4th, 5th & 6th April 2017 Antiques & Interiors Sale

POSTCARDS - Great Britain; ecclesiastical, parish churches etc., exterior & interior views, approx. 500, (1920s/40s)

GREETINGS CARDS & POSTCARDS - mostly sentimental (incl. birthdays etc.), approx. 280, mostly 1920s/30s; sold with 2 signed postcards - Laurel & Ha...

POSTCARDS - a good miscellaneous collection, approx. 180; GB. & foreign, includes a few interesting military, also the Mayo Composite plane (float...

POSTCARDS - Sentimental & Humour; approx. 100.

DOCUMENTS - Mortgage for securing £20,000 & interest; the Earl of Shelburne & others, Trustees of the Estate late of . . . Lord Coleraine to Ff...

TITANIC SURVIVOR - a family collection of photographs & other miscellaneous material relating to Miss Mabel Elvina Martin, 2nd cashier in the Firs...

AUTOGRAPH ALBUMS - 5 leatherbound with coloured & other sketches, postcards & verse - both topographical & humour; (ca. 1910-1939) sold with 3 clo...

SCRAP & SKETCH ALBUMS - 2 quarto albums (of 240 pp. in all) full of period scraps, cuttings, greetings, water colour sketches etc. (mid - later 19...

PROPERTY DOCUMENTS - approx. 35, mostly West Sussex; mortgages, conveyances, abstracts etc., includes a few printed sale details, mostly mid 19th ...

SUSSEX PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION - Eastern Division, 1847, handbill for Viscount Cantilupe (Buckhurst Park, April 8th, 1847), heading & 35 lines, 45 ...

SEA BREEZES - 56 issues (1955-84); sold with a few other magazines.

ROYAL NAVY - HMS. Ark Royal; 2 photo. albums, principally her 1955/56 Mediterranean cruise with many pictures on 40pp., with aircraft, various gro...

WORLD WAR II - an archive of mainly letters (with a few photos. & documents) relating to the Turner family of Colchester during their war time se...

PHOTOGRAPHS - a miscellany home & abroad in 8 albums, 20th century; sold with a 19th century album of cabinet portrait photos.

ROYAL AIR FORCE - numerous pencil / pen & ink sketches by leading aircraftman F.E. Potts, from 1944-1950, in 2 albums; a third with photos. & oth...

AUTOGRAPH ALBUMS - 3 albums (1940s/60s); a variety, some with sketches.

SKETCHES in Scandinavia & Germany - by Anne Beresford Cosby; a folio album with approx. 45 pencil & coloured sketches (mounted, some with captions...

BRITISH EMPIRE - a fascinating collection of approx. 65 ms. letters, together with a few documents relating to the naval career of Charles Robert ...

THEATRE PROGRAMMES - approx. 35, mostly London theatres, 1940s/50s.

COMICS - The Beezer, 35 issues (1969-71); The Topper, (46 issues (1969-71); both with colour illus. throughout.

THE BEATLES - photo. portrait of the Four, half-length 'Fooling Around', 15ins. x 59ins.. * bromide print, signed by the photographer (Trevor Cl...

PICTURE POST - 90 issues between July 6, 1940 - 18 Feb, 1956, complete with illus. covers * the celebrated pioneer of British photo- journalism,...

HOME CHAT - 8 early issues (1909-1915), with some later issues (1950s), together with a quantity of others (1950s/60s) - 'Woman's Day & Home', 'We...

PHOTOGRAPHS - Royal Family; a leatherbound album of some 48 cabinet photos. mounted within gilt-rules & with some ms. captions; depicts Queen Vict...

PHOTOGRAPHS - 5 Family Albums, from the 1920s; various events including holidays (with some engaging beach scenes).

PROPERTY DOCUMENTS - 11 various - leases, conveyances etc., mostly on vellum. (18th & 19th cents.) * some concerning Devon & the Benn family.

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY - a Photograph Album of graduates & others; mounted photos. on some 30 leaves, many with identifying signatures, (mid 19th ce...

PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM - leatherbound, with approx. 70 carte de visite & other photos., (mid to later 19th cent.)

W.H. AUDEN - Half-Way; Limited Edition poetry broadside; pictorial lithographed illus. at head (by Laurence Scott), 23 lines. Cambridge (Mass.), ...

HERALDRY - Grant of Arms; to Herbert Ernest Allder (of Croydon); illuminated vellum armorial scroll (63 x 52cms.); signed at foot by Garter (Sir A...

