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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: 497

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
GEORGE HERBERT KITCHIN (c.1870-1951) THREE SKETCH BOOKS
Lot 496 Sold
GEORGE HERBERT KITCHIN (c.1870-1951) THREE SKETCH BOOKS
one titled 'Wales and Norway' and dated 1892, recording events and details of his summer holiday in text, drawing and watercolour, 13cm high x 18cm wide, one 'Northumberland 1915-1916', featuring numerous architectural studies, 14cm high x 23cm wide, and another similar (3)

Note: George Herbert Kitchin was an architect and antiquarian. He designed and laid the arts and crafts garden at his home Compton End, Winchester, as featured in ‘Country Life’, 23 August 1919, 240-48.
Hammer price: £550
Estimate: £300 - £500
23 October 2024
23 October 2024
ERNST LEMBERGER: PORTRAIT MINIATURES OF FIVE CENTURIES
Lot 497 Unsold
ERNST LEMBERGER: PORTRAIT MINIATURES OF FIVE CENTURIES
with seventy-five illustrations in colour, published by Hodder And Stoughton
Estimate: £50 - £80
23 October 2024
23 October 2024

Total lots: 497

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