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Auction No 350, Tag: Antiquarian

10 Lots (displaying 1 - 10)

Byrne & Spon "Spons' Dictionary of Engineering" 1874 plus supplement, 4 vols

Lot: 93

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Apr 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £80
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Byrne & Spon Spons' Dictionary of Engineering, 1874, 3 volumes, and the rare Supplement, 1881; original gilt cloth, spines worn at top and base (the Supplement badly frayed); fine internally. Numerous illustrations. (4) 

James Lee "An Introduction to the Science of Botany" London, 1810

Lot: 98

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Apr 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £10 - £20
SOLD £18
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James Lee An Introduction to the Science of Botany, London, 1810, 4th Edition, octavo, full leather, gilt, slightly pitted, front board detached; armorial bookplate of Emanuel Goodhart (1772-1853) of Langley Park, Kent; few marginal tone spots otherwise very good internally with the 12 hand-coloured plates and engraved frontispiece. 

"The Designs and Correspondences of the present Committee of Estates and That part of the Scotish Nation which is now entred into this Kingdom"

Lot: 100

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Apr 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £52
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The Designs and Correspondences of the present Committee of Estates and That part of the Scotish Nation which is now entred into this Kingdom in Hostility, In some measure discovered by two Packets of Letters intercepted in the North, and sent up to the House of Commons. Edward Husband, London, 1648, octavo, later half leather, spine very worn; title page with some stains otherwise clean text, uncut two sides. 20pp

William Arthur Shaw "Manchester Old and New" Cassell & Co., 1894

Lot: 105

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Apr 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £38
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William Arthur Shaw Manchester Old and New, Cassell & Co., 1894, tall quarto, three volume set, gilt cloth; numerous illustrations by H.E. Tidmarsh

[John Taylor] " A Manual of Laconics; or Many Things for Many Minds, J. Taylor 1841

Lot: 136

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Apr 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
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[John Tatylor] A Manual of Laconics; or Many Things for Many Minds, J. Taylor, 1841, new edition, full contemporary leather lightly marked & worn, a.e.g., fine internally, 462pp; plus Thomas Moore Irish Melodies, J. Power, 1823, 4th Edition, full leather, gilt, rebacked. (2)

Robert Burns "Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect" Kilmarnock, 1867

Lot: 137

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Apr 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
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Robert Burns Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, Kilmarnock, 1867, facsimile edition of the original John Wilson 1786 edition, printed by James McKie and signed by him, numbered 184 of 600; bound in red half-morocco, gilt, over marbled boards with peripheral wear, t.e.g.; 1875 Carlton Club bookplate; VG internally.

H. B. Marriott-Watson "Diogenes of London and Other Fantasies and Sketches" Methuen 1893

Lot: 150

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Apr 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £180 - £220
SOLD £165
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H.B. Marriott-Watson Diogenes of London and Other Fantasies and Sketches, Methuen, 1893, First Edition, original gilt cloth with some wear at corners, old bookseller's label on rear panel; uncut two sides; sound binding and clean text. viii+232pp. A collection of Gothic Horror stories and a rare First Edition.

E.Lyttelton "Cricket" 1894, A.F. Jenkin "Gymnastics" 1896, and C.W.Alcock "Football. The Association Game" 1895

Lot: 155

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Apr 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
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E. Lyttelton Cricket, 1894, A.F. Jenkin Gymnastics, 1896, and C.W. Alcock Football. The Association Game, 1895; all published by George Bell and bound together in a full leather prize binding;  together with Montague Shearman Athletics and Football, Longmans, 1887, half-leather. (2)

C.W. Alcock and Rowland Hill "Famous Footballers. 1895-1896" Hudson & Kearns [1896]

Lot: 158

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Apr 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £180 - £220
SOLD £150
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C.W. Alcock and Rowland Hill Famous Footballers. 1895-1896. Hudson & Kearns [1896], folio, rebound in modern cloth incorporating original gilt front & rear panels; 1896 ownership signature & small handstamp to title page; 224pp of photo-plates of Rugby and Association Football players and teams plus index, one plate slightly scratched, last few pages with small tear in lower margin. 

"Famous Association Footballers 1895" Yore Publications, 1997 reprint

Lot: 159

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Apr 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
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Famous Association Footballers 1895, Yore Publications, 1997 reprint; large format hardback, gilt cloth; 108pp of photo-plates. One of 250 printed.