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ANTIQUARIAN & SECONDHAND BOOKS, MSS., PHOTO’s
6:00 AM PT - Jul 5th, 2005

offered by
John Nicholson Auctioneers

Longfield, Midhurst Road
Haslemere, Surrey, GU27 3HA
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476 Items

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1C

[TRAVEL & TOPOG.]. Wilkinson's England & Wales, folding hand-col'd map, linen-backed slipcase, L., Darton, 1831; CR...

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7 Bids
2C Lot 2C

SETON (W.). William Howard Lister, D.S.O., M.C., 8vo, two tone cloth, illus., LIMITED EDN. 98 of 505 copies, Privat...

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3 Bids
3C

REES (T.). Todd's Johnson's Dictionary, 12mo, portrait frontis., calf (covers off), L., 1826.

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2 Bids
4C

[COOKERY]. A New System of Domestic Cookery … by a Lady. Sixty Seventh Edition, 8vo, frontis., 9 plates, original ...

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6 Bids
5C

[CHILDREN'S & ILLUSTRATED]. BARKER (Cicely), Flower Fairies of Summer/Autumn, 2 vols., plates, dec. boards, d.w.'s,...

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60
7 Bids
6C

– a quantity of Art Nouveau leather-bound or cloth vols., small formats, etc.

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6 Bids
7C Lot 7C

DICKENS (Charles), Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, 8vo, frontis. & 39 plates (1 or 2 repaired; foxing) bo...

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7 Bids
8C

KIPLING (Rudyard), Verse. Inclusive Edition 1885-1932, 8vo, India paper, leatherette gilt, 4th impr., L., 1937; and...

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40
1 Bid
9C

MAUND (B.), The Botanic Garden, vol. 1 (only), 4to, additional engr., title-page, 24 hand-col'd plates, original boa...

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8 Bids
10C

LOUDON (Mrs), British Wild Flowers, 4to, 60 numbered hand-col'd plates, original cloth gilt, L., 1846.

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11C Lot 11C

[SUSSEX]. HORSFIELD (T. W.), History, Antiquities and Topography of the County of Sussex, 2 vols., 4to, 2 frontisp...

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12C Lot 12C

[HASLEMERE]. HUTCHINSON (U.), A Discursive History of the Haslemere Pantomimes 1898-1927, 8vo, illus., cloth board...

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1 Bid
13C Lot 13C

VINCENT (B.), Haydn's Dictionary of Dates, 8vo, half calf, L., 1881; and 5 other vols. (6).

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4 Bids
14C

[CINEMA]. TALBOT (F. A.), Moving Pictures How They are Made and Worked, 8vo, illus., cloth, L., 1912.

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1 Bid
15C Lot 15C

[CHESS]. STAUNTON (H.) & WORMALD (R.), The Laws and Practice of Chess, 8vo, cloth, new edn., L., 1885.

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1 Bid
16C Lot 16C

GEIKIE (Sir A.), Text-Book of Geology, 2 vols., 8vo, illus., prize calf gilt, 4th edn., L., 1903 (2).

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70
7 Bids
17C

[BOOK BOX] a continental Liber Amicorum, loose leaves within a fine red calf gilt obl. 8vo, book box, ca. 1865. [se...

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100
4 Bids
18C

[POSTAL HISTORY] a WILLIAM MULREADY pictorial printed envelope for the Penny Post folded and franked 'Leominster Ap...

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7 Bids
19C

– miscellaneous 19th century TRAVEL Literature (1 box).

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20C

[POSTCARDS] q. of TOPOGRAPHICAL postcards, U.K., Edwardian etc.; a small album with original photographs of TRAINS,...

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21C

[ISLINGTON]. An Act to Authorise the granting of Building Leases of the Settled Estate of Dame Jane St. John MILD...

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15 Bids
22C

[MUSIC]. BROWN (D.), Tchaikovsky, 4 vols., 8vo, cloth, d.w.'s, 1st edns., L., 1978, 1982, 1986, 1991; DEL MAR (N.)...

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7 Bids
23C

– a similar lot.

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8 Bids
24C

[RAILWAYS] a quantity of hardback Railway History books in fine condition (1 box).

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9 Bids
25C

RAILWAY MAGAZINE, 1930's & 1940's a quantity, in original wrappers.

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7 Bids
26C

[RAILWAYS]. AGNEW (A:), Electric Trains, 2 vols., 4to, plates, L., 1937; DOW (G.), Great Central, 3 vols., 8vo, cl...

