for our Antique, Fine Art and Collectables auction held on Thursday 5th of October 2023
| Lot No | Description | Est | Image |
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| 650 | Carroll Lewis, "Alice Through the Looking Glass and What She Found There", red morocco boards with tooled gilt, illustrated by John Tenniel 16mo, fortieth thousand impression London MacMillan 1877 | 50-70 |
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| 651 | Carroll Lewis, "Alice in Wonderland" illustrated by Gwynedd Hudson published Hodder & Stoughton for Boots Chemists, blue cloth boards with gilt illustrations 8vo, circa 1920's | 60-80 |
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| 652 | Ingoldsby Thomas, "The Ingoldsby Legends" illustrated and signed by Arthur Rackham, bound in cream vellum gilt 8vo, limited edition 321/560, published London, J.M. Dent 1907 | 100-150 |
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| 653 | "The Arabian Nights", translated by The Rev, Edward Forster, in five volumes, with engravings from pictures by Robert Smirke, leather boards with gilt tooling 8vo, printed for William Miller, Old Bond Street, by W. Bulmer & Co, Cleveland Row, St James's, 1802 | 100-150 |
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| 654 | Shakespeare, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" illustrated Arthur Rackham, cream cloth boards gilt lettering 8vo, published William Heinemann 1908 | 40-60 |
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| 655 | Kingsley Charles, "The Water Babies" illustrated by Warwick Goble tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue-guards, de luxe edition of 260 bound in vellum gilt 8vo London: Macmillan & Co, 1909 | 100-150 |
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| 656 | Vian Sir Phillip, "Action This Day A War Memoir", 1st Edition 1960 by Frederick Muller Ltd, blue cloth boards 8vo, dedication front page by the author | 30-40 |
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| 657 | Purcell Edmund Sheridan,"The Life of Cardinal Manning" in 2 8vo. bound red cloth, London Macmillan and Co 1895 | 30-40 |
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| 658 | Kipling Rudyard, 5 volumes cloth and gilt 8vo to include, Jungle Book - Macmillan 1903, The Second Jungle Book - 1st Ed Macmillan 1895 (large library sticker covers half front board), Kim - Macmillan 1901, Plain Tales from the Hills - 3rd Ed Macmillan 1898?, Stalky and Co - MacMillan 1899 | 50-70 |
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| 659 | Of gardening and outdoors interest to include "A Countryman's Day Book" by C N French, Dent & Sons 1929 12mo., "The Herb Garden" by Frances Bardswell, Adam & Charles Black 1911 8vo., "Wood and Garden" by Gertrude Dreckell, Longmans Green & Co 1899 8vo., and a booklet entitled "Trespassers Will Be Prosecuted, Views of The Forbidden Moorlands of The Peak District" by Phil Barns | 30-40 |
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| 660 | Jane Austen The Works, 7 volumes in blue cloth to include "Pride and Prejudice", "Sense and Sensibility", "Mansfield Park", "Emma", "North Hanger Abbey", "Persuasion" and "Lady Susan And The Watsons" Heffer & Son 1940's? | 30-40 |
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| 661 | Jean Nouvel by Jean Nouvel published by Taschen 2008, 2 volumes 1970-1992 and 1993-2008, copy number 225 of 300 | 40-60 |
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| 662 | Dale Chihuly, "Black Book" Sidereel Fine Art Press 2008, registration number 18 of 125, 1 volume with 3 colour plates and catalogue with dedication on front page from Dale Chihuly to Sol Kerzner, boxed | 300-400 |
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| 666 | Culpeper Nicholas, "The Complete Herbal English Physician" enlarged, London Thomas Kelly 1840, brown calf with gilt spine | 80-100 |
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| 667 | Shoberl, "Topographical and Historical Description of The County of Surrey", London Sherwood Neely and Jones 8vo, illustrated with 13 engravings and map, quarter bound in brown calf and marbled boards | 50-75 |
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| 668 | A Victorian folio of approximately 80 pages of fern speciments, half bound in brown calf, the front board with gilt engraving Ferns A.E (Ann Evans, vendors Great Grandmother died 1878) together with a smaller separate folio of 4 pages of specimens of small ferns, together with a collection of pages titled "Specimens of Penmanship by Miss A H Evans, Miss Barlow's School 1848" | 80-120 |
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