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Click here to subscribeCharles Darwin The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, published John Murray 1889 (37th thousand) the sixth edition with additions & corrections to 1872, complete with folding pull-out diagram and bound in publisher's cloth with gilt lettered spine and blind stamped covers
[Miniatures] Bijou Almanack for 1852 published Rock Brothers & Payne with frontispiece, title page engraving and with other engravings of views from St. Petersburg, Constantinople, Vienna, Paris, Dublin, London etc, with gilt to page edges and bound in gilt decorated limp leather. Small Rain Upon The Tender Herb, published Religious Tract Society (c.1860) in limp leather, both books approximately 3 x 2cm each (2)
[Maps] The London General Gazetteer, or Geographical Dictionary Containing A Description Of The Various Countries, Kingdoms, States, Cities, Towns &c Of The Known World, Forming A Complete Body Of Geography [R. Brookes] printed for William Baynes & Son 1825 in 3 volumes bound in original linen backed boards with printed title labels, together with bound volume of Cassell’s Gazetteer Maps (approximately 60 colour plates), in gilt lettered cloth (4)
[Bindings] G.A. Henty Collection of first and early illustrated editions of his novels including With Wolfe In Canada, At the Point of the Bayonet a tale of the Mahratta War, With Roberts to Pretoria, Maori and Settler, One of The 28th A Tale of Waterloo, With Kitchener in The Soudan, Under Wellington’s Command, For Name & Fame with Roberts to Cabul, With Clive in India, Through Russian Snows, At Agincourt, By Sheer Pluck, With The Allies to Pekin, With Cochrane The Dauntless, To Herat & Cabul, In The Heart of The Rockies etc, in pictorial cloth bindings (37)
Collection of Enid Blyton books from the 1950s/60s to include The Mystery of The Pantomine Cat, Magic Faraway Tree, Circus Days Again, The Boy Next Door, Mr. Meddle’s Muddles, Book of Fairies etc together with Famous Five and Secret Seven stories, many in dust-wrappers published Methuen, Newnes, Dean & Son, Brockhampton etc (32)
Enid Blyton collection, mostly in dust-wrappers, to include first editions of The Magic Faraway Tree, George Newnes 1943. The Second Form At Malory Towers, Methuen 1947. Five Run Away Together, Hodder & Stoughton second impression from 1948. The Mystery of The Hidden House, Methuen 1948. The Put-Em-Rights, Lutterworth 1946. Lucky Story Book, Hodder & Stoughton 1947. House At The Corner, Lutterworth 1947. The Children’s Life of Christ, Methuen 1943 and early editions of The Christmas Book. Five on Kirrin Island Again. The Enid Blyton Holiday Book (c.1947) etc together with Slippery Sam A Moral Tale by Mary Kerr (c.1944) (14)
Richmal Crompton, collection of first edition 'William' books comprising William & The Moon Rocket 1954, William & The Space Animal 1956, William & The Pop Singers 1965, William & The Masked Ranger 1966, William The Superman 1968, William’s Television Show 1958, William’s Treasure Trove 1962, William & The Tramp 1952, William The Explorer 1960 and William & The Witch 1964, illustrated by Thomas Henry & Henry Ford published by Newnes, all in colour illustrated dust-wrappers (one price clipped) (10)
[SIGNED] Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee with drawings by John Ward, published The Hogarth Press 1959, bound in gilt lettered cloth signed by the author on free endpaper. The Illustrated Cider With Rosie a new edition with coloured illustrations and additional photographs, published 1984 in fabric covered boards with colour title label. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway 1953 illustrated by Tunnicliffe & Sheppard (3)
John S. Goodall collection of illustrated picture-story books to include Paddy Finds a Job 1981 pop-up. Paddy Pork’s Holiday 1976. Escapade 1980 (silhouette story). Naughty Nancy 1975, Shrewbellina’s Birthday. Before The War 1908-1939. Above & Below Stairs 1983. Victorians Abroad 1980 and five books in the Edwardian series: Holiday, Christmas, Summer etc, mostly in dust-wrappers (13)
[Fine Binding] Woman In Sacred History. A Series of Sketches Drawn from Scriptural Historical and Legendary Sources by Harriet Beecher Stowe illustrated with 15 mounted chromolithographs after paintings by Raphael, Batoni, Horace Vernet, Landelle etc, published Sampson Low, Marston, Low and Searle 1874, first edition, bound in publisher's blue cloth with decorations, vignettes and titles in gilt & black on front cover and spine (a very bright copy)
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett and illustrated by Charles Robinson, published William Heinemann 1911, first edition, with 8 colour plates with lettered guards, illustrated endpapers, in publisher's gilt decorated cloth. A Book of Children’s Verse arranged by Mabel & Lilian Quiller-Couch and illustrated by M. Etheldreda Gray (c.1920s), with mounted colour plates in decorated gilt cloth (2)
[Illustrated Books & Bindings] Peter And Wendy by J.M. Barrie illustrated by F.D. Bedford. Gulliver’s Travels illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Lang Fairy Book 1895. Kipling’s Jungle Books 1897 and 1898 together with Just So Stories 1902 in pictorial cloth binding. Burnett The Secret Garden illustrated Charles Robinson. Cecily Mary Barker The Book of the Flower Fairies published Blackie (inscription 1944) with colour plates and books by Tolkien, A.A. Milne, George Macdonald etc (13)
Cecily Mary Barker The Book of The Flower Fairies together with Fairies of The Flowers & Trees with Poems & Pictures by the author, published Blackie & Son (c.1950s), both volumes with 75 colour plates and black & white drawings, bound in publisher's gilt cloth with pictorial endpapers and original colour illustrated dust-wrappers (2)
White metal diamond and ruby bar brooch, featuring twenty four stones with repeating design, in leather shell design box, the interior marked Frazer & Haws, Jewelers and Silver Smiths, Regent Street, Piccadilly. 5.5g approx. (B.P. 21% + VAT). Dimensions: 3.6x1.8cm approx. Stones appear to be original to the brooch. Stones appear grubby through eye glass. A couple of diamonds appear to be chipped.
