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Auction date Thursday 30 January 2025 10:30 - 17:30 GMT

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William Batt


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Lots per page:

Total lots: 458

Lot 337 Sold
BELL, CURRER (CHARLOTTE BRONTË): ‘JANE EYRE’
new edition, 8vo, published by Smith, Elder and Co., London 1873, three quarter leather binding with marbled boards, the spine gilt lettered ‘C. Brontë’
Hammer price: £170
Estimate: £100 - £200
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
Lot 338 Unsold
BOWLES, CHARLES: ‘MODERN WILTS - HUNDRED OF CHALKE’
8vo, printed for the author by Clarence Rutter, Shaftesbury 1830, half green cloth binding with marbled boards
Estimate: £80 - £150
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
Lot 339 Unsold
BULWER-LYTTON, EDWARD: TWO TITLES - ‘ERNEST MATRAVERS’ AND ‘THE LAST OF THE BARONS’
first editions, each with volumes 1-3, 8vo, published by Saunders and Otley, London, 1837 and 1843 respectively, all uniformly bound in three-quarter brown leather with marbled boards, the former with green and black half titles, the latter grey (6)
Estimate: £200 - £400
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
Lot 340 Sold
BURNS, ROBERT: ‘POEMS, CHIEFLY IN THE SCOTTISH DIALECT’
two copies, 8vo, comprising one reproduction volume originally printed by John Wilson, Kilmarnock 1786, card bound, the other volume one of the second edition, printed for T. Cadell et al, Edinburgh 1793, full calf bound, sold together with Cromek, R.H. - ‘Reliques of Robert Burns’, fourth edition, printed by J. M’Creery for T. Cadell et al, London 1817, later half leather bound (3)
Hammer price: £80
Estimate: £100 - £200
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
Lot 341 Sold
BURTON, RICHARD F.: THE BOOK OF THE THOUSAND NIGHTS AND A NIGHT’
illustrated Benares Edition volumes 1-10, together with matching ‘Supplemental Nights’ volumes 1-6, 4to, all privately printed for Burton Club members, black and brown cloth bindings (16)
Hammer price: £50
Estimate: £100 - £200
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
Lot 342 Unsold
BYRON, LORD GEORGE GORDON: ‘WORKS’
volumes 1,2-4-6, 8vo, published by Galignani, Paris, 1818, vellum bound with ‘recycled’ flyleaves (5)
Estimate: £100 - £200
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
Lot 343 Sold
CAMDEN, WILLIAM: ‘BRITANNIA: OR, A CHOROGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND’
third edition, volumes 1 & 2, 4to, printed for R. Ware et al, 1753, full calf bound, the gilt tooled spines with black leather half titles, fo (2)
Hammer price: £800
Estimate: £500 - £1,000
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
Lot 344 Unsold
CAMDEN, WILLIAM: ‘THE HISTORY OF…PRINCESS ELIZABETH, LATE QUEEN OF ENGLAND’
third edition, 4to, printed by E. Flesher for Charles Harper, Fleetstreet, 1675, full calf bound with later half title
Estimate: £300 - £500
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
Lot 345 Sold
CAMPBELL, JOHN: 'FISHERIES OF ZETLAND’
lacking title page but otherwise complete, 34pp pamphlet, later cloth covered card binding, together with another volume similarly bound labelled ‘Nature Notes’, being a collection of Shetland themed magazine clippings (2)
Hammer price: £60
Estimate: £100 - £200
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
Lot 346 Unsold
CANTERI, GULIELMI: ‘LYCOPHRONIS CHALCIDENSIS’
Latin and Greek, 8vo, published by Hieronymum Commelinum, Geneva, 1596, gilt tooled full brown calf binding
Estimate: £500 - £1,000
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
Lot 347 Sold
CARROLL, LEWIS: ‘THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK’
illustrated by Louis Arragon, limited edition 4/50, signed by the illustrator, fo, published by The Hours Press, 1929, red card bound
Hammer price: £280
Estimate: £300 - £500
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
Lot 348 Sold
CATTON, REV. JAMES: ‘THE HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF THE SHETLAND ISLANDS’
8vo, printed and published by P.I. Tuxford, Wainfleet, 1838, half red tooled cloth bound with blue paper boards
Hammer price: £120
Estimate: £100 - £200
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
Lot 349 Sold
CLARKSON, THOMAS: ‘THE HISTORY OF THE RISE, PROGRESS AND ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE ABOLITION OF THE AFRICAN SLAVE-TRADE’
volume 1, 8vo, printed by R. Taylor and Co, Shoe Lane for Longman, Hurst et al, London 1808, full calf bound, retaining fold-out river plan plate
Hammer price: £80
Estimate: £100 - £200
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
Lot 350 Sold
COOK, JAMES: A VOYAGE TOWARDS THE SOUTH POLE’
3rd edition, volumes 1 & 2, 8vo, printed for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, London, 1779, full calf bound with red and green leather half titles (2)
Hammer price: £1,300
Estimate: £500 - £1,000
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
Lot 351 Sold
DAGLEY, R: ‘DEATH’S DOINGS’
second edition, volumes 1 and 2, 8vo, published by J. Andrews, London, three-quarter brown leather binding with marbled boards (2)
Hammer price: £30
