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Auction No 436, Category: History

7 Lots (displaying 1 - 7)

"Partisan Review" 1947 (5 issues), Joseph Toole "Fighting Through Life" 1935 1st edn., (rear hinge frayed), "World Review" 1950 (George Orwell number)

Lot: 8

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Aug 2025 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £84
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Partisan Review 1947 (5 issues), Joseph Toole Fighting Through Life 1935 1st edn., (rear hinge frayed), World Review June 1950 (George Orwell number), and others, many Socialism related, with monographs, journals and pamphlets. Some Spanish Civil War interest. Mainly good/fine. (49)           

T.E. Lawrence (a.k.a. ‘Lawrence of Arabia'): 1922 autograph letter signed, on reverse of a postcard of Crackington Haven, posted from Boscastle.

Lot: 25

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Aug 2025 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £800 - £1200
SOLD £600
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T.E. Lawrence (a.k.a. ‘Lawrence of Arabia'): 1922 autograph letter signed, on reverse of a postcard of Crackington Haven, posted from Boscastle. I set off to the East Monday and will write to you from there. Yours, T.E.Lawrence.

C. L’Estrange Ewen "Witch Hunting and Witch Trials" Frederick Muller 1971, facsimile edition, fine in a worn d/jkt;

Lot: 31

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Aug 2025 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £26
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C. L'Estrange Ewen Witch Hunting and Witch Trials Frederick Muller 1971, facsimile edition, fine in a worn d/jkt; xiii,345pp

T.B. and T.J. Howell "Cobbett’s Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and other Crimes and Misdemeanors", London,

Lot: 32

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Aug 2025 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £300 - £400
SOLD £460
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T.B. and T.J. Howell Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and other Crimes and Misdemeanors, London, 1809-26, complete in 33 volumes, plus Jardine's 1828 Index volume, all nicely rebound in quarter-leather with gilt title labels. Ownership stamps to front pastedown, occasional minor foxing largely confined to edge of text blocks. (34).    

W.J. Arnold "Bands of the British Army" c.1914, 12 fine colour plates; Aldershot Tattoo Souvenir Programmes for 1935, 1936 and 1939;

Lot: 33

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Aug 2025 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £36
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W.J. Arnold Bands of the British Army c.1914, 12 fine colour plates; Aldershot Tattoo Souvenir Programmes for 1935, 1936 and 1939; and assorted ephemera, some military related. (Qty.)

Hong Kong Police Force 1970s/90s, a collection of over 100 Royal Visit ceremonial photographs, mostly 4.5 x 6.5”,

Lot: 34

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Aug 2025 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £110
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Hong Kong Police Force 1970s/90s, a collection of over 100 Royal Visit ceremonial photographs, mostly 4.5 x 6.5”, and a 1961 photo of Northern Rhodesia police, plus some related certificates. Duplication. VG/VF

Presentation book to Sir Cyril Ashford on his retirement from his role as head of Dartmouth Royal Naval College in 1927,

Lot: 36

  • Auction Date: Wed 13th Aug 2025 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
UNSOLD
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Presentation book to Sir Cyril Ashford on his retirement from his role as head of Dartmouth Royal Naval College in 1927, with signatures of 41 colleagues. The book also includes the names of 41 staff members of the Royal Naval College as Osborne but these are written in the same hand as the presentation inscription. Bound in leather, gilt, lacking spine.