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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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Total lots: 133

HOUSMAN, LAURENCE: STORIES FROM THE ARABIAN NIGHTS
Lot 73 Sold
HOUSMAN, LAURENCE: STORIES FROM THE ARABIAN NIGHTS
illustrated by Edmund Dulac, published by Hodder and Stoughton, 1907, red three quarter leather binding; sold together with Browning, Robert; Pippa Passes; & Men & Women, illus. Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale, published by Chatto & Windus, 1908, no. 100 of 260, full vellum binding
Hammer price: £160
Estimate: £150 - £200
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17 June 2022
HUTCHINS, REV.: THE HISTORY & ANTIQUITIES OF THE COUNTY OF DORSET
Lot 74 Unsold
HUTCHINS, REV.: THE HISTORY & ANTIQUITIES OF THE COUNTY OF DORSET
second edition, four volumes, with a copy of Domesday Book and the Inquisitio Ghedi for the County, corrected, augmented and improved by R. Gough, extra illustrated beyond the original 196 plates with thirteen additional plates (including two watercolours), printed by John Nichols, 1796-1815, in three quarter red morocco binding with marbled boards and end papers and with various ink 'Memorandum' annotation sheets bound in
Estimate: £1,500 - £2,000
17 June 2022
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HUTCHINS, JOHN: THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE COUNTY OF DORSET
Lot 75 Unsold
HUTCHINS, JOHN: THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE COUNTY OF DORSET
volumes I and II, printed by Bowyer and Nichols 1774, rebound in gilt tooled full red calf
Estimate: £600 - £800
17 June 2022
17 June 2022
HUTCHINS, JOHN., THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE COUNTY OF DORSET,
Lot 76 Sold
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)
Provenance: The Collection of Roy and Anita FurseyBoth scientists, Roy and Anita Fursey were avid…
Hammer price: £100
Estimate: £200 - £400
17 June 2022
17 June 2022
IBSEN, HENRIK AND RACKHAM, ARTHUR 'Peer Gynt'
Lot 77 Sold
IBSEN, HENRIK AND RACKHAM, ARTHUR 'Peer Gynt'
limited edition of 460 copies signed by Rackham, of which this is copy number 1, publ. George G. Harrap & Co Ltd., London, 1936, publishers full vellum, front board and spine stamped in gilt, pictorial endleaves
Hammer price: £1,200
Estimate: £400 - £800
17 June 2022
17 June 2022
KITCHINER, WILLIAM: THE ART OF INVIGORATING AND PROLONGING LIFE
Lot 78 Sold
KITCHINER, WILLIAM: THE ART OF INVIGORATING AND PROLONGING LIFE
new edition, printed for Hurst, Robinson & Co, London, 1824, blue card binding
Hammer price: £40
Estimate: £60 - £80
17 June 2022
17 June 2022
LAWRENCE, T.E: SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM
Lot 79 Sold
LAWRENCE, T.E: SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM
published by Jonathan Cape, London, 1935, brown cloth binding with dustwrapper and sold together with a Lawrence of Arabia Memorial leaflet
Hammer price: £240
Estimate: £100 - £150
17 June 2022
17 June 2022
LEECH, JOHN: PICTURES OF LIFE & CHARACTER
Lot 80 Unsold
LEECH, JOHN: PICTURES OF LIFE & CHARACTER
series I-IV, published by Bradbury, Evans & Co, London, two volumes with three quarter leather binding; sold together with a cloth bound copy of the First Series published by Bradbury, Agnew & Co
Estimate: £150 - £200
17 June 2022
17 June 2022
LELAND, JOHN., THE ITINERARY OF JOHN LELAND THE ANTIQUARY.,
Lot 81 Sold
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 Marshall., 'THE RURAL ECONOMY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND', 'In Two Volumes', volumes I-II, published 1796, ; and Stukelet, William., M. D., 'ITINERARIUM CURIOSUM', published 1724, London, and another title (a lot)
Provenance: The Collection of Roy and Anita FurseyBoth scientists, Roy and Anita Fursey were avid…
Hammer price: £420
Estimate: £200 - £400
17 June 2022
17 June 2022
THE CICELY LUSHINGTON ARCHIVE - AN EXTRAORDINARY STUDY OF THE BIRDS OF CEYLON BY THE ORNITHOLOGIST CICELY LUSHINGTON (1903-1987)
Lot 82 Sold
THE CICELY LUSHINGTON ARCHIVE - AN EXTRAORDINARY STUDY OF THE BIRDS OF CEYLON BY THE ORNITHOLOGIST CICELY LUSHINGTON (1903-1987)
comprising: a working draft of 'Bird Life in Ceylon', three folios containing 74 large format watercolours, approximately 40 sketches and a small quantity of a single sheet article by Lushington titled 'Memories of Birdwatching on Tea Estates'; sold together with a quantity of related paperwork including three newsletters from the Ceylon Bird Club, a letter to Lushington from the British Embassy in Nepal and Salvin, Osbert: Exotic Ornithology Part X, April 1st 1869, in brown paper wraps
Note: Cicely Lushington (1903-1987) was an English ornithologist, born and raised in Ceylon (today…
Hammer price: £5,400
Estimate: £2,000 - £3,000
17 June 2022
17 June 2022
LUBBOCK, J.G. ' The Sphere of Rocks and Water'
Lot 83 Unsold
LUBBOCK, J.G. ' The Sphere of Rocks and Water'
signed copy, number 9 from the edition of 80, publ. Bertram Rota, London, designed and printed by Will Carter at the Rampant Lions Press, Cambridge, hand-bound by George Percival at Leicester, colour printed engraved plates, some double page, morocco backed pictorial cloth, transparent wrapper, slip case