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6 Bids
27C

MARX (Groucho), Groucho and Me, 8vo, illus., clo., d.w., 1st U.K. edn., L., 1959; MARX (Harpo), Harpo Speaks, 8vo, ...

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4 Bids
28C

R.C.H.M.E. …. City of Oxford, 4to, illus., maps in wallet, cloth, d.w., 3rd edn., 1966 (fine copy) and other vols.,...

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4 Bids
29C Lot 29C

JAMES (Henry), The Bodley Head Henry James,11 vols., 8vo, clo., d.w., L., 1967-1974; and 3 other related vols. (14)...

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14 Bids
30C Lot 30C

PROUST (Marcel), Remembrance of Things Past, 12 vols., sm. 8vo, illus., clo., d.w., 1st Jullian edition, L., 1957 a...

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10 Bids
31C

– miscellaneous modern hard-back literature in d.w.'s, various authors, incl. Jane Austen, Stendhal, Thomas Hardy, ...

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9 Bids
32C

LIGHT (A.), Bunhill Fields, 8vo, illus., cloth, 1st edn., L., 1913; Concise O.E.D., 8vo, prize calf, Oxford, 1912; ...

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2 Bids
33C

GARDINER (Sir A.), Egypt of the Pharaohs, 8vo, illus., clo., d.w., Oxford, 1961; HOLROYD (M.), Augustus John, 2 vol...

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5 Bids
34C

– misc. lit., biography, etc. in excellent condition (1 box).

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6 Bids
35C

American history and topography, modern hard-back lit., various formats (1 box).

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3 Bids
36C Lot 36C

CHRISTIE (Robert), The Trembling Land, 8vo, cloth, d.w., (price-clipped), 1st edn., N. York, 1959.

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37C

[RUSSIAN LIT.]. TURGENEV (Ivan), On the Eve, 8vo, clo., d.w., Cresset Press, 1950; and other h.b. Russian lit. (sm...

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3 Bids
38C

SAGAN (Francoise), A Certain Smile, 8vo, clo., d.w., 1st edn., L., 1956; MURDOCH (Iris), Fairly Honourable Defeat, ...

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3 Bids
39C Lot 39C

POPE (Alexander), The Twickenham Edition of the Poems, 7 vols. in 6, 8vo, cloth, d.w.'s, mixed edn., L., 1950's & 6...

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10 Bids
40C

MITFORD (Nancy), Voltaire in Love, 8vo, clo., d.w., 1st edn., L., 1957; and others by Women Writers, (2 boxes).

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41C Lot 41C

MACKENZIE (Compton), Thin Ice, 8vo, cloth, 1st edn., L., 1956; The Stolen Soprano, d.w., (price-clipped), 1st edn.,...

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42C Lot 42C

MACKENZIE (Compton), My Life and Times Octave One (- Octave Ten), 10 vols., 8vo, cloth, d.w.'s, all 1st edns. in e...

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43C Lot 43C

GREENE (Graham), May We Borrow Your Husband? 8vo, cloth, d.w., 1st edn., L., 1967; The Comedians, d.w., 1st, 1966;...

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44C Lot 44C

WODEHOUSE (P. G.), Jeeves in the Offing, 8vo, cloth, d.w., (price-clipped), 1st edn., L., 1960; and a quantity of e...

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45C Lot 45C

WODEHOUSE (P. G.), Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit, 8vo, cloth, d.w., 1st edn., L., 1954.

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46C Lot 46C

WODEHOUSE (P. G.), The Mating Season, 8vo, clo., d.w., 1st edn., L., [1949].

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47C Lot 47C

FRANCIS (Dick), Rat Race, 8vo, cloth, owner name, d.w., 1st edn., L., 1970.

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1 Bid
48C

GREEN (Graham), The Comedians, 8vo, cloth, d.w., 1st edn., L., 1966; and 20 other vols., mostly 1st edns. in d.w.'s...

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49C Lot 49C

[CRIME / SPYING]. ROWAN (R. W.), The Pinkertons. A Detective Dynasty, 8vo, cloth (pale foxing), 1st edn., L., 19...

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50C Lot 50C

[CRIME / POLICE]. GRIFFITHS (Major A.), Mysteries of Police and Crime, 3 vols., lge. 8vo, text illus., cloth, news...

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