Antiques & Collectors Items
The CANTERBURY AUCTION Galleries
Saturday, April 10 2010
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.
Martin Hardie - "Watercolour Painting in Britain" volumes 1-3, published by B. T. Batsford Ltd, London, reprint 1975 (three hard back volumes with dust wrappers and cardboard slip cases)
Guide Price: £70-100
Iolo Williams - "Early English Watercolours" published by Kingsmead Reprints, Bath 1970 (one hard bound volume with dust wrapper)
Guide Price: £40-60
A late Victorian brown leather photograph album with gilt metal clasp, containing a quantity of portrait photographs, various, and two scrap albums
Guide Price: £70-100
Lot 438 SOLD FOR: £ 160
John Harris - "The History of Kent", volume I, printed and sold by D. Midwinter, London 1719 (one full brown leather bound volume - with repair to spine)
Guide Price: £100-150
John Bunyan - "The Pilgrims Progress" published by Adam & Company, London (one black gilt tooled leather bound volume with gilt metal edging and clasp)
Guide Price: £70-100
Lot 440 SOLD FOR: £ 60
A box containing a quantity of early 20th Century and other postcards of Kent, including views of 'Palm Bay, Cliftonville' and 'The Clock Tower, Herne Bay'
Guide Price: £50-70
Three late 19th/early 20th Century scrap books containing a quantity of animal and children related coloured scraps
Guide Price: £60-80
Lot 442 SOLD FOR: £ 110
W H Ireland - "A Complete History of the County of Kent", volumes one to four published by George Virtue, London 1828 (four brown cloth rebound volumes)
Guide Price: £80-120
Edward Heath - Two volumes - "Sailing" and "Travels", reprinted 1975 and first edition 1977 respectively, both signed in pen to front flyleaf, published by Sidgwick & Jackson, London (two cloth bound volumes with dust wrappers), and a selection of books, various
Guide Price: £100-150
The Domesday Book, volume II, published by Georgio Tertio, 1783 (one full brown leather bound volume - in poor condition)
Guide Price: £150-200
Lot 452 SOLD FOR: £ 20
Lieutenant General Sir F. Fitzwygram - "Horses and Stables", fifth edition, published by Longmans, Green & Co, London 1901 (one blue cloth bound volume)
Guide Price: £40-60
Lot 453 SOLD FOR: £ 60
A. Welby Pugin - "The True Principles of Pointed or Christian Architecture", published by John Weale, London 1861 (one green cloth bound volume)
Guide Price: £60-80
Lot 454 SOLD FOR: £ 20
Thomas Walter Williams - "A Compendious and Comprehensive Law Dictionary", printed for Gale & Fenner, London 1816 (one half marbled paper bound volume - a.f.)
Guide Price: £40-60
James Russell Lowell - "The Courtin'" illustrated by Winslow Homer, published by James R. Osgood & Company, Boston 1874 (one red cloth bound volume - a.f.)
Guide Price: £40-60
William Falconer - "The Shipwreck - A Poem in Three Cantos", new edition, published by James Cundee, London 1806 (one brown paper bound volume - a.f.)
Guide Price: £40-60
Dr. Thomas Parnell - "Poems on Several Occasions", printed for T. Davies, London 1770 (one half brown leather bound volume)
Guide Price: £40-60
Lot 458 SOLD FOR: £ 42
Thomas Allen - "History of the Counties of Surrey and Sussex", with engravings by Nathaniel Whittock, volumes 1 and 2, published by I.T. Hinton, London 1829 (two blue cloth bound volumes - a.f.)
Guide Price: £50-70
Lot 459 SOLD FOR: £ 100
John Walpole-Bond - "A History of Sussex Birds", volumes 1-3, published by H.F. & G. Witherby Ltd, London 1938 (three full brown cloth bound volumes)
Guide Price: £100-150
Ian Serraillier - "The Road to Canterbury", first edition, published by Kestrel Books 1979 (one tan cloth bound volume with dust wrapper - dust wrapper a.f.)
Guide Price: £40-60
Lot 461 SOLD FOR: £ 95
William Gostling - "A Walk in and about the City of Canterbury" published and sold by William Blackley, Canterbury 1825 (one volume full leather bound volume)
Guide Price: £70-100
Lot 462 SOLD FOR: £ 160
Archaeologia Cantiana, volumes 1-67, 70-101 and 103-124 (covering years 1858-2004), variously published by John E. Taylor, London and Headley Bros, Ashford (124 blue cloth bound volumes), and "Testament Cantiana (West Kent)" published by Mitchell Hughes and Clark, London 1906 (one blue cloth bound volume)
Guide Price: £100-150
Lot 463 SOLD FOR: £ 90
The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare in Sixteen Volumes, with essay by Edmond Malone, volumes 1-16, printed by John Exshaw, Dublin 1794 (sixteen card bound volumes - a.f.), and a selection of literary related books
Guide Price: £100-150
Lot 464 SOLD FOR: £ 65
T.A. Coward - "The Birds of the British Isles and Their Eggs", third edition, volumes 1-3, published by Frederick Warne, London (three red cloth bound volumes), and a selection of gardening and nature related volumes, various
Guide Price: £70-100
Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin, fourth edition, printed for J. Wright, London 1801 (one red paper bound volume - a.f.)
Guide Price: £70-100
Charles Augustus Cowley - "A General History of England", sold by J. Walker, London 1831 (one full brown leather bound volume)
Guide Price: £70-100
A small selection of "Punch" volumes - volume 64,66,70,72,93-96,101-103,125 and 128 (four in three quarters brown leather bindings - the rest in red cloth bindings)
Guide Price: £60-80
Lot 468 SOLD FOR: £ 90
A 17th Century Latin and Greek copy of "The New Testament" (lacking binding), and a quantity of custom designed and ephemera, various (one box)
Guide Price: £100-150
Brian and Donna Gibbs - "Making Traditional Teddy Bears", published by David and Charles, London 1997 (one hard bound volume), a quantity of books relating to teddy bear making and collecting, and a small selection of teddy bear making equipment, various
Guide Price: £50-70
Lot 470 SOLD FOR: £ 20
Ysha Beresiner - "British Country Maps, Reference and Price Guide", published by the Antique Collectors Club, Woodbridge, Suffolk (one volume), and an 18th Century coloured engraving - "Bowens Road Map from London to Rochester, Turnpike Roads", 7.5ins x 4.75ins, framed and glazed, and a small quantity of other maps
Guide Price: £40-60
Arthur Sketchley - "Mrs Brown and King Cetewayo", published by George Routledge & Sons, London (one colour printed hard bound volume), and a selection of childrens books, various
Guide Price: £40-60
A quantity of old Encyclopaedia Britannica volumes (41 volumes variously in green cloth and brown leather bindings)
Guide Price: £50-70
