownership inscription of 1899; fine internally with 18 coloured lithograph plates. 121pp + prelims & plates. 

Charles Barrett "The Lepidoptera of the British Islands, Vol.I: Rhopalocera" L. Reeve, 1893, 1st Edition,

Lot: 40

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Mar 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £120
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Charles Barrett The Lepidoptera of the British Islands, Vol.I: Rhopalocera L. Reeve, 1893, 1st Edition, quarto, half-leather over worn marbled boards, gilt; marbled endpapers and 40 fine coloured lithograph plates; occasional pencil marking in text margins. 314pp + plates.

"Tennyson's Heroes and Heroines", Raphael Tuck, c.1880, illustrated by Marcus Stone & others

Lot: 67

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Mar 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £56
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Tennyson's Heroes and Heroines, Raphael Tuck, c.1880, illustrated by Marcus Stone & others with 15 (of 16) chromo-litho plates, plus line-drawings. Plates with some tiny imperfections. Quarto. The text & plates disbound in original binding case. 

"The Girl's Own Annual" 1881-94, bound volumes comprising 1881/2, 1882/3, 1893, 1894,

Lot: 71

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Mar 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £26
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The Girl's Own Annual 1881-94, bound volumes comprising 1881/2, 1882/3, 1893, 1894, plus the renamed Woman's Magazine bound volumes 39,40 41 and 44 (2) of the 1919-23 period; together with bound volumes of People's Friend 1897, and Chums for 1928/29. (12 volumes)

"Brown's Self-Interpreting Family Bible", Edward Slater, 1870s, large format, full decorated leather,

Lot: 78

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Mar 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £40
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Brown's Self-Interpreting Family Bible, Edward Slater, 1870s, large format, full decorated leather, gilt, brass-edged and brass clasps, hinges weak, clean internally with colour plates; and The Christian Keepsake and Missionary Annual, Fisher & Co, 1838, octavo, full green tooled morocco, gilt, engravings after Bartlett and others, VG. Also a pamphlet

Frances Gunning "A Sequence of Symbols for the Chief Festivals and Seasons of the Church", F. Bentley, [1873],

Lot: 79

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Mar 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £90
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Frances Gunning A Sequence of Symbols for the Chief Festivals and Seasons of the Church, F. Bentley, [1873], original decorated gilt cloth, backstrip detached, disbound; press cuttings and publisher's prospectus laid down on endpapers; illuminated title page and 9 fine chromo-litho plates.