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James Sowerby and Charles - "English Botany", second edition, volumes 1-12, various editions, London 1832-1851 (twelve maroon cloth bound volumes (worn condition) £150-200
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The Reverend John Malham - "The Holy Bible - The Christians Universal Family Bible", London, printed by Thomas Kelly and W. Clowes, Strand 1812, 1810 (two leather bound volumes), and "The Illustrated National Family Bible", Reverend John Edeadie, D. D., published by Pritchard & Co, Richmond (one gilt metal mounted and leather bound volume with leather clasps) £120-160
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William King - A Monograph on Permian Fossils, published by the Palaeontographical Society, London, 1850 (one three quarter brown leather bound volume) £200-250
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Antoine Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville - L'Histoire Naturelle - Paris de Bure, 1755, with 24 plates (lacking plates 25 & 26 from the appendix - rebound) £300-500
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"Landmarks of Map Making", Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1989 (one volume), Ralph Hyde - "A Prospect of Britain - The Town Panoramas of Samuel and Nathaniel Buck", Pavilion Books Ltd, 1994 (one volume), and eight other volumes relating to maps £60-80
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"Britten's Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers", 9th edition, Bloomsbury Books, London 1990 (one volume), Brian Loomes - "Complete British Cocks", David & Charles, London 1981 (one volume), and twenty other volumes relating to clocks and watches £80-120
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Winston S. Churchill - "The Second World War", volumes 1-6, Cassell & Company Ltd, 1948-1966 (six volumes) - "A History of the English Speaking Peoples", volumes 1-4, Cassell & Company Ltd, 1956-58 (four volumes) and - "Marlborough, His Life and Times", George G. Harrap & Co Ltd, 1947 (two volumes) £100-150
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"The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray", volumes 1-13, published by Smith Elder & Co, London 1899-1901 (thirteen three quarters brown leather bound volumes), and a quantity of 19th Century and earlier leather bound and other volumes, various (two boxes) £150-200
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"The Works of Charles Dickens - The Authentic Edition", illustrated by Seymour & Phiz, volumes 1-21, published by Chapman & Hall Ltd, London 1901 (twenty-one three quarters brown leather bound volumes) £150-200
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"The Novels, Tales and Sketches of J.M. Barrie", volumes 1-8, published by Scribner's, New York 1896 (eight green cloth bound volumes - faded to spines) £100-150
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Mark Twain - Eight novels, including - "A Tramp Abroad", "More Tramps Abroad" and "The Man that corrupted Hadleyburg", all published by Chatto & Windus, 1880, 1897 and 1900 respectively (all in poor condition) £50-70
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An incomplete run of "Punch or The London Charivari", published at The Office, 10 Bouverie Street, London, 1847-1947 (twenty-four volumes variously bound in three quarters black leather and red and blue cloth) £50-70
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A collection of "Giles" Daily Express and Sunday Express cartoons, Nos 1-47 (1946-1993), facsimile copies of Nos. 2,4 and 5, and two copies of No. 8 £150-200
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"The Girl's Own Annual", volume 4 (1882-1883), published by "The Leisure Hour" Office, London (one three quarters brown leather bound volume), "Cassell's Saturday Journal", October 1883 to September 1884, published by Cassell & Company, London (one red cloth bound volume) and a quantity of children's and other books, mostly with pictorial covers £150-200
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Alistair MacLean - "The Guns of Navarone", published by Collins, London 1957 (one hardbound volume with dust wrapper), and a quantity of first edition volumes (one box) £100-150
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Five first edition novels by Iris Murdoch, including - "The Italian Girl" (some with slight wear to bindings and dust wrappers) (one box) £100-150
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Two postcard albums, one containing cards mainly of railway interest including a selection issued by the London and North Western Railway Company, and other cards of railway interest including two of the Salisbury Railway Disaster July 1906, the other album contains a mixture of military, greetings and topographical cards £300-400
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An early 20th Century postcard album containing a quantity of military cards, including - "H.M.S. Pathfinder", silk embroidered cards including - "Souvenir of Ypres" and general greetings cards, various (some loose) £200-300
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An early 20th Century photograph album - World cruise of the Liner R.M.S. Laconia 1925-1926, photographed by Claude N. Collins, containing a quantity of black and white photographs stuck down to paper album (album lacking covers) £120-160
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A small collection of early 20th Century Christmas and birthday greetings cards, and others, and postcards of mostly topographical interest (one box) £120-160
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Of World War II interest - An album of 79 English and French black and white photographs showing destruction caused to buildings, and a small collection of black and white photographs of naval interest, various £70-100
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Attributed to Dorothy Wilding (1893-1976) - Photograph - Seated portrait of a young girl thought to be Princess Elizabeth with a tambourine in her hands, 11.25ins x 9.25ins, in bevelled glass frame with black leather back stamped "Harrods" £100-200
Note: Label to back of photograph "Dorothy Wilding Portraits Ltd, Twenty-two Old Brompton Street, London, No. 08839 G"
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An early 19th Century printed "Freedom of the City of Canterbury" given to "James Philpott of This City, Cooper", 1803, 5.5ins x 8ins (with wax seal bearing City Arms), an early 17th Century written legal abstract dated 1633 with later entries to 1676 for property purchased at Wittisham, Kent, 12.75ins x 12.5ins, two 17th Century indentures and a 17th Century legal document (seals missing), all in modern gilt frames and glazed £150-200
