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Auction No 410, Category: Books

52 Lots (displaying 21 - 40)

Late-19th/early 20th Century children’s & illustrated selection including Rosina Emmet "Pretty Peggy and Other Ballads", Dodd, Mead & Co, 1880;

Lot: 22

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th Jun 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £150 - £200
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Late-19th/early 20th Century children's & illustrated selection including Rosina Emmet Pretty Peggy and Other Ballads, Dodd, Mead & Co, 1880; Hoffmann The English Struwwelpeter, Griffith, Farrar, Browne & Co; Walter Crane The Baby's Bouquet Routledge, text loose [1878]; The Motograph Moving Picture Book, Bliss, Sands & Co, complete with transparency device (text loose); Harry Payne Our Volunteers, Raphael Tuck; W. Heath Robinson Some Frightful War Pictures, Duckworth, 1915; and various others, plus a one later title. Mixed condition with worn and grubby covers but generally good internally. (14)

Danilo Eccher "Gilbert & George", Charta, Milan, 1996, exhibition catalogue, large format s/bk, signed by the artists on half-title;

Lot: 26

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th Jun 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £46
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Danilo Eccher Gilbert & George, Charta, Milan, 1996, exhibition catalogue, large format s/bk, signed by the artists on half-title; bilingual English/Italian text, 225pp. Numerous illustrations. Fine

Karl Eyth (compiler) "Das Farbige Malerbuch", E.A. Seemann, 1901, tall quarto, a collection of 93 (of 96) coloured plates,

Lot: 27

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th Jun 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
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Karl Eyth (compiler) "Das Farbige Malerbuch", E.A. Seemann, 1901, tall quarto, a collection of 93 (of 96) coloured plates, plus introductory pages, in the issued binding case, now opened on three sides; the plates represent a collection of inspirational ideas for interiors, many of an art nouveau flavour. VG 

M. Racinet "Le Costume Historique", Firmin-Didot [1888], folio, original cloth, worn & marked; 95 of 100 full-page chromo-litho plates i

Lot: 28

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th Jun 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
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M. Racinet Le Costume Historique, Firmin-Didot [1888], folio, original cloth, worn & marked; 95 of 100 full-page chromo-litho plates in good condition. Title page with spotting.  All plates loose.

"The Graphic Gallery of Ancient and Modern Art", The Graphic, London, [c.1892]; folio, publisher's gilt cloth, VG;

Lot: 29

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th Jun 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
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The Graphic Gallery of Ancient and Modern Art, The Graphic, London, [c.1892]; folio, publisher's gilt cloth, VG; a bound volume of the Supplements issued from 1884 to 1892, illustrated throughout, mostly in b/w but including many in full colour, some plates folding. A few plates with faults but largely fine.     

M.A. Racinet "L'Ornement Polychrome: Cent Planches en Couleurs or et Argent Contenant Environ 2,000 Motifs de Tous les Styles Art Ancien et Asiatique

Lot: 30

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th Jun 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
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M.A. Racinet L'Ornement Polychrome: Cent Planches en Couleurs or et Argent Contenant Environ 2,000 Motifs de Tous les Styles Art Ancien et Asiatique Moyen Age Renaissance, XVII et XVIII Siecle. Firmin Didot Freres, Paris, [1880], complete with 100 full-page chromo-litho coloured plates; folio, front board detached, lacking spine; title pages and the text with foxing, the superb plates fine.

Fashion Plates, 1920s/1930s, hand-coloured, mostly illustrating ladies' hats, taken from "Les Chapeaux des Grandes Modistes Parisiennes",

Lot: 31

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th Jun 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £250 - £300
SOLD £260
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Fashion Plates, 1920s/1930s, hand-coloured, mostly illustrating ladies' hats, taken from Les Chapeaux des Grandes Modistes Parisiennes, or similar, image size 22.5 x 14.5cm or larger, a few creased but mostly fine. (178)

"Vogue Patterns", November 1953, Vogue Pattern Service, Greenwich, USA; folio, cloth bound with very worn pictorial onlay, corners bumped;

Lot: 32

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th Jun 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
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Vogue Patterns, November 1953, Vogue Pattern Service, Greenwich, USA; folio, cloth bound with very worn pictorial onlay, corners bumped; section tabs at fore-edge well-thumbed; first page soiled o/w clean internally with many 100s of coloured illustrations; 14 pages damaged with large pieces cut away. Prices are in UK Sterling and Canadian Dollars. Approx 1000pp.

"Moderne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten", Berlin, 1894, Volume VIII, folio, publisher's gilt cloth, worn at extremities o/w VG;

Lot: 33

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th Jun 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £15 - £20
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Moderne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten, Berlin, 1894, Volume VIII, folio, publisher's gilt cloth, worn at extremities o/w VG; many full-page plates, mainly in b/w, and other illustrations in text. Three plates torn.   

"Die Reichswehr", Haus Neuerburg, Cologne 1933, set of 280 cigarette cards illustrating the development of the German Armed Forces,

Lot: 34

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th Jun 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £44
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Die Reichswehr, Haus Neuerburg, Cologne 1933, set of 280 cigarette cards illustrating the development of the German Armed Forces, all laid down in the issued large-format album; the cards fine, the album with creasing to covers, chipped and worn at the corners.

