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Auction No 414, Category: History

5 Lots (displaying 1 - 5)

Various with main interest in Trade Catalogues (2) and business histories including "Architectural Fittings" by Gibbons,1950,

Lot: 6

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Dec 2022 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £30
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Various with main interest in Trade Catalogues (2) and business histories including Architectural Fittings by Gibbons, 1950, and Tunnel Cement, Tunnel Portland Cement Co., c.1950, with 19 colour art plates by Norman Wilkinson. Fair to fine. (11 items)

Harvard Classics, four volumes comprising Virgil's "Aeneid", Plutarch's "Lives", works by Plato, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Cicero & Pliny,

Lot: 14

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Dec 2022 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £20
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Harvard Classics, four volumes comprising Virgil's Aeneid, Plutarch's Lives, works by Plato, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Cicero & Pliny, all Easton Press, Millennium Editions,full leather, gilt, raised bands, gilt-edged, ribbon markers. Mint condition, one still in shrinkwrap. (4)

"American Historical Documents 1000-1904", Easton Press, Millennium Edition, full red leather, gilt, raised bands, gilt-edged,

Lot: 33

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Dec 2022 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £26
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American Historical Documents 1000-1904, Easton Press, Millennium Edition, full red leather, gilt, raised bands, gilt-edged, ribbon bookmarker. 491pp. Mint condition.

D.F. Prudencio de Sandoval (trans. John Stevens) "The History of Charles the Vth Emperor and King of Spain", R. Smith, London, 1703,

Lot: 35

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Dec 2022 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
UNSOLD
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D.F. Prudencio de Sandoval (trans. John Stevens) The History of Charles the Vth Emperor and King of Spain, R. Smith, London, 1703, octavo, poor leather binding requiring repair, first and last few leaves badly frayed at fore-edge, title page with piece missing at top, good clean text, pp.53/54 creased; together with armorial bookplate of Frederick Cathcart on a loose board taken from another book

Heinrich Harrer "Seven Years in Tibet", Reprint Society, 1955, signed by the author and by the Dalai Lama on the title page in 1957;

Lot: 37

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Dec 2022 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £150 - £200
SOLD £195
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Heinrich Harrer Seven Years in Tibet, Reprint Society, 1955, signed by the author and by the Dalai Lama on the title page in 1957original cloth, gilt title label, spine rolled o/w VG; endpapers a little toned o/w fine internally. Copies of this book signed by both Harrer and the Dalai Lama are very scarce.