Antiques & Collectors' Items (Liverpool)(#215) 06/01/2022 10:00 AM GMT CLOSED Auction Information Liverpool Advanced Search ▼ Items per page 122448 Advanced Search Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#Lot NameNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBidsViews Filter By Categories Decorative Arts Ephemera Jewellery: Costume Jewellery Clocks: Carriage Clocks Doulton Paintings Toys & Games: Trains Collectors' Items Asian Art: Oriental & Eastern Works of Art Books Jewellery Lighting Beswick Prints, Etchings, Engravings & Maps Toys & Games: Toys Clocks: Longcase Clocks Glass Sporting Coins Mirrors Ceramic Figures Metalware Militaria: Medals, Badges & Buttons Watches: Wristwatches Clocks: Wall Clocks Worcester and Royal Worcester Musical Instruments & Mechanical Music Silver Carpets & Rugs Ceramics Bronze and Other Sculptures Militaria Watches: Pocket Watches Clocks: Mantel clocks Moorcroft Textiles & Clothing Plated Items Furniture Taxidermy Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Auctioneer All auctioneersLiverpooltest Lot Number Results: Viewing items 1-39 of 39. View Lot 519 FOLIO SOCIETY; various box sets to include two Sherlock Holmes box sets, five and four volumes, the Mapp and Lucia novels by EF Benson in six volumes, 'Pax Britannica' by James Morris in three volumes, Gibbons 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' in eight separate volumes, 'Three Men in a Boat', 'The Twelve Caesars', Charles Dickens 'A Tale of Two Cities', 'Oliver Twist', 'David Copperfield', 'The Pickwick Papers' and 'Great Expectations', 'Experiences of an Irish R.N.' by Summerville and Ross View details Estimate£80 - £120Winning Bid£230StatusCLOSED Lot 520 FOLIO SOCIETY; William Morris's Masterpiece 'The Kelmscott Chaucer', in original slip with ornate gilt-tooled red cloth boards, 42.5 x 30 x 8cm, with letter from the Folio Society and an advertising slip for the book. View details Estimate£100 - £150Winning Bid£110StatusCLOSEDBidding historyBidding history Condition ReportThe book is in very good condition, with minor scuffs visible to the outer slip, otherwise good. Lot 521 BICKERTON (T), A MEDICAL HISTORY OF LIVERPOOL FROM THE EARLIEST DAYS TO THE YEAR 1920, portrait frontis and two folding maps, green cloth, 1936; THE FIRST PAGE OF UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LIVERPOOL, or a story of it's foundation, later 1/4 leather with cloth boards, 1892 (2). View details Estimate£20 - £30Winning Bid£50StatusCLOSEDBidding historyBidding history Lot 522 GURNEY (MR), PROCEEDINGS IN AN ACTION IN LAW, brought by the Mayor, Bailiffs and Burgesses of the borough of Liverpool, later 3/4 leather with cloth boards, Liverpool, 1796 (1). View details Estimate£30 - £40Winning Bid£60StatusCLOSEDBidding historyBidding history Lot 523 GORE'S LIVERPOOL DIRECTORY, or an alphabetical list of the merchants, tradesmen & principal inhabitants of the town of Liverpool, engraved vignette to the title, Liverpool, 1805; GORE'S LIVERPOOL DIRECTORY WITH ITS ENVIRONS, full tan calf with embossed detailing, Liverpool, 1823 (2). View details Estimate£50 - £70Winning Bid£120StatusCLOSEDBidding historyBidding history Lot 524 SYERS (R), THE HISTORY OF EVERTON, including familiar dissertations of the people, with a map of Everton, 3/4 leather with marbled boards, Liverpool, 1830 (front board detached); THE STRANGER IN LIVERPOOL, 8th edition, with 'trade and commerce' table and fifty two engraved plates at the back, re-backed original boards, Liverpool, 1825; LACEY (L), edit, THE HISTORY OF LIVERPOOL FROM 1207-1907, red cloth with gilt decoration for The Conservative Club Liverpool (3). View details Estimate£30 - £50Winning Bid£100StatusCLOSEDBidding historyBidding history Lot 525 A GENERAL AND DESCRIPTIVE HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT AND PRESENT STATE OF THE TOWN OF LIVERPOOL ., together with a circumstantial account of the true causes of it's extensive African trade, later 3/4 leather with marbled boards, Liverpool, J. McCreery, c1792; MOSS (W), THE LIVERPOOL GUIDE, including a sketch of the environs, with folding frontis map, engraved vignette to title, later 3/4 leather, Liverpool, 1801; THE PICTURE OF LIVERPOOL OT STRANGERS GUIDE, engraved folding