Estimate: £50 - £100
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
Lot 352 Sold
DARWIN, CHARLES: SIX VOLUMES
comprising ‘The Movements of Plants’, ‘Fertilisation of Orchids’, ‘Vegetable Mould and Earthworms’, ‘Naturalist’s Voyage around the World’, ‘Expression of the Emotions’ and ‘Origin of Species’, 8vo, all published by John Murray, 1880, 1885, 1888, 1889 and 1890 respectively, all later editions, green cloth bound (6)
Hammer price: £950
Estimate: £300 - £500
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
Lot 353 Sold
DICKENS, CHARLES: 'THE POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF THE PICKWICK CLUB’
illustrated by Cecil Aldin, volumes 1 and 2, 8vo, jointly published by Chapman & Hall and Lawrence & Jellicoe, London 1910, half grey cloth binding (2)
Hammer price: £40
Estimate: £100 - £200
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
Lot 354 Sold
DICKENS, CHARLES: TWO FIRST EDITION TITLES
comprising ‘The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club’ and ‘The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby’, 8vo, both published by Chapman and Hall, London, 1837 and 1839 respectively, both in three-quarter brown leather binding with marbled boards (2)
Hammer price: £220
Estimate: £200 - £400
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
Lot 355 Sold
DU HALDE, J.B.: 'DESCRIPTION…DE L’EMPIRE DE LA CHINE’
volumes 1-4, 4to, published by Henri Scheurleer, The Hague, 1736, full calf bound, the gilt tooled spines with red and green leather half titles (4)
Hammer price: £1,400
Estimate: £500 - £1,000
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
Lot 356 Sold
EDMONDSTON, ARTHUR: ‘A VIEW OF THE….ZETLAND ISLANDS’
volumes 1 and 2, 8vo, printed by James Ballantyne and Co, Edinburgh 1809, three-quarter leather bound with marbled boards and gilt tooled spines, sold together with Skirress, John - ‘A Statistical Account of Orkney and Shetland’, three-quarter brown cloth bound (3)
Hammer price: £80
Estimate: £100 - £200
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
Lot 357 Sold
EDWARDS, GEORGE: ‘A NATURAL HISTORY OF UNCOMMON BIRDS’
volumes 1-3, fo, printed for the author at the College of Physicians, Warwick Lane, London, 1743-51, together with 'Gleanings of Natural History', volumes 1-4, 1758-64, all bound uniformly in red three-quarter leather with marbled boards (7)
Hammer price: £7,150
Estimate: £4,000 - £6,000
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
Lot 358 Sold
ELIOT, GEORGE - ‘MIDDLEMARCH’
8vo, first edition, volumes 1-4, published by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London 1872, three-quarter brown leather binding with marbled boards
Hammer price: £850
Estimate: £200 - £400
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
Lot 359 Sold
ELIOT, GEORGE: ‘SILAS MARNER’
8vo, first edition, published by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1861, three-quarter leather bound volume with marbled boards
Hammer price: £120
Estimate: £200 - £400
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
Lot 360 Sold
EVELYN, JOHN - 'SILVA OR A DISCOURSE OF FOREST-TREES'
with notes by A. Hunter, 4to, printed by A. Ward for J. Dodsley, York, 1776, gilt tooled brown leather binding, inside front board pasted with bookplate for Sarah Sophia Child and with pencil annotation to front flyleaf ‘a gift at the end of my first year’s work at Batheaston from Captain John Wyndham’
Hammer price: £240
Estimate: £150 - £250
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
Lot 361 Sold
FENNELL ROBSON, GEORGE: 'SCENERY OF THE GRAMPIAN MOUNTAINS'
fo, published by Longman, Hurst, et al, London 1819, three-quarter red leather bound with marbled boards
Hammer price: £380
Estimate: £200 - £400
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
Lot 362 Sold
FRAZER, SIR JAMES GEORGE: ‘THE GOLDEN BOUGH’
comprising ‘Adonis, Attis and Osiris’ volumes 1 and 2, ‘Spirits of the Corn’ volumes 1 and 2’, ‘The Magic Art’ volumes 1 and 2, ‘Balder the Beautiful’ volumes 1 and 2, ‘The Dying God’, ‘The Scapegoat’, ‘Taboo and the Perils of the Soul’ and Bibliography, 8vo, published by Macmillan and Co, London 1936-8, green cloth bound (12)
Hammer price: £220
Estimate: £100 - £200
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
Lot 363 Sold
GIFFORD, THOMAS: 'AN HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE ZETLAND ISLANDS’
lacking title page, 99pp, with letter from Captain Preston to Joseph Ames, later green cloth binding, sold together with three 18th Century Shetland petitions - William Sinclair of Toft, Walter Scott of Scotshall and Sir Laurence Dundas, cloth, paper and leather bound respectively (4)
Hammer price: £80
Estimate: £100 - £200
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
Lot 364 Unsold
GODWYN, THOMAS: 'MOSES & AARON: CIVIL AND ECCLESTIASTICAL RITES'
twelfth edition, 8vo, printed by Richard Hodkin, bound together with two other works - 'Romanae Historiae' by the same author, stated for 'use of the Abingdon School', printed by R.W. for Peter Parker, London 1674; and 'Archaeologiae Atticae' eight edition, printed by Henry Hall for Richard Davis, Oxford, 1675, all in brown calf binding