ROYAL BALLET - a commemorative colour-designed silk programme (by Michael Szell) - 'A Tribute to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother' (he...

CHINA - Church Missionary Society; letters home (1901-08) from Maud Hitchcock, missionary at Foochow, Haitan Island (Pingtan) & elsewhere; approx....

AUTOGRAPH LETTERS - approx. 35, mounted on blank folio leaves, mostly 18th/19th cents., many captioned or named. * includes Ouida (part note, si...

GRILLIONS CLUB - a 2 volume history (1864), very little letterpress, but some 150 lithographed portraits; half leather & cloth, (vol. 2 distressed...

CORNISH MINING - Indenture (1784) between John Bettesworth, Wm. Flamank & Thomas Salter for working the Unaminity Mine at Brannel; on vellum, appr...

REVOLUTIONARY FRANCE - Generale Edouard Mortier, military commander in Paris; 2pp. report to the Minister of War, 1800. * 30 lines, signed with ...

CIRCUS - a small selection; Gerry Cottle's Circus - '3 Big Sheets' of coloured cut-outs; sold with other circus related prints & posters.

RAILWAY POSTER - Edinburgh (for the LNER & LMS companies; by Fred Taylor. 101 x 63cms., colour printed, (ca. 1935). * by one of the foremost pos...

RAILWAY POSTER - LMS. Company; North West England, by Freda Marston. 101 x 127cms., coloured printed - depicts a Lake District view from a sandy s...

RAILWAY POSTER - Southern Railway. ' Suspension and Altered Working of Passenger Trains during conditions of Fog, Ice or Snow . . . ' 101 x 64cm...

DUST WRAPPERS - a significant collection of both proof jackets & their original artwork; some 175 titles in total; mostly British publications of ...

JUVENILE - a goodly selection of older books.

OLD LEATHER - a Spring selection.

JUVENILE & ILLUSTRATED - modern books; including Blyton, Rupert, Potter, Giles Annuals, etc.

MODERN BOOKS - various subjects; including some of Cranleigh & Sussex interest; sold with some reproduction maps & prints.

WALPOLE SOCIETY - vols. XLII - LXXII (1968-2010) & vol. LXXV (2013), i.e. 32 vols. (in 33). num. plates & other illus.; mostly leather-backed clot...

WALPOLE SOCIETY - the Vertue Notebook volumes; cloth-backed paper boards, roy. 4to. reprinted Wm. Dawson, 1968. * with some detailed preliminary...

MANNING (Rev. O) & BRAY (Wm.) The History and Antiquities of the County of Surrey . . . First Edition, 3 vols. num. engraved plates, facsimiles...

PROSSER (G.F.) Select Illustrations of the County of Surrey: comprising picturesque views of the seats of the nobility and gentry . . . large p...

WARE (I.) A Complete Body of Architecture . . . in which are interspersed some Designs of Inigo Jones, never before published. First Edition. ...

WALPOLE (H.) The Works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford. 5 vols. engraved plates, title vignettes, half titles; old gilt-decorated straight-gr...

VASARI (G.) Vite de Piu' Excellenti Pittori Scultori ed Architetti . . . 7 vols. num. engraved plates (some folded); old vellum with panelled s...

PAIN (Wm.) The Practical Builder, or Workman's General Assistant . . . Rules of Carpentry . . . with Plans and Elevations of Gentlemans and F...

BRAYLEY (E.W.) A Topographical History of Surrey . . . the Geological Section, by Gideon Mantell . . . First Edition, 5 vols. coloured pictor...

CHAMBERS (Sir Wm.) A Treatise on the Decorative Part of Civil Architecture . . . (and) Grecian Architecture, by Joseph Gwilt. 2 vols. num. engr...

LEWIS (James) Original Designs in Architecture: consisting of plans, elevations and sections, for villas, mansions, town-houses, &c. and a new de...

SHERATON (T.) The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing Book . . . facsimile reprint edition. num. plates (some folded); lettered boards, thi...

SEDGWICK (R.) The House of Commons, 1715-1754. First Edition, 2 vols. 2 photo plates & a plan; gilt cloth, d/wrappers, roy. 8vo. 1970. * 'The ...

ART, ARCHITECTURE, DECORATION - an interesting selection of related books; includes Ingamells's Dictionary of British and Irish Travellers in Ital...

SELIGMAN (G.S.) & HUGHES (T.) Domestic Needlework: its origins and customs throughout the centuries. Limited Edition. 31 coloured & 100 b/w. pla...