map and device to title, View details Estimate£80 - £120Winning Bid£260StatusCLOSEDBidding historyBidding history Condition ReportAll heavily foxed All rebound Larger volume has water stains A picture of Liverpool fold out map is heavily foxed and with minor tears to edges Liverpool guide map is water stained, foxed and with fold marks Lot 526 THE LIVERPOOL DIRECTORY FOR THE YEAR 1766; containing an alphabetical list of the merchants, tradesmen and principal inhabitants, 28pp, with engraved plate and folding map, 3/4 leather with marbled boards and mounted gilt lettered title (1). View details Estimate£100 - £150Winning Bid£150StatusCLOSEDBidding historyBidding history Lot 527 HERDMAN (W); PICTORIAL RELICS OF ANCIENT LIVERPOOL, subscribers copy, with chrome-lithographic plates, re-backed 3/4 leather with cloth boards, two ex-libris plates to the back of the front boards, 1856 (1). View details Estimate£100 - £150Winning Bid£230StatusCLOSED Lot 528 HERDMAN (W); PICTORIAL RELICS OF ANCIENT LIVERPOOL, with 48 chrome-lithographic plates, 3/4 red leather with cloth boards, London Henry Graves and Liverpool William Holden, 1843 (1). View details Estimate£100 - £150Winning Bid£90StatusCLOSED Lot 529 HERDMAN (W); PICTORIAL RELICS OF ANCIENT LIVERPOOL, two volumes, with seventy two chromo-lithographic plates, 3/4 red leather with cloth boards, Brown Barnes & Bell, Liverpool, 1878 (2). View details Estimate£200 - £300Winning Bid£180StatusCLOSED Lot 530 HERDMAN (W): VIEWS OF MODERN LIVERPOOL, with an introduction by J. Picton, complete with cromo-lithographic plates, 3/4 leather with cloth boards, Liverpool, 1864. View details Estimate£200 - £300Winning Bid£320StatusCLOSED Lot 531 Various books to include two copies of 'The Tale of Beatrix Potter: a Biography', 'Murder in Lancashire', James Herriott 'The Lord God Made Them All,', Hannah Hauxwell 'The Vet', 'The Dambusters', 'The Countryman Book', 'The Daily Mail Poultry Book' and a large Browns brass-bound Bible with clasps (13). View details Estimate£20 - £40Winning Bid£25StatusCLOSED Lot 532 BEATRIX POTTER; various books to include 'The Tale of Mr Jeremy Fisher', 'The Tale of Samuel Whiskers', 'The Tale of The Flopsy Bunnies', 'The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes', 'The Tale of Two Bad Mice', 'The Tale of Mrs Tiggy-Winkle', The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin', 'The Tale of Ginger and Pickles', 'The Tailor of Gloucester' and 'The Story of Miss Moppet' (10). View details Estimate£20 - £40Winning Bid£45StatusCLOSEDBidding historyBidding history Lot 533 FRANCIS CLATER; London 1814 'Every Man His Own Cattle Doctor, or A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Horned Cattle', fourth edition, printed by E & H Hodson, Cross-Street Hatton Garden London. View details Estimate£20 - £40Winning Bid£30StatusCLOSED Lot 534 A signed first day cover commemorating the 65th Anniversary of the Dams raid with signatures for Richard Todd and Les Smith DFC and a quantity of mainly WWII related books, DVDs, CDs and periodicals. View details Estimate£30 - £50Winning Bid£20StatusCLOSED Lot 535 A quantity of Victorian periodicals to include 'The Strand Magazine', 'Argosy', 'Cassell's Illustrated History of England', 'The English Illustrated Magazine', etc, 'The Strand Magazine' Vol I Jan - June 1891, 'The Argosy', ten volumes Jan 1889 - Dec 1893, 'The English Illustrated Magazine' seven vols Oct 1883 - 1890 and 'Cassell's Illustrated History of England New and Revised Edition', vols 1 - 9 complete, circa 1874, plus approximately twenty-three more in mixed condition (50). View details Estimate£40 - £60Winning Bid£45StatusCLOSED Condition ReportSome slightly loose bindings, with general rubbing. Some loose pages and one spine strip and one front board missing. Lot 536 Two 1930s True Crime titles in Youngman Carter & Esme Roberts designed dust jackets, comprising Roland Wild; 'The Jury Retires' and Albert Lieck; 'Bow Street World London: Robert Hale and Company', 1937 & 1938, first editions. Bow Street World is the Publisher's file copy. Both jackets designed by notable artists of the period, the prolific Youngman Carter, and Esme Roberts, who also designed several posters for London Transport. View details Estimate£40 - £60Winning Bid£30StatusCLOSED Condition ReportBoth are slightly foxed and musty, the jackets with loss and closed tears repaired to the reverses with small pieces of archival tape. Lot 537 Six books inscribed by Marie Carmichael Stopes to her son, comprising three vols (complete) of Thomson's 'The New Natural History', each volume inscribed to the front endpaper: 'To Harry Verdon Stopes Roe with love & best wishes from Mummy, New Year 1938.', Hoskins' 'The Making of the English Landscape', inscribed to the front endpaper: 'To Harry Stopes-Roe With love from Mother, Xmas 1956.', Quiller-Couch's 'The Cambridge Lectures', inscribed by Stopes to the title page: 'To Harry With love fro View details Estimate£80 - £120StatusUnsold Lot 538 Two books owned and signed by Sir Barnes Neville Wallis, of WWII 'Dam Busters' raid fame, Renalt Capes; 'Poseidon A Personal Study of Admiral Lord Nelson', 1947 first edition signed 'B. N. Wallis' to the front endpaper, and Ernest Raymond; 'In the Steps of the Brontes', signed 'B. N. Wallis'' to the front endpaper'. Provenance: The books are from the estate of Harry Verdon Stopes-Roe and his wife, Mary Stopes-Roe (formerly Wallis, Mary being the daughter of Barnes Wallis). View details Estimate£60 - £80Winning Bid£170StatusCLOSED Condition ReportThere are pencil notes to the rear of the book relating to a baby's weight and feeding times, possibly in the hand of Barnes Wallis' son in-law, Harry Verdon Stopes-Roe. A portion of the dust jacket has been pasted across the front endpaper and pastedown below Wallis' name. Lot 539 PEPYS, SAMUEL, LORD RICHARD BRAYBROOKE; 'Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S.', London: George Allen & Company, Ltd., 1911. 'A verbatum reprint of the edition of 1848-49', though seemingly the first edition from this publisher, with reprints following in 1914 and several times in the 1920s, complete in four volumes. View details Estimate£40 - £60Winning Bid£20StatusCLOSED Lot 540 Murray, Iain R. Dam Busters 1943 onwards and Vickers Wellington 1936 to 1953 Haynes Owners Manuals. Haynes, 2011 & 2012. First editions. Both books inscribed, the first: 'To Mary, With very best wishes. Iain R. Murray' and the second: 'To Mary, With very best wishes, Iain R. Murray Dec 2012'. The recipient of both was Mary Stopes-Roe, daughter of aeronautical engineer and designer of Dam Busters fame, Sir Barnes Neville Wallis. Both books have letters from Iain to Mary tucked in and print outs o View details Estimate£30 - £50Winning Bid£20StatusCLOSED Lot 541 IRIS MURDOCH; two signed and inscribed novels comprising a 1962 second impression of 'An Unofficial Rose', inscribed to fellow author Richard Adams to the front endpaper 'For Richard with admiration & love from Iris Dec 1984', additionally signed by Murdoch to the title page. It was evidently his pre-Watership Down fame reading copy, with 'Richard Adams 1963' written neatly in his hand to the top right of the front endpaper, and his post-fame bookplate, complete with rabbit illustration, to the View details Estimate£80 - £120Winning Bid£140StatusCLOSEDBidding historyBidding history Lot 542 LOWRY, HENRY DAWSON; Women's Tragedies - Keynotes series London: John Lane, 1895. First edition. 201 pages plus two publisher's catalogues to the rear, 7 & 16 pages. The ninth title in the Keynotes series, with the title page, cover and key designs by Aubrey Beardsley. A collection of short stories and sketches, some with slightly weird elements, such as a man who seems to be suffering from sleep paralysis, watching a man preparing to commit a murder, who transpires to be the man committing the View details Estimate£80 - £120Winning Bid£150StatusCLOSED Condition ReportThe book is firmly bound, the extremities are bumped and rubbed, the boards are lightly marked and the spine slightly darkened. The text block is toned and dusty with minor marks and cracking at points. Lot 543 Grimms' Goblins - ''Phiz'' (Hablot K. Browne) illustrated London: George Vickers, 1868. Bound from the 25 weekly parts and featuring 22 full page colour illustrations by ''Phiz'' (Hablot K. Browne), without the black and white illustrations which featured in the 1861 edition and with fewer tales. Printed by Robson and Son. 398 