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William Batt & Michael Roberts
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Wednesday 23rd October at 10.30am
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| Lot | Title | Estimate | Hammer price | |
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| 472 |
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)… |
£1,000 - £2,000 | £1,000 | View |
| 473 |
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 -…
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£200 - £400 | - | View |
| 474 |
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…
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£50 - £100 | - | View |
| 475 |
COCKE, THOMAS - 'KITCHIN-PHYSICK'
London 1675, with appendix on Stoving and Bathing, original brown leather binding
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£150 - £200 | £150 | View |
| 476 |
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…
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£100 - £200 | £130 | View |
| 477 |
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…
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£50 - £100 | - | View |
| 478 |
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…
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£500 - £1,000 | £650 | View |
| 479 |
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… |
£30 - £50 | £20 | View |
| 480 |
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…
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£400 - £600 | - | View |
| 481 |
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)
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£300 - £500 | - | View |
| 482 |
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… |
£50 - £100 | - | View |
| 483 |
LEIGHTON, CLARE - ‘THE FARMER’S YEAR’
first edition, published by Collins, London, 1933, with dustwrapper
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£100 - £200 | £180 | View |
| 484 |
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…
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£50 - £100 | - | View |
| 485 |
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,…
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£200 - £400 | £180 | View |
| 486 |
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,… |
£300 - £500 | - | View |
| 487 |
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
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£100 - £200 | £60 | View |
| 488 |
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. |
£300 - £500 | £340 | View |
| 489 |
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)
… |
£300 - £500 | £260 | View |
| 490 |
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…
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£200 - £400 | £1,500 | View |
| 491 |
'LE TABLEAU DE LA VIE'
a miniature French almanac from 1820, published in Paris, red leather bound, 2cm high
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£200 - £300 | - | View |
| 492 |
‘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)
… |
£300 - £500 | - | View |
| 493 |
‘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…
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£200 - £400 | £170 | View |
| 494 |
‘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…
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£200 - £400 | £130 | View |
| 495 |
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…
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£200 - £400 | - | View |
