Chiswick Auctions: Books and Works on Paper, 112724, London

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Auction Date
November 27, 2024 - November 27, 2024
Page Size: 273 items in 11 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
26 Falconer (William)

An Universal Dictionary of the Marine: or, a Copious Explanation of the Technical Terms and Phrases Employed in the Construction, Equipment, Furniture...and Military Operations of a Ship,

1769 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 428.00
27

General Shop-Book (The): or, the Tradesman's Universal Director,

1753 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 126.00
28

Saddle for 5 brld. R. C. Gun.',

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
29 Gostling (William)

A Walk in and about the City of Canterbury,

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 88.00
30

A collection of 40 volumes, including:

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
31

The Savoy Hotel Limited Expenditure Book,

1906 - 09 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 227.00
32

'Wolfenden report', Report of the Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution, original blue printed wrappers, some browning, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1957.

GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 176.00
33 Johnston (Alexander Keith)

The Royal Atlas of Modern Geography,

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 403.00
34 Kruse (Chr. et Fr.)

Atlas historique universel,

GBP 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
35 Greenwood (C. & J.)

Atlas of the Counties of England, from Actual Surveys made from the Years 1817 to 1833,

1834 GBP 700.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
36

RAF Silk Escape and Evasion Maps,

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 189.00
37 Kitchener (Horatio) & Conder (Claude R.)

Map of Western Palestine from surveys conducted for The Committee Of Palestine Exploration Fund [...]

1882 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
38 Homann (Johann Baptist)

Asiae Recentissima Delineatio...,

GBP 250.00 - 350.00 GBP 328.00
39 de Brocktorff (Charles Frederick) [Brockdorff] attributed to,

Malta, a pair of character studies

GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 5,040.00
40 de Moleville (Bertrand)

The Costume of the Hereditary States of the House of Austria, 50 hand-coloured aquatint plates,

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
41

Manuscript Travelogue - Unknown hand.

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
42 Todleben (Eduard Ivanovich, Lieut.-General.)

Defense de Sebastopol:

1863 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
43

Manuscript album titled Architecture Egyptienne, in French, featuring handwritten accounts of Egyptian history and architecture,

GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,197.00
44 Edmonds (Mary) amateur artist,

An album of 31 drawing, mostly pencil, some ink, the majority costume studies after illustrations in contemporary travel accounts, and other studies, e

1810s-20s. GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 25.00
45 Fukai (Shinji), Sugiyama (Jiro), Kimata (Keizo) and Tanabe (Katsumi)

Taq-I Bustan III: Photogrammetric elevations, Report 19,

1983 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
46

A large collection of 156 Indian Miniatures painted in gouache on mica

[c.1850-60] GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 11,340.00
47 Carpenter (Percy) after,

Hog Hunting in Lower Bengal,

1861 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,638.00
48

A large collection of vintage Japanese postcards featuring views of temples, landscapes, parks, monuments, photographs of famous actors and officers, tea ceremonies,...

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 605.00
49 Ogilby (John)

Asia, The First Part [all published] being an Accurate Description of Persia and the Several Provinces therof. The Vast Empire of the Great Mogul and other parts of India and their Several Kingdoms and Regions...,

1673 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 1,512.00
50 Bligh (William)

The Log of H.M.S. Providence 1791-1793,

1791-1793. 1976 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
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    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Ellis Smith Prints unsigned. 20” by 16”.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: United typothetae of America presidents. Pictures of 37 UTA presidents 46th annual convention United typothetae of America Cincinnati 1932.
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    The Poems and Sonnets of William Shakespeare, 1960. 7,210 USD
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    A Christmas Carol, First Edition, 1843. 17,500 USD
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