pages, containing 98 tales, not all from the Brothers Grimm. View details Estimate£80 - £120Winning Bid£120StatusCLOSED Condition ReportThe book is bound in the publisher's blue cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt and blind, the spine has been re-backed onto similarly toned blue cloth. The text block has gilt to all edges, it retains the colour illustrated title page, the pages are slightly toned, there is minor foxing and slight cracking. Lot 544 FUCHS, DANIEL; 'Criss Cross' 1948 film noir typescript screenplay. Continuity & Dialogue mimeographed screenplay, dated October 27, 1948 (the film was released on January 19th 1949). Consisting of the title page plus a further 129 pages, the pagination on a reel by reel basis (16, 15, 14, 9, 13, 14, 17, 11, 12, 8). A classic crime film noir, starring Burt Lancaster and Yvonne De Carlo, based on Don Tracy's 1934 novel. View details Estimate£80 - £120StatusUnsold Condition ReportThe pages are slightly toned and creased, with minor nicks and marks, as well as some rusting around the steel ties. Lot 545 DULCKEN, HENRY WILLIAM; 'Domestic Animals, Familiar Birds, etc., their habits and history', London: Ward, Lock & Tyler, 1865, first, or early edition. 44 pages plus 12 double page colour illustrations. Undated, but with the publisher's address noted as '158 Fleet Street', placing it before the 1878 move to Warwick House, Paternoster Row. There seem to be at least two slightly later editions in cloth which note the newer address. The book bound in the publisher's illustrated paper covered boards, View details Estimate£60 - £80Winning Bid£40StatusCLOSED Condition ReportThe text block is slightly toned, foxed and marked, with short closed tears to the edges of a few pages, minor ink marks to one plate and some pencil whirls to another, probably added by a bored child. Lot 546 DOSTOEVSKY, FYODOR; 'A Raw Youth', first Constance Garnett translation, London: William Heinemann, 1916, first edition, 560 pages, with the list of Garnett translations of Dostoevsky noting that the next volume, 'The Eternal Husband' is shortly to be published.The first edition of the seventh volume of Dostoevsky's works to be translated by Constance Garnett. View details Estimate£80 - £120StatusUnsold Condition ReportThe book is reasonably firmly bound in the publisher's red cloth lettered and decorated in black, the boards are faded and marked, the corners are bumped and rubbed and there is some loss to the cloth at the spine ends. The text block is slightly toned, foxed and marked with some folded and dog-eared page corners and slight cracking at points. Lot 547 A quantity of books, various subjects to include 'Mrs Beeton's Everyday Cookery', a limited presentation edition volume II 'Marlborough, His Life and Times' by the Right Honourable Winston S. Churchill, 2552 pages with 130 illustrations in photogravure, maps and plans and fourteen facsimile documents, Reverend C. A. Johns; 'British Birds in their Haunts', various other informative books, a copy of the King James Bible with inscription dated 1871, two children's books, M. Dorothy Belgrave and Hil View details Estimate£30 - £50Winning Bid£45StatusCLOSED Lot 548 A large quantity of aircraft, air force and flying related books to include Ron Blake, Mike Hodgeson and Bill Taylor; 'The Airfields of Lincolnshire Since 1912', Mike Garbett and Brian Goulding; 'Lancaster at War: Fifty Years On', Andrew Kershaw; 'Combat Aircraft', and many more, and a quantity of Aircraft illustrated magazines and others. View details Estimate£20 - £40Winning Bid£40StatusCLOSEDBidding historyBidding history Lot 549 A quantity of books relating to various subjects to include Gustav Klimt, 'Masterpieces of Art', Tony Hinwood cartoons, 'Chambers Biographical Dictionary', 'The History of French', 'Book of Victorian Alphabets and Designs', other Design books, various Art books and other subjects. View details Estimate£20 - £40Winning Bid£20StatusCLOSEDBidding historyBidding history Lot 550 A quantity of mainly cricket-related books to include E Swanton; 'Sort of a Cricket Person', Geoffrey Boycott; 'The Corridor of Certainty: My Life Beyond Cricket', further biographies of various cricketers to include Bill O'Reilly, 'The Encyclopaedia of