Provenance: Kerrison Preston Esq. and by descent
Estimate: £100 - £200
17 June 2022
17 June 2022
MANSFIELD, KATHERINE 'The Garden Party'
Lot 84 Unsold
MANSFIELD, KATHERINE 'The Garden Party'
with coloured lithographs by Marie Laurencin, Verone Press, London, number 627 of the edition of 1200, Small quarto decorated pale green cloth. Red leather label to the spine, lettered in gilt, designed by Hans Mardersteig and printed in the Autumn of 1939 at the Officina Bodoni, Verona, with tipped in Publisher's Note

Provenance: Kerrison Preston Esq. and by descent
Estimate: £100 - £200
17 June 2022
17 June 2022
MASSON, FREDERIC: NAPOLEON ET SON FILS
Lot 85 Unsold
MASSON, FREDERIC: NAPOLEON ET SON FILS
No. 728/800 of the 'Blanchet Freres & Kleber' edition, complete with 52 plates, water-marks to some page leading edges, published by Goupil & Co, Paris, 1904, in gilt tooled full brown calf leather binding
Estimate: £400 - £600
17 June 2022
17 June 2022
MAYO, CHARLES HERBERT: A GENEALOGICAL ACCOUNT OF THE MAYO & ELTON FAMILIES
Lot 86 Unsold
MAYO, CHARLES HERBERT: A GENEALOGICAL ACCOUNT OF THE MAYO & ELTON FAMILIES
second edition, privately printed at The Chiswick Press, 1908, olive green cloth binding, inscribed by the author to AW Gould and dated May 15 1909
Estimate: £400 - £600
17 June 2022
17 June 2022
MILNE, A.A. 'Winnie the Pooh'
Lot 87 Sold
MILNE, A.A. 'Winnie the Pooh'
1926 first edition, publ. Methuen & Co Ltd, rebound by Winstanley of Salisbury 1997; together with a copy of 'The House at Pooh Corner' 1928 second edition, Methuen & Co Ltd (2)
Hammer price: £500
Estimate: £200 - £400
17 June 2022
17 June 2022
MOORE, THOMAS: NATURE PRINTED BRITISH FERNS
Lot 88 Sold
MOORE, THOMAS: NATURE PRINTED BRITISH FERNS
octavo edition, volumes I & II, published by Bradbury Evans & Co, red three quarter leather binding, previously owned by Mr MH Woodford of the 'Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN' with purchase receipt from Wheldon & Wesley dated 1976
Hammer price: £390
Estimate: £150 - £200
17 June 2022
17 June 2022
MOSENTHAL & HARTING:OSTRICHES AND OSTRICH FARMING
Lot 89 Sold
MOSENTHAL & HARTING:OSTRICHES AND OSTRICH FARMING
published by Trubner and Co,London 1876, red cloth binding, sold together with Cheesman: In Unknown Arabia and Thomas: Alarms and Excursions in Arabia
Hammer price: £100
Estimate: £100 - £150
17 June 2022
17 June 2022
NICHOLSON, WILLIAM 'The Square Book of Animals'
Lot 90 Sold
NICHOLSON, WILLIAM 'The Square Book of Animals'
Rhymes by Arthur Waugh, Heinemann, 1900, 12 chromolithographed plates, original cloth-backed pictorial boards

