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| Auction Details - AUCTION ALREADY HELD | |||
| Books, Maps, Artwork, Photographs & Postcards | |||
| Auctioneer: | Tennants Auctioneers | Location: | The Auction Centre, Leyburn |
| Contact: | Telephone: +44 (0) 1969 623780 Facsimile: +44 (0) 1969 624281 | ||
| Date: | 3rd August 2011 | Time: | 12:00PM |
| Details: | Viewing: Tuesday 2nd August 10 am to 4 pm Wednesday 3rd August 9 am to 11.30 am |
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| Page: | 1 2 3 4 5 | ||
| Auction Lots - Page 3 | |||
| 101 | |||
| Raleigh (Walter) & Jones (H.A.) The War in the Air, Being the Story of the part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force, 1922 - 1998, 9 vols including Appendix vol. and two map portfolios (text vols with 55 maps as called for, map vol. III with 42 folding maps, map vol. V ex lib. with 24 of 28 folding maps), mixed editions, original cloth £100 - 200 |
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| 102 | |||
| Manning (Frederic) The Middle Parts of Fortune, Somme and Ancre, 1916, 1929, 2 vols., Piazza Press, numbered ltd. edition of 520 issued to subscribers by Peter Davies, original buckram £200 - 300 BRITISH TOPOGRAPHY AND LOCAL HISTORY |
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| 103 | |||
| Smith (John) Monograph of the Stalactites and Stalagmites of the Cleaves Cove, near Dalry, Ayrshire, 1894, 4to., claimed to be the first monograph on stalactites/stalagmites, 36 plates, partially unopened, original cloth £30 - 50 |
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| 104 | |||
| Tomlinson (John) The Level of Hatfield Chace & Parts Adjacent, 1882, folio, 2 folding maps, 12 plates, original cloth; Kelly (E.R.), County Topographies - Norfolk, 1875, folding map, original cloth (2) £60 - 100 |
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| 105 | |||
| [?Frith (Francis)] Views of Kirkby Lonsdale, nd., album containing twelve sepia photographs, each 163mm x 217mm, laid down on card pages, cloth boards [the photographs, although unsigned, bear a significant likeness to other Frith images examined, e.g. in the image of the Devil's Bidge (N. side), the foliage on the tree matches that in an 1899 Frith image] £80 - 120 |
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| 106 | |||
| Pickhill, North Yorkshire Twenty hand drawn Pickhill field plans, nd. [1855 or later], hand coloured, in folio album, half calf £80 - 120 |
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| 107 | |||
| Sheffield Clarion Ramblers Eleven year books; 1923-4, 1925-26, 1927-28, 1928-29, 1931-32, 1932-33, 1934-35, 1935-36, 1937-38, 1939-40 and 1942-43, nine with folding map, one with folding plate, original cloth-backed printed paper wraps £80 - 120 |
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| 108 | |||
| Charles E. Goad Ltd. Insurance Plan of Leeds, Vol 1, large folio, 625mm x 540mm, 31 hand-coloured sheets including double page index plan, surveys commencing 1886, revisions to 1970, boards £100 - 200 |
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| 109 | |||
| Charles E. Goad Ltd. Insurance Plan of Northampton, large folio, 17 hand-coloured sheets including 2 index plans, surveyed 1899, revised to 1922, boards £100 - 200 |
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| 110 | |||
| Weekly Irish Times Sinn Fein Rebellion Handbook, Easter 1916, 248 pages, original wraps (worn, tape-stained and detached, lacking backstrip), preserved in solander case; Stuart (James) & Coleman (Ambrose), Historical Memoirs of the City of Armagh, 1900, original cloth (re-cased); Fraser [James], Fraser's Travelling Map of Ireland .., 1851, Dublin, James McGlashan, hand coloured folding map, linen-backed, 747mm x 585mm, original cloth boards; with four others (7) £80 - 120 |
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| 111 | |||
