Books & Ephemera

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Location: Diss Auction Rooms
Date: 11th February 2021
Starts: 10:00 am

Online deadline: 11th February 2021, 9:30 am
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8173
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Lot No: 8173 (zero)

Thirteen assorted early 19th Century Inn receipts, several with engraved vignettes and decorative engraved copperplate headings and borders, various places N.E. England including Newcastle...

Sale Price: £230.00

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8174
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Lot No: 8174 (zero)

An 1832 Whiting & Branston's patent coloured compound plate, portrait of Lord Brougham (1778-1868), Lord Chief Justice. Approx 20 x 15cm

Sale Price: £110.00

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8175
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Lot No: 8175 (zero)

An 1826 Whiting embossed coloured compound plate advertising card for Hazard's State Lottery, held 1 March 1826. Approx 17 x 11.5cm

Sale Price: £190.00

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8176
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Lot No: 8176 (zero)

Three turn of the Century pop-up Christmas/New Year cards, all revealing various ''leg-ups'' beneath ladies skirts. Each chromolitho printed inside, each with movable parts...

Sale Price: £70.00

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8177

Lot No: 8177 (zero)

Four Specimen tickets for the 1893 Marriage of the Duke & Duchess of York (later King George V and Queen Mary), each different specimen...

Sale Price: £60.00

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8178
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Lot No: 8178 (zero)

An 1827 Post Horse Duty One day within eight miles ticket (unused). A duty first imposed in 1779 on anyone travelling, by hired horse...

Sale Price: £65.00

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8179
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Lot No: 8179 (zero)

Stagecoach history, an 1827 ''Newcastle Wonder Coach'', Alnwick, receipt for the acceptance of a parcel signed by Edward Cummings, a proprietor of the Wonder...

Sale Price: £65.00

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8180
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Lot No: 8180 (zero)

A 1951 Festival of Britain Press Pass (unissued). Admission to various Festival events as listed inside

Sale Price: £40.00

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8181
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Lot No: 8181 (zero)

A Certificate registering the sale of a slave, Cape Town, 1818. Rebecca, a female slave, age 31, born in Mozambique, a washmaid, as the...

Sale Price: £150.00

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8182
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Lot No: 8182 (zero)

A 1793 Poor Law Parish indenture for an apprenticeship in husbandry, Little Dorrington, Devon. At this time State support for poor children was controlled...

Sale Price: £30.00

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8183
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Lot No: 8183 (zero)

Two posters and 13 miscellaneous items of ephemera concerning World War II Home Front, the two original posters issued by the H.M.S.O. including ''Use...

Sale Price: £70.00

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8184
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Lot No: 8184 (zero)

A circa late 18th/early 19th Century manuscript school child's exercise book, 72 pages of manuscript pen & ink mathematical based entries in neat copperplate...

Sale Price: £60.00

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8185
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Lot No: 8185 (zero)

A disbound manuscript receipt book circa 1891, 118 pages of manuscript cookery recipe entries, majority pen & ink but some in pencil, recipes include...

Sale Price: £75.00

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8186
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Lot No: 8186 (zero)

A 1930's snapshot photo album containing a good quantity of images depicting girl guides camps and girl guides posing, activities etc, compiled by an...

Sale Price: £90.00

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8188
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Lot No: 8188 (zero)

A good quantity of motoring books including Lanchester, Austin, Brooklands to Goodwood etc etc.

Sale Price: £140.00

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8189
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Lot No: 8189 (zero)

A collection of 32 books and booklets on Magic, Conjuring, Card Tricks etc, including Will Goldston: 'More Modern Card Tricks; Tricks That Mystify; Magical...

Sale Price: £220.00

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