Antiques & Collectors Items
The CANTERBURY AUCTION Galleries
Tuesday, September 06 2011
Two Day Sale of Fine Art, Antiques and Collectables
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 675 SOLD FOR: £ 1400
Edward Hasted - "The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent", printed for the author by Simmons & Kirkby, Canterbury 1778-1799, four volumes, containing Map of Kent and Maps of the Hundreds, in gilt tooled full mottled leather bound bindings (bindings mostly in poor condition)
Guide Price: £1500-2000
Lot 676 SOLD FOR: £ 2500
Kent Illustrated - Two three quarter brown leather bound folio sized scrapbook albums containing an extensive collection of engravings, lithographs and prints of The City of Canterbury including Braun & Hogenberg - engraving - Birds Eye View of Canterbury, 11.5ins x 17ins (stuck down on card), John Andrews (fl.1766-1809) and Matthew Wren - coloured engraving - Plan of the City of Canterbury, 18.5ins x 23.75ins (cropped), Nathaniel and Samuel Buck (fl. early/mid 18th Century and (1696-1779) - coloured engraving - The South-West Prospect of the City of Canterbury, 11.5ins x 31ins published March 25th 1738 (edges tight cropped), Louis Laurent Raze (1805-1873) - lithograph - The South West View of Canterbury Cathedral, 17.75ins x 25.5ins (damaged), Thomas Sidney Cooper (1803-1902) - Three lithographs (of set of six) - "Gateway of St Augustines Monastry", "Westgate from the River Stour" and "North West View of Canterbury Cathedral" , each 9ins x 12.75ins and G.E.Madeley (fl. mid 19th Century) - lithograph - "The Canterbury Consevative Club - Banquet July 25th 1838", 12ins x 19.5ins and an extensive collection of Views of Canterbury Cathedral and its Interior and in and around the City.
Guide Price: £1250-1600
Max Beerbohm - "Observations" published by William Heinemann, London 1925 (one yellow cloth bound volume lacking dust wrapper)
Guide Price: £100-150
Lot 678 SOLD FOR: £ 90
Max Beerbohm - "Rosetti & His Circle", limited edition, No. 57 of 380, signed by author, published by William Heinemann, London 1922 (one cream cloth bound volume - worn)
Guide Price: £100-150
Lot 679 SOLD FOR: £ 110
Max Beerbohm - "Things New and Old", limited edition, No. 211 of 380, signed by author, published by William Heinemann, London 1923 (one cream cloth bound volume with dust wrapper)
Guide Price: £100-150
Lot 680 SOLD FOR: £ 120
Max Beerbohm - "Cartoons" published by Stephen Swift, London 1911 (one blue paper bound folio)
Guide Price: £70-100
Lot 681 SOLD FOR: £ 70
Max Beerbohm - "The Happy Hypocrite" illustrated by George Sheringham, limited edition, No. 19 of 50, published by John Lane, London (one hard bound volume)
Guide Price: £70-100
Max Beerbohm - "The Poets Corner" published by William Heinemann, London 1904 (one paper bound folio size volume)
Guide Price: £70-100
Lot 683 SOLD FOR: £ 160
Max Beerbohm - "Things New and Old" limited edition, No. 296 of 380, published by William Heinemann, London 1923 (one cloth bound volume with dust wrapper)
Guide Price: £150-200
Max Beerbohm - "Max's Nineties" published by Rupert Hart-Davis, London 1958 (one paper bound volume with dust wrapper)
Guide Price: £50-70
Max Beerbohm - "Caricatures of Twenty Five Gentlemen" published by Leonard Smithers, London 1896 (one blue cloth bound volume - worn)
Guide Price: £70-100
Lot 686 SOLD FOR: £ 70
MaxBeerbohm - "Works" - Seven volumes published by William Heinemann, London (seven cloth bound volumes with dust wrappers - worn)
Guide Price: £70-100
Maurice Baring - "Hildesheim", limited edition, No. 61 of 150, published by William Heinemann, London 1924 (one paper bound volume with dust wrapper)
Guide Price: £70-100
Lot 688 SOLD FOR: £ 70
Maurice Baring - "The Last Cruise of H.M.S. Tiger", privately printed, London 1931 (one three quarters blue cloth hard bound volume with marbled boards - Maurice Baring book plate to inside front cover)
