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Books, Maps and Manuscripts

Session: Books, Maps and Manuscripts

London, Knightsbridge
27 Mar 2012, session starting at 14:00 BST

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LAWRENCE (T.E.) The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, ONE OF 170 COMPLETE COPIES, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO EDWARD ELIOT, 1926
Sold for £50,450 inc. premium
LAWRENCE (T.E.) The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, ONE OF 170 COMPLETE COPIES, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO EDWARD ELIOT ...
FERMAT (PIERRE DE) Varia Opera Mathematica, Toulouse, 1679
Sold for £49,250 inc. premium
FERMAT (PIERRE DE) Varia opera mathematica, Toulouse, 1679
Churchill (Winston Spencer): Marlborough, His life and times, 4 Vols, with presentation inscriptions from the author to Neville Chamberlain
Sold for £45,650 inc. premium
CHURCHILL (WINSTON) Marlborough. His Life and Times, 4 vol., FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPIES TO NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN, 1933-1938
COLONIAL MASSACHUSETTS [MILLER (FRANCIS] A very large untitled map of the road west towards Albany, from Boston extending to Great Barrington by way of Springfield
Sold for £34,850 inc. premium
COLONIAL MASSACHUSETTS [MILLER (FRANCIS] A very large untitled map of the road west towards Albany, from Boston extending to Great ...

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MANUSCRIPTS - MODERN LITERATURE
Sold for £1,100 inc. premium
MARCONI (GUGLIELMO) Papers of Marconi's Chief Engineer, Richard Vyvyan, comprising over thirty letters by Guglielmo Marconi, letters by other correspondents including Sir Ambrose Fleming and Vyvyan's journal recording their trial operations
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MARCONI (GUGLIELMO) Papers of Marconi's Chief Engineer, Richard Vyvyan, comprising over thirty letters by Guglielmo Marconi, letters by other correspondents including Sir Ambrose Fleming and ...
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POTTER (BEATRIX) Autograph testimonial signed: a letter of recommendation for Benjamin Dawson, gardener, 1933
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POTTER (BEATRIX) Autograph testimonial signed: a letter of recommendation for Benjamin Dawson, gardener, 1933
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SEARLE (RONALD) Collection of four pen and watercolour greetings cards drawn by Searle and his cell-mates in the infamous Japanese Changi prison camp in Singapore
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SEARLE (RONALD) Collection of four pen and watercolour greetings cards drawn by Searle and his cell-mates in the infamous Japanese Changi prison camp in Singapore
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US$ 910 - 1,200
WORLD WAR II - SECOND ARMY. An Account of the Operations of Second Army in Europe 1944-1945 [Foreword by Lieut-General Sir Miles C. Dempsey], 3 vol. including map case, 'Secret Copy No. 26', GENERAL SIR MILES DEMPSEY'S COPY
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SECOND ARMY, WORLD WAR II. An Account of the Operations of Second Army in Europe 1944-1945 [Foreword by Lieut-General Sir Miles C. Dempsey], 3 vol. ...
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SPENDER (RICHARD) Papers of the Second World War poet Captain Richard Spender of the Parachute Regiment (1921-1943), including draft verse, corrected proofs, letters home, photographs, etc.
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SPENDER (RICHARD) Papers of the Second World War poet Captain Richard Spender of the Parachute Regiment (1921-1943), including draft verse, corrected proofs, letters home, photographs, ...
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TIBET An important collection of 152 images by Lieutenant William Pyt Bennett recording his service with the RGA 7th Mountain Battery on the Younghusband Mission
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TIBET An important collection of 152 images by Lieutenant William Pyt Bennett recording his service with the RGA 7th Mountain Battery on the Younghusband Mission
Sold for £12,500 inc. premium
TOLKIEN (J.R.R.) Autograph letter signed ("J.R.R. Tolkien"), to W.B. Crouch of the Southern Cigar Co., Canford Cliffs, Poole, 1971
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TOLKIEN (J.R.R.) Autograph letter signed ("J.R.R. Tolkien"), to W.B. Crouch of the Southern Cigar Co., Canford Cliffs, Poole, 1971
Sold for £3,750 inc. premium
TOLKIEN (J.R.R.) Autograph rubric signed ("JRRTolkien") on a bill submitted to him for a pound of Capstan tobacco in
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TOLKIEN (J.R.R.) Autograph rubric signed ("JRRTolkien") on a bill submitted to him for a pound of Capstan tobacco in
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WARLOCK (PETER, PHILIP HESELTINE) Autograph manuscript full score of his song-cycle The Curlew, setting four poems by W.B. Yeats
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WARLOCK (PETER, PHILIP HESELTINE) Autograph manuscript full score of his song-cycle The Curlew, setting four poems by W.B. Yeats
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