Antiques, Art & Books

Auction Friday 24th October 2003 at 10.30am

Viewing Thursday 23rd from 9am till 7pm
and on morning of sale from 9am

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Books

 

351          English topography and biography,
including eighteen ‘In Highways & Byways’ series (a lot)
£70-100   
sold for £60                                             

 

352          Literary criticism and biography,
including Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (a lot)
£50-80
sold for £40

 

353          Music and folklore (a lot)
£30-50
sold for £30

 

354          Art and music (a lot)
£30-50
sold for £30

 

355          Theatre and performing arts (a lot)
£50-70
sold for £35

 

356          Scottish interest (a lot)
£50-70
sold for £35

 

357          Scottish interest (a lot)
£50-70

 

358          Scottish interest (a lot)
£50-70
sold for £30

 

359          Scottish interest (a lot)
£50-70
sold for £40

 

360          Scottish interest (a lot)
£50-70
sold for £30

 

361          Scottish interest (a lot)
£50-70

 

362          Scottish interest (a lot)
£50-70
sold for £35

 

363          Scottish interest (a lot)
£50-70
sold for £50

 

364          Irish interest (a lot)
£70-100
sold for £120

 

365          Religion and church history,
including Pardovan’s Collections (a lot)
£50-70
sold for £120

 

366          Religion and church history,
including Parliamentary Report on Patrionage (a lot)
£50-70
sold for £420

 

367          Religion and church history (a lot)
£30-50
sold for £55

 

368          Maps etc (a lot)
£20-30
sold for £60

 

369          Literary magazines and ephemera (a lot)
£50-70
sold for £40

 

370          Area of Fife,
including Sibbald’s History of Fife and Kinross, 1803 (a lot)
£80-120
sold for £180

 

371          Proceedings of Glasgow Philosophical Society (ex library) (22)
£40-60

 

372          Stair Society publications (16)
£50-70
sold for £60

 

373          Topography,
including Nelson’s ‘Souvenir of Scotland’ & Nimmo’s ‘History of Stirlingshire (a lot)
£60-90
sold for £50

 

374          Topography (a lot)
£70-90
sold for £60

 

375          History,
including Scottish History Society publications, 22 vols (a lot)
£70-100
sold for £90

 

376          History (a lot)
£60-90
sold for £40

 

377          Biography,
including a large paper limited edition of Autobiography of William ‘Crimea’ Simpson (a lot)
£60-80
sold for £30

 

378          Biography (a lot)
£50-70
sold for £50

 

379          Glasgow interest (a lot)
£50-70
sold for £60

 

380          Glasgow Archaeological Transactions
(a lot)
£70-100
sold for £80

 

381          Glasgow interest (a lot)
£50-70
sold for £40

 

382          Glasgow interest (a lot)
£30-40
sold for £70

 

383          Glasgow interest (a lot)
£50-70
sold for £90

 

384          Glasgow interest (a lot)
£50-70
sold for £20

 

385          Glasgow interest (a lot)
£40-60
sold for £30

 

386          Edinburgh interest (a lot)
£70-90
sold for £90

 

387          Scottish Highlands and islands interest
(a lot)
£70-90
sold for £180

 

388          Scottish Highlands and islands interest
(a lot)
£50-70
sold for £380

 

389          Music and folklore (a lot)
£70-90
sold for £60

 

390          Robert Burns (a lot)
£40-60
sold for £80

 

391          Poetry (a lot)
£30-50
sold for £40

 

392          Poetry (a lot)
£50-70
sold for £50

 

393          Poetry,
including Wyntoun’s Cronykil & Charles Ricketts’ Kingis Quair (a lot)
£80-120

 

394          Scottish countryside and natural history (a lot)
£30-50
sold for £40

 

395          Scots language, reference, literary criticism (a lot)
£50-70

 

396          Scottish schools and education (a lot)
£30-50

 

397          Scottish fiction,
including Waverley Novels (a lot)
£30-50
sold for £30

 

398          Scottish fiction,
including fourteen vols by James Grant
(a lot)
£50-70
sold for £45

 

399          Twentieth century Scottish fiction (a lot)
£30-50
sold for £60

 

400          The Scottish Nation,
three vols; and others of Glasgow interest
(a lot)
£70-90
sold for £70

 

401          Glasgow interest (a lot)
£40-60
sold for £60

 

402          Scottish fiction,
including Smollett’s novels (a lot)
£30-50
sold for £15

 

403          Art and collecting (a lot)
£80-120
sold for £180

 

404          T.N. Foulis publications (13)
£20-30

 

405          Scottish interest,
including Burns: Old Scottish Communion Plate (a lot)
£60-90
sold for £60

 

406          Beattie: Scotland Illustrated,
and others (5)
£80-120
sold for £50

 

407          Royal Association for the Promotion of the Fine Arts,
120 engravings illustrating the novels of Sir Walter Scott
£100-150     
sold for £180                                         

 

408          Medical pamphlets etc (a lot)
£20-30
sold for £24

 

409          Bindings (a lot)
£40-60
sold for £50

 

410          Bindings:
including Arabian Nights (5)
& Hallom’s Literature of Europe (9)
£70-90
sold for £60

 

411          Bindings:
Mary Somerville, Physical Geography etc (6)
£60-80
sold for £55

 

412          Bindings:
Katterton’s Isles of Loch Awe etc (5)
£60-80
sold for £55

 

413          Miscellaneous (a lot)
£80-120                                                 

 

414          Glasgow interest (a lot)
£60-90

 

415          Glasgow (a lot)
£30-50
sold for £50

 

416          Photograph album and two others
£40-60
sold for £85

 

417          The Works of Edgar Allan Poe,
eight volumes, published 1895, quarter calf
£80-120    
sold for £110                                            

 

418          Blackwood’s Ancient Classics,
ten volumes, published 1870 by William Blackwood & Sons, quarter calf
£50-80    
sold for £55                                              

 

419          History of the Wars of the French Revolution,
two volumes, published 1817, full calf;
and six other bound volumes (8)
£50-80         
sold for £40                                         

 

420          Adolf Hitler,
one volume, published Hamburg 1936
£50-80      
sold for £                                            

 

421          Olympia 1936,
one volume
£50-80     
sold for £45                                             

 

422          Olympia 1936,
Band II, one volume
£50-80       
sold for £45                                           

 

additional lots 423 - 430

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