Auction details
August Collective Sale
3:00 AM PT - Aug 22nd, 2008
offered by
Halls Fine Art
Shropshire, SY3 8LA

Auction Description
Auction Terms & Conditions
Buyer's Premium
22.5% up to 1000000
22.5% above 1000001
Bid Increments
| From | Increment |
| 0 | 5 |
| 100 | 10 |
| 200 | 20 |
| 500 | 50 |
| 1000 | 100 |
Auction House Preview
We will be open or public viewing on Thursday 21st August 2008 from 9.30am - 7.00pm and on the morning of the sale. Sale starts at 11.00am
620 Items
| Lot | Description | Estimates (GBP) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 151D |
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Bartolomeo, Pinelli, 'Don Chisciotte Della Mancia', the album of sixty four etchings and frontispiece, each approx... |
100 - 150 |
14 Bids
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| 152D |
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Moss, Fletcher, 'Pilgrimages to Old Homes mostly on the Welsh border', published by the author, Didsbury April 19... |
30 - 50 |
2 Bids
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| 153D |
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Willis, N P 'American Scenery' published by George Virtue, London, 1840, marbled boards, 4to also Seymour's Humoro... |
50 - 70 |
2 Bids
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| 154D |
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Cooke, John Henry, 'Ida', or 'The mystery of the nun's grave at Vale Royal in Cheshire', published by Mackie and ... |
40 - 60 |
4 Bids
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| 155D |
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A mid 18th century book of Common Prayer, later binding containing perpetual calenders table of feast days, 8vo |
20 - 30 |
1 Bid
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| 156D |
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Grogan, E S and Sharp, A H, 'From the Cape to Cairo', published by Hurst and Blackett Limited, London 1900, illust... |
70 - 100 |
4 Bids
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| 157D |
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'The Lonsdale Library', volume XX1V, 'River Management', published circa 1935, brown cloth boards, 4to, also Scott... |
70 - 100 |
6 Bids
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| 158D |
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Dixon, Charles, 'Game birds of the British islands', published by Chapman and Hall Ltd, London 1893, gilt tooled b... |
60 - 80 |
2 Bids
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| 159D |
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Heywood, Thomas, 'The Life of Merlin sirnamed Ambrosius', published by J Oakes, London 1641, original boards, lack... |
70 - 100 |
21 Bids
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| 160D |
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A photograph album dated 1900 containing views of the Royal Yatch, Stockholm, Drottingen, Kiel Canal, Copenhagen a... |
30 - 40 |
10 Bids
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| 161D |
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Kelly's directory of Hereford and Shropshire, 1937, red boards, also 'The Post Office Directory of Shropshire', 18... |
30 - 40 |
13 Bids
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| 162D |
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Lord Clarendon, 'The Lord Clarendon's history of the grand rebellion completed', published by John Nicholson, Lon... |
60 - 80 |
2 Bids
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| 163D |
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A Victorian photograph album depicting pupils and staff of Bedford high school 1894, topographical views of Saint ... |
120 - 180 |
3 Bids
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| 164D |
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Gibson, Alfred and Pickford, William, 'Association football and the men who made it', published by the Caxton Publ... |
20 - 30 |
21 Bids
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| 165D |
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A 1950s leather bound autograph album, containing numerous signed photographs and letters of actors including Rich... |
70 - 100 |
1 Bid
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| 166D |
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A hand written account dating from May 4th 1917 to October 21st 1917, describing the life, work and events of a Nu... |
30 - 50 |
31 Bids
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| 167D |
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An early 19th century Pata scroll, the gouache text and illustrations on two joined pieces of velum, length 141cm |
50 - 80 |
6 Bids
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| 168D |
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Owen, The Rev E P, 'Etchings of old Shrewsbury', published Bunny & Davies, Shrewsbury, the set of 53 etchings wit... |
40 - 60 |
12 Bids
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| 169D |
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Golding, William, 'Pincher Martin', published by Faber and Faber, London 1956, the 1st edition, red cloth boards,... |
40 - 70 |
3 Bids
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| 170D |
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Glasse, H, 'The art of cookery made plain and easy', published by Alexander Donaldson, Edinburgh, 1774, original l... |
80 - 120 |
4 Bids
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| 171D |
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Scott, Clement 'The Theatre - a monthy review of the drama, music and the fine arts', Vol IV July to December 188... |
20 - 30 |
1 Bid
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| 172D |
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Lockhart, J G (editor), 'The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott', complete in 1 volume, published by Adam and Char... |
30 - 50 |
8 Bids
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| 173D |
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Captain C M Dixon, 'The Leaguer of Ladysmith', published by Eyre and Spottiswoode, London 1900, illustrated boards... |
50 - 70 |
11 Bids
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| 174D |
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Wood, Rev. J G, 'Homes without Hands', published by Longmans, Green and Co., London 1866, decorative gilt tooled ... |
30 - 50 |
1 Bid