| Darlington Bicycle Club A manuscript minute book, 1910 - 1916, containing ms. minutes of the AGMs and Committee meetings as well as tipped-in letters, printed reports, invitation cards, meet cards and associated ephemera, cloth bound notebook £50 - 80 |
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| 112 | |||
| Corry (J.) The History of Lancashire, 1825, 2 vols. bound as 5, 4to., 38 engraved plates, half calf; Ainsworth (Richard), The Old Homesteads of Accrington and District .., 1928, original cloth (6) £100 - 200 |
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| 113 | |||
| Whitaker (Thomas Dunham) The History and Antiquities of the Deanery of Craven in the County of York .., 1812, 4to., folding map, plates and pedigrees as called for, additional hand painted armorials throughout, half morocco £50 - 100 |
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| 114 | |||
| Clarkson (Christopher) The History and Antiquities of Richmond, In the County of York, with a Brief Description of the Neighbourhood, 1821, large paper copy, 4to. in twos, plates and pedigrees as called for [Boyne p. 181], a.e.g., morocco gilt £100 - 200 |
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| 115 | |||
| Weatherhead (William) The History of Netherdale .., 1988, ltd edition reprint of 100, cloth; Brayshaw (Thomas), Girl's High School, Settle, Memento of Lecturette, 1915, original wraps bound in cloth; id., Illustrated Programme of Excursion to Giggleswick and Settle .. 1887, original wraps bound in cloth; id., Local Gleanings, nd., Settle, original wraps; id., Notes, Historical and Descriptive on Giggleswick Church, 1905, original wraps; id., Local Notes, nd., Settle, original wraps; Kidd (R.), Reprint of Poems on the Meeting of Volunteers at Settle in 1794 .., 1885, Brayshaw publication, original wraps; Pritt (T.E.), Around Settle .., 1888, original cloth; Dobson (William), Rambles by the Ribble, 1881, quarter calf; Lambert (J.W.), Lambert's Settle Almanack 1911, original wraps (10) £100 - 200 |
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| 116 | |||
| Anon. [Rewcastle (James)] A Record of the Great Fire in Newcastle and Gateshead to which is prefixed A History of Newcastle ..., 1855, frontis, 3 plates, original cloth; Heathman (James Henry), On the Preservation of Life and Property from Fire, 1882, pencil marks to margins, original cloth (damp marked); Vanity Fair, Men of the Day no. 24 - Captain Eyre Shaw, 1871, [a leading London fireman], colour print with associated text, mounted, framed and glazed (3) £50 - 100 |
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| 117 | |||
| Clarkson (Christopher) The History and Antiquities of Richmond, In the County of York, with a Brief Description of the Neighbourhood, nd. [1821], 4to. in twos, engraved title and plates as called for, 3 (of 4) pedigrees [Boyne p. 181], (lacking letterpress title) half calf (re-backed); Hatcher (Jane), Richmondshire Architecture, 1990, dust wrapper; Clough (Robert T.), The Lead Smelting Mills of the Yorkshire Dales .., 1980, numbered ltd. edition of 750, signed, dust wrapper; Bell (John), The Easby Abbey Stud, 1860, 9 engraved plates (lacking frontis), half calf (worn); Pease (Howard), The History of the Northumberland (Hussars) Yeomanry 1819-1919 .. to 1923, 1924, plates, original cloth (5) £100 - 200 |
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| 118 | |||
| Canal Maps Anon, Plan of the Rivers Air and Calder from the Towns of Leeds and Wakefield to Armin, with the Proposed Cutts and Canal to Selby, nd., hand-coloured map, 360mm x 890mm, at least part manuscript, mounted, framed and glazed; Jessop (W.), Plan of the Proposed Canal from the River Air at Haddlesey to the River Ouse at Selby, nd., 205mm x 550mm, mounted, framed and glazed; Anon., Methley Cutt, nd., hand-coloured plan, 165mm x 200mm, institution stamp, mounted, framed and glazed; Anon., The Leeds Cutt, nd., hand-coloured plan, 180mm x 200mm, institution stamp, mounted, framed and glazed; Map of the Aire and Calder Navigation .., nd., hand-coloured waterways, 176mm x 300mm, mounted, framed and glazed; Aire and Calder Navigation, Trespassing Notice, 1927, 380mm x 500mm, framed and glazed (6) £100 - 200 |
