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Auction date Wednesday, 24 April 2024 10:30 - 17:30 BST

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William Batt & Michael Roberts


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Wednesday 24th April at 10.30am


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of 23

Lots per page:

Total lots: 547

Lot 728 Sold
HOWITT, WILLIAM, ‘VISITS TO REMARKABLE PLACES’
two copies, both published by Longmans, 1840 and 1891, the former rebound in half maroon leather, the latter with gilt tooled full red leather binding (2)
Hammer price: £30
Estimate: £50 - £100
24 April 2024
24 April 2024
Lot 729 Sold
HUTCHINS, JOHN, ‘THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE COUNTY OF DORSET’
third edition, volumes I and II, printed by John Bowyer Nichols and Sons, Westminster 1861, green three-quarter leather binding with bookplates for Alexander Meyrick Broadley, The Knapp Bradpole 1895 (2)
Hammer price: £200
Estimate: £100 - £200
24 April 2024
24 April 2024
Lot 730 Sold
JOHNSON, SAMUEL AND STEVENS, GEORGE, ‘THE PLAYS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’
comprising the works of William Shakespeare and notes by Samuel Johnson and George Stevens, volumes 1-10; together with two companion volumes ‘Supplement to Shakespeare’, all printed for Bathurst et al, London 1778/1780 (12)
Hammer price: £100
Estimate: £100 - £200
24 April 2024
24 April 2024
Lot 731 Sold
LAMB, ALEXANDER, 'REASONS FOR CONVERTING PORTLAND ROADS INTO A HARBOUR'
pamphlet, printed by Baynes and Harris, London 1836, 32.5cm x 20cm
Hammer price: £180
Estimate: £100 - £200
24 April 2024
24 April 2024
Lot 732 Sold
LIVINGSTONE, DAVID, 'MISSIONARY RESEARCHES AND TRAVELS IN SOUTH AFRICA'
first edition, published by John Murray, London 1857, retaining Victoria Falls frontispiece, in later Bayntun-Riviere three-quarter brown leather binding with gilt tooled spine
Hammer price: £200
Estimate: £300 - £500
24 April 2024
24 April 2024
Lot 733 Sold
LODGE, EDMUND, ‘PORTRAITS OF ILLUSTRIOUS PERSONAGES OF GREAT BRITAIN’
volumes 1-6, printed for Harding, Mavor and Lepard, London 1823, green three-quarter binding with marbled boards (6)
Hammer price: £75
Estimate: £100 - £200
24 April 2024
24 April 2024
Lot 734 Sold
MARRYAT, FRANK S, 'BORNEO AND THE INDIAN ARCHIPELAGO'
published by Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, London 1848, gilt tooled red leather binding
Hammer price: £280
Estimate: £100 - £200
24 April 2024
24 April 2024
Lot 735 Unsold
MAURICE, F.G., 'TRAITÉ DES ENGRAIS'
published by J. J. Paschoud, Geneva, 1806, original grey paper binding with paper half title
Estimate: £100 - £200
24 April 2024
24 April 2024
Lot 736 Sold
MITFORD, WILLIAM, ‘THE HISTORY OF GREECE’
volumes 1, 2, 4, 7 and 8, printed by Luke Hansard & Sons for T. Cadell, London 1814, full brown calf binding (5)
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £30 - £50
24 April 2024
24 April 2024
Lot 737 Unsold
MUNROE ROGERS, HENRY, 'MEMORIES OF NINETY YEARS'
published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston 1928, green cloth binding with dustwrapper, the front flylead with author's ink presentation inscription to Mr and Mrs Lionel Leonard Cohen, dated 5th September 1930
Estimate: £50 - £100
24 April 2024
24 April 2024
Lot 738 Sold
SCOTT, SIR WALTER, ‘SCOTT’S NOVELS’
volumes 1-25, published by Adam and Charles Black, Edinburgh 1859/1860, three-quarter purple binding with marbled boards, the gilt tooled spines with green leather half titles (25)
Hammer price: £100
Estimate: £200 - £300
24 April 2024
24 April 2024
Lot 739 Sold
STANLEY, DOROTHY (ED.), 'THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SIR HENRY MORTON STANLEY'
published by Sampson, Low, Marston and Co., London 1909, gilt tooled brown leather binding, with presentation card to "Mr E. Judd from Lady Stanley, October 1909" pasted to inside front board
Hammer price: £50
Estimate: £50 - £100
24 April 2024
24 April 2024
Lot 740 Sold
STEPHENS, JAMES, 'THE CROCK OF GOLD'
illustrated by Thomas Mackenzie, limited edition of 525, signed by author, published by Macmillan and Co, 1926, vellum half bound with blue paper boards
Hammer price: £100
Estimate: £100 - £200
24 April 2024
24 April 2024
Lot 741 Sold
STERRY HUNT, T., 'PETROLEUM, ITS GEOLOGICAL RELATIONS'
first edition, printed by G.E. Desbarats, Quebec 1865, retaining geological map of Gaspé, in later three-quarter brown calf binding
Hammer price: £100
Estimate: £100 - £200
24 April 2024
24 April 2024
Lot 742 Unsold
VERNE, JULES, ‘LE TOUR DU MONDE EN QUATRE-VINGT JOURS’
published by J. Hetzel et Cie, Paris 1873, three-quarter brown leather binding with marbled boards
Estimate: £200 - £300
24 April 2024
24 April 2024
Lot 743 Sold
VICOMTE DE MOROGUES, 'TACTIQUE NAVALE'
volume II titled 'Des Signaux et Ordres Generaux', containing numerous battle formation charts to rear of volume, published by H.L. Guerin & L.F. Delatour, Paris, 1763, in original full calf binding with gilt tooled spine
Hammer price: £50
Estimate: £100 - £200
24 April 2024
24 April 2024
Lot 744 Sold
WRIGHT, W.H.K. (ED.), ‘THE WESTERN ANTIQUARY’
volumes 3-5, 7-10, printed by Latimer & Son, Plymouth, 1884-1891, in brown three-quarter leather bindings with spotted boards (7)
Hammer price: £40
Estimate: £50 - £100
24 April 2024
24 April 2024
Lot 745 Sold
‘THE NEW NATURALIST LIBRARY’
Nos., 1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 16, 22, 26, 51, 55, 57, 58, 65, 78, 81, 93, 98, 100, 103, 106-110, 113, 114, 117, 119-123 and 133, all published by Collins 1945-2016, all cloth bound, one lacking dust wrapper (34)
Hammer price: £480
Estimate: £500 - £1,000
24 April 2024
24 April 2024
Lot 746 Sold
A GENEVA BIBLE
translated according to the “Ebrew and Greekwe”, imprinted at London by Robert Barker, 1611, quarto, in a contemporary full-calf binding

Provenance: Sandford Orcas Manor.
Hammer price: £460
Estimate: £200 - £400
24 April 2024
24 April 2024

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