Auction No 352, Tue 14th Jul 2015 12:00 BST

230 Lots (displaying 81 - 100)

Jonas Hanway "A Historical account of the British trade over the Caspian Sea" 1762, 2 volumes

Lot: 81

  • Auction Date: Tue 14th Jul 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £150
SOLD £86
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Jonas Hanway An Historical Account of the British trade over the Caspian Sea: with the author's journal of travels from England through Russia into Persia: and back through Russia, Germany and Holland: to which are added the revolutions of Persia during the present century with the particular history of the great usurper Nadir Kouli: illustrated with maps and copper plates. London, 1762, the Third Edition, complete in 2 volumes, quarto, requiring re-binding, 8 folding Maps (including Persia), three with tears requiring repair; the text and engravings intact and free of foxing but one text page torn and needing repair.

Autograph collection in modern album, chiefly entertainers

Lot: 82

  • Auction Date: Tue 14th Jul 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £40
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Autograph collection in modern album, chiefly entertainers; including signed Photos and Letters featuring signatures of Pat Phoenix (2), Gordon Jackson (ALS), Violet Carson (ALS), and Jimmy Jewel (ALS, photo and signed print). Also pair of novelty ear-rings presented by Pat Phoenix. (Qty)

A.R. and P.Van der Burg "Painting for the Imitation of Woods & Marbles" 1936

Lot: 83

  • Auction Date: Tue 14th Jul 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
UNSOLD
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A.R. and P. Van der Burg Painting for the Imitation of Woods & Marbles, The Technical Press, 1936, 7th Edition, tall folio, original printed 2-colour cloth, good; spotting to prelims otherwise VG internally with all 36 chromolitho and engraved plates. 48pp

Harrison Marks "Solo" Issue Nos. 1 to 8, and No. 21, Kamera Publications

Lot: 84

  • Auction Date: Tue 14th Jul 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £58
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Harrison Marks Solo, Issue Nos. 1 to 8, and No. 21, Kamera Publications, 1958 to 1959, slight wear to spines, back cover of Issue No.1 with light crease. (9) 

Pin-Up Magazines late 1950s, small format, including "Models photographed by Roye"

Lot: 85

  • Auction Date: Tue 14th Jul 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £30
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Pin-Up Magazines late 1950s, small format, including Models photographed by Roye; Vues from Revues (2); Glamour No. 4 photographed by Robert Alexander; Nus et Soleil Issues 1 and 2 (Gaffinia Ltd, each 64 pages), etc. (9)

Roland Carre and others "Paris-Vision" Concord Publications late 1950s

Lot: 86

  • Auction Date: Tue 14th Jul 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £20
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Roland Carre and others Paris-Vision, Concord Publications, Issue Nos. 1 to 5, and No. 7, late 1950s. (6)

Roland Carre and others "Paris-Vision", Concord Publications, Issue Nos. 8 to 14, early 1960s. (7)

Lot: 87

  • Auction Date: Tue 14th Jul 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £20
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Roland Carre and others Paris-Vision, Concord Publications, Issue Nos. 8 to 14, early 1960s. (7)

1950s to 1980s magazines with Marilyn Monroe front cover photos (12)

Lot: 88

  • Auction Date: Tue 14th Jul 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £66
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1950s to 1980s magazines with Marilyn Monroe front cover photos, including Picture Show (3 different), and 1972 & 1982 issues of Life. Most are 1980s and include American, French & German titles. (12)

"Picture Post" 1930s to early 1950s, a selection of issues with famous film stars as the cover photos

Lot: 89

  • Auction Date: Tue 14th Jul 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £36
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Picture Post 1930s to early 1950s, a selection of issues with famous film stars as the cover photos, including Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Fred Astaire, Laurence Olivier, Betty Grable, Ingrid Bergman, Richard Burton, Orson Welles, Charlie Chaplin & other well-known. Some wear to spines otherwise good and all complete. (15)

Record Industry magazines and ephemera together with a fine "Philips All Electric Radio" pre-WW2 trade catalogue

Lot: 90

  • Auction Date: Tue 14th Jul 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £50
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Record Industry magazines and ephemera together with a fine Philips All Electric Radio pre-WW2 trade catalogue; includes 1950s pre-release publicity brochures (21), 1959-65 issues of Records Magazine (6), etc, (37)

W. Somerset Maugham "Purely for My Pleasure" Heinemann, 1962, signed by the author

Lot: 91

  • Auction Date: Tue 14th Jul 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £115
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W. Somerset Maugham Purely for My Pleasure, Heinemann, 1962, quarto, hardback in very good dustjacket, signed and inscribed on the endpaper by the author. Light browning to endpapers otherwise VG.

