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Auction date Wednesday 23 October 2024 10:30 - 17:30 BST
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William Batt & Michael Roberts


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Wednesday 23rd October at 10.30am


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Total lots: 482

BARLOW, FRANCIS (ILLUS.) - 'AESOP'S FABLES WITH HIS LIFE'
Lot 472 Sold
BARLOW, FRANCIS (ILLUS.) - 'AESOP'S FABLES WITH HIS LIFE'
printed by William Godbid for Francis Barlow, London 1665 (title page dated 1666), full brown leather binding and retaining frontispiece

Provenance: The Estate of the late Brian Phelan (1934-2024) and Dorothy Bromiley Phelan (1930-2024).
Hammer price: £1,000
Estimate: £1,000 - £2,000
23 October 2024
23 October 2024
BARNES, WILLIAM - THREE DORSET VOLUMES
Lot 473 Unsold
BARNES, WILLIAM - THREE DORSET VOLUMES
comprising ‘Early England and the Saxon-English’ and two copies of ‘Poems of Rural Life’, published 1869, 1879 and 1905 respectively, all cloth bound, together with two other Dorset related volumes - Hardy, Thomas - ‘Life’s Little Ironies’ published Harper & Brothers New York 1904 and Moule, H.J. - ‘Old Dorset’ (5)
Note: The 1879 edition of 'Poems of Rural Life' bears an inscription from 'H O Lock'. The edition…
Estimate: £200 - £400
23 October 2024
23 October 2024
BROADLEY, A.M. AND BARTELOT, R.G. - ‘NELSON’S HARDY’
Lot 474 Unsold
BROADLEY, A.M. AND BARTELOT, R.G. - ‘NELSON’S HARDY’
published by John Murray, London 1909, red cloth bound, ex libris Bethnal Green (later Kensington and Chelsea), half red leather and red cloth bound; sold together with Gore, John - ‘Nelson’s Hardy and His Wife’, first edition, published by John Murray, 1935, green cloth bound (2)
Estimate: £50 - £100
23 October 2024
23 October 2024
COCKE, THOMAS - 'KITCHIN-PHYSICK'
Lot 475 Sold
COCKE, THOMAS - 'KITCHIN-PHYSICK'
London 1675, with appendix on Stoving and Bathing, original brown leather binding
Hammer price: £150
Estimate: £150 - £200
23 October 2024
23 October 2024
COKER, REVEREND JOHN - ‘A SURVEY OF DORSETSHIRE’
Lot 476 Sold
COKER, REVEREND JOHN - ‘A SURVEY OF DORSETSHIRE’
printed for John Wilcox et al, London, 1732, full brown leather binding, complete with folding map; together with ‘A Walk Around Dorchester’, printed for J. Criswick, Dorchester, 1820, half cloth bound with card boards and later half title, complete with maps (2)

Provenance: ‘A Survey…’ purchased by the present vendor from Hy. Duke & Son, 10th December 1992.

Note: By repute, this work was originally written by Thomas Gerard in the 1620's, first being published under the name of John Coker in 1732.
Hammer price: £130
Estimate: £100 - £200
23 October 2024
23 October 2024
EYRE MATCHAM, M. - ‘THE NELSONS OF BURNHAM THORPE’
Lot 477 Unsold
EYRE MATCHAM, M. - ‘THE NELSONS OF BURNHAM THORPE’
review copy, published by John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1911, red cloth bound with embossed title page; together with Isaacson, Cecil J. (Rector of Burnham Thorpe 1962-1985) - ‘Nelson’s Five Years on the Beach’, green paper bound (2)
Estimate: £50 - £100
23 October 2024
23 October 2024
GERARD, JOHN - ‘THE HERBALL’ OR ‘GENERALL HISTORIE OF PLANTES’
Lot 478 Sold
GERARD, JOHN - ‘THE HERBALL’ OR ‘GENERALL HISTORIE OF PLANTES’
second revised edition by Thomas Johnson, published 1633, 1628pp, together with front epistle and index, lacking title page, rebound in three quarter brown leather with gilt tooled black half title and marbled boards
Hammer price: £650
Estimate: £500 - £1,000
23 October 2024
23 October 2024
HUGHES, EDWARD (ED.) - ‘THE PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE OF ADMIRAL LORD COLLINGWOOD’
Lot 479 Sold
HUGHES, EDWARD (ED.) - ‘THE PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE OF ADMIRAL LORD COLLINGWOOD’
printed by Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co for the Navy Records Society, 1957, half blue cloth bound with cream and gilt boards