Guide Price: £70-100
Lot 689 SOLD FOR: £ 100
Maurice Baring - Nine volumes, including - "Poems 1892-1929", privately printed by The Fanfare Press, London 1929 (one paper bound volume with dust wrapper)
Guide Price: £100-150
Lot 690 SOLD FOR: £ 70
Herbert Ward - "Mr Poilu", deluxe limited edition No. 88 of 150, signed by author, published by Hodder & Stoughton, 1916 (one cream cloth bound volume - worn)
Guide Price: £50-70
H.M. Cundall - "Birket Foster", limited edition deluxe, No. 486 of 500, published by Adam & Charles Black, London 196 (one cream cloth bound volume - worn)
Guide Price: £70-100
William Rothenstein - Two volumes - "Twenty Four Portaits" and "Twenty Four Portraits - Second Series", published by George Allen & Unwin & Chatto & Windus respectively, London 1920, 1923, both limited editions (two cloth bound volumes - slightly worn)
Guide Price: £70-100
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Lot 693 SOLD FOR: £ 100
William Rothenstein - "Oxford Characters", limited first edition published by John Lane, London 1896 (one brown cloth bound folio size volume - worn)
Guide Price: £100-150
Lot 694 SOLD FOR: £ 620
Muirhead Bone - "War Drawings", edition deluxe signed proofs, parts 1-6, published by Authority of the War Office by Country Life Ltd 1917 (six paper bound folio size volumes - worn)
Guide Price: £200-300
Lot 695 SOLD FOR: £ 60
Eric Gill - "Twenty Five Nudes", third impression, published by J.M. Dent & Sons, London 1951 (one red cloth bound volume with dust wrapper)
Guide Price: £50-70
Lot 696 SOLD FOR: £ 100
Percy Smith - "Sixteen Drypoints & Etchings", limited edition, No. 139 of 167 copies, published by The Soncino Press, London 1930 (one blue cloth bound volume)
Guide Price: £70-100
Max Beerbohm - "The Zuleika Dobson", new impression 1922, published by William Heinemann, London (one brown cloth bound volume lacking dust wrapper)
Guide Price: £70-100
Lot 698 SOLD FOR: £ 200
An early 20th Century series of eighty-five coloured prints - "Holbein Drawings at Windsor", each 10.5ins x 8.5ins, contained in blue cloth covered folio size folder
Guide Price: £100-150
May Gibbs - "Bib & Bub" published by The Cornstalk Publishing Company, Sydney 1928 (one yellow cloth bound volume - very poor condition)
Guide Price: £70-100
Thomas Pennant - "Some Account of London", fourth edition, printed for Robert Faulder, London 1805 (one half maroon leather bound volume - worn)
Guide Price: £150-200
Walter Savage Landor - "Pericles & Aspasia" printed at The Chiswick Press for George Bell & Sons, London 1903 (one green cloth bound volume - worn)
Guide Price: £50-70
C. Day Lewis - "The Graveyard by the Sea" published by Martin Secker & Warburg, London 1945 (one paper bound volume with dust wrapper and fold-over case - No. 117 of 500 - signed by author)
Guide Price: £100-150
Oscar Wilde - "The Soul of Man Under Socialism", privately printed, London 1904, No. 122 of 250 (one hard bound rebound volume)
Guide Price: £70-100
Lot 704 SOLD FOR: £ 100
Sir Herbert Maxwell - "Fishing at Home and Abroad" published by The London & Counties Press Association, London 1913, No. 345 of 750 (one brown leather bound folio size volume - slightly worn)
Guide Price: £100-150
Lot 705 SOLD FOR: £ 190
M. Y. Lermontov - "A Song About Tsar Ivan Vasilyevitch" translated by John Tournos, published by The Aquila Press, 1929 (one red leather hard bound volume)
Guide Price: £70-100
George Du Maurier - "English Society at Home" published by Bradbury Agnew & Co, London 1880 (one blue leather bound folio size volume - slightly worn)
Guide Price: £70-100
Sam Haskins - "Cowboy Kate & Other Stories", 1st edition, published by Bodley Head Ltd, 1965 (one hardbound volume with dust wrapper)
Guide Price: £200-300
Lot 708 SOLD FOR: £ 100