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| 119 | |||
| The County of Lancaster A quantity of 18th and 19th century manuscript material relating to families within the county, including a small number of 18th cent. indentures on vellum, a large number of 19th cent. bills particularly relating to the Ulverston area, notes relating to the Benson Family of Skelwith, ?Longrigg and Hawkshead, copy wills of John Postlethwaite of Prescott, John Robinson of Ulverstone (1803) and Edward ?Nowbys of Abbotridding (1722), particulars of Mr Strickland's estate, etc. £40 - 60 |
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| 120 | |||
| Wainwright (A.) Valle Crucis Abbey, nd., pen and ink sketch, 184mm x 150mm, signed and titled, mounted, framed and glazed [presented by Wainwright to John Marsh, see lot 122] £100 - 150 |
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| 121 | |||
| Wainwright (A.) Ruins of Furness Abbey, nd., pen and ink sketch, 150mm x 200mm, signed and titled, mounted, framed and glazed [presented by Wainwright to John Marsh, see lot 122] £100 - 150 |
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| 122 | |||
| Wainwright (A.) Dalton - The Medieval Settlement, nd. [1975], original printing plate 140mm x 210mm, with corresponding printed page, from Wainwright's 'Westmorland Heritage', mounted, framed and glazed [from the estate of John Marsh, who provided the historical and archaeological information and is acknowledged by Wainwright on the page] £80 - 120 |
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| 123 | |||
| Wainwright (A.) An Antiquarian Map of Cumbria, [c1980], hand-coloured map, signed and dated by Wainwright, 690mm x 490mm, framed and glazed [note to rear, stating that the map was exhibited at Wainwright's 80th Birthday Exhibition at Abbot Hall] ; id., Another copy of the map, uncoloured, framed and glazed; id., A Map of the County of Westmorland as it was ... 1974, nd., printed map, 520mm x 600mm, framed and glazed [from the estate of John Marsh who researched and compiled Wainwright's Antiquarian map] £50 - 100 |
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| 124 | |||
| Hoggarth (Henry) Plan of the Town of Kendal in the County of Westmorland .., 1853, engraved plan, 960mm x 646mm, some outline hand-colouring, framed and glazed [from the estate of John Marsh] £100 - 150 |
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| 125 | |||
| Thoresby (Ralph) Ducatus Leodiensis: or the Topography of the Ancient and Populous Town and Parish of Leedes ..., 1715, folio, portrait frontis, folding map (hand-colouring of circumference, early annotation verso), folding plates as called for, occasional marginalia in early hand, contemporary calf (re-backed) £200 - 300 |
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| 126 | |||
| Yorkshire Crabtree (John), A Concise History of the Parish and Vicarage of Halifax, 1836, folding map, plates as called for, original cloth; Wright (Thomas), The Antiquities of the Town of Halifax in Yorkshire, 1738, sheep (worn); Tew (T.W.), Miscellaneous Papers 1861 - 1891, 1892, Pontefract, cloth-backed printed wraps; Tomlinson (John), Stories and Sketches Relating to Yorkshire, nd., quarter cloth; Scatcherd (Norrison), The History of Morley, 1874, frontis, plates, original cloth (re-backed); Boyd & Shuffrey, Littondale: Past and Present, 1893, plates as called for, original cloth (lacking backstrip) with a quantity of others (qty) £300 - 500 MAPS AND ATLASES |
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| 127 | |||
| [Bleau (J.)] Insulae Albion et Hibernia cum minoribus adjacentibus, nd. [c1654], hand-coloured map, 380mm x 447mm, latin text verso, framed and glazed £70 - 100 |
