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The Dorset Auction

Auction date Thursday 22 July 2021

Duke’s are delighted to be holding our inaugural ‘Dorset Auction’ a sale to celebrate the history, literature, arts and crafts of the county. Featured in this auction will be the Derek Mills Library: A Collection of Thomas Hardy and Dorset Books.

Auction:
Thursday 22nd July at 10.30am

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Saturday 17th July 9:30am - 12pm

Monday 19th - Wednesday 21st July, 9.30am - 5pm

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Lot	Title	Estimate	Hammer price
49	KING WARRY, C., THE SENTINEL OF WESSEX, Published 1904, London, and a collection of Dorset fiction; including ' Dearmer, P., 'THE DRAGON OF WESSEX', and Bevan, T., 'A LION OF WESSEX' (a lot) Provenance: The Derek Mills Library, A…	£20 - £40	£15	View
50	A LARGE COLLECTION OF BOOKS RELATING TO DORSET, Including both fiction and non-fiction (a lot) Provenance: The Derek Mills Library, A Collection of Thomas Hardy and Dorset Books	£50 - £100	£80	View
51	A LARGE COLLECTION OF BOOKS RELATING TO DORSET, Largely non-fiction (a lot) Provenance: The Derek Mills Library, A Collection of Thomas Hardy and Dorset Books	£50 - £100	£50	View
52	A LARGE COLLECTION OF BOOKS RELATING TO DORSET, Largely non-fiction (a lot) Provenance: The Derek Mills Library, A Collection of Thomas Hardy and Dorset Books	£50 - £100	£50	View
53	HARPER, G. G. THE HARDY COUNTRY, 'Literary Landmarks of the Wessex Novels', published 1904, London, Adam and Charles Black, together with a large collection of modern criticism on Thomas Hardy (a lot) Provenance: The Derek Mills…	£60 - £120	£50	View
54	SEYMOUR-SMITH, MARTIN, HARDY Published 1994, London, Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd., and a large collection of literature by, and commenting on, Thomas Hardy (a lot) Provenance: The Derek Mills Library, A Collection of Thomas Hardy…	£30 - £50	-	View
55	ABERCROMBIE, LASCELLES., THOMAS HARDY A CRITICAL STUDY, Published 1912, London, Martin Secker, with; Thurston Hopkins, R., 'THOMAS HARDY'S DORSET', published 1922, London, Cecil Palmer, and a large collection of early criticism on Thomas Hardy (a lot) …	£100 - £200	£140	View
56	D'EXIDEUIL, PIERRE., THE HUMAN PAIR IN THE WORK OF THOMAS HARDY, Translated from the French by Felix W. Crosse, published London, Humphrey Toulmin, and a large collection of modern criticism on Thomas Hardy (a lot) Provenance: The Derek Mills Library, A…	£60 - £120	£50	View
57	KIRBY (20TH CENTURY) A VIEW OF CORFE CASTLE signed and dated (19)68 lower right, oil on board, 50cm x 60cm; a view of Thomas Hardy's Cottage, Bockhampton, Dorset by the same artist, oil on board, 50cm x 75cm; another painting by Kirby of a…	£30 - £50	-	View
58	THOMAS HARDY INTEREST: A SILVER PLATED TEAPOT with ivory fittings, inscribed "Used by Thomas Hardy at Max Gate 20 years, and given by Emma Hardy to their Vicar Ri. Grosvenor Bartelot 7 July 1912", with further scratched inscription on the…	£300 - £500	£480	View
59	THOMAS HARDY INTEREST: A LETTER FROM MRS FLORENCE HARDY TO MR BARTELOT dated 2nd September 1929 declining a request to open the church bazaar	£200 - £400	£200	View
60	ORIGINAL PROGRAMMES FOR EVENTS RELATED TO THOMAS HARDY AND PERFORMED IN DORCHESTER "A New Play" adapted from Thomas Hardy's famous novel "Far from the Madding Crowd" presented by the Dorchester Debating Society, November 17 and 18, 1909; "The Mellstock Quire" presented by the…	£100 - £200	£480	View
61	HARDY MEMORABILIA: A CHRISTMAS CARD FROM MR AND MRS THOMAS HARDY 1919, with country snowscene and printed with a seasonal poem "Birds at Nightfall" by Thomas Hardy, address to MS; two Orders of Service at Dorchester St. Peter following Hardy's death; an invitation card…	£100 - £200	£340	View
62	WILLIAM BARNES, "THE DORSET POET": "A Few Words on the Advantages of a more Common Adoption of the Mathematic as a Branch of Education, or Subject of Study", William Barnes, Whittaker 1834; and "The Christian Year. Thoughts in verse…	£200 - £400	£180	View