Brass ship's type bulkhead clock marked 'Henry Browne & Son Ltd,' 'Setrel', having Roman numerals and seconds dial on oak mount. Overall 28cm diameter approx. (B.P. 21% + VAT). No key. Seconds dial is currently ticking away. Brass frame is tarnished. No significant damage, some minor rusting/peeling to the face.
George V silver ornate and pierced basket with swing loop handle on four repoussé scroll feet. By Josiah Williams & Co., London 1920. 14.6 troy oz approx. (B.P. 21% + VAT). Good clear hallmarks overall. Some scuffs/marks with age, but no serious damage noted. Dimensions: 21x16x9.5cm approx. (measurement does not include handle).
A photograph of Boris Becker and Martina Navratilova, with Mr & Mrs Reginald "Buzzer" Hadingham, holding their winner's trophy and salver from Wimbledon 1985, framed and glazed, together with a letter from Boris Becker, dated 1989, regarding the death of his father, and a letter from Martina Navratilova, dated 1987, giving thanks for the receiving of flowers. (3)
A signed letter from Field Marshall Lord Roberts, dated 23 September 1914, to Messr Williams & Norgate, his publisher, with the proposal of writing a book, suggesting terms, and concluding "For I shall be glad of the opportunity to show my countryman the grave risks which we have run and are running because we, as a nation, refused in peacetime to make adequate military preparations for war", on Englemere headed note paper, framed and glazed.
Four late 19thC and later Lincolnshire auction estate catalogues, comprising The Caenby Estate by Mr C J Calthrop, at the Great Northern Hotel Lincoln, 1871, map lacking, residential properties and building land at Barton on Humber, to be sold at the George Hotel Barton on Humber, by a Mr Martin Bilton and Mr George Winship,1907, farm and lands at South Somercotes, Skidbrooke and Grimoldby, by Messrs Dickinson Riggall & Davy at the Masons' Arms Hotel, Louth, 1912, and agricultural at Saltfleetby All Saints and Saltfleetby St Peter, also dated 1912. (4)
Cross (Alfred) & Mumby (Alan). Practical Notes for Architectural Draughtsmen, series 1, third edition and series 3, Working Drawings of Commercial Buildings and Business Premises, Folio, published by The Architectural Press Limited, Westminster, together with a Hampton and Sons Limited estate auction catalogue, for the Malling Deanery, with tipped in photographs, date of sale not given, and an H Beardmore Dobson & Sons Limited antique ironwork catalogue 1966. (4)
A Bing & Grondahl porcelain bud vase, decorated with lily of the valley, printed marks, 12cm high, a fluted dish, decorated in blue and white in the Onion pattern, printed marks, 14cm wide, an early 20thC Chinese ge-type dish, of curved, square form, over painted with a vase of peacock feathers on a table, and an open jar and cover containing a vase of flowers, three character signature, six character mark to underside, 19cm wide, (AF), and a Royal Crown Derby vase, in powder blue with gilt highlights, decorated with ferns and other flowers, with upper moulded floral banding and entwined stem, no.4861/8883, 36cm high, (AF). (4)
Cartophily Cigarette cards, including Wills Merchant Ships of the World, Railway Engines, Model Villages, and Animalloys, John Player Miniatures, Aviary and Cage Birds, CBT Red Indians, Ogdens Derby Entrance 1928 and Winners & Jockeys, together with cigar and trade cards, in four albums.
Cartophily Cigarette cards, including Ogdens Model Railways, Churchman's Wonderful Railway Travel, Players Military Head-Dress, Hints on Association Football, Lambert & Butler Dance and Leaders, Taddy & Co Railway Locomotives, Lambert & Butler Motor Cars and Motorcycles, in four albums.
Cartophily Cigarette cards, in four albums, including Ogden's Prominent British Officers, Leading Generals at the War, Politicians, Actresses, Motor Races 1931, Gallaher Limited Dogs, Wild Animals, John Player Gilbert and Sullivan, Wills Railway Equipment, Carreras Famous Airman & Airwomen, Park Drive Champions, Godfrey Phillips Limited Aircraft Series No.1, and Stephen Mitchell Wonderful Century 1837-1937, together with some postage stamps, in four albums.
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