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Auction date Thursday 30 January 2025 10:30 - 17:30 GMT
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Head of Sale: 

William Batt


Auction: 

Thursday 30th January at 10.30am

including the contents of Wabey House, Upwey.


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Total lots: 448

A CHIPPENDALE STYLE WALNUT CHEST ON STAND
Lot 318 Sold
A CHIPPENDALE STYLE WALNUT CHEST ON STAND
possibly American, the upper section with five short drawers over three long graduated drawers, on a stand with shaped apron and cabriole legs, 152cm high x 103cm wide x 57cm deep

Note: For a similar example please see Bonhams, New York, Fine American & European Furniture, 23rd January 2014, Lot 1021.
Hammer price: £180
Estimate: £200 - £400
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
A REGENCY ROSEWOOD TEAPOY
Lot 319 Sold
A REGENCY ROSEWOOD TEAPOY
with moulded lifting top, fitted with four lidded canisters, the panelled central column on inswept base, turned feet and castors, 79cm high x 38cm wide x 32cm deep
Hammer price: £80
Estimate: £100 - £200
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
A VICTORIAN WALNUT ARMCHAIR
Lot 320 Sold
A VICTORIAN WALNUT ARMCHAIR
with button back velvet covers, on turned front legs and outswept rear legs terminating in brass castors, 96cm high x 60cm wide
Hammer price: £130
Estimate: £50 - £100
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
A SET OF THREE GILDED WALL BRACKETS
Lot 321 Sold
A SET OF THREE GILDED WALL BRACKETS
20th century, each figured with winged masks, 30cm high x 30cm wide x 15.5cm deep (3)

Provenance: Wabey House, Upwey, Weymouth.
Hammer price: £140
Estimate: £40 - £80
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
AN ANTIQUE UZBEK SUZANI
Lot 322 Unsold
AN ANTIQUE UZBEK SUZANI
19th century, the appliqué woven in colours with palmettes and leaves on a six panel cream ground, within conforming borders, the reverse with silk backing, 214cm x 160cm
Estimate: £600 - £800
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
A PAIR OF CAST IRON GARDEN URNS
Lot 323 Sold
A PAIR OF CAST IRON GARDEN URNS
of campana shape, with fluted tapered bodies on square plinth bases, 53cm high x 42cm diameter (2)
Hammer price: £300
Estimate: £100 - £200
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
A PAIR OF LEAD PLANTERS
Lot 324 Sold
A PAIR OF LEAD PLANTERS
19th century, the exteriors decorated in relief with figural scenes set in a distillery or ale house, including standing men conversing, and servants filling jugs, 32.5cm high x 38cm diameter (2)
Hammer price: £340
Estimate: £200 - £400
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
A NEAR PAIR OF PATINATED METAL GEESE
Lot 325 Sold
A NEAR PAIR OF PATINATED METAL GEESE
20th century, cast naturalistically, one with head raised, with incised detailing throughout, 71cm and 57cm high (2)

Provenance: Wabey House, Upwey, Weymouth.
Hammer price: £280
Estimate: £40 - £80
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
A PAIR OF LEAD 'BACCHANALIAN' CHERUBS
Lot 327 Sold
A PAIR OF LEAD 'BACCHANALIAN' CHERUBS
19th century, both figured holding grapes and drinking vessels, seated on circular stone plinths, approximately 88cm high (2)
Hammer price: £2,000
Estimate: £800 - £1,500
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
A WROUGHT IRON SINGLE GARDEN GATE
Lot 329 Sold
A WROUGHT IRON SINGLE GARDEN GATE
19th/20th century, with a scrolling cresting, 146cm high x 102cm wide approximately
Hammer price: £200
Estimate: £50 - £100
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
A PAIR OF WROUGHT IRON GARDEN GATES
Lot 330 Sold
A PAIR OF WROUGHT IRON GARDEN GATES
19th/20th century, profusely decorated with scrolling tendrils, 170cm high x 150cm wide approximately (2)
Hammer price: £650
Estimate: £100 - £200
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
ALDIN, CECIL: ‘CECIL ALDIN’S HAPPY FAMILY’
Lot 331 Sold
ALDIN, CECIL: ‘CECIL ALDIN’S HAPPY FAMILY’
first edition, 4to, published by Henry Frowde, London 1912, half grey cloth binding with illustrated boards, and a large collection of volumes written or illustrated by Cecil Aldin including ‘An Artist’s Models’, first edition published by H.F. & G. Witherbury, London 1930 (31)
Hammer price: £200
Estimate: £300 - £500
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
APPULEII (APULEIUS c. AD 124-170): ‘METAMORPHOSEON’
Lot 332 Unsold
APPULEII (APULEIUS c. AD 124-170): ‘METAMORPHOSEON’
Latin, with preface by David Ruhnken, 4to, published by Van der Eyk, Leiden, 1786, full calf binding
Estimate: £100 - £200
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
ARCHIBALD F. GREIG OF REAWICK, SHETLAND
Lot 333 Sold
ARCHIBALD F. GREIG OF REAWICK, SHETLAND
a leather bound volume of copy letters, 4to, the half title gilt lettered with ‘Letter Book / No. 3 / Greig’;an early 18th Century vellum bound ten year accounts ledger, the first entry dated March 24 1719, the last entry March 24 1729; and one other accounts ledger listing Union Bank of Scotland details (3)
Hammer price: £280
Estimate: £50 - £100
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
BALFOUR, DAVID: ‘OPPRESSIONS OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY IN THE ISLANDS OF ORKNEY AND ZETLAND’
Lot 334 Sold
BALFOUR, DAVID: ‘OPPRESSIONS OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY IN THE ISLANDS OF ORKNEY AND ZETLAND’
printed for the members of the Maitland and Zetland clubs, 4to, published Edinburgh 1859, red cloth bound; and a collection of Shetland related books
Hammer price: £60
Estimate: £100 - £200
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
BARNARD, FRANK (illus.): ‘PICTURESQUE LIFE IN SHETLAND’
Lot 335 Sold
BARNARD, FRANK (illus.): ‘PICTURESQUE LIFE IN SHETLAND’
limited edition 139 of 300, landscape fo, published by George Waterston & Sons, Edinburgh 1890, half red leather bound with illustrated boards
Hammer price: £80
Estimate: £80 - £150
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
‘BARR’S BUFFON: BUFFON’S NATURAL HISTORY’
Lot 336 Sold
‘BARR’S BUFFON: BUFFON’S NATURAL HISTORY’
volumes 1 to 10; sold together with Buffon - ‘Natural History of Birds, Fish, Insects and Reptiles’, volumes 1-6, 8vo, all printed for the proprietor and sold by H.D. Symonds, London 1797, in gilt tooled full leather bindings by B. Maud, Bromsgrove numbered I to XVI (16)
Hammer price: £240
Estimate: £200 - £400
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
BELL, CURRER (CHARLOTTE BRONTË): ‘JANE EYRE’
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
BOWLES, CHARLES: ‘MODERN WILTS - HUNDRED OF CHALKE’
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
BULWER-LYTTON, EDWARD: TWO TITLES - ‘ERNEST MATRAVERS’ AND ‘THE LAST OF THE BARONS’
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
BURNS, ROBERT: ‘POEMS, CHIEFLY IN THE SCOTTISH DIALECT’
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
BURTON, RICHARD F.: THE BOOK OF THE THOUSAND NIGHTS AND A NIGHT’
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
BYRON, LORD GEORGE GORDON: ‘WORKS’
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
CAMDEN, WILLIAM: ‘BRITANNIA: OR, A CHOROGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND’
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

Total lots: 448

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