Peter Mooney "Das Reich Tiger Commander SS-Hauptsturmer Philipp Theiss", 2020, 2nd Edn; and Jack Didden "Autumn Gale", 2013;

Lot: 35

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th Jun 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £50
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Peter Mooney Das Reich Tiger Commander SS-Hauptsturmer Philipp Theiss, 2020, 2nd Edn; and Jack Didden Autumn Gale, 2013; both h/bks, pictorial boards, profusely illustrated. VF (2)

Greville Wynne "The Man from Odessa", Robert Hale, 1981, 1st Edn, in a VG complete d/jkt; small ownership label to front pastedown.

Lot: 36

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th Jun 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
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Greville Wynne The Man from Odessa, Robert Hale, 1981, 1st Edn, in a VG complete d/jkt; small ownership label to front pastedown. Fine internally. 255pp + photo-plates.

J.A.R. (James A. Ross) "Memoirs of an Army Surgeon", Blackwood, 1948; Blackmore "British Military Firearms 1650-1850", Herbert Jenkins, 1961,

Lot: 37

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th Jun 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £60
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J.A.R. (James A. Ross) Memoirs of an Army Surgeon, Blackwood, 1948; Blackmore British Military Firearms 1650-1850, Herbert Jenkins, 1961, in d/jkt; Fitzgerald History of the Irish Guards in the Second World War, Gale & Polden, 1949; Ion Ferguson Doctor at War, Christopher Johnson, 1955; and a related title; all first editions. Fair to fine. (5)

Peter Smith "The Battle of Midway", 1976; Chris Craig "Call for Fire", 1995; James Leasor "Boarding Party", 1978 (2 copies);

Lot: 38

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th Jun 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £16
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Peter Smith The Battle of Midway, 1976; Chris Craig Call for Fire, 1995; James Leasor Boarding Party, 1978 (2 copies); and a selection of other naval history; all fine hardbacks in d/jkts, mylar-protected, largely first editions. (15)

Anthony Smith "The Fleet That Faced Both Ways", 1963; Stephen Roskill "Admiral of the Fleet, Earl Beatty", 1980;

Lot: 39

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th Jun 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £18
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Anthony Smith The Fleet That Faced Both Ways, 1963; Stephen Roskill Admiral of the Fleet, Earl Beatty, 1980; John Winton The Forgotten Fleet, 1969; Arnold Lott Brave Ship, Brave Men, 1986; and other naval history, all bar one in d/jkt, mylar protected, mostly fine and mostly first editions. (18)    

"The Nelson Dispatch: Journal of the Nelson Society", 1985-2004, mainly 1990s/2000s, 42 issues (one with cover stained), and nine related monographs

Lot: 40

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th Jun 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
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The Nelson Dispatch: Journal of the Nelson Society, 1985-2004, mainly 1990s/2000s, 42 issues (one with cover stained), and nine related monographs, two heavily duplicated. All A5 softbacks. Mainly fine. (100)

Gerald Bowman "The Man Who Bought a Navy", 1964; Lord Chatfield "It Might Happen Again", 1947; Cecil Hampshire "The Secret Navies", 1978;

Lot: 41

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th Jun 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £14
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Gerald Bowman The Man Who Bought a Navy, 1964; Lord Chatfield It Might Happen Again, 1947; Cecil Hampshire The Secret Navies, 1978; all VG/VF, together with other naval history of which two have ownership inscriptions. All (bar one) first editions, and all in fair to VF d/jkts. (14)

Alfred Ingham "A History of Altrincham and Bowdon", 1879; James Cocks "Memorials of Hatherlow", 1895;

Lot: 42

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th Jun 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
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Alfred Ingham A History of Altrincham and Bowdon, 1879; James Cocks Memorials of Hatherlow, 1895; and Woods & Brown The Rise and Progress of Wallasey, 1960; all in the original bindings, worn, with bumped corners, but VG/Fine internally with all plates.   (3)

Robert Stern "The Lexington Class Carriers", 1993; Neil McCart "The Colossus-Class Aircraft Carriers 1944-1972", 2002;

Lot: 43

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th Jun 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £26
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Robert Stern The Lexington Class Carriers, 1993; Neil McCart The Colossus-Class Aircraft Carriers 1944-1972, 2002; J.J. Nortier & others De Japanse Aanval op Java, 1994; and other Naval history, mostly WW2; all h/bks and all bar one in d/jkts, VG/VF. (26)

Nelson related softback publications, 1980s/2000s, with 37 different titles, some much duplicated; plus 1980s/90s issues of "The Nelson Dispatch,

Lot: 44

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th Jun 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
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Nelson related softback publications, 1980s/2000s, with 37 different titles, some much duplicated; plus 1980s/90s issues of The Nelson Dispatch, Journal of the Nelson Society (22), plus facsimile newspapers and drawings of HMS Victory. VG/VF (Large qty, over 10 kilos)