Provenance: Hunstanton Hall, Norfolk and by family descent.
Estimate: £300 - £500
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
Lot 365 Unsold
GUICCIARDINI, FRANCESCO: ‘THE HISTORY OF FLORENCE’
Latin, fo, published Basel, 1566, nineteenth century three quarter leather bound with marbled boards
Estimate: £500 - £1,000
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
Lot 366 Sold
HAWKESWORTH, JOHN: ‘AN ACCOUNT OF THE VOYAGES UNDERTAKEN….IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE’
volumes 1-3, 4to, printed for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, London, 1773, full calf bound with red and green leather half titles (3)
Hammer price: £2,000
Estimate: £1,500 - £2,500
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
Lot 367 Sold
HERIOT, GEORGE - ‘TRAVELS THROUGH THE CANADAS’
4to, printed by T. Gillet, Wild-court for Richard Phillips, London, 1807, three-quarter blue leather binding with marbled boards, gilt tooled spine
Hammer price: £1,400
Estimate: £700 - £1,000
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
Lot 368 Sold
HIBBERT, SAMUEL: 'A DESCRIPTION OF THE SHETLAND ISLANDS’
first edition, 4to, printed for Archibald Constable, Edinburgh 1822, three-quarter brown leather binding
Hammer price: £160
Estimate: £100 - £200
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
Lot 369 Sold
HILL, JOHN - ‘AN HISTORY OF ANIMALS’
fo, printed for Thomas Osborne, Gray’s Inn, London, 1752, with numerous originally coloured illustrations, full call bound with black and red leather half titles
Hammer price: £460
Estimate: £200 - £400
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
Lot 370 Sold
HOUSMAN, LAURENCE - ‘THE LOVE CONCEALED’
first edition, 8vo, published by Sidgwick and Jackson, London 1928, full gilt tooled red leather Art binding, with gilt fore-edge, together with a collection of nine other poetry volumes, three with full leather Art binding (10)
Hammer price: £460
Estimate: £300 - £500
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
Lot 371 Sold
HURD, WILLIAM: 'A NEW UNIVERSAL HISTORY OF THE RELIGIOUS RITES, CEREMONIES AND CUSTOMS OF THE WHOLE WORLD’
fo, printed for Alexander Hogg, London, later half green cloth binding with red card boards, undated to title page, thought c.1788
Hammer price: £40
Estimate: £80 - £150
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
Lot 372 Sold
HUTCHINGS, JOHN: ‘THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE COUNTY OF DORSET’
third edition, fo, volumes 1-4, printed by John Bowyer Nichols and Sons, London, 1861, three-quarter maroon leather binding with brown cloth boards (4)
Hammer price: £220
Estimate: £300 - £500
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
Lot 373 Sold
JAMESON, ROBERT: ‘MINERALOGICAL TRAVELS THROUGH THE HEBRIDES, ORKNEY AND SHETLAND ISLANDS…’
volumes 1 and 2 bound together, 4to, printed for Archibald Constable, Edinburgh, 1813, three-quarter brown leather binding with marbled boards
Hammer price: £180
Estimate: £100 - £200
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
Lot 374 Sold
JANSON, C.W.: ‘THE STRANGER IN AMERICA’
fo, published by James Cundee at the Albion Press, London 1807, full calf bound with red leather half title
Hammer price: £400
Estimate: £500 - £1,000
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
Lot 375 Sold