Provenance: Kerrison Preston Esq. and by descent
Hammer price: £400
Estimate: £300 - £500
17 June 2022
17 June 2022
AN INTERESTING COLLECTION OF LETTERS FROM DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI TO THEODORE WATTS-DUNTON
Lot 91 Sold
AN INTERESTING COLLECTION OF LETTERS FROM DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI TO THEODORE WATTS-DUNTON
dating from 1887 to 1881, chiefly concerning updates on Rossetti's works of the time, including a drawing of Mrs Stillman (Marie Spartali Stillman (1844-1927)), but also highlighting Rossetti's loneliness in his latter years, 13 letters in total, 11 with original envelopes, all with typed transcriptions (available upon request)

Provenance: Kerrison Preston Esq. and by descent
Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti (12 May 1828 – 9 April 1882), generally known as Dante Gabriel…
Hammer price: £3,000
Estimate: £2,000 - £4,000
17 June 2022
17 June 2022
A HANDWRITTEN LETTER AND SONNET FROM DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI TO FREDERIC J SHIELDS
Lot 92 Sold
A HANDWRITTEN LETTER AND SONNET FROM DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI TO FREDERIC J SHIELDS
written on the 20th May 1880 for the purpose of Shields' sketch of William Blake's work room and death room, 3 Fountain Court, Strand. Together with a reprint of an article reprinted from the 'Manchester Quarterly' April 1910 'Blake's Work Room and Death Room and Rossetti's Sonnet' which references this letter and sonnet.

Provenance: Kerrison Preston Esq. and by descent
The letter reading as follows:My dear Shields,Thanks for you loving words on the sonnet, and thanks…
Hammer price: £7,400
Estimate: £1,000 - £2,000
17 June 2022
17 June 2022
A HANDWRITTEN LETTER WITH SKETCHES FROM CHRISTINA ROSSETTI TO FREDERIC J SHIELDS
Lot 93 Sold
A HANDWRITTEN LETTER WITH SKETCHES FROM CHRISTINA ROSSETTI TO FREDERIC J SHIELDS
the final page of the letter with four ink sketches of kneeling women, one washing her long hair

Provenance: Kerrison Preston Esq. and by descent
The letter reading as follows:30 Torrington Square - w.c. FridayDear Mr Shields,I have copied from…
Hammer price: £1,700
Estimate: £400 - £800
17 June 2022
17 June 2022
PICART, Bernard. The Ceremonies and Religious Customs of the Various Nations of the Known World
Lot 94 Sold
PICART, Bernard. The Ceremonies and Religious Customs of the Various Nations of the Known World
7 volumes, bound as 6 volumes, 1733-39. Dedicated to Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington, with illustrations by Claude du Bosc.
Volume 1 of the religious customs of the Jews and Roman Catholics, typographical error on half…
Hammer price: £1,000
Estimate: £800 - £1,200
17 June 2022
17 June 2022
POWYS: T.F.: MR TASKER'S GODS
Lot 95 Sold
POWYS: T.F.: MR TASKER'S GODS
first edition, published by Chatto & Windus 1925; sold together with Powys, J.C.: Morwyn, first edition, published by Cassell, 1937, both in cloth bindings with dustwrappers
Hammer price: £60
Estimate: £60 - £80
17 June 2022
17 June 2022
A HANDWRITTEN LETTER FROM GEORGE FREDERIC WATTS TO TOM TAYLOR
Lot 96 Unsold
A HANDWRITTEN LETTER FROM GEORGE FREDERIC WATTS TO TOM TAYLOR
congratulating Taylor on the birth of his "bouncing baby boy"

Provenance: Kerrison Preston Esq. and by descent
Kerrison Preston Esq. (1884-1974) practised as a solicitor in Bournemouth, Hampshire (now Dorset) from 1909 to 1949. He was a noted connoisseur with a collection including Pre-Raphaelite works by Rossetti and Burne-Jones, which were saved for the nation by Duke’s in 2007 and now form part of the collection of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.
The letter reading as follows:Jan 15 1861Sandown HouseEsherSurreyMy dear Tom,With all the pleasure…
Estimate: £200 - £400
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