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Auction No 434, Category: History

10 Lots (displaying 1 - 10)

John Burrows "Essex Units in the War 1914-1919", Southend, 1931- 37, Vols. 1, 2, and 5, gilt cloth, ownership signatures;

Lot: 1

  • Auction Date: Wed 14th May 2025 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £210
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John Burrows Essex Units in the War 1914-1919, Southend, 1931-37, Vols. 1, 2, and 5, gilt cloth, ownership signatures; Basil Lubbock The Opium Clippers, 1933, 1st Edn., gilt cloth; William & Catherine Hutton The History of Birmingham, 1819, 4th Edn., quarter-leather, gilt, front board detached; History of the Forest and Chase of Sutton Coldfield, 1860, folding pedigrees, worn cloth; and two others. (8)

Collection of 19th Century autographs, each accompanied by a Woodbury photograph, including the 7th Earl of Shaftesbury (2 ALS, April & May 1885);

Lot: 8

  • Auction Date: Wed 14th May 2025 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £150 - £200
SOLD £165
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Collection of 19th Century autographs, each accompanied by a Woodbury photograph, including the 7th Earl of Shaftesbury (2 ALS, April & May 1885); Alfred Lord Tennyson (two signed pages); Lord Chelmsford (signed page); Viscount Sandon (ALS, 1868); Charles Wentworth Dilke (3 ALS); James Nasmyth (Engineer & Astronomer, ALS); and various others. VG/VF (26 autographs).

Finland, a selection with Rintala "Four Finns: Political Profiles" 1969, ALS from the author loosely inserted; Hodgson "Communism in Finland" 1967;

Lot: 12

  • Auction Date: Wed 14th May 2025 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £40
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Finland, a selection with Rintala Four Finns: Political Profiles 1969, ALS from the author loosely inserted; Hodgson Communism in Finland 1967; Nicol Finland, Batsford, 1975; Rothery Finland, the Country and its People, 1940; Brooke The Volunteers: The Full Story of the British Volunteers in Finland 1939-41, 1990; and others, many in fair to fine d/jkts. (25)

Iceland, a selection including Stewart "Rivers of Iceland", 1950, map loosely inserted; Ingolfsson "Naïve and Fantastic Art in Iceland" 1989,

Lot: 13

  • Auction Date: Wed 14th May 2025 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £30
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Iceland, a selection including Stewart Rivers of Iceland, 1950, map loosely inserted; Ingolfsson Naïve and Fantastic Art in Iceland 1989, in d/jkt; Iceland Geographical Handbook Naval Intelligence Division, 1942, faded cloth, lacking map; Stefansson Iceland Handbook for Tourists, 1930, map in rear pocket; Iceland 874-1974, Central Bank of Iceland 1975, in d/jkt; and two related. (7)

Simpson "Greenland Summer" 1973, in d/jkt; Moffatt "Rough Island Story, being Cavalcade of Ultima Thule" 1936, worn cloth;

Lot: 14

  • Auction Date: Wed 14th May 2025 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £40
SOLD £14
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Simpson Greenland Summer 1973, in d/jkt; Moffatt Rough Island Story, being Cavalcade of Ultima Thule 1936, worn cloth; West Faroe, the emergence of a nation 1972, in d/jkt; and related titles, some on polar exploration. Mixed condition. (18)

Scandinavia titles including Duthie "I Cycled into the Arctic Circle" 1955, signed by the author; Ratcliffe "Lapland: A Natural History" 2005;

Lot: 15

  • Auction Date: Wed 14th May 2025 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £20
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Scandinavia titles including Duthie I Cycled into the Arctic Circle 1955, signed by the author; Ratcliffe Lapland: A Natural History 2005; Spencer Gotland 1974, publisher's file copy; Freuchen Vagrant Viking 1958, Pan p/bk; Derry A History of Scandinavia 1979, and others, many in d/jkts. (25)

"An Inventory of the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Roxburghshire", HMSO, 1956, 2 vols, in d/jkts, folding-map in rear pocket of vol.2;

Lot: 43

  • Auction Date: Wed 14th May 2025 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
UNSOLD
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An Inventory of the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Roxburghshire, HMSO, 1956, 2 vols, in d/jkts, folding-map in rear pocket of vol.2; Ridpath Border History, Mercat Press, 1979 reprint, in d/jkt; Dickinson A New History of Scotland, 1962, 2 vols, in d/jkts; George Alexander Cooke A Topographical Description of the Southern Division of Scotland, C. Cooke [c.1805], lacking map, rear board detached; and other Scottish titles. Mainly VG/VF (11)

Nash & Spezzano "Unternehmen Ilse: 5. SS-Panzer Division ‘Wiking’ Eastern Poland 27 April 1944, RZM Publishing, 2019, large format, pictorial boards,

Lot: 44

  • Auction Date: Wed 14th May 2025 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
UNSOLD
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Nash & Spezzano Unternehmen Ilse: 5. SS-Panzer Division ‘Wiking' Eastern Poland 27 April 1944, RZM Publishing, 2019, large format, pictorial boards, illustrated throughout. 328pp. Fine            

Urbanke & Senholdt "Escape from the Halbe Pocket! The Story of Tank Officer Joachim Senholdt", 2021, in d/jkt; Nevenkin "Bloody Vienna", 2020,

Lot: 45

  • Auction Date: Wed 14th May 2025 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
UNSOLD
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Urbanke & Senholdt Escape from the Halbe Pocket! The Story of Tank Officer Joachim Senholdt, 2021, in d/jkt; Nevenkin Bloody Vienna, 2020, pictorial boards; Urbanke Endkampf um das Reichsgebiet 1944-1945, 2020, in d/jkt; and Volker Ruff Der Tiger 2018, 3 vols. Bilingual German/English texts. Fine (6)

"Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society", 1915-1923, 1925-1940, 1956-1962, 1965, 1966, and 1973-1975,

Lot: 48

  • Auction Date: Wed 14th May 2025 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £22
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Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, 1915-1923, 1925-1940, 1956-1962, 1965, 1966, and 1973-1975, twenty-one volumes in gilt cloth bindings, the remainder in original printed wraps. VG/Fine (37)