Auction No 431, Tag: London

9 Lots (displaying 1 - 9)

Walter Bell "Fleet Street in Seven Centuries", Pitman, 1912, gilt cloth; Burton "At the Sign of the Bible and Anchor," London Press, [1932],

Lot: 46

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £30
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Walter Bell Fleet Street in Seven Centuries, Pitman, 1912, gilt cloth; Burton At the Sign of the Bible and Anchor, London Press, [1932], one of 250; Cloake Cottages and Common Fields of Richmond and Kew, 2001, in d/jkt; Sheppard Memorials of St. James's Palace, Longmans, 1894, 2 vols, gilt cloth; John Taylor Our Lady of Battersey, George White, 1925; and another. All with fine b/w plates. (7)

Walter Thornbury "Old and New London", Cassell & Co, 1897, six volumes, gilt cloth, and the two companion vols. for "Greater London",1898,

Lot: 47

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £54
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Walter Thornbury Old and New London, Cassell & Co, 1897, six volumes, gilt cloth, and the two companion vols. for Greater London, 1898, both complete with the folding maps in front pockets. Numerous wood engravings. Light tanning to text. Maps with some splitting at the folds. (8).        

Henry Mayhew and George Cruikshank "1851: or The Adventures of Mr. & Mrs. Sandboys and Family who came up to London…to see the Great Exhibition"

Lot: 48

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £48
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Henry Mayhew and George Cruikshank 1851: or The Adventures of Mr. & Mrs. Sandboys and Family who came up to London…to see the Great Exhibition, David Bogue, [1851], rebacked & recased, nine folding plates, some foxing; usual pagination error at pp.63/64; together with ‘Aleph' The Old City, London, 1865, gilt cloth, cracking to hinges. (2)

John Thomas Smith "An Antiquarian Ramble in the Streets of London", Richard Bentley, 1846, 2 vols, orig. cloth, gilt,

Lot: 49

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £68
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John Thomas Smith An Antiquarian Ramble in the Streets of London, Richard Bentley, 1846, 2 vols, orig. cloth, gilt, cracking to front inner hinge of Vol.1 but still holding. Good clean text.

London topography & history including Charles Gordon "Old Time Aldwych, The Kingsway and Neighbourhood", 1903, maps & plates;

Lot: 50

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £38
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London topography & history including Charles Gordon Old Time Aldwych, The Kingsway and Neighbourhood, 1903, maps & plates; Passingham London's Markets, [1935]; Baedeker's London and its Environs, 1898, with all maps; Hugh Phillips The Thames About 1750, Collins, 1951, in d/jkt, and Mid-Georgian London, Collins, 1964, in d/jkt; and various others. (11)

Thomas Shotter Boys "Original Views of London", Charles Traylen, 1972, folio, two vols, s/backs in d/jkts, 26 full-page colour plates.

Lot: 51

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £40
SOLD £24
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Thomas Shotter Boys Original Views of London, Charles Traylen, 1972, folio, two vols, s/backs in d/jkts, 26 full-page colour plates. Reprint of the 1842 edition.

E. Beresford Chancellor "The History of the Squares of London", 1907, gilt cloth, 36 tissue-guarded plates; and two others by Chancellor

Lot: 52

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £40
SOLD £18
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E. Beresford Chancellor The History of the Squares of London, 1907, gilt cloth, 36 tissue-guarded plates; and two others by Chancellor comprising The XVIIIth Century in London, 1920, in chipped d/jkt, b/w plates, and London Recalled, 1937, colour & b/w plates after Alister Macdonald. (3)

Philip Norman "London Signs and Inscriptions", Elliot Stock, 1897, decorative cloth, armorial bookplate of George Heath Viner;

Lot: 53

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £62
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Philip Norman London Signs and Inscriptions, Elliot Stock, 1897, decorative cloth, armorial bookplate of George Heath Viner; Wheatley Hogarth's London, 1909, fifty-three plates; W.B. Boulton The Amusements of Old London, John Nimmo, 1901, 2 vols, gilt cloth, 12 hand-coloured plates with titled tissue-guards; and various others, London life & culture. (13)

Charles Welch "History of the Tower Bridge, and other bridges over the Thames", London, 1894, extra-illustrated with additional plates tipped in,

Lot: 102

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
UNSOLD
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Charles Welch History of the Tower Bridge, and other bridges over the Thames, London, 1894, extra-illustrated with additional plates tipped in, few newscuttings laid down on final two leaves, half-leather, gilt; Dasent Piccadilly in Three Centuries with some account of Berkeley Square and The Haymarket, Macmillan, 1920, in chipped d/jkt; and other London titles. (12)