Auction No 390, Category: Antiquarian

8 Lots (displaying 1 - 8)

Children’s Transformation books of the 1890s published by Ernest Nister, comprising "Our Darling’s Surprise Pictures",

Lot: 1

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Feb 2020 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £150 - £180
SOLD £120
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Children’s Transformation books of the 1890s published by Ernest Nister, comprising Our Darling’s Surprise Pictures, tall quarto, pictorial boards marked & grubby, complete with all 8 lever-change chromo-lithographs in good working order, few leaves loose, rear endpaper torn & in pieces; and In and Out Round About: A Book of Transformation Pictures, octavo, pictorial boards, VG, most of the 6 lever-change pictures needing repair or attention. Prize bookplates of 1896-1897 from Lord Vernon’s Schools, Poynton, Macclesfield, on front endpapers. (2)  

"Letters of Edward Fitzgerald", Macmillan, 1894, 2 vols; and "Letters of Edward Fitzgerald to Fanny Kemble 1871-1883", Richard Bentley, 1895;

Lot: 2

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Feb 2020 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £20
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Letters of Edward Fitzgerald, Macmillan, 1894, 2 vols; and Letters of Edward Fitzgerald to Fanny Kemble 1871-1883, Richard Bentley, 1895; uniformly bound in half-vellum, gilt, bookplates of E.L. de Rothschild. VG (3)    

Oliver Wendell Holmes "Autocrat at the Breakfast Table", "The Poet at the Breakfast Table", and "Professor at the Breakfast Table",

Lot: 3

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Feb 2020 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £15
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Autocrat at the Breakfast Table, The Poet at the Breakfast Table, and Professor at the Breakfast Table, William Paterson, 3 vols, half-polished calf over marbled boards, red & black titles, gilt; bookplates of F. Reddaway; t.e.g.; VG (3)

John Payne "The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night", Villon Society, 1882, 9 volumes, No.181 of 500 printed; and "Tales from the Arabic",

Lot: 4

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Feb 2020 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £130
SOLD £76
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John Payne The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Villon Society, 1882, 9 volumes, No.181 of 500 printed; and Tales from the Arabic, Villon Society, 1884, 3 volumes, No.437 of 500; uniformly bound in superb full red morocco, gilt; t.e.g., uncut elsewhere. Occasional minor foxing o/w fine. (12)  

"A Complete Collection of State-Trials and Proceedings upon High-Treason, and other Crimes and Misdemeanours; from the Reign of King Richard II

Lot: 32

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Feb 2020 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £56
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A Complete Collection of State-Trials and Proceedings upon High-Treason, and other Crimes and Misdemeanours; from the Reign of King Richard II to the End of the Reign of King George I. London, 1742, volumes 3 and 5 only; folio, contemporary full leather, worn, boards detached from volume 5. Fine internally. (2 vols) 

"Government Gazette: British Honduras", a bound volume for 1907, complete with supplements, tall quarto, half-leather, gilt,

Lot: 33

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Feb 2020 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £40
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Government Gazette: British Honduras, a bound volume for 1907, complete with supplements, tall quarto, half-leather, gilt, backstrip partly detached, fine internally. 255pp  

"Government Gazette: British Honduras", a bound volume for 1897, complete with supplements, tall quarto, half-leather, gilt, VG;

Lot: 34

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Feb 2020 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £40
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Government Gazette: British Honduras, a bound volume for 1897, complete with supplements, tall quarto, half-leather, gilt, VG; a filing spike hole through the top of each issue and a few pages with ink marks in border. 329pp    

Vellum documents, mostly 19th Century, concerning land, property and families mostly in the Greater Manchester area,

Lot: 36

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Feb 2020 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £62
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Vellum documents, mostly 19th Century, concerning land, property and families mostly in the Greater Manchester area, all with revenue stamps affixed, some with hand-drawn plans. Mainly VG/Fine (39)