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Lot 1727Fabre’s Book of Insects, illustrated by Detmold, together with The Life of the Bee, also illustrated by Detmold
Sold for £110
Lot 1728The Prince and The Pauper by Mark Twain. Published 1882 by James R. Osgood, good leather binding
Sold for £620
Lot 1729John Nelson - The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Islington, London, 1823, modern calf binding
Sold for £85
Lot 1730Thomas Bewick - History of British Birds, 1826, 2 vols
Sold for £25
Lot 1731Swift - Gulliver's Travels, Nonesuch Press, 1934
Sold for £70
Lot 1732Giovanni Boccaccio - Decameron, In two volumes. Navarre Society edition 1921
Sold for £50
Lot 1733Thomas Cromwell, walks through Islington, 1835 first edition, fine binding
Lot 1734Edmund Dulac - Rubaiyat of Khayyam, fine binding
Sold for £100
Lot 1735Thomas Hardy - Wessex novels, Life’s little ironies, A changed man, Late lyrics and earlier, Jude the obscure, The well-beloved etc
Sold for £90
Lot 1736Decorative album of Victorian letterhead armorials
Lot 1737Group of children's and other books
Sold for £75
Lot 1738Collection of Folio Society books
Sold for £130
Lot 1739W. Outram Tristram - Coaching Days and Coaching Ways, London: Macmillan 1888
Sold for £80
Lot 1740Robert Gibbings - Sweet Thames run Softly; 1946 reprint and Lovely is the Life, 1947 reprint, both in fine quality bindings and slip case
Unsold
Lot 1741Mrs Humphry ("Madge" of "Truth") ~ Charlotte...
Withdrawn
Lot 1743Decorative bindings
Sold for £260
Lot 1744Children's illustrated
Lot 1745Aldoux Huxley - Brave New World, 1932 first edition and three C. S. Forester first editions
Lot 1746Collectible books
Sold for £46
Lot 1747Group of books relating to sailing
Sold for £40
Lot 1748Les Psaumes de David, pub Henri & Luc Vincent, Lausanne, 1784, miniature book with original tooled leather binding
Lot 1749A.A Milne - Winnie the Pooh - The House at Pooh Corner 1928 first edition - red cloth
Lot 1750Elizabeth I - Injunctions given by the Queenes Majestie. Anno Dom. 1559. The first yeere of the Raigne of our Soveraign Lady Queen Elizabeth, bound...
Sold for £600
Lot 1751Albert Camus - The Fall, first U.K. Edition, Hamish Hamilton, 1957, with dust jacket
Lot 1752J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone - two early paperback editions
Lot 1753Robert Greenfield - Men of Wealth and Taste: The Beggars Banquet, Photographs of The Rolling Stones
Sold for £140
Lot 1754Private Press publications
Lot 1755Giles - the first annual, 1946, together with another copy of the first, also the second, third, fourth, sixth, seventh, and two further Giles publications. (9)
Lot 1756Small group of children's illustrated books
Lot 1757John Wyndham - Day of the Triffids, first edition and others
Sold for £420
Lot 1758Arthur Rackham illustrated
Sold for £170
Lot 1759Collection of art reference books
Lot 1760Collection of modern mainly 1st edition poetry
Sold for £120
Lot 1761Modern 1st editions
Sold for £270
Lot 1762Gardiner - Oliver Cromwell, one of 350 copies on Japanese paper, with separate volume housing plates, both in Rivière bindings
Lot 1763Evelyn Waugh - Officers and Gentleman, Chapman & Hall, 1955 first edition
Sold for £32
Lot 1764Enid Blyton - Five go to Demon's Rock, 1961, and another
Lot 1765Laurence Sterne - A sentimental Journey through France and Italy, 1885, in fine binding
Sold for £190
Lot 1766Iris Wedgwood - Fenland Rivers, 1936, 1st edition, signed by the illustrator Henry Rushbury
Sold for £55
Lot 1767Goldsmith - The Vicar of Wakefield, early edition circa 1800, and James Thomson - The Seasons
Lot 1768James Hilton - Goodbye Mr Chips, 1934 second print, in Asprey binding
Lot 1769Du Maurier - Jamaica Inn, 1936 first edition, in fine Riviere binding, two others
Sold for £480
Lot 1770Beatrix Potter. - The Tale of Tommy Tiptoes, first edition, 1911, published by Frederick Warne & Co, London
Sold for £60
Lot 1771Heather and Robert Tanner - A Country Book of Days, Th...
