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Auction No 417, Category: Antiquarian

9 Lots (displaying 1 - 9)

1880s Scrap Album of American origin, with numerous Trade Cards especially from companies in Cambridgeport, Boston and Providence,

Lot: 1

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd May 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £80 - £100
SOLD £105
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1880s Scrap Album of American origin, with numerous Trade Cards especially from companies in Cambridgeport, Boston and Providence, plus chromo-litho bookmarks and greetings cards, and an impressive silk-fringed fan, laid down on 55 pages, largely good condition with very many attractive items. Folio, decorated cloth, binding defective. (100s).

19th Century portrait Photographs of American origin, mostly of Black people, comprising snapshot size (17, mainly on metal ‘Tintypes’),

Lot: 2

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd May 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £150
SOLD £160
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19th Century portrait Photographs of American origin, mostly of Black people, comprising snapshot size (17, mainly on metal ‘Tintypes'), one carte-de-visite, and 14 cabinet photos. The cabinet photos indicate that many of these originate from Bowling Green and Louisiana in the State of Missouri. Mixed quality. A rare group. (32). Also a 1920s PC size photo of an elderly black woman of Missouri origin.

Victorian leather-bound photo-albums with chromo-lithographed pages, one (empty) with metal clasp and in fine condition,

Lot: 5

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd May 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £48
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Victorian leather-bound photo-albums with chromo-lithographed pages, one (empty) with metal clasp and in fine condition, the other (damaged) with some carte-de-visite and cabinet photos; together with two later autograph albums, one with a selection of 1950s signatures of members of the Magic Circle. (Qty)         

Victorian Scrap Album, large format, elaborate decorated cloth, including an impressive range of large and some giant scraps,

Lot: 11

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd May 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £80
SOLD £105
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Victorian Scrap Album, large format, elaborate decorated cloth, including an impressive range of large and some giant scraps, with a superb full-page Father Christmas, plus clowns, children, animals, caricatures etc, together with chromo-litho greetings cards, and cuttings from a children's book. Inner hinging cracked. 46 sides with 100s of items. 37 x 27.5cm.

Cabinet & carte-de-visite portrait photographs, late-19th Century, plus few 20th Century group photos; cabinet photos include American actresses (3,

Lot: 17

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd May 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £36
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Cabinet & carte-de-visite portrait photographs, late-19th Century, plus few 20th Century group photos; cabinet photos include American actresses (3, one hand-coloured) and Irish composer Hope Temple. Fair-VF (29)

Ben Brierley "Ab-o’th-Yate Sketches and Other Short Stories", W.E. Clegg, Oldham, 1896, 3 volumes; and five other Ben Brierley titles,

Lot: 21

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd May 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
UNSOLD
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Ben Brierley Ab-o'th-Yate Sketches and Other Short Stories, W.E. Clegg, Oldham, 1896, 3 volumes; and five other Ben Brierley titles, one ex-library in poor condition, others good/VG. (8)

Henry Fishwick (Ed.) "The Works of John Collier (Tim Bobbin) in Prose and Verse", James Clegg, 1894, No.3 of 20 printed on Whatman Paper,

Lot: 23

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd May 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £30
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Henry Fishwick (Ed.) The Works of John Collier (Tim Bobbin) in Prose and Verse, James Clegg, 1894, No.3 of 20 printed on Whatman Paper, signed by Henry Fishwick, bound in quarter-vellum, gilt, worn front corners; top edge gilt, uncut elsewhere, two neat ownership signatures to front endpaper. Fine internally.

Thomas Pennant "The Antiquities of London", J. Coxhead, 1814, full calf, gilt, front hinge weak, 55 engraved plates, occasional minor foxing;

Lot: 43

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd May 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £52
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Thomas Pennant The Antiquities of London, J. Coxhead, 1814, full calf, gilt, front hinge weak, 55 engraved plates, occasional minor foxing; Purves & Cochrane The English Navigators, W.P. Nimmo, 1878, Dulwich College binding, complete with maps; and various others. Fair to VF (7) 

Victorian Photograph album recording an 1894 cruise to Norway on the ship S.S. Rollo, containing some photographs and many quality gravures,

Lot: 66

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd May 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £50
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Victorian Photograph album recording an 1894 cruise to Norway on the ship S.S. Rollo, containing some photographs and many quality gravures, laid down, neatly annotated in margins, together with four related brochures (three loosely inserted). Oblong quarto, half-leather, worn at extremities, VG internally. (68 + ephemera)