Arnold Haskell "Baron Encore", Collins, 1952, quarto, full leather, gilt, VG; No.58 of 250

Lot: 92

  • Auction Date: Tue 14th Jul 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
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Arnold Haskell Baron Encore, Collins, 1952, quarto, full leather, gilt, VG; No.58 of 250, signed by the photographer Baron and by Arnold Haskell, 100s of Baron's photographs of Ballet productions with descriptive text.  Foxing to endpapers and prelims. 

Charles Forte signed copy of "The Cafe Royal Story: A Living Legend" 1963

Lot: 93

  • Auction Date: Tue 14th Jul 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £32
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Charles Forte signed copy of The Cafe Royal Story: A Living Legend, Hutchinson,1963, inscribed at top of title page To Sir John Rothenstein with all best wishes from Charles Forte. Large format h/b in original clear plastic wrapper, fine, in worn slipcase. 

F. R. Leavis (1895-1978) a series of three 1949 autograph letters to Paul Baxter

Lot: 94

  • Auction Date: Tue 14th Jul 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £66
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F. R. Leavis (1895-1978) a series of three 1949 autograph letters to Paul Baxter, together with two autograph open testimonials, the letters congratulating Baxter on obtaining a First at Downing College Cambridge, encouraging him to use Leavis's name as a referee, and making reference to the testimonials; all bar one on Downing College headed notepaper. Frank Raymond Leavis was an influential British Literary Critic and one of the foremost thinkers of the 20th Century. (5)

Charles Dickens "Master Humphrey's Clock" Chapman & Hall, 1840-41, First Edition in 3 volumes

Lot: 95

  • Auction Date: Tue 14th Jul 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £80 - £120
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Charles Dickens Master Humphrey's Clock, Chapman & Hall, 1840-41, three volumes, First Edition in book form, original gilt brown cloth, with hands on clock pointing to volume numbers; backstrips frayed and near detached, neat ownership inscriptions top of title pages, later bookplates of Euphemia Davidson dated 1892; some minor scattered fox marks and upper right corner of title page of Vol.II torn away, otherwise VG internally. 

Leather bound literature 1904-15, comprising full tree-calf (2) and speckled calf bindings

Lot: 96

  • Auction Date: Tue 14th Jul 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £10
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Leather bound literature 1904-15, comprising full tree-calf (2) and speckled calf bindings, and another in three-quarter vellum, all gilt, the Shakespeare requiring repair. (4)

Thomas Ingoldsby "The Ingoldsby Legends" Heinemann, 1913, Illustrated by Arthur Rackham

Lot: 97

  • Auction Date: Tue 14th Jul 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
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Thomas Ingoldsby The Ingoldsby Legends, Heinemann, 1913, original gilt cloth, spine somewhat faded otherwise good; illustrated by Arthur Rackham, the colour plates complete; frontispiece creased, the 23 other tipped-in plates fine; some scattered foxing.

"The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray", Smith Elder, 1891-1892, set of 13 leather bound volumes

Lot: 98

  • Auction Date: Tue 14th Jul 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
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The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, Smith Elder, 1891-1892, set of 13 volumes, octavo, half leather over marbled boards, green title labels, gilt; some wear to top of spines of a few volumes otherwise a VG set. (13)

Football Programmes including 1966 World Cup Official Souvenir and 1954 FA Cup Final

Lot: 99

  • Auction Date: Tue 14th Jul 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £60
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Football Programmes including 1966 World Cup Official Souvenir (no internal markings) and 1954 F.A.Cup Final Preston North End v West Bromwich (2, both without internal markings). (10, plus a review)

"The Modern Plumber and Sanitary Engineer" 1907, 6 volumes; and six others

Lot: 100

  • Auction Date: Tue 14th Jul 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £15
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The Modern Plumber and Sanitary Engineer, Gresham, 1907, 6 vols, fine; Fairholm and Pain A Century of Work for Animals, 1924, good; General Booth In Darkest England and The Way Out, 1890s, good; and 4 others. (12)