General Auction of Many House-Clearance Items inc. Many Vintage Nautical Items, Blonde Ercol, Doulton, Jual Curve, White Goods, Victorian Furniture, Instruments and more.

General Auction of Many House-Clearance Items inc. Many Vintage Nautical Items, Blonde Ercol, Doulton, Jual Curve, White Goods, Victorian Furniture, Instruments and more.

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Lot 618: A Collection of Antique and Vintage Hardcover Children's and Natural History Books

This auction ended on 17 October 2026.

Start price: £5

Estimated price: £5 - £10

Buyer's Premium: 20%

Sold for: £5

A collection of hardcover children’s and natural history books, primarily dating from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The assortment includes Harriet Martineau’s Settlers at Home, published by George Routledge and Sons, London, featuring decorative blue cloth boards with black and gilt stamped floral motifs. Also present is a 1899 edition of Stalky & Co. by Rudyard Kipling, published by Macmillan and Co., London; this volume is bound in red leather with an ornate gilt-tooled spine and a circular gilt-stamped elephant head motif on the front cover, accompanied by a traditional swastika symbol. The collection further includes two volumes from the Shown to the Children series edited by Louey Chisholm: Butterflies and The Sea-Shore, both by Janet Harvey Kelman and Rev. Theodore Wood. These volumes are bound in purple and green cloth respectively, each featuring a colour paste-down illustration to the front board. The Kipling volume spine is titled Stalky & Co. Rudyard Kipling in gilt.