COINS AND MILITARIA

224 A quantity of silver coins, pre1921 and pre-1947 three pence pieces, pre 1921 5.68ozt, pre 1947 4.14ozt £100 - £200

225 The Official Commemorative Coin Collection in Honour of H.M. Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, thirteen silver proof commemorative coins, including Alderney 5 Pounds 1995, Jamaica 25 Dollars 1994, accompanied by Certificates of Authenticity, cased £120 - £160

226 A pair of 19th century percussion pocket pistols by J. Beattie, London, screw off octagonal barrels signed to top, dolphin shaped hammers above foliate scroll panels, folding triggers, the grips inlaid with silver scrolls and flowers, 12cm long, in mahogany case, blue baize lined interior fitted with flask, bullet moulds etc

£1,000 - £2,000

227 A late 19th century Lefaucheux Patent 12mm six shot pinfire revolver by Bertonnet of Buenos-Ayres & Paris, 6 inch round barrel with raised sighting rib inlaid in gold and signed, frame, trigger guard and cylinder inlaid in gold and former numbered 51957, ebony grip carved with scrolls and scallops, lanyard ring on buttplate, in rosewood case, blue velvet and chequered leather interior, fitted with ebony cleaning rod with jag, turnscrew, spike, key and compartment with metal lined tubes for cartridges.

£1,500 - £2,500

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228 A pair of 19th century percussion pistols by Brown & Rodda, London, 6 inch octagonal barrels signed to top, dolphin shaped hammers above foliate and signed scroll panels, engraved steel trigger guards and the grips inlaid with silver scrolls and flowers, walnut full stocks with chequered butts and captive ramrods, 30cm long, in mahogany case, green baize lined interior fitted with flask, cleaning rod, bullet moulds etc £2,000 - £3,000

230 A 19th century Bowie knife, 8 inch blade stamped VR Joseph Rodgers & Sons Cutlers To Her Majesty, Rodgers star and cross mark, metal crossguard with stag horn grip, housed in brown leather scabbard with plated mounts, 33cm long £200 - £300

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231 A Japanese tanto, probably Edo period, lashed ray skin tsuka and simple tsuba, 8 inch blade with shinogi-zukuri and iori mune, contained in a black textured lacquer saya and metal kozuka, 34cm long £300 - £500

233 Roberts, Derek, Carriage Clocks and Other Travelling Clocks, 1993, Schiffer Publishing, with Allix, Charles, Carriage Clocks - Their History & Development, 1974, Baron Publishing (2) £20 - £40

234 Lewis, C S, 1948, The Trouble with X, London: Church Union, leaflet with cover, printed Southend on Sea £20 - £40

235 Prize Bindings, Gilfillan, Rev George, Burns’ Poetical Works, 1856, in two volumes, James Nichol, Edinburgh, green half leather bindings with gilt-tooled spines, marbled boards (2) £30 - £50

236 Bell, Julian, 1936, Work for the Winter and Other Poems, London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf, Hogarth Press, 68p.; together with Songs for Sixpence No.2, 1929 (2) £30 - £50

237 De La Mare, Walter, 1930, News, with drawings by Barnett Freedman, London: Faber and Faber, limited edition, signed by the author, numbered 168 of 500, on hand wove paper, cloth bound; together with Thus Her Tale, a Poem, by the same author, 1923, Edinburgh: Porpoise Press, designs by William Ogilvie (2) £30 - £50

238 G K Chesterton interest: Wicksteed, Philip H., 1904, Early Lives of Dante Translated by Philip H Wicksteed MA, London: Aleander Morning Limited, Kings Classics, 158p. paper boards, inscribed by the author to Mr and Mrs G K Chesterton, Xmas 1904, PHW £30 - £50

239 King, Jessie M., 1910, Grey City of the North; a Book of Drwaings, Edinburgh and London: T N Fovlis, 51p. with dust wrapper; together with Edward Ardizzone illustrated books, Pictures on the Pavement by G W Stonier, Lucy Brown and Mr Grimes, 1970 edition, and Ardizzones Hans Andersen, 1978 (4) £30 - £50

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240 Remarque, Erich Maria, 1929, All Quiet on the Western Front, Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1st American edition, 291p. woven cloth bound £30 - £50

241 Bingley, W, 1814, Animated Nature; or Natural History of Animals, London, 310p., with engraved illustrations, full leather bound, together with Cervantes, M, 1747, History of the Renowned Don Quixote, Volume II, London: Copper, 276p. full leather bound and Blaeu, C, 1641, Imperatoris Justiniani Institutionum, libri IIII (Justinian Institutes), Amsterdam, 354p plus index (3) £40 - £60

242 Phillips, R, 1822, Wonders of the Heavens, Displayed in Twenty Lectures, London: 6th Edition, with fold out illustrations; Dunster, S. 1739, Horace’s Satires, Epistles and Art of Poetry, London: Mears et al., 477p plus index; Woty, W., 1770, Poetical Works of William Woty, Vol I, London: G Scott, 175p. (3) £40 - £60