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Two limited edition photographs - "Liza Minelli" and Sammy Davis Junior, London 1981" (four of fifty), 13.75ins x 19.5ins, and "Ray Charles, Monte Carlo 1994" (six of fifty), 13.75ins x 18.75ins, both signed and glazed £70-100
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"Spooners Perspective View of the Great Exhibition", designed by George F. Bragg and published by William Spooner, 379 Strand, London, August 9th 1851, in slip case, 8ins 6.25ins (cased) £150-200
Note: The perspective view showing the interior of the Crystal Palace was taken from the Transept and looked along the "Whole length of the Foreign Nave or Eastern End of the Exhibition"
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A pair of Chinese porcelain octagonal plates enamelled in colours and gilt with a family group seated on a terrace with two cockerels to foreground, stylised borders, 8.75ins (222mm) square (Qianlong period - small flake chips to rim and gilding rubbed in places) £300-400
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A Chinese "Cantonese" porcelain two-handled vase enamelled in colours with bands of birds, flowers and insects and bands of dragons and characters, with bird pattern handles and moulded dragons to neck, 16.5ins (420mm) high (repaired to neck and chipped) £150-200
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A Chinese porcelain bulbous shaped vase enamelled in colours with dignitaries and attendants in four quatrefoil shaped panels on a powder blue ground, 16ins (408mm) high (blue concentric circle mark to base - damaged) £100-150
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A Chinese "Famille Rose" porcelain cylindrical vase enamelled with various figures in a landscape within rectangular reserves and with vases of flowers and scattered flowers within geometric borders, 11.75ins (298mm) high (20th Century) £80-120
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A Chinese porcelain bottle shaped vase enamelled in colours with peaches and blossoms, 6.75ins (173mm) high (red seal mark to base - early 20th Century), and a Chinese porcelain circular box and cover enamelled with butterflies and flowers, 3.75ins (95mm) diameter x 2.25ins (57mm) high (20th Century) £100-150
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A Chinese porcelain vase enamelled in colours with two Phoenix perched on a rock and with peonies with black calligraphy to reverse, within floral and geometric pattern borders, 9ins (228mm) high, and a similar Chinese porcelain vase enamelled in colours with two women in a landscape, 7.5ins (184mm) high (both with red seal mark to base - both 20th Century) £80-120
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A Chinese porcelain vase enamelled in colours with two Phoenix and flowering branches and with calligraphy to reverse within black geometric pattern borders, 7.75ins (197mm) high, a ditto vase enamelled in colours with a river landscape within black borders, 9.5ins (242mm) high, and three other Chinese porcelain baluster shaped vases, 8.25ins (210mm) high (all 20th Century) £200-300
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A Chinese Cantonese porcelain oval basket enamelled in colours with figures, birds, and flowers within shaped reserves, 8.25ins (208mm) x 6.75ins (172mm) x 3.25ins (83mm) high, and matching stand, a ditto "Ginger Jar", 5.5ins (140mm) high, and four ditto circular bowls, various sizes £300-400
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A pair of Chinese Cantonese porcelain circular plates enamelled in colours with figures at various pursuits, the borders decorated with flowers and butterflies, 8ins (202mm) diameter, five other various Cantonese plates, a charger, a tea bowl and saucer, a cup and saucers and a jug £400-500
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A Chinese porcelain bulbous jardinière with flared rim, enamelled in the "Cantonese" manner with various figures and with diaper pattern inner rim, 17.75ins (450mm) x 13ins (335mm) high (early 20th Century - chipped to rim), and a matching circular stand, 18ins (460mm) diameter £150-200
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A Chinese porcelain ovoid jar painted with four women in a garden, the reverse with calligraphy, 11ins (280mm) high, and wood cover for same (20th Century) £150-200
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A Chinese porcelain ovoid vase and cover enamelled in colours with three figures in a river landscape, one astride a buffalo and inset with circular vignette depicting a scholar at a table, the reverse with calligraphy, 12.75ins (324mm) high (20th Century - flake chip to finial) £200-300
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A Chinese blue and white porcelain double gourd shaped vase painted with flowers, butterflies and birds, 475ins (122mm) high (four character mark to base - 20th Century), and a ditto circular dish painted with a woman and child in a garden landscape, 4.5ins (115mm) diameter £100-150
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A Chinese green glazed porcelain double gourd shaped vase, 10.25ins (261mm) high (19th Century) £200-300
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A Chinese blue and white porcelain Meiping vase decorated with ducks and flowers and highlighted in gilt, 12.75ins (324mm) high (20th Century) £150-200
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A Chinese green glazed pottery hexagonal "Ginger Jar", moulded in relief with panels of figures, calligraphy and flowers, 6.25ins (157mm) high (converted to electric table lamp), and two similar smaller "Ginger Jars", 4.75ins (121mm) high and 3.75ins (96mm) high £80-120
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A Chinese blue and white porcelain cylindrical shaped tankard enamelled in colours and gilt with figures on a terrace, 5ins (127mm) high (18th Century) £100-150
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A Chinese porcelain figure of a cockerel enamelled in colours, 14ins (356mm) high £200-300
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A pair of Chinese Sang de Boeuf glazed baluster shaped vases, 23.5ins (600mm) high (20th Century) £100-150
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A Japanese "Satsuma" pottery vase with inverted rim, painted in gilt with figures in landscapes within reserve borders, 23.5ins (597mm) high (damaged) £100-150
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