Live

The Winter Auction

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

MoreLess information

Head of Sale:

William Batt

Auction:

Thursday 30th January at 10.30am

including the contents of Wabey House, Upwey.

Take a Virtual tour

Viewing:

Monday 27th January 9.30am - 7pm

Tuesday 28th January 9.30am - 5pm

Wednesday 29th January 9.30am - 5pm

From 9am the day of the Auction

Bidding:

Live bidding will be available for this auction through this website, The Saleroom and Easylive Auction. Please ensure your registration is completed early to avoid disappointment. Commission Bidding and Telephone bidding is also available.

Unfortunately, Duke's are unable to offer a postal or delivery service. We are pleased to recommend reputable carriers and can advise on air-freight and other forms of dispatch.

For more information please contact Duke's on 01305 265080 or email enquiries@dukes-auctions.com

Find our full conditions of sale here

Lot	Title	Estimate	Hammer price
337	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’	£100 - £200	£170	View
338	BOWLES, CHARLES: ‘MODERN WILTS - HUNDRED OF CHALKE’ 8vo, printed for the author by Clarence Rutter, Shaftesbury 1830, half green cloth binding with marbled boards	£80 - £150	-	View
339	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…	£200 - £400	-	View
340	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…	£100 - £200	£80	View
341	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)	£100 - £200	£50	View
342	BYRON, LORD GEORGE GORDON: ‘WORKS’ volumes 1,2-4-6, 8vo, published by Galignani, Paris, 1818, vellum bound with ‘recycled’ flyleaves (5)	£100 - £200	-	View
343	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)	£500 - £1,000	£800	View
344	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	£300 - £500	-	View
345	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…	£100 - £200	£60	View
346	CANTERI, GULIELMI: ‘LYCOPHRONIS CHALCIDENSIS’ Latin and Greek, 8vo, published by Hieronymum Commelinum, Geneva, 1596, gilt tooled full brown calf binding	£500 - £1,000	-	View
347	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	£300 - £500	£280	View
348	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	£100 - £200	£120	View
349	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	£100 - £200	£80	View
350	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)	£500 - £1,000	£1,300	View
351	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)	£50 - £100	£30	View
352	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,…	£300 - £500	£950	View
353	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)	£100 - £200	£40	View
354	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…	£200 - £400	£220	View
355	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)	£500 - £1,000	£1,400	View
356	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…	£100 - £200	£80	View
357	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…	£4,000 - £6,000	£7,150	View
358	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	£200 - £400	£850	View
359	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	£200 - £400	£120	View
360	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…	£150 - £250	£240	View
361	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	£200 - £400	£380	View
362	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…	£100 - £200	£220	View
363	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…	£100 - £200	£80	View
364	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…	£300 - £500	-	View
365	GUICCIARDINI, FRANCESCO: ‘THE HISTORY OF FLORENCE’ Latin, fo, published Basel, 1566, nineteenth century three quarter leather bound with marbled boards	£500 - £1,000	-	View
366	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)	£1,500 - £2,500	£2,000	View
367	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	£700 - £1,000	£1,400	View
368	HIBBERT, SAMUEL: 'A DESCRIPTION OF THE SHETLAND ISLANDS’ first edition, 4to, printed for Archibald Constable, Edinburgh 1822, three-quarter brown leather binding	£100 - £200	£160	View
369	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	£200 - £400	£460	View
370	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…	£300 - £500	£460	View
371	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	£80 - £150	£40	View
372	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)	£300 - £500	£220	View
373	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	£100 - £200	£180	View
374	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	£500 - £1,000	£400	View
375	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	£500 - £1,000	£380	View
376	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,…	£80 - £150	-	View
377	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…	£100 - £200	£30	View
378	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)	£200 - £400	£140	View
379	MANELLI, FRANCESCO DI AMARETTO: ‘IL DECAMERON DI BOCCACCIO’ 1761, 4to, full calf bound with maroon leather half title	£200 - £400	-	View
380	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	£200 - £400	£3,000	View
381	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	£100 - £200	£130	View
382	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.	£50 - £100	£90	View
383	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…	£300 - £500	-	View
384	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…	£100 - £200	£120	View

Total lots: 458

Page:

of 10