| Auction Details - AUCTION ALREADY HELD | |||
| The Two Day Sale (Day 1 of 2) | |||
| Auctioneer: | Canterbury Auction Rooms | Location: | Canterbury |
| Contact: | Tel: 01227 763337 Fax: 01227 456770 | ||
| Date: | 16th April 2013 | Time: | 10:00AM |
| Details: | Viewing: Saturday 13th April from 10 am to 4 pm Sunday 14th April from 12 pm to 4 pm Monday 15th April from 10 am to 7 pm and on Mornings of Sale from 8.30 am |
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| Auction Lots - Page 13 | |||
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BOOKS |
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| 615 | |||
| Edward Hasted - "The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent", volumes 1-4, printed by Simmons & Kirkby, 1778 (four volumes rebound in 19th Century gilt tooled brown leather - slight wear to bindings) £2000-3000 Provenance: Godmersham Park Sale, Christies 1983 |
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| 616 | |||
| Van der Groen & Nyland - Three volumes bound as one -"Den Nederlandtsen Hovenier", "Den Verstandigen Hovenier" & De Medicyn-Winckel", published by de Groot, Amsterdam, 1683 (one vellum bound volume) £600-800 Note: These three works are bound as one volume - formerly the property of London Library St James's Square No. 83109 |
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| 617 | |||
| W, A & A Hill - "Antonio Stradivari - His Life and Work", published by William E. Hill, London 1902 (one half green leather bound volume with loose plates to front and slip case - binding in slip case in poor condition) £200-300 |
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| 618 | |||
| W, A & A Hill - "The Violin-Makers of the Guarneri Family", published by William Hill & Sons, London 1931 (one half vellum bound volume with loose plates to front and slip case) £200-300 |
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| 619 | |||
| Karel Javolec - "Italian Violin-Makers", published by Orbis 1952 (one brown cloth bound volume with slip case - binding in slip case in poor condition), Henri Poidras - "Dictionary of Violin Makers", volumes 1 & 2, published by Vicomte, Rouen 1928 (two three quarters brown leather bound volumes), and a quantity of antique violin related volumes, various (one box) £150-200 |
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| 620 | |||
| "The Old Testament" Embellished with Engravings", printed for Thomas Macklin by Thomas Bensley, London 1800 (six brown leather bound folio sized volumes - in poor condition) £500-700 |
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| 621 | |||
| Thomas Richardson - "Clarissa", 6th edition, volumes 1-7, printed for J. Rivington et al, London 1768 (seven half brown leather bound volumes - poor condition) £150-200 |
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| 622 | |||
| "The Works of Miss Austen", volumes 1-3, published by Richard Bentley, London 1856 (three purple and gilt tooled cloth bound volumes), and Currer Bell "Charlotte Bronte" - "Jane Eyre", 4th edition, published by Smith, Elder & Co, London 1850 (one purple cloth bound volume) £200-300 |
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| 623 | |||
| Anne Pratt - "Flowers and Their Associations", published by Charles Knight & Co, London 1840 (one half brown leather bound volume) £100-150 |
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| 624 | |||
| Victor Hugo - "Notre Dame de Paris", 8th edition, published by Eugene Renduel, Paris 1836 (one full brown leather bound volume with Gothic pattern tooling to boards) £100-150 |
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| 625 | |||
| Charles Augustus Murray - "Ottawah" published by G. Salter, London (one green half leather bound volume) £70-100 |
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| 626 | |||
| Reeve & Walpole - "The Old English Baron/The Castle of Otranto" printed for J. Walker, London 1817 (one full brown leather bound volume) £70-100 |
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| 627 | |||
| Topffer - "Histoire de Mr Pensil" and Simon de Nantua - "Histoire d'Albert", both published by Dufrenoy, Paris (two red cloth bound volumes), and a large quantity of 19th Century leather bound and other volumes (two boxes) £300-400 |
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| 628 | |||
| Tauchnitz - "Collection of British Authors", nineteen 19th Century half brown leather bound volumes, various authors and subjects £100-150 |
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| 629 | |||
| Twenty-eight 19th Century three quarters red leather bound volumes, mostly "Tauchnitz Collection of British Authors Series", various authors and subject £200-300 |