KANE, PAUL: ‘WANDERINGS OF AN ARTIST AMONG THE INDIANS OF NORTH AMERICA’
4to, published by Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans and Roberts, London 1859, original brown cloth binding with gilt lettered spine
Hammer price: £380
Estimate: £500 - £1,000
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
Lot 376 Unsold
KIPLING, RUDYARD: FOUR TITLES
comprising ‘The Seven Seas’ (7th edition), ‘Barrack Room Ballads’ 17th edition), ‘The Five Nations’ (2nd edition) and ‘Departmental Ditties’ (16th edition), 8vo, all published by Methuen & Co, London 1900, 1903 and 1904 respectively, uniformly bound in three-quarter brown leather (4)
Estimate: £80 - £150
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
Lot 377 Sold
LUBBOCK, BASIL: THREE FIRST EDITION VOLUMES
comprising ‘The Nitrate Clippers’, ‘The Opium Clippers’ and ‘Arctic Whalers’, 4to, all published by Brown, Son and Ferguson, 1932, 1933 and 1937 respectively, all blue cloth bound, together with a quantity of books of maritime interest
Hammer price: £30
Estimate: £100 - £200
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
Lot 378 Sold
MAKEPEACE THACKERAY, WILLIAM: ‘VANITY FAIR’
volumes 1-3, 8vo, copyright edition, published by Bernard Tauchnitz, Leipzig, 1848, three-quarter red leather binding with marbled boards (3)
Hammer price: £140
Estimate: £200 - £400
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
Lot 379 Unsold
MANELLI, FRANCESCO DI AMARETTO: ‘IL DECAMERON DI BOCCACCIO’
1761, 4to, full calf bound with maroon leather half title
Estimate: £200 - £400
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
Lot 380 Sold
MOORE, THOMAS: ‘THE FERNS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND’
edited by John Lindley, fo, printed by Bradbury and Evans, London 1855, gilded three-quarter leather binding with green cloth boards
Hammer price: £3,000
Estimate: £200 - £400
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
Lot 381 Sold
NEILL, PATRICK: 'A TOUR THROUGH SOME OF THE ISLANDS OF ORKNEY AND SHETLAND’
presentation copy inscribed to front flyleaf ‘… Woodhouselee with the highest esteem P. Neil’, 8vo, published by A. Constable and Co. Edinburgh 1806, later card binding
Hammer price: £130
Estimate: £100 - £200
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
Lot 382 Sold
NEWLANDS, JAMES: 'THE CARPENTER'S AND JOINER'S ASSISTANT’
4to, published by Blackie & Son, Glasgow and London, 1860, three-quarter brown leather binding with green cloth boards

Provenance: Hunstanton Hall, Norfolk and by family descent.
Hammer price: £90
Estimate: £50 - £100
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
Lot 383 Unsold
NICOLAS, SIR NICHOLAS HARRIS (ED.): THE DISPATCHES AND LETTERS OF VICE ADMIRAL LORD VISCOUNT NELSON’
first edition, volumes I-VII, 8vo, 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
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
Lot 384 Sold
PAINE, THOMAS: THREE WORKS
comprising ‘Common Sense’, ‘The Rights of Man’ and ‘The American Crisis’, 8vo, the first two titles printed by W.T. Sherwin, London, 1817, the latter printed by R. Carlile, London 1819, bound together in full calf, the gilt tooled spine with red leather half title
Hammer price: £120
Estimate: £100 - £200
30 January 2025
30 January 2025

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