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The Autumn Auction

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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Lots per page:

Total lots: 497

Lot Title Estimate Hammer price
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)
£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
£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…
£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,…
£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
£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…
£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
£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…
£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…
£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…
£200 - £400 - View
496 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…
£300 - £500 £550 View
497 ERNST LEMBERGER: PORTRAIT MINIATURES OF FIVE CENTURIES
with seventy-five illustrations in colour, published by Hodder And Stoughton
£50 - £80 - View

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