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| 630 | |||
| Twenty-four 19th Century blue three quarters leather bound volumes from "Baudry's European Library - Collection of British Authors" £300-400 |
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| 631 | |||
| Seventy-two 19th Century gilt tooled and three quarters blue leather bound volumes from "Tauchnitz Collection of British Authors", various authors and subjects, and two ditto volumes similarly bound (one box) £700-1000 |
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| 632 | |||
| James Boswell - "The Life of Samuel Johnson", volumes 1-4, published by William Pickering, Oxford 1826 (four three quarters brown leather bound volumes - binding worn) and Aldous Huxley - Four Volumes - "Ends and Means", "Point Counter Point", (new impression), "The Genius and the Goddess" and "Heaven and Hell", published by Chatto & Windus, London 1937, 1937, 1955 and 1956 respectively (latter two retaining dust wrappers - former two missing dust wrappers - all in a worn condition) £200-300 |
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| 633 | |||
| Alexander Innes Shand - 'The War in the Peninsular 1808-1814', published by Seeley & Co, London 1898 (one full leather bound volume - damaged to binding) and a large quantity of Napoleonic war related volumes, various £150-200 |
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| 634 | |||
| Henry Maundrell - "A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem", Oxford & London 1740 (one leather bound volume) £200-300 |
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| 635 | |||
| "Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour" illustrated by Phiz, subscribers edition (six volumes in red cloth bindings) £250-350 |
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| 636 | |||
| Charles Grant - "The History of Mauritius" printed by W. Bulmer & Co, London 1801 (one full leather bound volume - repaired to spine, slightly damaged and lacking one map) £100-150 |
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| 637 | |||
| John Fisher Murray - "A Picturesque Tour of the River Thames", published by Henry G. Bohn, London 1845 (one green cloth bound volume - in poor condition), and a large quantity of books, various (four boxes - all in poor condition) £150-200 |
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| 638 | |||
| Douglas Adams - "Life, the Universe and Everything", published by Arthur Barker Limited, London, 1982 (one hardback volume with dust wrapper - ex library copy) £150-200 |
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| 639 | |||
| Dr. Fridtjof Nansen - "Farthest North", London, George Newnes Ltd, 1898 (two volumes) £70-100 |
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| 640 | |||
| "The Works of Shakspere", Imperial edition edited by Charles Knight, volumes 1 and 2, published by Virtue & Co, London (two black leather bound folio sized volumes - in poor condition) £80-100 |
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| 641 | |||
| "Buchanan's History of Scotland", 4th edition, volumes 1 & 2, printed by Hamilton, Balfour & Neill, Edinburgh 1752 (two full brown leather bound volumes - poor condition), and Lord Robert of Kandahar -"Forty-one Years in India", volumes 1 & 2, published by Richard Bentley & Son, London 1897 (two green cloth bound volumes) £80-120 |
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| 642 | |||
John & William Langhorne - "Plutarch's Lives", 4th edition, volumes 1-6, printed for Rivington, London 1826 (six full brown leather bound volumes - bindings slightly worn) £100-150POSTCARDS AND EPHEMERA |
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| 643 | |||
| "Variete Und Zirkus" - Cigarette card album of circus interest published by Bergmann-Zigarettenfabrik, Dresden 1935 (one card bound folio sized volume), and "The Works of Flavius Josephus" translated by Whiston, published by Routledge, London 1892 (one three quarters red leather bound volume) £100-150 |
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| 644 | |||
| 645 | |||
| An early 20th Century Wills cigarette card album containing a collection of cards of predominantly Civic Arms interest, and a collection of loose cards and one small home-made album, various £60-80 |
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| 646 | |||
| A late Victorian scrap album £120-160 |
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| 647 | |||
| Four Victorian/early Edwardian photograph albums £70-100 |
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| 648 | |||
| A collection of postcards mostly of film stars (loose - approximately 90) £100-150 |