Provenance: Purchased by the present vendor from Marine & Cannon Books, Cheshire.
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £30 - £50
23 October 2024
23 October 2024
HUTCHINS, JOHN - TWO COPIES OF ‘THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE COUNTY OF DORSET’
Lot 480 Unsold
HUTCHINS, JOHN - TWO COPIES OF ‘THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE COUNTY OF DORSET’
both first editions, volumes I and II, both printed by Bowyer and Nichols, London, 1774, full brown leather bindings, one set with brown leather half titles, the other black, the former inscribed in ink Frederick and Jane Fisher, the latter with bookplate for Sir Robert Sheffield (4)

Provenance: The Digby family.
Estimate: £400 - £600
23 October 2024
23 October 2024
HUTCHINS, JOHN - ‘THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE COUNTY OF DORSET’
Lot 481 Unsold
HUTCHINS, JOHN - ‘THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE COUNTY OF DORSET’
third edition, volumes I-IV, printed by John Bowyer and Sons, London 1861, brown three quarter leather and maroon cloth bindings (4)
Estimate: £300 - £500
23 October 2024
23 October 2024
KAYE, J.W. - ‘AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MISS CORNELIA KNIGHT’
Lot 482 Unsold
KAYE, J.W. - ‘AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MISS CORNELIA KNIGHT’
volumes I and II, published by W.H. Allen and Co, London 1861, three quarter brown leather binding with marbled boards (2)

Note: Miss Knight has a Lord Nelson association - having been under the protection of the Hamilton family and travelled from Italy to England with them and Lord Nelson circa 1799.
Estimate: £50 - £100
23 October 2024
23 October 2024
LEIGHTON, CLARE - ‘THE FARMER’S YEAR’
Lot 483 Sold
LEIGHTON, CLARE - ‘THE FARMER’S YEAR’
first edition, published by Collins, London, 1933, with dustwrapper
Hammer price: £180
Estimate: £100 - £200
23 October 2024
23 October 2024
MACKENZIE, COLONEL R.H. - ‘THE TRAFALGAR ROLL’
Lot 484 Unsold
MACKENZIE, COLONEL R.H. - ‘THE TRAFALGAR ROLL’
with introduction by Colin White, reissue published by Chatham, 2004, blue cloth bound with dust wrapper; together with a copy of Bonham's Nelson the Royal Navy sale catalogue 18th October 2005; and a selection of Nelson related pamphlets and publications (9)
Estimate: £50 - £100
23 October 2024
23 October 2024
MORRISON, ALFRED (ED.) - ‘THE HAMILTON & NELSON PAPERS’
Lot 485 Sold
MORRISON, ALFRED (ED.) - ‘THE HAMILTON & NELSON PAPERS’
volumes I & II, printed by Strangeways & Sons, London for private circulation, 1893, cloth half binding with paper half titles and blue paper boards, both bearing G.E. Manwaring bookplates, volume I inside rear board pasted with a commemorative newspaper cutting from The Times 25/12/1905 detailing Nelson’s will (2)
Hammer price: £180
Estimate: £200 - £400
23 October 2024
23 October 2024
NICOLAS, SIR NICHOLAS HARRIS (ED.): THE DISPATCHES AND LETTERS OF VICE ADMIRAL LORD VISCOUNT NELSON’
Lot 486 Unsold
NICOLAS, SIR NICHOLAS HARRIS (ED.) - ‘THE DISPATCHES AND LETTERS OF VICE ADMIRAL LORD VISCOUNT NELSON’
first edition, volumes I-VII, published by Henry Colburn, London 1844-6, original blue cloth binding (7)

