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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Auction Lots - Page 5
201
Morris (F.O.)
A History of British Butterflies, 1853, 71 hand-coloured plates, 2 plain plates, half calf (worn); Baxter (Richard), The English Nonconformity, As under King Charles II and King James II, Truly Stated and Argued .., 1690, small 4to., [16], 88, 97-188, 193-304 as called for (text continuous, see ESTC), early calf (worn); Lucas (Richard), Fifteen Sermons on Death and Judgement and a Future State, 1716, volume 1 only, contemporary calf (worn) (3) £100 - 150
202
Watson (W.)
The Visitors' Guide to the Guisbrough Alum Works; or the Manufacture of Alum and its Salts Explained, 1854, original cloth; Perrin (John), Entertaining and Instructive Exercises with the Rules of the French Syntax, 1773, sheep (worn); Stebler (F.G.) & Schroter (C.), The Best Forage Plants ..., 1889, folio, 30 chromolitho. plates, original cloth-backed boards (rubbed) (3) £50 - 100
203
Observer's Series - Cyanamids
Twelve volumes from the series; Birds, 1979; Trees, 1979; Wild Animals, 1978; Insects of the British Isles, 1978; Weather, 1980; Astronomy, 1978; Modern Art, 1980, Cricket, 1979; Awards & Medals, 1974; Tourist Atlas, 1981; Coins, 1980; Firearms, 1978; all with Cyanamid promotional dust wrappers, seven with compliments card (12)
[The Cyanamid series ran to thirteen titles in total, the last issued being Heraldry, see Marren and Carter, Observer's Book of Observer Books, p. 91-93] £150 - 200
204
Agricola (Giogio)
De Re Metallica, 1959, Rome; Finsider, folio, numbered ltd. edition of 1000, a facsimile of the 1561 latin edition, with Alberto Mondini's multi-lingual introductory booklet loosely inserted, vellum with leather ties £150 - 200
205
Faraday (Michael)
Faraday's Diary, Being the Various Philosophical Notes of Experimental Investigation made by Michael Faraday, 1932-6, 8 volumes including index, original cloth; id., The Selected Correspondence of Michael Faraday, 1971, 2 vols., dust wrappers (10) £200 - 400
206
Anon. [Hobhouse (John Cam)]
The Substance of Some Letters, written by An Englishmen Resident at Paris during the Last Reign of the Emperor Napoleon, 1816, 2 vols., calf; Rogers (John Jope), Opie and his Works, Being a Catalogue of 760 Pictures by John Opie R.A, preceded by A Biographical Sketch, 1878, half vellum; James (G.P.R.), The Life and Times of Louis the Fourteenth, 1838, 4 vols., half calf (7) £50 - 80
207
Bacon (Nathaniel)
An Historical and Political Discourse of the Laws and Government of England ..., 1739, 4th edition, small folio in fours, contemporary calf (backstrip worn, joints cracked);
Barrington (Daines), Observations on the More Ancient Statutes from Magna Charta ..., 1769, 4to., calf (worn, boards detached, ex reference library);
Sullivan (Francis Stoughton), An Historical Treatise on the Feudal Law .., 1772, 4to., contemporary calf (well worn, boards detached, ex reference library);
Public Records, Rotulorum Originalium in Curia Scaccarii Abbreviatio, 1805, 2 vols., folio, folding plate, half roan (very worn, boards detached) (5) £100 - 200
208
[Twysden (Roger)]
Historiae Anglicanae Scriptores X, 1652, with Gervasii Monachi Dorobornensis sive Cantuariensis .., 2 vols, folio in sixes, latin text, contemporary calf (well worn, reference library bookplate to pastedowns);
[Savile (Henry)], Rerum Anglicarum Scriptores Post ..., 1596, folio in sixes, contemporary calf (well worn, binding broken, reference library bookplate to pastedown);
Barnes (Joshua), The History of that Most Victorious Monarch Edward IIId, King of ..., 1688, folio in fours, portrait frontis, 2 plates, binding broken, boards detached (reference library label to rear pastedown);
Brady (Rob.), An Historical Treatise of Cities and Burghs or Boroughs ..., 1704, 2nd edition, small folio in fours, binding broken, boards detached;
Fosbrooke (Thomas Dudley), British Monachism; or Manners and Customs of the Monks and Nuns of England .., 1817, 4to., frontis, 12 plates and two letterpress illustrations, contemporary calf (very worn, boards detached, reference library bookplate to pastedown);
Martyrs, The Lives, Sufferings & Deaths of the Christian Martyrs & Reformers compiled from Fox's Book of Martyrs ..., [1794], 4to., engraved title, frontis, plates, calf (worn, board detached) (7) £200 - 400
209
Maclaren (J. Malcolm)