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| 649 | |||
| An early 20th Century photograph album containing a rare set of twenty-four blue and white photographs of the Ashford Railway Works, New Town, Ashford, Kent, with images of manufacturing and buildings, photographed by C. Goldsmith, 20 Coborn Road, Bow £200-300 Provenance: The property of the late R.H. Cox, a steel worker at the Ashford Works in the 1940s |
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| 650 | |||
| Four early black and white photographic aviation postcards published by Whorwell Photographers, Dover, Kent, depicting "Mr Roll's Great Channel Flight, Dover, 2nd June 1910" - One showing a close up of the bi-plane landed on fields outside Dover, and three in flight £80-120 |
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| 651 | |||
| Three early 20th Century photographs - Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Sports Day 1918, with members of the Royal Family, one larger similar and eleven interior photographs of a private residence £40-60 |
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| 652 | |||
| A collection of paperwork and ephemera relating to the life and career of Lt. (later Honourable) Cyril William Seymour-Hall (born 27th November 1897), including - British Empire Airship Pilot's Certificate dated March3rd 1919 (No. 48), five Air Ministry/Royal Naval Letters of Recommendation/Commendation, including - one handwritten from Royal Naval Balloon Station dated 1st February 1918, and later diplomatic and other correspondence and photographs, various £300-400 |
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COLLECTORS ITEMS |
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| 660 | |||
| A late 19th Century Russian icon of the "Kazanskya Virgin" - Mother of God supporting her standing Son, the gilt metal oklad with pierced halo, 8.75ins x 7ins (some rubbing to gilding and minor wear to oklad) £300-500 |
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| 661 | |||
| A 19th Century Russian icon of "Holy Princess Olga" and "Holy Bishop Michael of Cisin", portrayed standing with hands raised, Michael holding a book within scrolled border, 8.75ins x 7ins £250-350 |
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| 662 | |||
| A late 19th Century Russian icon of "Christ Pantokrator", portrayed half length frontal blessing and bearing Book of Gospels, the gilt metal oklad with raised halo and embossed border, 8.75ins x 6.75ins £200-300 |
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| 663 | |||
| A Russian icon portraying three rows of religious figures and saints, including - The Virgin & Child, St. Nicholas and others, 8.75ins x 7ins (slight marks and flakes) £150-200 |
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| 664 | |||
| A 19th Century Russian icon of "The Virgin of Unexpected Joy", portrayed supporting her Son with figure looking on within stylised border, 10.25ins x 8.75ins (paint lifting in places) £200-300 |
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| 665 | |||
| A 19th Century Russian icon of a group of eight Saints in two tiers flanking an icon of the Holy Trinity, 13.25ins x 11ins (chipped to edges) £200-300 Provenance: Sotheby's 18th February 1998 - Lot 1168 |
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| 666 | |||
| A 19th Century Russian icon of "St. Theodosius Pechersky", portrayed standing, holding a cross and staff, 12.25ins x 10.5ins (chips to edges and some flaking) £100-150 |
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| 667 | |||
| A 19th Century Russian icon of "The Virgin of Theodore or Vladimir", portrayed supporting her Son, 12.25ins x 10.5ins (chips to edge) £100-150 |
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| 668 | |||
| A 19th Century Russian icon of a Saint holding a book and a Bishop holding a crosier, in gilt metal frame with scroll and bead cresting, 12.75ins x 10.5ins £250-350 |
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| 669 | |||
| A 19th Century Russian icon of St. John The Baptist holding a chalice containing Christ Emmanuel flanked by Sts. Antipas and Mary Magdalene, 12.25ins x 10.5ins £300-400 |
| Auction Details - AUCTION ALREADY HELD | |||
| The Two Day Sale (Day 1 of 2) | |||
| Auctioneer: | Canterbury Auction Rooms | Location: | Canterbury |
| Contact: | Tel: 01227 763337 Fax: 01227 456770 | ||
| Date: | 16th April 2013 | Time: | 10:00AM |
| Details: | Viewing: Saturday 13th April from 10 am to 4 pm Sunday 14th April from 12 pm to 4 pm Monday 15th April from 10 am to 7 pm and on Mornings of Sale from 8.30 am |
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