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The Dorset Auction

Absentee bids accepted until Thursday, 22 July 2021

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

Viewing: 

Saturday 17th July 9:30am - 12pm

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

From 9am the day of the Auction 

Bidding: 

Live Bidding will be available for this auction through this website. 

Please ensure your registration is completed early to avoid disappointment. 

Commission Bidding and Telephone bidding is also available. 


For more information please contact Duke's on 01305 265080 or email enquiries@dukes-auctions.com


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Lots per page:

Total lots: 189

Lot Title Estimate Hammer price
97 THOMAS HARDY AND DORSET INTEREST: A COLLECTION OF EPHEMERA
to include newspaper cuttings, commemorative booklets and an 1886 copy of the Graphic weekly illustrated newspaper
£50 - £100 £50 View
98 THOMAS HARDY INTEREST: AN INTERESTING COLLECTION OF GLASS PLATE PHOTOGRAPHIC NEGATIVES
including a portrait of Hardy, reputedly taken by Rev. Thomas Perkins, the Rector of Turnworth,a portrait of Rev Perkins riding a tricycle, possibly taken by Hardy, a full-length study of Hardy…
£400 - £800 £360 View
99 AN EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF GLASS PLATE PHOTOGRAPHIC NEGATIVES
including views of Shaftesbury Abbey, coastal landscapes and architectural studies (three boxes)

Provenance: The Collection of Sir Robert Cooke, Athelhampton House, Dorset
£300 - £500 £280 View
100 AN EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF GLASS PLATE PHOTOGRAPHIC NEGATIVES
mainly topographical and architectural compositions, including views of Winterborne Zelston and Winterborne Tomson, Sherborne Abbey and Wimborne
£50 - £100 - View
101 AN EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF GLASS PLATE PHOTOGRAPHIC NEGATIVES
Including views of Sherborne Abbey and Wimborne and a quantity of large format landscape and architectural compositions (two large wooden crates). Provenance: The Collection of Sir Robert Cooke,…
£50 - £100 - View
102 HUTCHINS, JOHN. THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE COUNTY OF DORSET
third edition, in four volumes, printed by John Bowyer Nichols and Sons, 1861, 1863, 1868 and 1870
£400 - £600 - View
103 HUTCHINS, JOHN. THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE COUNTY OF DORSET
first edition, in two volumes, printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nicholas, 1774, recently rebound in black leather and watered silk, with gilt tooling and lettering
£700 - £900 - View
104 HUTCHINS, JOHN. THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE COUNTY OF DORSET
second edition, in four volumes, printed by John Nichols, 1796, 1803, 1813 and 1815, recently rebound in burgundy calf and boards with gilt lettering
£1,500 - £2,500 - View
105 HUTCHINS, JOHN. THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE COUNTY OF DORSET,
'The Third Edition, Corrected, Augmented, And Improved, By William Shipp And James Whitworth Hodson.', volumes I-IV, published 1861-1870, Westminster, John Bowyer Nichols and Sons (4)
£300 - £500 - View
106 HUTCHINS, JOHN. THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE COUNTY OF DORSET
vols III & IV, second edition, printed by and for Nichols, Son, and Bentley, Red Lion Passage, Fleet Street, London, 1813 & 1815
£200 - £400 £180 View
107 HUTCHINS, JOHN. THE HISTORY OF SHAFTESBURY, SHERBORNE AND WIMBOURNE
printed by Nichols and Son, Red Lion Passage, Fleet Street
£50 - £100 - View
108 HUTCHINS, JOHN., THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE COUNTY OF DORSET,
'The Second Edition, Corrected, Augmented, And Improved', volumes I-IV, published 1796, London, John Nichols (4)
£1,000 - £2,000 £800 View
109 HUTCHINS, JOHN., THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE COUNTY OF DORSET,
'In Two Volumes', volumes I-II, published 1774, London, W. Bowyer and J. Nichols (2)
£200 - £300 - View
110 HUTCHINS, JOHN., THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE COUNTY OF DORSET,
'The Third Edition, Corrected, Augmented, And Improved By William Shipp And James Whitworth Hodson', Volumes I-IV, published 1861-1870, Westminster, John Bowyer Nichols and Sons (4)
£200 - £400 - View
111 LELAND, JOHN., THE ITINERARY OF JOHN LELAND THE ANTIQUARY.,
'In Nine Volumes', 'The Second Edition: Collated and Improved from the Original MS. With the Addition alfo of a General Index.', Volumes I-IX, published 1745, Oxford, Printed at the Theatre; with…
£200 - £400 - View
112 LOCK, H. O., DORSET
'Illustrated by Walter Tyndale and A Heaton Cooper', published 1925, London, A & C Black Ltd., and a collection of literature concerning Dorset (a lot)
£30 - £50 £20 View
113 NOTES & QUERIES FOR SOMERSET AND DORSET,
'Edited by Hugh Norris and Charles Herbert Mayo', volume I, published 1890, Sherborne, J. C. Sawtell, with volumes II-IV, and a collection of further Dorset related literature (a lot)
£50 - £100 £110 View
114 AN INVENTORY OF HISTORICAL MONUMENTS IN THE COUNTY OF DORSET,
By the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, Volume II, 'South-East', Parts I-III, and a collection of further literature on Dorset and its monuments (a lot)
£30 - £50 £110 View
115 BROADLEY, A. M. AND BARTELOT, R. G., THE THREE DORSET CAPTAINS AT TRAFALGAR,
'Thomas Masterman Hardy, Charles Bullen, Henry Digby', published 1906, London, John Murray, and a large collection of literature relating to Dorset, including books on smuggling, Thomas Hardy, Dorset…
£200 - £300 £100 View
116 WARNE, CHARLES., ANCIENT DORSET,
'The Celtic, Roman, Saxon, And Danish Antiquities Of The County,', published 1872, Bournemouth, D. Sydenham, inscribed in pen 'To Mrs Law Esq, with the authors kind regards', with; Heath, Sidney.,…
£200 - £300 £120 View
117 GOLDSWORTHY, MARGARET., THE DORSET BEDSIDE ANTHOLOGY,
published 1951, Bognor Regis, The Arundel Press, with; Heath, Sidney., 'THE SOUTH DEVON AND DORSET COAST', published 1910, London, T. Fisher Unwin, and a collection of Dorset related literature (a…
£100 - £200 £240 View
118 VAN RAALTE, CHARLES., BROWNSEA ISLAND,
'With Illustrations by Florence Van Raalte', published 1906, London, Arthur L . Humphries, with; Pope, Alfred., 'OLD STONE CROSSES OF DORSET', published 1906, London, The Chiswick Press, and a large…
£100 - £200 £110 View
119 A PAIR OF GOGGLES POTENTIALLY BELONGING TO LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (T.E. LAWRENCE)
"Patent Rea Design" and a small quantity of related ephemera

Provenance: Found amongst the collection of Joyce Knowles, who with her husband Pat, befriended Lawrence and was custodian of Clouds Hill…
£500 - £1,000 - View
120 T. E. LAWRENCE INTEREST: A WESTERN DAILY PRESS POSTER 'LAWRENCE IN GRAVE CONDITION'
following his 13 May 1935 accident on his Brough Superior SS100 motorcycle in Dorset close to his cottage Clouds Hill, near Wareham. Lawrence was fatally injured and died six days later at Bovington…
£200 - £400 £445 View

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