63	REV. MOULE OF FORDINGTON, DORCHESTER: "Memories of a Vicarage" Handley CG Mould DD, London, The Religious Tract Society, 1913, a gift from Moule (then Bishop of Durham) in 1918 to his successor a Vicar of Fordington Rev. R.G. Bartelot, including a letter from…	£100 - £200	-	View
64	BROADLEY, ALEXANDER MEYRICK, AND BARTELOT, RICHARD GROSVENOR: THE THREE DORSET CAPTAINS AT TRAFALGAR Thomas Masterman Hardy, Charles Bullen and Henry Digby, Bartelot's copy bound for annotation and addition, with pasted in letters, including pasted to a frontispage a letter apparently bearing the…	£500 - £1,000	£1,500	View
65	WORKS ON NELSON AND HARDY BY BROADLEY AND BARTELOT including: "Nelson's Hardy - His Life, Letters and Friends", by AM Broadley and RG Bartelot, Murray 1909. This is the authors copy of the work with photos of the authors and correspondence between…	£100 - £200	£70	View
66	CREWKERNE GRAMMER SCHOOL: "HISTORY OF CREWKERNE SCHOOL" by Rev. RG Bartelot 1899 - the authors copy with associated post-publication correspondence and ephemera and second copy; a framed photo of Crewkerne School in 1883, inscribed on the back; three…	£50 - £100	£50	View
67	REVEREND R. GROSVENOR BARTELOT: MONOGRAPHS AND MANUSCRIPTS including: "The Prebendal Church of Saint George at Fordington: Notes on its medieval floor tiles" (2 copies); "The Vanished Medieval Castles of Dorset" (2 copies), his original manuscript of the…	£50 - £100	£50	View
68	WORKS BY ALFRED POPE FSA including "The Old Stone Crosses of Dorset", Chiswick Press/Henry Ling, Dorchester 1906; "The Walks and Avenues of Dorchester" a booklet 1916 (2 copies); and Order of Service for the memorial service…	£50 - £100	-	View
69	MONOGRAPHS BY OTHER LOCAL WRITERS including "The Excavation of Maiden Castle, Dorset" - first interim report, Mortimer Wheeler, reprint from Antiquaries Journal 1935; "Brother John Wilkes MP 1727-1797", AM Broadley, Monograph (2…	£50 - £100	-	View
70	DORSET TOPOGRAPHY, HISTORY, TRACTS AND NEWSPAPERS including: "Matters of Great Note and Consequence", a pamphlet printed for George Thompson 1641; "Dorset Up Along and Down Along" A Collection of folklore, flower names and floral love, gathered…	£100 - £200	-	View
71	CORFE CASTLE: "BRAVE DAME MARY OF CORFE CASTLE" SPCK, London; "Corfe Castle" or "Keneswitha" Anon, Hurst Robinson & Co. London 1824; other books and pamphlets; a quantity of antiquarian views of Corfe Castle ruins and a reproduction plan; and …	£50 - £100	-	View
72	RODNEY AND PAMELA RUSSELL: A painting of Corfe Castle from the meadows by Pamela Russell; 'Sacred is the Dust' poems by Rodney Russell, The Friary Press, Dorchester with signed dedication to Dr. Romana Bartelot (2)	£50 - £100	-	View
73	*EDWIN CHARLES PASCOE HOLMAN BWS (1882-1955) 'Hangman's Cottage, Dorchester' watercolour, and two watercolours of Dorset heathland (3)	£100 - £200	£80	View
74	WILLIAM BUSK (1861-1942) A woman peeling vegetables in an interior signed and named on the back of the frame, inscribed on the back "Bought by Alfred Pope of South Court for 7gns on 7 November 1907 and given to Rev. Richard Grosvenor Bartelot", oil on canvas	£100 - £200	£80	View
75	AN ALBUM OF SKETCHES FROM THE 1820'S /1830'S Artist unknown. Containing scenes of northern Italy, France, Austria and England, including some exercises in perspective, and drawings of Bloxworth House, Dorset.	£100 - £200	-	View
76	MUSIC: BOOK OF MANUSCRIPT HYMN TUNES BY WILLIAM KNAPP, vellum bound, cover detached, with a collection of correspondence and articles, copies of similar compositions and 9 bookmarks.	£50 - £100	£700	View
77	A GUINEA BALANCE by Thomas Williams, London, c.1774, the steel beam with articulated ends, two brass pans and a tassel to suspend them from, in a fitted carved wooden case, with weights and brass hook clasp, makers…	£50 - £100	-	View
78	FORDINGTON ST. GEORGE CHURCH EPHEMERA including: The History of Fordington (3 copies0; The Calvary Carol, 1910 (2 copies); Christmas Carol 1897 by Rev. R Grosvenor Bartelot; New Year Carol 1947 by Bartelot (written during his final…	£100 - £200	£80	View
79	DORCHESTER INTEREST: AN OAK WAINSCOT CHAIR made from medieval timbers from the roof of St George's Church, Fordington, with all-over foliate carved decoration, the back with mythical beasts and the date "1600", inscribed to the underside "The…	£200 - £400	£320	View