243 Dickens, Charles, The Battle of Life, A Love Story, 1846 first edition, Bradbury & Evans, red cloth boards with gilttooled cover and spine title, cupid carrying a scroll on title vignette, gilt edges, publisher’s advertisements, (including Oliver Twist) £40 - £60

244 A collection of ten Victorian Valentine cards, paper lace embellished with gilt detailing with pictorial motifs and symbols of affection such as cupids, some with moving parts (10) £40 - £60

245 Austen, John (illus.), 1925, Everyman and Other Plays, London: Chapman and Hall, with gilded and coloured prints, 202p., half block printed paper boards; together with Trevelyan , R C, 1925, Idylls of Theocritus, London: Casanova Society, numbered edition 165 of 750 (2) £40 - £70

246 Hogarth Press including Woolf, Virginia; Fry, Roger; Forster, E M., et al., a collection of 1st edition volumes 1926 to 1934, Walter Sickert: a Conversation by Virginia Woolf, Hogarth Letters 1, 2 and 5, Letter to Madan Blanchard, Letter to an MP on Disarmament (Viscount Cecil), Letter from a Black Sheep (Francis Birrell), Art and Commerce, London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf, Hogarth Press (7) £40 - £70

247 Murdoch, Iris, 1958, The Bell, London: Chatto and Windus, 1st Edition, signed by the author, 320p., green cloth binding £40 - £60

248 Sitwell, Osbert, 1949, Demos the Emperor, London: MacMillan, first edition, signed and dedicated by the author; De La Mare, Walter, 1928, Self to Self, with wood engravings by Blair Hughes Stanton, London: Faber and Gwyer, signed 1st edition, number 391 of 500; Garnett, David, 1928, Old Dovecote, Glasgow: University Press, signed by the author and numbered 450 of 530 (3) £40 - £70

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each lot please refer to paragraphs 5 to 9 of the Buyer’s terms at the back of the catalogue.

249 Books including Blackie, W W and A C, 1947, Summer Quarters and Happy Jaunts, London: Blackie, signed and dedicated to Cecily Barker, with hand written letters from the Mackintosh designed Hill House, in which the Blackies lived; Sackville West, V. 1972, Sissinghust, with Cecil Beaton portrait photo; Blunden, E. 1931, To Themis, limited edition copy; Memoir of Sir Algernon Methuen; Evelyn Waugh and Rex Whistler, Wine in Peace and War; Williamson, R, 1970, Acid Child, London: Arcadia Press, limited edition, etc. £50 - £80

250 An Edwardian and later postcard collection, subjects include Louis Wain, WWI silk postcards, woven silk postcards of famous liners to include R.M.S. Lusitania, R.M.S. Grampian, early aviation, gypsy life etc, (parcel) £50 - £80

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255 Sutherland, Millicent and Walter Crane, 1904, Wayfarer’s Love; Contributions from Living Poets, Westminster: Archibald Constable, printed by the Duchess of Sutherland’s Cripples’ Guild, Hanley, signed by the editor and numbered 11 of 100, vellum bound, gilt embossed with a design by Walter Crane £50 - £80

256 Lord Byron, 1837, Byron’s Works, four volumes, including Dramas Vol II, Don Juan Vol II, Miscellanies Vol I and II, London: John Murray, half leather bound with marbled boards (4) £60 - £100

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260 Bec kett, Samuel, 1954, Waiting for Godot; A Tragicomedy in Two Acts, New York: Grove Press, 1st US edition, 61p., with dust jacket £80 - £120

261 Stanford, Edward, Collins’ Standard Map of London, late 19th Century, hand-coloured and folding, backed on linen, 80 by 86cm, framed £80 - £120

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251 Bar ker, Cicely Mary, Flower Fairies of the... books, first editions: Spring, Gaden, Autumn, Summer and the Wayside, London: Blackie and Sons, one with dust jacket (5) £50 - £80

252 Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, 1911, illustrated by Frank Brangwyn, A.R.A, published by T.N. Foulis London and Edinburgh, hardback with cream cloth binding £50 - £80

253 Bouhours, Dominique, 1682, Les Entretiens D’Artiste et D’Evegne, Amsterdam: Jacques Le Jeune, new edition after the 1671 version, 4442p. plus Table des Matieres and end papers, full leather bound £50 - £80

254 Masefield, John, 1936, Victorious Joy or the Hurrying Angel, London: William Heinemann, signed limited edition number 123 of 125, cloth bound, 309p.; together with Collected Poems of James Elroy Flecker, 1923, London: Martin Secker, number 409 of 500, cloth bound, 261p. (2) £50 - £80