Gold: Its Geological Occurrence and Geographical Distribution, 1908, colour frontis, 38 plates, original cloth £50 - 100
210
Captain William Henry Fife
An interesting album of photographs, ephemera, sketches and watercolours, relating to Capt William Henry Fife, 9th Lancers and North Somerset Yeomanry Cavalry, the Compton Stud, horses, Langton Hall etc., worn oblong folio album £80 - 120
211
Book Press
A brass and cast iron book press, plate size approx 300mm x 245mm, extended height approx 340mm £50 - 80
212
Browne (James)
A History of the Highlands and of the Highland Clans, 1833-8, 4 vols., frontis., hand-coloured folding map, plates, half calf;
[Rivers] Rivers of Great Britain, Descriptive, Historical, Pictorial, - Rivers of the East Coast, nd., Cassell 'Special Edition', 2 vols., 4to., plates, a.e.g., original cloth;
[Scott (Walter)], Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border .., 1812, 3 vols., calf (worn);
Parbury (Florence), The Emerald Set with Pearls, ..the Beautiful Land of Kashmir .., nd., Simpkin Marshall etc., 4to., tipped-in colour plates with titled tissue guards, t.e.g., recent 'half cloth' retaining original board cloth;
Veitch (James Herbert), A Traveller's Notes, 1896, 4to., folding map (torn with loss), plates, original cloth;
Atkinson (J.C.), History of Cleveland Ancient and Modern, Vol I, 1874, chromolitho plates, recent half leather;
with ten others including an album of cartes de visite and a defective musical photo album (The Seaside Album) (22) £200 - 400

POSTCARDS AND EPHEMERA

213
A Collection of Bookmarks, including a framed display of three Dr Lovelaces Soap advertisements, silk, other advertising etc., in a binder and frame £40 - 60
214
An Autograph Book Containing Signatures of Entertainers, including Laurel & Hardy, Betty Davies and Ali Bey £50 - 80
215
A Collection of Shipping Ephemera, circa 1949/50, including RMS Queen Mary cargo and store lists, the official log of RMS Franconia, also menu's and guides for RMS Queen Elizabeth, New Zealand Shipping Co., etc £50 - 80
216
A Collection of Mixed Postcards, including Doncaster, Norfolk Broads and other topography, railway company issues, silks, comic, greetings, actresses, overseas interest, military etc., in two albums and loose, plus a tin of trade cards £200 - 300
217
An Album of First World War Period Postcards, containing approximately two hundred cards, including embroidered silks, military, greetings, Isle of Wight and other topography, glamour, shipping, colliery etc; An Album of Postcards of Churches (2) £100 - 200
218
A Collection of Pre-War Postcards of Overseas Interest, mainly European, in two albums; An Album of Carte de Visite (3) £70 - 100
219
A Collection of Albums of Travel Photographs and Postcards, including an album of snapshots with captions of the Middle East 1946, albums of 1920's and 30's snapshots taken on cruises, places visited include Rotorua New Zealand, Australia, Montreal, Chicago, Honolulu, Fiji etc, two postcard albums featuring overseas and British topography, shipping, whaling etc £100 - 200
220
An Album of Real Photographic Aviation Postcards, approximately one hundred and eighty cards, published by Real Photographs, Liverpool, includes monoplanes, biplanes, airships, crashes etc., together with photographs £200 - 300
221
An Album of Pre-War Postcards, containing ninety five cards including two Fry's advertising cards, topography, comic, Glasgow Royal Mail Steamers etc, and a bundle of later cards £50 - 80
222
A Collection of Pre-War Postcards, approximately five hundred cards, including topography, military, greetings, comic, social history including 'Empire Day Worksop', Rotherham Town footballers, aviation, actresses, glamour etc., in two albums £200 - 300
223
An Album of Mixed Postcards, containing approximately two hundred and twenty cards, pre and post war, including real photographic Yorkshire topography, churches and abbeys, two naval airship cards, aviation, Lake District etc £70 - 100
224
A Collection of Mixed Postcards, approximately three hundred and fifty cards, mainly pre-war, including military, topography, Spanish costume cards, Valentines Snow White series, comic, social history, sporting, screen and stage stars, shipping, artists signed including Mabel Lucie Atwell etc, in four albums £150 - 250
225
A Collection of Mixed Postcards, mainly pre-war, several hundred cards, including comic, artist signed, greetings, topography, costume, advertising, novelty, actresses and glamour girls, military, tram crashes, cats, Bamforth song cards, transportation etc., in an album, shoe box and in plastic sheets £200 - 300