Provenance: Purchased by the current owner from Peter Harrington’s Christmas 2012 catalogue, stock number 49776.
Estimate: £300 - £500
23 October 2024
23 October 2024
NODDER, FREDERICK - ‘FLORA RUSTICA’
Lot 487 Sold
NODDER, FREDERICK - ‘FLORA RUSTICA’
volume III, with text by Thomas Martin, numerous coloured engravings throughout, printed and published by F.P. Nodder, three quarter brown leather binding
Hammer price: £60
Estimate: £100 - £200
23 October 2024
23 October 2024
PAGET HOW, COMMANDER GEORGE EVELYN - ‘ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH SILVER SPOONS’
Lot 488 Sold
PAGET HOW, COMMANDER GEORGE EVELYN - ‘ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH SILVER SPOONS’
limited edition no. 181/550, volumes I-III, privately printed by the Curwen Press, Plaistow, 1952, blue cloth bound with dustwrappers (3)

Provenance: The Les Watts Collection.
Hammer price: £340
Estimate: £300 - £500
23 October 2024
23 October 2024
SMITH, SIR JAMES EDWARD - ‘ENGLISH BOTANY’
Lot 489 Sold
SMITH, SIR JAMES EDWARD - ‘ENGLISH BOTANY’
illustrated by James Sowerby, second edition, volumes I-XII, printed by Richard Taylor for C.E. Sowerby, Westminster Road, London 1832, brown three-quarter leather bindings with marbled boards (12)

Provenance: The Digby family.
Hammer price: £260
Estimate: £300 - £500
23 October 2024
23 October 2024
URBAN, SYLVANUS - ‘THE GENTLEMAN’S MAGAZINE’ OR ‘MONTHLY INTELLIGENCER’
Lot 490 Sold
URBAN, SYLVANUS - ‘THE GENTLEMAN’S MAGAZINE’ OR ‘MONTHLY INTELLIGENCER’
a large incomplete run including volume 1 (1731) through to 203 (1857) and including volume 47 for 1777, initially printed by Edward Cave, variously bound, the earlier editions with brown card spines and blue paper boards (110 volumes)
Hammer price: £1,500
Estimate: £200 - £400
23 October 2024
23 October 2024
'LE TABLEAU DE LA VIE'
Lot 491 Unsold
'LE TABLEAU DE LA VIE'
a miniature French almanac from 1820, published in Paris, red leather bound, 2cm high
Estimate: £200 - £300
23 October 2024
23 October 2024
‘THE XITH OLYMPIC GAMES BERLIN 1936 OFFICIAL REPORT’
Lot 492 Unsold
‘THE XITH OLYMPIC GAMES BERLIN 1936 OFFICIAL REPORT’
volumes I and II, published by Wilhelm Limpert, Berlin, 1937, tan cloth bound with gilt half titles, the front boards gilt embossed with an eagle holding the Olympic rings, with card slip case (2)

Provenance: The Les Watts Collection.
Estimate: £300 - £500
23 October 2024
23 October 2024
‘THE ANNUAL REGISTER’
Lot 493 Sold
‘THE ANNUAL REGISTER’
a large incomplete run, initially printed for J. Dodsley, covering years 1758-1774, 1786, 1787, 1791-1806 (two copies of 1806), 1808-1822, 1824-1832, 1834 and 1851, variously bound, together with six volumes of 'The New Annual Register', covering years 1793, 1799, 1806-1809 (69 volumes)
Hammer price: £170
Estimate: £200 - £400
23 October 2024
23 October 2024
‘THE LETTERS OF LORD NELSON TO LADY HAMILTON’
Lot 494 Sold
‘THE LETTERS OF LORD NELSON TO LADY HAMILTON’
volumes I and II, printed for Thomas Lovewell & Co, Staines House, Barbican, 1814, card bound with paper half titles, contained in later grey paper covered slip case; together with a contemporary unbound twelve page typed review (2)

Provenance: Purchased by the present vendor from Marine & Cannon Books, Cheshire.
Hammer price: £130
Estimate: £200 - £400
23 October 2024
23 October 2024
LORD VISCOUNT HORATIO NELSON INTEREST: A COLLECTION OF BOOKS
Lot 495 Unsold
LORD VISCOUNT HORATIO NELSON INTEREST: A COLLECTION OF BOOKS
relating to the life and achievements of the naval hero, including Hudson, Gilbert (Ed.) - ‘Nelson’s Last Diary’; two copies of Southey, Robert - ‘Life of Nelson’, one in fine gilt tooled red leather binding; and Beresford, Rear-Admiral Lord Charles and Wilson, H.W. - ‘Nelson and His Times’ (32)
Estimate: £200 - £400
23 October 2024
23 October 2024

Total lots: 482

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