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| 128 | |||
| Pigot & Co. Pigot & Co.'s British Atlas, comprising the Counties of England .., nd., [maps where dated, 1839/1840], folio, 42 hand-coloured maps comprising 2 large folding maps of England/Wales and Ireland (lacking Scotland map), 39 county maps (1 folding), folding map of London (torn), half roan (worn, staining to upper board) £400 - 600 |
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| 129 | |||
| Speed (John) Stafford, Countie and Towne with the ancient Citie Lichfield described, 1610 [1611 or later], Sudbury and Humble, hand-coloured map, 385mm x 505mm, English text with hand-colouring verso, framed, glazed front and rear £80 - 120 |
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| 130 | |||
| Speede (John) Northumberland, 1610 [1611 or later], Sudbury and Humble, engraved map 383mm x 510mm, English text verso, mounted, framed, glazed front and rear; [id.], The Bishoprick and Citie of Durham, nd. [1676 or later], Bassett & Chiswell, hand-coloured map 382mm x 507mm, English text verso, framed, glazed front and rear (2) £100 - 200 |
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| 131 | |||
| Speede (John) The North and East Ridins of Yorkshire, 1610 [1611 or later], Sudbury & Humbell, hand-coloured map, 390mm x 516mm, English text to verso, framed, glazed front and rear. £100 - 200 |
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| 132 | |||
| Cary (John) Cary's Traveller's Companion, or A Delineation of the Turnpike Roads of England and Wales ..., 1790, general map of England and Wales and 42 county maps including a folding map of Yorkshire (folding map with taped tears, several maps with later colouring), contemporary calf (worn, upper board detached) £80 - 120 |
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| 133 | |||
| Speede (John) The Countie Westmorland and Kendale the Cheif Towne Described .., nd. [1676 or later], Bassett & Chiswell, hand-coloured map 383mm x 507mm, framed and glazed £100 - 200 |
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| 134 | |||
| Lloyd (Humphrey) - [Mercator (Gerard)] Cambriae Typus Auctore Humfredo Lhuydo Denbigiense Cambrobritanno, nd. [1606 or later], hand-coloured map 345mm x 490mm, framed and glazed £200 - 300 |
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| 135 | |||
| Speeede (John) The Countie Westmorland and Kendale the Cheif Towne Described .., nd. [1676], Bassett & Chiswell, hand-coloued map, 382mm x 507mm, English text verso, framed, glazed front and rear £50 - 100 |
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| 136 | |||
| Speede (John) The Counti of Warwick the Shire Towne and Citie of Coventre described, 1610 [1611 or later], Sudbury and Humble, hand-coloured map, 380mm x 510mm, framed, glazed front and rear (blank sheet of paper under glass obscuring verso) £200 - 250 |
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| 137 | |||
| [Harrison (John)] A Map of the World, Drawn and Engraved from D'Anville's Two Sheet Map with Improvements for J. Harrison .., 1788, double hemisphere map, 400mm x 720mm, hand-coloured in outline, mounted, framed and glazed; Homann (Johann Baptiste), Circulus Saxoniae Inferioris in omnes fuos Status et Principatus ..., nd. hand-coloured map, 475mm x 563mm, mounted, framed and glazed (2) £100 - 200 FOREIGN TRAVEL AND MOUNTAINEERING |
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| 138 | |||
| Kershaw (Frank) 'Round the World with the Sheffield Choir', March 17th to October 2nd, 1911, an interesting typescript account of the Sheffield Choir's world tour in 1911, commences with a voyage to Canada, then to the USA, back to Canada and then on to Australia and New Zealand, via Hawaii and Fiji, followed by South Africa and then home via Tenerife, laid down photographs and ephemera throughout, morocco binding with gilt title to upper board, preserved in solander box £50 - 100 |