226
A Collection of Artists Signed Glamour Postcards, including five framed displays, artists include Kirschner, Em Dupuis, A Penot, A. Asti, S. Bompard etc £50 - 80
227
Two Albums of Mixed Postcards, approximately three hundred and fifty cards, mainly pre-war, including real photographic and other topography, military, glamour and erotica, social history, brass bands, artist signed, greetings, postal interest, railway locomotives etc £200 - 300
228
An Album Containing Forty Two Early German Postcards, including Gruss Aus, shipping lines and greetings £40 - 60
229
An Album of Political Postcards - forty three cards, including politicians, comic and satire Westminster Cartoon Series, two Arthur Penniall illustrated and other free trade cards etc; Two Albums of Yorkshire Topography - sixty one cards, including nineteen of Settle £70 - 100
230
An Albums of Mixed Postcards, Trade Cards and Photographs, containing one hundred and sixty cards, including Cadbury's Reward Cards, Van Houten's nature studies, CWS national costume, shipping cards, buses and coaches etc £70 - 100
231
An Album of Guttenberg Series Postcards of Actors and Actresses, containing one hundred and thirty four cards, mostly in stage costume; An Album of Postcards of Edwardian Actresses and Entertainers, containing forty six cards; An Album of Postcards and Photographs of Edwardian Entertainers, containing one hundred and thirty six cards, some signed (3) £200 - 300
232
An Album of Autographed Edwardian Play Scene Postcards, containing one hundred and twenty six black & white real photographic cards; An Album of Photographs of Victorian Actors and Actresses, containing eighty two photographs of various sizes (2) £150 - 250
233
Two Albums of Postcards of Edwardian Actresses, containing four hundred and seventy cards, both black and white and coloured, unsigned £200 - 300
234
Three Albums of Postcards and Photographs of Mixed Actors and Entertainers, containing approximately three hundred cards from the Edwardian period to recent times, many signed, includes Tommy Cooper, Sid James, Frankie Howard, Harry Corbett, Arthur Askey etc £200 - 300
235
An Album of Postcards of 1920's and 1930's Actors and Actresses, containing two hundred and thirty one unsigned cards, some coloured; An Album of Publicity Photographs of 1980's Pop Stars, containing ninety nine cards, including Madonna, Kim Wilde, Kylie Minogue etc (2) £100 - 200
236
An Album of Postcards of Indian Interest, containing one hundred and sixty three cards, including military portraits, Rawalpindi, Coronation Durbar, military art studies, native people, Bombay, Calcutta etc £100 - 200
237
A Collection of Mixed Postcards, both pre war and post war, including comic, military, aviation, cats, overseas interest, railway, shipping and topography, in three modern albums £100 - 150
238
An Album of Mixed Postcards, containing approximately two hundred and eleven cards, including screen and stage stars, comic cards, Edwardian actresses, military, greetings, advertising, Queens Dolls House, vignettes, nature studies, dogs etc; Seven Vintage Car Brochures, including Daimler 15 £100 - 150
239
Two Albums of Postcards of Churches, containing approximately three hundred and forty cards, both real photographic and printed cards, including interiors, exteriors, church organs, other cards etc; A Collection of Bookmarks (3) £80 - 120
240
A Mixed Collection of Postcards and Ephemera, including pre and post war postcards, Tatler and other magazines, guide books, recipe books, Mabel Lucie Attwell cards etc £70 - 100
241
A Set of Five French Hand Made Saucy Optical Cards, with text printed in French and English 'Work a light in this side', postcard sized cards featuring three nudes; Seven Saucy 1950's Greeting Cards (12) £40 - 60
242
A Collection of Mixed Pre-War Postcards, approximately four hundred and fifty cards, including two 'Fragments from France' sets, Isle of Wight, Jersey and other topography, comic, silks, Japan, Malta, Italy and other overseas interest, naval etc £180 - 250
243
A Collection of Irish Topographical Postcards, approximately six hundred and fifty mainly pre-war cards, in a shoe box £180 - 250

END OF SALE

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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