80	DORCHESTER INTEREST: AN OAK TREFOIL TABLE OR 'TRINITY STOOL' made from medieval timbers from the roof of St George's Church, Fordington, inscribed to the underside "Made of old oak from the burnt roof of St George's Church, Fordington. Ri: Grosvenor Bartelot,…	£100 - £200	£110	View
81	DORCHESTER INTEREST: AN OAK CREDENCE TABLE made from medieval timbers from the roof of St George's Church, Fordington, the canted top above a carved arcaded apron, standing on four carved and fluted legs joined by an undertier, 96cm wide x…	£200 - £400	£260	View
82	THOMAS HARDY: A LETTER FROM THE DEAN OF WESTMINSTER to The Reverend R. Grosvenor Bartelot marked "Private" and dated "1928" relating to the Dean's permission to bury Thomas Hardy at the Abbey and the controversy about Hardy's Christianity; together…	£100 - £200	£2,000	View
83	EMMA L. HARDY: SPACES - AN EXPOSITION OF GREAT TRUTHS BY A NEW TREATMENT, Maxgate, April 1912, inscribed "R. Grosvenor Bartelot from Mrs Thomas Hardy of Max Gate 1912"	£100 - £200	£90	View
84	RICHARD LOCKE: THE WESTERN REBELLION Containing an account of all the persons arraigned and tryed by Lord Chief Justice Jeffreys, printed and sold by H. Norris, Taunton, 1782.	£100 - £200	-	View
85	A PACQUET OF ADVICES AND ANIMADVERSIONS SENT FROM LONDON TO THE MEN OF SHAFTESBURY printed London 1676	£80 - £150	£90	View
86	ALFRED POPE: "THE OLD STONE CROSSES OF DORSET" 2nd edition, printed at the Chiswick Press and sold by Henry Ling, Dorchester 1906; a pamphlet "The Walks and Avenues of Dorchester" by Alfred Pope FSA 1916; and a printed leaflet "Memorial Service…	£80 - £150	£70	View
87	H.J. MOULE MA: DORCHESTER ANTIQUITIES, Henry Ling, Printer and Publisher 1901; James Savage: The History of Dorchester, published by G. Clarke, Cornhill, bound with a note from Upcerne House, Cerne Abbas, 1915; John Braye: Swanage (Isle…	£80 - £150	-	View
88	THE REVEREND R. GROSVENOR BARTELOT, MA, FSA: OUR FAMILY SURNAME, privately printed 1944; a booklet: The Vanished Medieval Castles of Dorset by The Reverend R. Grosvenor Bartelot; and Natural History of Dorset and Somerset, inscribed by R. Grosvenor Bartelot …	£80 - £150	-	View
89	ST. GEORGES PREBENDAL CHURCH FORDINGTON: A COLLECTION OF MATERIAL including: a pamphlet "Restoration after Damage by Fire"; a pamphlet "The Story of Fordington St. George"; The Monthly Messenger, May 1916; an invitation to the Vicar's wedding, Wednesday November…	£100 - £200	£70	View
90	ST. GEORGES PREBENDAL CHURCH FORDINGTON: A PAMPHLET FOR THE GRAND JAPANESE FETE AND FANCY FAIR 1914, and an album of black and white photographs of the event (2)	£50 - £100	£45	View
91	A VICTORIAN PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPH ON GLASS inscribed to the reverse "William Oldfield Phippard, Esq. of Wareham Priory 1845", a portrait silhouette inscribed to the reverse "The Reverend William Oldfield Bartelot, Rector of Canford d.1843" (2)	£50 - £100	£50	View
92	DORSET INTEREST: A HANDWRITTEN INDENTURE detailing the transfer of an estate between a Brune Dackombe of Corfe Castle and a John Voegt, ink on vellum, mounted on card	£100 - £200	£60	View
93	A COLLECTION OF DOCUMENTS ON VELLUM, largely 18th and 19th century, including items relating to both Dorset and Somerset (a lot)	£100 - £200	-	View
94	THOMAS HARDY INTEREST: A COLLECTION OF DEEDS relating to a property, number 3, Durngate Street, Dorchester, gifted by Hardy to his sister Katherine in 1916, with Messrs Lock, Reed & Lock Solicitors, Dorchester, the indenture dated 4 July…	£2,000 - £4,000	-	View
95	HARDY, THOMAS., THE WELL-BELOVED, 'A Sketch of a Temperament', from 'Thomas Hardy's Works', 'The Wessex Novels Volume XVII', published 1911, London, Macmillan and Co ., Limited., and further volumes in matched gilt tooled leather…	£500 - £1,000	£460	View
96	THOMAS HARDY 'Wessex Poems and Other Verses' first Canadian edition, published by George N. Morang & Company Ltd, Toronto, 1899	£50 - £100	-	View

Total lots: 189

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