Cricket', 'Elusive Victory' and others, a Wisden Anthology 1963-1982 edited by Benny Green, and a quantity of mainly Art-related paperbacks and books to include 'Instant Art' Books 1 and 2, 'The Complete Art of Printing and Enlarging', 'Victorian View details Estimate£20 - £40Winning Bid£10StatusCLOSED Lot 551 Eight volumes of the Modern Cylopedia and a quantity of books of various subjects to include Mathematical Art, etc (2). View details Estimate£20 - £40StatusUnsold Lot 552 BILL WYMAN; a signed autobiography, 'Bill Wyman Stone Alone', by Bill Wyman with Ray Coleman, signed to title page, 'Love to John and Irene, Bill Wyman', a gift to the vendor from a neighbour who knew he was a Rolling Stones fan. View details Estimate£20 - £40Winning Bid£20StatusCLOSED Lot 553 A quantity of books on various subjects to include thirteen volumes of 'The National Encyclopedia', printed in London by McKenzie, books on Housewifery and Cookery, 'Waldens Encyclopedia of Needlework', 'Scholes The Oxford Companion to Music' 10th edition, a quantity of mainly King James translations of the Bible, and a Revised Standard Version of the King James Bible 1881, etc. (2). View details Estimate£20 - £30Winning Bid£10StatusCLOSEDBidding historyBidding history Lot 554 A quantity of hardback, mainly Victorian, poetical works, plays and fiction, including 'Works of Lord Byron Excelsior Edition', 'Complete Works of William Shakespeare' published by Waverley, 'Seadrift' by Lady Wood, Volumes I to III, etc, together with two Victorian part complete leather and brass bound photograph albums. View details Estimate£20 - £40Winning Bid£35StatusCLOSEDBidding historyBidding history Lot 555 A quantity of books relating various subjects to include informative, an 1880 gardening book vol one, T.E. Lawrence; 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom' volumes I and II, complete unabridged and illustrated from the Re-print Society London, 'Pears Encyclopedia', 'The Lyle Official Antiques Review' reference book 1976, Shirley Hibberd; 'The Fern Garden', 'Memoirs of Anthony Eden', 'Full Circle', printed by Cassell and others (2). View details Estimate£20 - £40Winning Bid£10StatusCLOSEDBidding historyBidding history Lot 556 A copy of 'Mrs Beeton's Household Management' complete cookery book, New Edition published by Ward Locke and Co Ltd, with tooled leather spine and cloth cover, together with one other copy and a quantity of 19th and early 20th century hardback books including 'Longfellows Poetical Works', illustrated Chandos poets, published F Warne & Co, 'Great Historical Mutinies', from Nemo's National Library, Gordon 'English Men of Action' by Sir W Butler, 'Beatons Dictionary of Everyday Gardening', pub Ward View details Estimate£20 - £40Winning Bid£65StatusCLOSEDBidding historyBidding history Lot 557 A quantity of hardback books, mainly 19th century literature, including 'Highways and Byways in Devon and Cornwall and London', three AC Blacks pictorial cover books, 'Venice' by Mortimer Menpes, 'The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám', 'The English Lakes' by A Heaton Cooper, 'Peter Pan In Kensington Gardens', by JM Barrie, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 'Chats On Old Furniture' by Arthur Hayden, 'The Lakes' by W Heaton Cooper, published by Warne, 'Winnie The Pooh' by AA Milne, 'The House at Pooh Corner' View details Estimate£40 - £60Winning Bid£230StatusCLOSEDBidding historyBidding history Condition ReportThe spine on the Lilac Fairy Book is worn, as are the front corners of the boards, it has a pencil inscription to the title page and staining to the first dozen or so pages to the bottom right. Further foxing throughout, appears to be complete but worn. The spine on the Welsh Fairy Book is flattened at the top and bottom, the opposing corners of the front and back boards are turned in. It has an inscription 'Tommy, With best love Christmas 1915' to the title page. The adhesive is starting to give from the spine to the pages of the book. There is heavy foxing to the title page and further light foxing throughout. The majority of the books in this lot appear to be in a well-used and worn condition. Items per page 122448 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next
