Antiques & Collectors Items
The CANTERBURY AUCTION Galleries
Saturday, December 05 2009
Monthly Interiors Auction
Viewing Saturday 10am-4pm, Sunday 12pm-4pm, Monday 10am-7pm immediately prior to sale. Open on mornings of sale (Tuesday and Wednesday) from 8.30am until 10am for viewing. Sale starts promptly at 10am each day. Please remember that if you want to leave a commission bid or bid by telephone we need all instructions by Monday 6.30pm before sale.
Lot 555 SOLD FOR: £ 80
Col T.P. Shaffener - "History of the United States of America", volumes 1 - 5, printed and published by The London Printing and Publishing Company (five purple and gilt cloth bound volumes), "Foxe's book of Martyrs", edited by Dr. A. Clarke, published by The London Printing and Publishing Company (one brown leather bound volume), "The Holy Bible", printed by Thomas Baskett, London 1756 (one brown leather bound volume), two other books and a small selection of ephemera, various (one box)
Guide Price: £120-160
Kate Greenaway - Two copies of "Under The Window" printed by Edmund Evans and published by George Routledge & Sons, London, and Frederick Warne & Co Ltd, London, respectively (two volumes in green and brown cloth bindings)
Guide Price: £100-150
Kate Greenaway - Two volumes - "Marigold Garden" and "A Day in a Child's Life" both printed by Edmund Evans and published by George Routledge & Sons, London, two volumes in green cloth bindings, and Jane and Ann Taylor - "Little Ann and Other Poems" illustrated by Kate Greenaway, printed by Edmund Evans and published by George Routledge & Sons, London, (one volume in cream and green cloth binding)
Guide Price: £100-150
Lot 623 SOLD FOR: £ 90
Walter Crane - Two volumes - "Flora's Feast" published by Cassell & Company, London 1889, and "The Baby's Bouquet" printed by Edmund Evans and published by George Routledge & Sons, London (two volumes in cream and blue and green and brown cloth bindings), and three other books
Guide Price: £100-150
J.G. Sowerby and H.H. Emmerson - "Afternoon Tea" published by Frederick Warne & Co, London, (one volume in green cloth binding), Randolph Caldecott - Three volumes - "The Hey Diddle Diddle Picture Book", "Picture Book" and "Picture Book No. 1", published by George Routledge & Sons, and Frederick Warne & Co Ltd, London, respectively (three volumes in grey, red and black cloth bindings)
Guide Price: £100-150
T. Gowing - "A Soldier's Experience or a Voice from the Ranks" printed for the author by Thomas Forman & Sons, Nottingham 1907 (one black cloth bound volume), and John Strangewinter - "He Went for a Soldier" published by R.E. King, London 1900 (one red cloth bound volume)
Guide Price: £80-120
Aime Van Rod - "Memoires d'une Fouettee", Paris 1908 (one paper bound volume)
Guide Price: £50-70
Thomas Heazle Parke - "My Personal Experiences in Equatorial Africa" published by Sampson Low, Marston & Company, London, 1891 (one green cloth bound volume - a.f.), together with loose folding map for same, and H.G. Adams - "The Life and Adventures of Dr. Livingstone" published by James Blackwood & Co, London (one grey cloth bound volume)
Guide Price: £100-150
Archibald Forbes - "The Afghan Wars", third edition, published by Seeley & Co, London 1896 (one red cloth bound volume), "The Diary of a Staff Officer", third edition, published by Methuen & Co, London 1941 (one red cloth bound volume), and The Late Lieutenant Colonel Tomkinson - "The Diary of a Cavalry Officer" second edition, published by Frederick Muller, London 1971 (one blue cloth bound volume with dust wrapper)
Guide Price: £60-80
Walter Crane - "Line and Form", published by G. Bell & Sons, London, 1925 (one blue cloth bound volume), G.M. Ellwood - "Studies of the Human Figure", published by B.T. Batsford, London 1918 (one blue cloth bound volume), and "Warwickshire Poets" edited by Charles Henry Poole, published by N. Ling & Co, London 1914 (one green cloth bound volume)
Guide Price: £50-70
Sir Walter Gilbey - "George Moreland his Life and Works", published by Adam & Charles Black, London 1907 (one cream cloth bound volume - a.f)
Guide Price: £50-70
Paul Gallico - "The Snow Goose", illustrated by Peter Scott, published by Michael Joseph, London 1946 (one green cloth bound volume - limited edition of 750, signed by Author and Artist)
Guide Price: £60-80
Lot 633 SOLD FOR: £ 120
E. Smith - "The Compleat Housewife", sixth edition, printed for J. Pemberton, London 1734 (one full brown leather bound volume - a.f), and Bernard Shaw - "The Apple Cart", published by Constable & Company, London 1930 (one green cloth bound volume with dust wrapper)
Guide Price: £60-80
Charles Richardson - "British Steeple Chasing", published by The London and Counties Press Association, London 1927 (one brown leather bound volume - No. 76 of 700)
Guide Price: £120-160
John Bunyan - "Illustrated Edition of the Select Works", volumes 1 & 2, published by John Tallis & Company, London (two brown leather bound volumes - a.f.)
Guide Price: £45-60
Lot 636 SOLD FOR: £ 300
Oscar de Stage - "Pages from the Journal of a Queensland Squatter" published by Hurst & Blackett, London 1901 (one green cloth bound volume)
Guide Price: £60-80
"The Life and Explorations of David Livingstone" published by Adam & Co, London (one black and gilt tooled leather bound volume), ephemera relating to same, Williamson Robertson - "The History of America", 11th edition, volumes 1-4, London 1808 (four full leather bound volumes - a.f.), and John Clark Ridpath - "A Popular History of the United States of America", published by Phillips & Hunt, New York, 1880 (one maroon leather bound volume)
Guide Price: £60-80
