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Auction date Friday 17 June 2022 10:30 - 17:30 BST

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Friday 17th June at 10.30am

Including property from the library of a remarkable collector of English literature, who sought out important association copies and first editions of the works of Hardy, Lawrence, Austen, Fleming, Tolkien, Milne, Trollope et al (Lots 1-49).

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Lots per page:

Total lots: 96

Lot Title Estimate Hammer price
107 WHITE, E.B.: CHARLOTTE'S WEB,
1st edition, published by Harper & Bros, New York, 1952, with I-B mark and price-clipped dustwrapper
£200 - £300 £120 View
108 YORKE, MALCOLM: THE INWARD LAUGH
published by The Fleece Press, Upper Denby, 2005, half cloth binding with pictorial boards
£150 - £200 - View
109 YORKE, MALCOLM: TWO COPIES OF RICHARD BAWDEN, HIS LIFE & WORK
published by The Fleece Press, Upper Denby, 2016, alternate red and blue half cloth bindings with matching slip cases
£200 - £250 £200 View
110 ZAMYATIN, YEVGENY: WE
first UK edition, published by Jonathan Cape, London, 1970, grey cloth bound with dustwrapper
£100 - £150 £125 View
111 'DOCTOR SYNTAX': THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON, A HUDIBRASTIC PEOM IN FIFTEEN CANTOS
illustrated by George Cruikshank, first edition, complete with thirty hand-coloured plates, published by T. Tegg &c, London 1815, later gilt tooled red morocco leather binding with bookplate…
£400 - £600 - View
112 HIGH HOUSE PRESS, SHAFTESBURY: FOUR VOLUMES
comprising Waller, Edmund: Songs and Verses; Matthewman, S: Hylas; How a Merchant did his Wife Betray; and Museaus: Hero & Leander (one of only 15 printed), all in half cloth bindings, the latter…
£100 - £150 £200 View
113 FOLIO SOCIETY: TWO VOLUMES
comprising Alighieri Dante: Inferno illus. Wiliam Blake; and Armitage (transl): Sir Gawain illus. Diana Sudyka, both published 2008, cloth bindings with slip cases
£100 - £150 - View
114 24 VOLUMES FROM 'THE LONSDALE LIBRARY'
various titles including 'Big Game Shooting in Africa' and 'Polo' all edited by Lonsdale and Parker, published by Seeley Service, various dates, in brown cloth bindings
£150 - £200 £90 View
116 BADESLADE, THOMAS (fl. 1720-1750) AND TOMS, W.H, COLOURED ENGRAVING, A MAP OF DORSET SHIRE
15.5cm square, in later burr veneer frame and glazed; together with five other 19th Century and later maps, all framed
£100 - £150 £50 View
117 AFTER BLAEU, CORNELIUS (1610-1644), REPRINT, MAP OF WESTPHALIA
40cm x 50cm, in Hogarth frame and glazed, gifted to the vendor's family as part of the 1973 twinning of Dorchester with Lubbecke in Westphalia
£40 - £60 - View
118 BLAEU, JOHANNES (1596-1673), COLOURED ENGRAVING, MAP OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE
41cm x 50cm, in later Hogarth frame and glazed
£120 - £150 £80 View
120 BOWEN, EMMANUEL (1694-1767) AND OWEN, JOHN, TWO COLOURED 'ROAD MAP' ENGRAVINGS
comprising Exeter to Truro and Bristol to Westchester, each 19cm x 12cm in double sided Hogarth frames and glazed
£30 - £50 - View
121 BOWEN, EMMANUEL (1694-1767) AND OWEN, JOHN, THREE COLOURED 'ROAD MAP' ENGRAVINGS
comprising Kingston to Portsmouth, Dunkton to Weymouth and the road to Truro
£30 - £50 - View
122 BUCK, SAMUEL (1696-1779) & NATHANIEL (FL. 1724-1759), COLOURED ENGRAVING, THE EAST VIEW OF ST. MICHAEL'S MOUNT
20cm x 37cm, in Hogarth frame and glazed
£60 - £80 £30 View
123 GIBSON, JOHN (1750-1792), COLOURED ENGRAVING, MAP OF THE ROAD FROM LONDON TO LANDS END
produced for the Gentleman's Magazine, 19cm x 44cm, in later Hogarth frame and glazed
£40 - £60 - View
124 HOLE, WILLIAM (fl. 1601-1624), COLOURED ENGRAVING, MAP OF 'HAMSHIRE'
30cm x 32cm, in later Hogarth frame and glazed
£200 - £300 £150 View
125 MERCATOR, GERARDUS (1512-1594), COLOURED ENGRAVING, MAP OF BRITAIN
Duisberg 1595, 35cm x 46cm, in later stained wood frame and glazed
£350 - £500 - View
126 OGILBY, JOHN (1600-1676), TWO COLOURED 'ROAD MAP' ENGRAVINGS - LONDON TO PORTSMOUTH AND EXETER TO DORCHESTER
each 34cm x 44cm, in Hogarth frames and glazed
£120 - £150 £50 View
128 SPEED, JOHN (1551-1629), COLOURED ENGRAVING, MAP OF THE TURKISH EMPIRE
38cm x 51cm, dated 1626, in later ebonised frame and glazed
£300 - £400 - View
129 VISSCHER, NICOLAES (1618-1679), COLOURED ENGRAVING, MAP OF RUSSIA
42cm x 54cm, in later ebonised frame and glazed
£400 - £600 £320 View
130 ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS: THE PRINCE OF WALES AT THE DORCHESTER MEETING
three coloured scenes - The Dairy, The Sheep-Pen and The Grand-Stand, all mounted within a single frame and ten other Victorian and later Dorset and other views including Illustrated London News,…
£50 - £100 - View
131 G.J. PARKYNS AFTER J.MOORE, COLOURED MEZZOTINT, BOW & ARROW CASTLE, ISLE OF PORTLAND,
11cm x 16cm in grey borders, published by B. Benson, Weymouth, 1793; and a similar mezzotint, View of the Seat of G. Gould Esq, at Upway, published by I. Love, Weymouth, 1793, both in later Hogarth…
£60 - £80 - View
132 A 19TH CENTURY COLOURED MEZZOTINT, HALL, ATHELHAMPTON, DORSETSHIRE,
30cm x 40cm, in later Hogarth style frame and glazed
£60 - £80 - View
133 A 19TH CENTURY COLOURED MEZZOTINT, WATERSTONE, DORSET
41cm x 29cm, in later Hogarth style frame and glazed
£40 - £60 - View

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