Auction No 431, Tag: Iran

4 Lots (displaying 1 - 4)

Press Agency photographs, 1947-50, mostly concerning serious crime and subsequent trials, including spying & espionage,

Lot: 36

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £120 - £160
SOLD £115
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Press Agency photographs, 1947-50, mostly concerning serious crime and subsequent trials, including spying & espionage, assassination of Egypt's premier, and the attempted assassination of the Shah of Iran, mainly Europe and Middle East. Issued by Keystone Press and Planet News. Between 6 x 4” and 9 x 7”, all with descriptive text on reverse. (39)

L.C. Dunsterville "The Adventures of Dunsterforce", 1920, 2nd impression, gilt cloth, b/w plates (one loose), folding map;

Lot: 88

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £40
SOLD £42
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L.C. Dunsterville The Adventures of Dunsterforce, 1920, 2nd impression, gilt cloth, b/w plates (one loose), folding map; Ellis The Transcaspian Episode 1918-1919, 1963, in d/jkt; and Moberley Operations in Persia 1914-1919, HMSO, 1987, in d/jkt. Spine of Dunsterforce faded. (3)       

‘HW’ and Sidney Hay "By Order of the Shah", Cassell, 1937; "Persia: Geographical Handbook Series", Naval Intelligence Division, 1945, faded cloth;

Lot: 89

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £72
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HW' and Sidney Hay By Order of the Shah, Cassell, 1937; Persia: Geographical Handbook Series, Naval Intelligence Division, 1945, faded cloth; Wills In the Land of the Lion and the Sun, 1891, ‘new edition'; Wilson S.W. Persia: Letters and Diary of a Young Political Officer 1907-1914, Readers Union, 1942; and other books on Persia/Iran, one ex-library (11)

World ranges in ten stockbooks & two cover albums, including extensive USA from 1890s with much UM modern incl. miniature sheets;

Lot: 223

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £50
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World ranges in ten stockbooks & two cover albums, including extensive USA from 1890s with much UM modern incl. miniature sheets; post-WW2 Austria with mint/UM costumes definitives (plus many FU); mid-period Liberia; Iran from early issues; Hungary with useful 1920s/40s; plus FDCs of Germany, and other items. (1000s).