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Thursday, 25 June, 2009

Art and Antiques Sale

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The Books (lots 1 - 27)

Lot Description Illustration
1 British Yachts and Yachtsmen, published by the Yachtsman Publishing Co, London 1907, blue leather bound
Sold for £380
Lot 1 illustration & condition report or notes
2 Worsley (R) The History of the Isle of Wight, London 1781
Unsold
Lot 2 illustration
3 Calvert (F) The Isle of Wight Illustrated, with aquatinted plates by P Roberts after Calvert, published by G H Davidson, London 1846
Sold for £220
Lot 3 illustration & condition report or notes
4 Morris (Rev F O) A History of British Birds, 2nd Edition, London 1870, 6 volumes and A History of British Butterflies, 9th Edition, London 1904
Sold for £280
Lot 4 illustration
5 Morin (M) The framed title page from Missale secundum usum insignis ecclie Sarum (Roman Missal, Sarum use), printed 1515, Rouen, folio,
28cm x 21.5cm (11"x 8.5"), Johnson (S) On the Character and Duty of an Academick, a limited edition framed copy, published and signed by Gene Valentine of Almond Tree Press, Arizona, no.137 of 175 and a signed sketch of George Robey framed with a music hall programme
Unsold
Lot 5 illustrations
6 % Bunyan (J) The Pilgrim's Progress, printed for W Baynes, 54 Paternoster Row, London 1812
Sold for £10
Lot 6 illustration
7 % Somerville (E O) and Ross (M) Some Experiences of an Irish R.M, 1st Edition, 1899 and sundry volumes various
Sold for £35
Lot 7 illustration
8 % Paterson (D) A Travelling Dictionary, 6th Edition, London 1792 and Roads, 10th Edition, London 1794 by the same author, in matching quarter calf bindings
Sold for £60
Lot 8 illustration
9 % Witts (F E) The Complete Diary of a Cotswold Parson, 7 volumes, published 2008, signed by Francis E B Witts (great great grandson), Alan Sutton (editor and publisher) and the Bishop of Gloucester
The buyer of the lot will receive volumes 8-10 once they have been published by arrangement with the vendor
Sold for £200
Lot 9 illustration
10 Churchill (W S) The Collected Works of Sir Winston Churchill, Centenary Limited Edition, Library of Imperial History 1973, thirty-four volumes bound in vellum and contained in green slipcases stamped with the Churchill arms, this set numbered 1070; and Churchill (W S) The Collected Essays of Sir Winston Churchill, Centenary Limited Edition, Library of Imperial History 1976, four volumes bound in vellum as above
Sold for £1,900
Lot 10 illustration & condition report or notes
11 Rider (J) Latin Dictionary, 1589
Unsold
Lot 11 illustrations
12 Goldsmith (Dr) The History of England, four volumes 1805 and Goldsmith (O) A History of the Earth, 8 volumes 1764
Sold for £60
Lot 12 illustration
13 Gazetteer, Geographical Index, Edinburgh 1796, with six maps
Sold for £80
Lot 13 illustration
14 Fleetwood (J) The Life of Jesus Christ and sundry leather bound books
Sold for £210
Lot 14 illustration
15 Shakespeare (W) Works of, London 1751, 9 volumes
Sold for £220
Lot 15 illustrations & condition report or notes
16 Johnson (S) A Dictionary of the English Language, 7th Edition, London 1785
Sold for £200
Lot 16 illustrations
17 Griffiths (L) The Monthly Review or Literary Journal, 15 volumes, 1790
Sold for £95
Lot 17 illustration
18 Fox (J) The Book of Martyrs, published by Henry Fisher, Caxton, London 1824 and The Book of Common Prayer, Oxford 1771
Sold for £40
Lot 18 illustration
19 No Lot
Unsold
Awaiting Image
20 No Lot
Unsold
Awaiting Image
21 Dickson (R W) Improved Live Stock and Cattle Management, two volumes, printed for Thomas Kelly, London 1822
Sold for £210
Lot 21 illustration
22 Markham (G) The English Housewife, printed by Anne Griffin for John Harrison, London 1637 (rebound with plate missing)
Sold for £170
Lot 22 illustration
23 Dobson (A) The Ballad of Beau Brocade illustrated by Hugh Thomson and twelve other volumes illustrated by the same
Sold for £25
Lot 23 illustration
24 Buchner (Dr A) Musical Instruments Through the Ages and sundry other books
Sold for £140
Lot 24 illustration
25 Gray (T) Six Poems with Designs by Mr R Bentley, London 1753
Unsold
Lot 25 illustration
26 % Sundry volumes, Royalty and cricketing subjects
Sold for £10
Lot 26 illustration
27 The Holy Bible, 3 volumes with commentary by Jamieson (Rev R) and Bickersteth
(Rev E H), tooled and gilt leather bindings, and a small bible, the covers inlaid Tunbridgeware
Sold for £40
Lot 27 illustrations
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