Next sale 21st of May

Our next sale is the 21st of May at 9:45am. To get a taste of what we sell see our previous catalogues.

The pictures below are updated daily and are subject to change. It is advised to view the items before hand or request a condition report as items are sold as seen with faults (if any) and errors in description (if any)

Lot 282
A printed facsimile of 'An Abstract of the Sufferings of the People call'd Quakers' vol 2 from 1660-1666, cloth bound with leather spine and corners
Guide: £30-70
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Lot 283
CHURCHILL by HIS CONTEMPORARIES edited by Charles Eade, 3 volumes of the Royal Air Force 1939-45 (vol 1 the Fight at Odds by Denis Richards, vol 2 The Fight Avails, vol 3 The Fight is won)
Guide: £10-30
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Lot 284
A large collection of mid-20th century books published by THE REPRINT SOCIETY to include H E Bates, Nevil Shute, Daphne du Maurier, Hemingway, Somerset Maugham etc
Guide: £5-20
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Lot 285
Shackleton's Boat Journey by FA Worsley, Three Works by JM Barrie - Quality Street, A Window in Thrums and Mary Rose, Just So Stories written and illustrated by Rudyard Kipling (1928), The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy (1919 leather bound), 7 volumes from the OUP Classics Collection including The Canterbury Tales, and Wuthering Heights, plus much, much more
Guide: £10-30
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Lot 286
VINTAGE EARLY PUBLICATION - A collection of ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON books to include: 'An Island Voyage' as well as some unfamiliar titles including: 'Weir of Hermiston', 'St. Ives', 'The Art of Writing' and 'Island Nights' Entertainments', all in red leather and gilded spines. 4 Cassell Reprints 1814 - 1919, 8 Chatto Windos 1912 - 1913, 1 Wm Heinemann 1913 and 4 Chatto Windos 1920. Good condition. Dimensions - 16.2 x 11.3cm approx
Guide: £30-70
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Lot 287
A FIRST EDITION copy of THE THIRTY NINE STEPS by John Buchan published Blackwood and Sons 1915, has sustained some water damage with one loose page, plus a copy of part 1 of the author's copyright edition of 800 LEAGUES UP THE AMAZON by Jules Verne, some foxing to pages, also MEMORIES by John Galsworthy, illustrated by Maud Earl, printed by Heinemann in 1919, some colour illustrations (one loose page),
Guide: £50-100
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Lot 288
How the world used to be - a UNIVERSAL ATLAS from 1893 by W & AK Johnston, 'Geographers to the Queen', in colour, front cover loose (37x30cm approx), THE MINSTRELSY of SCOTLAND, collated by Alfred Moffat, words and music to 200 Scottish Songs (published 1895), THE COMPLETE WORKS OF ROBERT BURNS (including his correspondence), published by WP Nimmo, Hay and Mitchell, BROWNINGS POEMS bound in a soft leather, (Cassell & Co 1907), plus 3 pocket editions from The Thistle Library bound in tartan (9x6cm) to include Mary Queen of scots by Sir Walter Scott, Burns' Songs, and The Scott Country - 'A tour round the Lowland districts described in the works of Sir Walter Scott' etc
Guide: £15-45
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Lot 289
For all Eygptologists - a beautiful, large (34x26cm) book THE NUBIAN PHARAOHS - Black Kings on the Nile by Charles bonnet and Dominique Valbelle, plus NUBIAN PHARAOHS and MEROITIC KINGS - TheKingdom of Kush by Necia Desiree Harkless and a bulletin (no 15, 2011) Sudan & Nubia from the Sudan Archaeological Research Society
Guide: £20-45
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