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| 139 | |||
| Alexander (Boyd) From the Niger to the Nile, 1908, 2 vols., 3 folding maps, plates as called for, original cloth; Kitching (A.L.), On the Backwaters of the Nile, 1912, folding map, plates as called for, original cloth; Stanley (Henry M.), In Darkest Africa .., 1890, Scribner's, 2 vols., 3 folding maps in rear pockets, plates as called for, original cloth; Mounteney-Jephson (A.J.), Emin Pasha and the Rebellion at the Equator, 1890, folding map and facsimile letter in rear pocket, plates as called for, original cloth (6) £100 - 200 |
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| 140 | |||
| Takoradi, Ghana - Photographs Approximately 135 black and white photographs, predominantly of the native people of Takoradi, including the Bassa, Fante and Gio tribes, with a small number showing British military personnel, [c1941-44], various sizes including 64mm x 82mm, 56mm x 88mm, 136mm x 85mm,125mm x 104mm etc., many with manuscript descriptions verso, some dated [During WWII, Takoradi was on a secret route (officially known as the West African Reinforcement Route) for the supply of aircraft to the war in the Middle East. Aircraft kits were shipped from Britain to Takoradi where they were assembled and then flown to Khartoum. Tropical diseases took the lives of many of the British servicemen] £40 - 60 |
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| 141 | |||
| Photographs of Egypt A collection of 45 sepia photographs of Egypt, mounted on card (1 double sided), dated 1875 in manuscript with locations, various sizes, several as small as 59mm x 88mm but majority much larger;- 200mm x 260mm, 260mm x 345mm, 260mm x 377mm, reverse of card stamped '??. Kay-Shuttleworth'. Some printed commercial signatures; A Beato, F. M. Good and P. Sebah. [It is understood that the photographs were obtained by Sir Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth (1st Baron) and his wife Blanche when touring Egypt in 1875] £200 - 400 |
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| 142 | |||
| David (Andrew) edit. The Charts and Coastal Views of Captain Cook's Voyages, The Voyage of the Endeavour 1768-1771, Hakluyt Society, folio, dust wrapper £50 - 100 |
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| 143 | |||
| Military and Colonial Life An extensive collection of material in four albums giving an interesting insight into the military and colonial life of Lt.Col. Cecil E.P. Craven [1899 - 1988], of the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment. The eldest son of Mr and Mrs P.E. Craven of Salisbury, Rhodesia, he was born in Salisbury Prison for his own protection during the Matebele uprising. Running away from Rhodesia in 1917 to join the British Army, he was Commissioned into the Artists Rifles. After WWI, he resigned his Commission to go to Sandhurst, he was then Commissioned into the QORWKR and posted to India where he married Sheila Noreen Burke of Bangalore. The albums comprise; 1) an album of ephemera and postcards, commencing with a telegraph from Cecil J. Rhodes to Percival Craven (dated 189? ) stating 'will have much pleasure stand godfather your son', as well as a 1 page a.l.s. from Rhodes to Mrs Craven (1900) enclosing a £50 cheque for his godchild. Also includes a Bangalore Hunt Hound List, RMC officer lists, postcards and ephemera from Salisbury, Rhodesia, QORWKR Christmas cards, Bangalore race cards, Rawalpindi Greyhound Assoc. card, etc., cloth bound 2) an album dated 1927, containing approx 430 photographs including some photographic postcards, subjects include, early tanks, shipping, ?WWI and later military, Bangalore, India, Indian packs of hounds, sailing, rowing, football, a signed photograph of the Maharaja and cricketer Ranjitsinhji (1924), Rhodesia, aerial photographs, Indian ceremonies, family groups, etc., cloth bound 3) an album of press cuttings, predominantly illustrated, relating to The Queens Own Regiment, 1920s to 1931, including military insignia, officers and men of the regiment, regimental sporting teams including running, boxing, hockey, cricket, shooting, football, rugby, etc. cloth bound 4) an album entitled 'The Mysore Residency, Bangalore, 1931', containing 23 b/w photographs of the house, 1 per page, including some interesting interior views, suede-like cloth covers £200 - 400 |
