Lot: 1
Carton of Photographs, Victorian to modern, all periods well represented, with topography, portraits, & posed groups, some press photos; laid down and loose, mixed quality. (100s) (Over 6 kilos).
Lot: 2
Selection of author signed books including Antony Sher Characters 1989, in d/jkt; David Hare We Travelled 2021 in d/jkt; and Richard Eyre Place to Place 2018. All first editions. VG/VF (6)
Lot: 3
Album of 6 x 4cm portrait photos by Arthur Wills of Birmingham, 1909, each signed & inscribed on reverse by the subject of each photo, including Norwegian and Dutch citizens. (48). Also some cabinet & c-d-v photos, and a bundle of all-period PPCs including Spanish embroidered (3) and 10 different of Kate Bush.
Lot: 4
A collection of ‘World's Classics' including 18 with jackets designed by Lynton Lamb. VG condition. (44)
Lot: 5
A collection of ‘World's Classics' including 49 in dust-jackets. Includes a few early editions by Grant Richards. (91)
Lot: 6
Lynton Lamb illustrated books, largely in d/jackets, seven with his artwork confined to the jacket only, others with line-drawings or woodcuts by the artist. Mostly VG/VF (24)
Lot: 7
Cameras, a good selection comprising an Agfa Silette Vario 35mm in case; Olympus Superzoom 70 35mm Point-and-Shoot; and Canon AF-1 35mm SLR, in case, plus accessories and bag. Case of the Canon camera damaged o/w fine.
Lot: 8
Victorian policeman's truncheon, 49cm, ebonised wood, Crown VR, grooved handle, lettered & numbered CB 8, leather strap replaced.
Lot: 9
Collection of Signed Commemorative Covers in album & loose, including autographs of Max von Sydow, Field Marshall Geoffrey Baker, Charles Saatchi, Robert Lacey, Robert Hardy, Tom Baker, Joan Sutherland, and various others, mostly military & aviation. (71). Also some unsigned items.
Lot: 10
Crime & Punishment: four 18th Century copper engravings comprising The Woman in the Cage on London Bridge; The manner of burying Wm.Wiseman in the Fields, who died in Prison; Twenty Two Prisoners in one Band from Colchester to London; and The Burning of Rose Allins Hand by Edmund Tyrill. Two engraved by Thomas Bowles.Approx 6.5 x 8”. On watermarked paper of the period. Large margins. Fine. (4)
Lot: 11
Souvenir Royal Visit Ashton-under-Lyne 1913, Official Programme, printed wraps, worn, 80pp, illustrated throughout, half-tone plates & adverts. Text block detached.
Lot: 12
Philip Norman London Vanished & Vanishing A. & C. Black 1905, gilt cloth, 75 colour plates with titled tissue-guards, and Holbrook Jackson The Eighteen-Nineties: a Review of Art and Ideas Grant Richards 1913, gilt cloth, 24 b/w plates (5 after Aubrey Beardsley). London Vanished with browning to endpapers. First Editions. VG (2)
Lot: 13
M.J. MacManus Eamon de Valera: A Biography, Talbot Press, Dublin, 1947, signed by Eamon de Valera on title page. Presentation copy to ‘Tim McMahon' with gift inscription of the Lord Mayor & Lady Mayoress of Dublin, dated 1952 on front endpaper. Gilt cloth, b/w plates, VG.
Lot: 14
Facsimiles of Royal, Historical, Literary and other Autographs in the Department of Manuscripts, British Museum : First Series Nos. 1-30, London, 1895; folio, quarter-leather, gilt title, re-cased with new endpapers; title page dust-affected.
Lot: 15
Armed Forces autographs, a collection from 19th Century to modern in two binders and loose with many signed covers; includes Reginald Wingate 1915 ALS and cut signature; Sir George White 1899 ALS; Edward Paget (Wellington's 2nd in command) cut signature; Johnnie Johnson (5 covers and 2 photos) and other WW2 pilots; Russell Braddon, Giles Turberville (WWI veteran), Richard Todd and various others 1960s/1990s. Fair to VF. (237).
Lot: 16
Autographs of clergy with many Archbishops and Bishops, 19th Century to modern, with signed letters (24, many ALS), cut signatures, and few other items. Over 20 are pre-1900. (55 items)
Lot: 17
Irish Politicians, a collection of autographs including Eamon de Valera (signed page); signed photos of Albert Reynolds (2), Charles Haughey, Gerry Adams, Garret Fitzgerald, Mary Robinson, David Trimble, Ian Paisley, and Martin McGuinness; plus signed letters, pages & covers. VG/VF (25)
Lot: 18
UK politicians autographs, 1970s/2000, a collection of signed letters, most on House of Commons or ministerial letterheads, plus few signed photos, including Bryan Gould (3), Bernie Grant (2), Mark Carlisle, Alistair Burt (3), Tristan Garel-Jones (2, plus signed photo), Richard Caborn (3), Vince Cable (2), and variety of others. Filing punch holes at left. (126)
Lot: 19
Theodore Roosevelt: an autographed compliments card from the White House.
Lot: 20
Sir John See (Prime Minister of New South Wales): a typed letter ink-signed by John See, June 1904, on headed stationery. Some creasing.