Dr. H.S. Lynn - "The Adventures of the Strange Man" published by Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London 1873 (one gilt tooled blue leather bound volume bearing silvery metal Prince of Wales crest to front cover)
Guide Price: £70-100
Reverend John Lingard - "The Antiquities of the Anglo Saxon Church", volume 1, sold by Keating et al, Newcastle 1806 (one blue paper hard bound volume)
Guide Price: £100-150
Lot 710 SOLD FOR: £ 90
Horace Walpole - "Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard III", second edition, printed for J. Dodsley, London 1768 (one brown leather bound volume)
Guide Price: £70-100
J.M. Bruce - "British Aeroplanes 1914-1918" published by Putnam, London 1969, second impression (one blue cloth bound volume)
Guide Price: £70-100
Robert T. Vyner - "Notitia Venatica", new edition, volumes 1 & 2, published by George Rutledge & Sons, London (two green cloth bound volumes)
Guide Price: £80-120
The Pictorial Museum of Animated Nature, volume 2, published by Charles Knight & Co, London (one half brown leather bound volume with marbled boards - worn)
Guide Price: £70-100
A Collection of Heads.........in Stirling Castle published by William Blackwood, Edinburgh 1817 (one three quarters brown leather bound volume)
Guide Price: £100-150
Lot 715 SOLD FOR: £ 160
George E. Collins - "Tales of Pink & Silk" illustrated by G.H. Jalland, published by Vinton & Co, London 1900 (one red cloth bound volume - inscribed by author to front fly leaf), and a large quantity of books, various
Guide Price: £200-300
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Lot 716 SOLD FOR: £ 180
J. Davies - "The Innkeeper & Butlers Guide", eighth edition printed by George Wilson, Leeds 1808 (one card bound volume), and six other volumes, various
Guide Price: £120-160
Charles Dickens - "Little Dorrit" published by Bradbury & Evans, London 1857 (two three quarters black leather bound volumes)
Guide Price: £70-100
Lot 718 SOLD FOR: £ 260
A large quantity of cricket related books from the library of E.W. Swanton, all containing book plates worded "Ex Libris E.W. Swanton", including - Sir Donald Bradman - "The Art of Cricket" published by Hodder & Stoughton, London 1958 (one cloth and green leather bound volume)
Guide Price: £200-300
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John Wilson - "The Royal Philatelic Collection" published by The Viscount Kemsley at The Dropmoor Press Ltd, London 1952 (one full red leather bound volume - faded)
Guide Price: £80-120
Nicholas Culpeper - "Culpeper's Complete Herbal" published by Thomas Kelly, London 1822 (one vellum bound volume - worn)
Guide Price: £200-300
Lot 721 SOLD FOR: £ 40
The Daily Telegraph Victory Atlas of the World edited by Alexander Gross, published by Geographia, London (one three quarters black leather bound folio sized volume), and "Andrees Allgemeiner Handatlas" published by Velhagen & Klasing 1906 (one three quarters brown leather bound folio sized volume) (both in poor condition)
Guide Price: £40-60
Lot 722 SOLD FOR: £ 120
Paul Brickhill - "The Dambusters", The Companion Book Club, London 1952, with signed inscription to front "Kenneth Woodward from Barnes Wallis", and Russell Braddon - "Cheshire V.C.", The Companion Book Club, London, 1956, with inscription to front "To Mr Woodward with all best wishes, Leonard Cheshire" (two blue cloth bound volumes)
Guide Price: £80-120
Fifty Years of Sport arranged by Desborough, published by Walter Southwood & Co, London, 1922 (one maroon leather bound volume), "Famous Cricketers 1895" edited by C.W. Alcock (one brown cloth bound volume), "The Book of Cricket" (one green cloth bound volume), and nine copies of "Famous Cricketers" magazine
Guide Price: £100-150
Lot 724 SOLD FOR: £ 190
Woldemar Raden - "Switzerlands, Its Mountains and Valleys" engraved by A. Closs, published by Bickers & Son, London 1878 (one gilt tooled red leather bound volume)
Guide Price: £200-300