Lot 1772Edith Holden - Nature notes of an Edwardian Lady, limited edition of 25 in Zaehnsdorf binding
Sold for £180
Lot 1773Du Maurier - Rebecca, first edition 1938, fine binding, original binding preserved at rear
Sold for £440
Lot 1774Poetic works of John Keats, 1903 edition, in very fine tooled red calf binding
Sold for £860
Lot 1775Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, facsimile of the 1843 first edition
Sold for £660
Lot 1776Nevil Shute, A Town Like Alice, first edition pub. 1950, in fine Riviere binding
Sold for £290
Lot 1777John Galsworthy - set of six works - The Compact Edition, signed and numbered from an edition of 500, in good bindings and slip cases
Sold for £300
Lot 1778G. N. Wright - The shores and islands of the Mediterranean, 1840 first edition
Lot 1780John Masefield, two works
Lot 1781Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam - translator Edward Fitzgerald
Sold for £210
Lot 1782Thomas Gray - Elegy in a Country Churchyard, 1951, Heritage Press, illustrated by Agnes Miller Parker, pictorial cloth binding, slip case
Lot 1783Kenneth Graham - Wind in the Willows, Methuen 1909, 4th edition, in good half calf binding by Sotheran
Lot 1784Siegfried Sassoon - Memoirs of a fox-hunting man, 1928, signed and numbered from a limited edition of 260 copies, cloth binding
Sold for £150
Lot 1785Peter Quennel - Byron. the years of fame, 1935 first edition, in fine gilt tooled full calf binding by Bayntun of Bath
Lot 1786Q. Horatian Flacci, 1883, published by D. Appletonii et Soc, Novi Eboraci (New York) in fine binding by Birdsall of Northampton
Lot 1787Nigel Hamilton - Monty, The man behind the Legend, signed limited edition, in fine Zaehnsdorf binding and slip case
Lot 1788John Galsworthy - two works, The Forsyth Change; Flowering Wilderness
Lot 1789Donald Maxwell - A detective in Essex, modern quarter- calf binding, together with Unkown Kent and Unknown Essex by Maxwell and Essex by A. R. Hope Moncrief. (4)
Lot 1790Cecil Aldin - Old Manor Houses, 1923 first edition, decorative cloth binding
Sold for £30
Lot 1791Philip Benton - History of Rochford Hundred, two volumes and companion volume, 1991 cased set and 1867 original two volumes.
Lot 1792H. E. Bates - The Country of White Clover, 1952, signed, limited to 100 copies and The Watercress Girl, first edition. (2)
Sold for £65
Lot 1793Siegfried Sassoon - Sherston's Progress, signed and numbered from an edition of 300
Lot 1794Three boxes of circus and magic related books
Sold for £38
Lot 1795Shaw-Sparrow, (ed) - The Modern Home, A Book of British Domestic Architecture & the Applied Arts
Lot 1796Dorothy Menpes - Venice, 1904, illustrated by Mortimer...
Lot 1797London related books
Lot 1798Robert Louis Stevenson - The Works, 25 volumes, Swanston edition, numbered 533 of 2060 sets
Lot 1799Siegfried Sassoon - Memoirs of an Infantry Officer
Sold for £95
Lot 1800Corgi Major diecast Ford Tilt Cab "H" Series with detachable trailer, No.1137 & Carrimore Low-Loader, No.1100 (x2), all in poor boxes and Simon Snorkel Fire Engine, boxed No.1127 (4)
Lot 1803Corgi diecast Commer 3/4 Ton Chassis Constructor Set, boxed GS/24, 4.2 litre Jaguar "E" Type, on card with bubblepack No.335 & London Transport Routemaster Bus, in window box No.468 (3)
Lot 1804Dinky diecast Sea King Helicopter No.724, Boeing 737 No.717 & Hawker Siddeley H.S.125 Executive Jet No.723, all poor boxes, plus loose aircraft (qty)
Lot 1805Matchbox Series 1-75 Superfast and other similar vehicles (qty)
Sold for £280
Lot 1806Corgi Rockets & Matchbox Series 1-75 diecast vehicles, plus Corgi Rockets Skypark Tower Garage & Track (qty)
Sold for £160
Lot 1807Selection of loose Dinky & Corgi diecast vehicles & Lesney Models of Yesteryear vintage cars (qty)
Sold for £380
Lot 1808Triang vintage Space X plastic model Moon Base HQ No.1174/18 & Mobile Launching Pad No.1174/16, boxed (2)
Lot 1809A Berwick Toys vintage gravity operated Automatic Loader, boxed (1)
Sold for £22
Lot 1812Schucco Micro Racers No.s 1040 & 1043, Dinky diecast Talbo & Cooper Bristol, Budgie AA motorcycle & sidecar, plus Corgi diecast including Chevrolet Impala Kennel Club, Chitty Chitty...
Lot 1813Schucco Elektro-Delfino 5411 Speedboats, boxed (x2), Cragstan Cabin Cruiser, boxed & Scalex Boats clockwork Thames Cabin Cruiser, boxed No.413S (4)
Lot 1814Corgi Kennel Service Wagon, boxed No.486 (1)
Lot 1815Group OO gauge locomotives (1 box)
Lot 1816Triang Motor Lifeboat 10 inch scale clockwork model, with Penguin Key (Mast & Ships wheel missing), boxed No.401S (1)
Lot 1817Dinky Jones Fleetmaster Cantilever Crane, No.970, Merryweather Marquis Fire Tender, No.285 & Matchbox KW-Dart Dump Truck, K2, all boxed (3)
Lot 1818Corgi The Man from U.N.C.L.E. gun firing Thrush-Buster, No.497, Cadillac Superior Ambulance, No.437, Porsche Carrera 6, No.330, Ford Consul Cortina Super Estate Car, No.491 & Rover 2000 TC,...
Lot 1819Hornby OO Gauge LNER teak coaches (x3), Triang coaches (x3), Sleeping Car, Royal Mail coach, Hornby Dublo Restuarant car, Crane, Wagons & Accessories, mostly loose (1 box)
Sold for £44
Lot 1820Bachmann OO Gauge Class 108 3 Car DMU Set, boxed No. 32-913 (1)
Lot 1821Bachmann OO Gauge BR Two Tone Green Class 47 Diesel "Thor " D1677, Boxed No. 31-656DC, BR Blue Class 40 Diesel 40141, Boxed No. 32-475DC, BR Green Class 55 Deltic Diesel "The King's Own Yorkshir...
Sold for £200
Lot 1822Hornby OO Gauge 4-6-0 Class 75000 tender locomotive 75062, Boxed R2715, 4-6-0 GWR Green Hall Class tender locomotive "Albert Hall" 4983, boxed & 4-6-2 BR lined Green Class A4 tender locomoti...