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| 175D |
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Mate's County Series, 'Shropshire', coverage by W Mate and Sons Ltd 1906, gilt tooled red leather boards, numbered... |
50 - 70 |
8 Bids
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| 176D |
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Lanford, John Alfred, 'Staffordshire and Warwickshire past and present', published by William Mackenzie, London, c... |
80 - 120 |
2 Bids
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| 177D |
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A collection of autographs, signed photographs and letters to three albums, the majority actresses, politicians an... |
200 - 300 |
4 Bids
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| 178D |
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Maund B, 'Maund's Botanic Garden', the monthly magazines compiled to seven leather bound volumes by Mr and Mrs Nic... |
150 - 250 |
4 Bids
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| 179D |
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Leland, Charles Godfrey, 'Gypsy sorcery and fortune telling', published by T Fisher Unwin, London 1891, 1st editio... |
80 - 120 |
8 Bids
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| 180D |
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James, Grace, 'Green Willow and other Japanese fairy tales', published by Macmillan and Co., Ltd, London 1910, dec... |
50 - 70 |
11 Bids
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| 181D |
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A leather bound autograph album containing signatures of Errol Flynn, George Fornby, Vera Lynn and others |
50 - 70 |
13 Bids
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| 182D |
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Baxter, William G, 'Fifty Sloper cartoons', published by Gilbert Dalziel, London circa 1888, cloth boards, 4to |
40 - 60 |
3 Bids
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| 183D |
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Knight, Charles (editor), 'Virtue's Imperial Shakspere (sic)', published by J S Virtue and Co. Ltd, thiry five iss... |
50 - 70 |
3 Bids
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| 184D |
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Salmon, William, 'Compendium of the theory and practice of physick', 3rd edition, published by J Dawks, London 169... |
100 - 150 |
12 Bids
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| 185D |
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Psalmanaazaar, George, 'An historical and geographical description of Formosa', published by Daniel Brown and othe... |
300 - 500 |
5 Bids
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| 186D |
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Conrad, Joseph, 'The Arrow of Gold', published by J M Dent and Sons Ltd, London 1924, red boards, 4to, also fiftee... |
40 - 60 |
1 Bid
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| 187D |
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Blyton, Enid, 'Tales of ancient Greece', published by George Newnes Ltd, London 1930, red cloth covers, 8vo, also ... |
40 - 60 |
2 Bids
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| 188D |
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Davis, Charles H S, 'The Egyptian book of the Dead', published by G P Puten's Sons, London 1894, illustrated green... |
60 - 80 |
1 Bid
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| 189D |
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Maxwell, Sir Herbert, 'Scottish gardens', published by Edward Arnold London 1908, decorative red cloth boards, 4to... |
20 - 30 |
2 Bids
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| 190D |
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'The Wipers Times', a facsimile reprint of the Trench magazines, published by Herbert Jenkins Ltd, London 1918, il... |
40 - 60 |
2 Bids
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| 191D |
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'The Shropshire Domesday', a fascimile reproduction to three volumes published by Alecto Historical Edition, Londo... |
150 - 250 |
2 Bids
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| 192D |
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Brown, A H, Urban, E K and Newman, K, 'The birds of Africa', published by the Academic Press Inc., London 1982, b... |
150 - 250 |
2 Bids
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| 193D |
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Mackworth-Praed, C W and Grant, Captain C H B, 'Birds of Eastern and North Eastern Africa', published Longmans, Lo... |
20 - 30 |
2 Bids
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| 194D |
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Diodati, John, 'Pious and Learned Annotations upon the Holy Bible', 2nd edition, published by Miles Flesher for Ni... |
100 - 150 |
6 Bids
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| 195D |
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Hackenbroch, Yvonne, 'Meissen and other continental porcelain, faience and enamel in the Irwin Untermyer collectio... |
30 - 50 |
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| 196D |
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Motley, John Lothrop, 'The rise of the Dutch Republic', published by Slark, Gibbings, London 1889, new edition, 3 ... |
40 - 60 |
4 Bids
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| 197D |
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T G Lomax (Lichfield, publishers), 'A short account of the ancient and modern state of the city and close of Lichf... |
50 - 70 |
2 Bids
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| 198D |
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Bateman, H M, 'Adventures at Golf', published by Methuen and Co. Ltd, London 1923, 4to, also five other volumes o... |
120 - 180 |
4 Bids
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| 199D |
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Heath Robinson, William, 'Railway Ribaldry', published by the Great Western Railway, London 1935, 4to, also eleven... |
100 - 150 |
7 Bids
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| 200D |
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Nash, Treadway Russell, 'Collections for the History of Worcestshire', published by John White, London 1799, 2nd e... |
500 - 700 |
11 Bids
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