257 Leather Bindings, Cross, J.W, George Eliot’s Life and Works, in twenty-four volumes, William Blackwood, London, half burgundy leather bindings, with gilt titled spines, marbled boards and endpapers, with four volumes of Lord Macaulay’s History of England, 1905 (29) £70 - £100

258 Fairfax, Thomas, 1760, Complete Sportsman or Country Gentleman’s Recreation Containing the Whole Arts, London: J Cooke, 240p. full leather bound £70 - £100 259

259 Wright, John, 1648, Form of Church Government to be Used in the Church of Englad and Ireland: Agreed Upon by the Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament After Advice Had with the Assembly of Divines, London: Kings Head, 46p. pamphlet form £80 - £120

262 Leather Bindings, The Pictorial Edition of the Works of Shakespeare, edited by Charles Knight, in seven volumes, full tan leather bindings with gilt tooled titled spines, textured boards, marbled inner boards and endpapers, with Austin’s Novels, 1879, in six volumes, half tan leather bindings with gilt tooled titled spines (13) £80 - £120

263 Leather Bindings, Edgeworth, Maria, Edgeworth’s Tales & Novels, ten volumes, 1857, Simpkin Marshall & Co, London, full dark green leather bindings with tooled gilt spines and boards (10) £80 - £120 264

264 Albertus Magnus, 1661, De Secretis Mulierum Item de Virtutibus Herbarum, Lapidum et Animalium, Amsterdam: Joh. Janssonius, 358p. plus index, full leather bound, 13cm x 8cm £80 - £120

265 Wodeha collection of first edition novels, including Herbert Jenkins editions: Mulliner Nights, 1933 first printing, Joy in the Morning, 1947 fist UK printing, A Gentleman of Leisure, later printing, Mulliner Omnibus, 1935 first printing; Newnes: My Man Jeeves, 1919; New York: Doubleday, If I Were You, 1931; together with five Herbert Jenkins later printings of Money For Nothing, Picadilly Jim, Heavy Weather, Quick Service, Luck of the Bodkins, all cloth bound, no dust jackets (11) £80 - £120

266 Autographs, an early 1950’s autograph album, signatures of stars of stage and screen briefly to include Claire Bloom, Billie Whitelaw, Elizabeth Valentine, Ann Todd etc £100 - £150

268 Dorothy Oswald Barker (sister of Cicely Mary Barker), hand written Nature Note Book, with watercolour illustrations, August 1909 £100 - £200

269 Leather Bindings, Cunningham, Peter, The Letters of Horace Walpole, 1857, in nine volumes, Richard Bentley, London, full calf leather bindings with gilt tooled titled spines, marbled inner boards and endpapers (9) £100 - £150

270 Leather Bindings, Vanity Fair, 1878, in twenty-four volumes, Smith, Elder & Co, London, half tan leather bindings with gilt tooled titled spines, marbled outer boards and endpapers (24) £100 - £150

271 A collection of 19th Century Valentine cards, predominantly paper lace designs incorporating colour motifs and mottoes of affection, some with moving parts and hidden inscriptions or declarations of love beneath flaps (12) £100 - £150

273 Dic kens, Charles, four bound volumes, including first bound editions, 1841 etc., Barnaby Rudge, London: Chapman and Hall, 1841, complete in one volume, cloth bound; Master Humphrey’s Clock, Volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, 1841, with illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne, half leather bound with marbled boards; American Notes, London: Chapman and Hall, 1850, quater leather bound; Old Curiosity Shop, London: Chapman and Hall, 1848, quater leather bound (4) £100 - £200

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267 Cicely Mary Barker, hand written Work List, 1946-1967, a diary detailing the publications, exhibitions and engagements of each year for the author and illustrator of the Flower Fairies books £100 - £200

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272 Capote, Truman, 1958, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, 1st edition, London: Hamish Hamilton, 159p, with dust jacket by Patricia Davey £100 - £200

274 Picker ing, William (Ed), 1825 Plays of Shakespeare in Nine Volumes, seven volumes, cloth bound miniature editions with paper spine labels (7) £150 - £250

275 An antique Islamic illuminated booklet, text in black ink, gilt and blue, bound in an embossed red leather binding £200 - £300

276 Orwell, George, 1949, Nineteen Eighty Four; a Novel, London: Secker and Warburg, 1st Edition, cloth bound, 312p. £200 - £300

277 Eliot, George (Mary Ann Evans), Felix Holt - The Radical, 1866 first edition, in three volumes, William Blackwood & Sons, London, brown cloth boards with gilt spine titles (3) £400 - £600

278 Wilde, Oscar, 1890, Picture of Dorian Gray, in: Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, No.271, pp.1-100. London: Ward, Lock and Co and Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, July 1890, 1st edition, Octavo (238 x 157mm), 4 pages of advertisements at beginning and 20 pages at end. Original cover printed in red and black £400 - £600

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each lot please refer to paragraphs 5 to 9 of the Buyer’s terms at the back of the catalogue.