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| 144 | |||
| Photographs Two photograph albums: the first with 74 sepia photographs including views of Gibraltar, Malta, Italy, Turkey and Spain, nd., laid down, one per page, various sizes, e.g., 165mm x 208mm, 205mm x 265mm, etc., morocco; the second with approx 142 photographs of mixed subjects including views of Ireland, an interesting street scene of Taggia (possibly post earthquake), horses, churches, cathedrals and colleges, and miniature prints of works of art, nd., wide range of sizes from 29mm x 24mm to 210mm x 269mm, laid down, defective binding, boards detached (2) £100 - 200 |
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| 145 | |||
| Murray (James) & Marston (George) Antarctic Days, 1913, first trade edition, plates as called for, original cloth [Rosove 236 A2] £100 - 200 |
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| 146 | |||
| Packe (Charles) A Guide to the Pyrenees, especially intended for the use of Mountaineers, 1867, frontis, plates as called for, 2 large folding maps in endpaper pockets (possibly later backing to maps), original cloth gilt (spine faded) £200 - 400 |
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| 147 | |||
| Atkinson (G.F.) Indian Spices for English Tables; or, A Rare Relish of Fun from the Far East .., 1860, Day & Son, oblong folio, tinted litho title and 27 litho. plates (one with repaired fore-edge), original cloth-backed litho. printed boards £80 - 120 SPORT |
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| 148 | |||
| Cook (Theodore Andrea) Eclipse & O'Kelly, being a Complete History so far ... of that Celebrated English Thoroughbred Eclipse ..., 1907, first edition, plates as called for, original cloth (faded); Cazenove (Bernard), Grouse Shooting and Moor Management, 1936, plates as called for, original cloth; Northumberland (Duke of), The Shadow on the Moor, 1931, original cloth; with six others (9) £100 - 200 |
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| 149 | |||
| Millais (J.G.) et al. The Gun at Home and Abroad - British Deer & Ground Game, Dogs, Guns & Rifles, 1913, large 4to., numbered ltd. edition of 950, frontis, 41 colour and half-tone plates as called for, t.e.g., publisher's morocco; id., The Gun at Home and Abroad - British Game Birds and Wildfowl, 1912, large 4to., numbered ltd. edition of 950, frontis, 34 colour and half-tone plates as called for, t.e.g., publisher's morocco (2) £300 - 500 |
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| 150 | |||
| Selous (F.C.), Millais (J.G.) & Chapman (Abel) The Gun at Home and Abroad - The Big Game of Africa & Europe, 1914, large 4to., numbered ltd. edition of 750, frontis, 82 colour and half-tone plates as called for, t.e.g., publisher's morocco (damp staining); Carruthers (D.), Millais (J.G.) et al., The Gun at Home and Abroad - The Big Game of Asia and North America, 1915, large 4to., numbered ltd. edition of 600, frontis, 118 colour and half-tone plates as called for, t.e.g., publisher's morocco (2) £400 - 600 |
| Auction Details - AUCTION ALREADY HELD | |||
| Books, Maps, Artwork, Photographs & Postcards | |||
| Auctioneer: | Tennants Auctioneers | Location: | The Auction Centre, Leyburn |
| Contact: | Telephone: +44 (0) 1969 623780 Facsimile: +44 (0) 1969 624281 | ||
| Date: | 3rd August 2011 | Time: | 12:00PM |
| Details: | Viewing: Tuesday 2nd August 10 am to 4 pm Wednesday 3rd August 9 am to 11.30 am |
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