Bearnes Hampton and Littlewood: Antiquarian Book Auction, BK31, Exeter

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
October 29, 2024 - October 29, 2024
Page Size: 404 items in 17 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
346 LAWRENCE, H. W. and B. L. Dighton.

French Line Engravings of the late XVIII Century

London 1910 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
347 BOWLES, T. et al.

LONDON, five hand coloured engravings. The South East Prospect of London; ...

GBP 50.00 - 70.00 GBP 113.40
348 MACNAB, Iain (1890-1967).

'Summer Bouquet', wood engraving, signed 'IAIN MACNAB'

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 226.80
349

MAPS & EPHEMERA. Four small boxes, mainly folding maps, mainly early to mid 20th century;

early to mid 20th century; GBP 70.00 - 100.00 GBP 478.80
350 MULLER, F. (engraver).

Schlacht bey Focksan [The Battle of Focsani]; SCHUTZ, C. (engraver). Schlacht bey Martinestie [The Battle of Martinestie], a pair of hand coloured engravings after I. Pietrich,

Vienna 1789 or later GBP 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
351 OGILBY, John.

A collection of four strip road maps: The Road from Salisbury to Campden; The Road from Glocester to Coventry; The Road from Oxford to Bristol; and The Road from Bristol to Banbury,

circa1675 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 75.60
352 RAPHAEL TUCK & SONS Ltd. (pub.).

Three trios of tipped in plates, 'In Fair Japan', 'The Light of Asia', 'Early Victorian', plates circa 13cm x 10cm, on captioned grey card (some creases) 21cm x 46.5cm. (3)

GBP 20.00 - 40.00 Not Sold
353 ROWLANDSON, Thomas.

New Feats of Horsemanship; The Hairy Prospect or The Devil in a Fright; two hand coloured erotic etchings, dated

1799 to plate (or later impression) GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 81.90
354

SATIRICAL PRINT. Change of Diet, A Ballad, being a Sequel to the Roast Beef of Old England, engraving,

1757 (or later impression) GBP 40.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
355 SCANDINAVIA. WELLS, Edward and James Moxon.

A New Map of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, & Moscovy, hand coloured engraved map [1700 or later], title cartouche surmounted by the arms of William, Duke of Glo(u)cester, scale cartouche, some foxing, f&g, 37cm x 51.5cm.

Published in Edward Wells' Atla

GBP 50.00 - 70.00 Not Sold
356 STARLING, Thomas (engr.).

A Map of the Principal Rivers, their courses, countries, and comparative lengths

London 1834 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
357 TANJE, Pieter (engr.) after Cornelis Troost,

De Hollandsche Kraam Kamer [Dutch maternity room], engraving,

1757 or later GBP 30.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
358

UNITED STATES. A group of four hand coloured engravings published by J. & F. Tallis

Cambridge, Mass. (c1842-1849) GBP 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
359 After VAN HOVE [Francine].

Three framed prints, nude studies, two circa 27cm x 35.5cm, one 31.5cm x 24cm. (3)

GBP 20.00 - 30.00 Not Sold
360 WARD, George Raphael after Sir Francis Grant

P.R.A. Henry, Third Earl of Harewood, coloured mezzotint, some spotting & creasing, f&g, 64cm x 71cm.

GBP 60.00 - 100.00 GBP 31.50
361 MORDEN, Robert.

The East Riding of Yorkshire, hand coloured engraved map with decorative cartouche,

1695 (or later), GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 18.90
361A

AUSTRALIA. Late 19th century photograph album, annotated to the 'Seales' family in Melbourne Australia, 109 portrait photographs and two landscape photographs, many of the pages with black ink illuminations and pencil annotations, gilt tooled black morocc

1868 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
362

BATAK MAGICAL BOOK, Sumatra, Indonesia,

late 19th or early 20th century, GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 189.00
363

BRITISH PASSPORT. Issued at the Consulat Britannique Au Havre de Grace, for Mr. G. D. Keogh, signed by the Consul, George William Featherstonhaugh,

1854 Cherokee GBP 10.00 - 20.00 GBP 25.20
364 BROWN, John (Scottish physician and essayist 1810-1882).

Minchmoor; Rab and his Friends; Jeems the Doorkeeper; ...

1864; 1886; 1882 GBP 20.00 - 30.00 GBP 31.50
365 CORNALLI, Joan(n)is Jacobi [Piacenza, 15th century].

Christidis libri, manuscript on paper,

circa late 1480s GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 23,940.00
366

DEVON. Papers of Captain John Charles Fanshaw Royle (1884-1973)

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 176.40
367 FROST, Sir Terry (1915-2003).

A prospectus for the portfolio 'Eleven Poems by Frederico Garcia Lorca Illustrated with Eleven Etchings by Terry Frost',

1989 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 88.20
368 HAWKER, Robert Stephen [pseudonym Reuben], (Cornish poet and Church of England clergyman 1803-75).

2pp hand-written letter thanking the recipient for letting he and his wife know of his prospects and assuring their best testimonials,

1846 GBP 20.00 - 30.00 GBP 37.80
369 KENNEDY FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHS. SHAW, Mark (American, 1922-1969).

The Kennedy Family at Hyannis Port, four gelatin silver prints, stamped with Mark Shaw's studio stamp

New York 1963 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
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