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The Winter Auction

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

Head of Sale: 

William Batt


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Thursday 30th January at 10.30am

including the contents of Wabey House, Upwey.


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Lots per page:

Total lots: 448

Lot Title Estimate Hammer price
318 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…
£200 - £400 £180 View
319 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
£100 - £200 £80 View
320 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
£50 - £100 £130 View
321 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.
£40 - £80 £140 View
322 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
£600 - £800 - View
323 A PAIR OF CAST IRON GARDEN URNS
of campana shape, with fluted tapered bodies on square plinth bases, 53cm high x 42cm diameter (2)
£100 - £200 £300 View
324 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)
£200 - £400 £340 View
325 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.
£40 - £80 £280 View
327 A PAIR OF LEAD 'BACCHANALIAN' CHERUBS
19th century, both figured holding grapes and drinking vessels, seated on circular stone plinths, approximately 88cm high (2)
£800 - £1,500 £2,000 View
329 A WROUGHT IRON SINGLE GARDEN GATE
19th/20th century, with a scrolling cresting, 146cm high x 102cm wide approximately
£50 - £100 £200 View
330 A PAIR OF WROUGHT IRON GARDEN GATES
19th/20th century, profusely decorated with scrolling tendrils, 170cm high x 150cm wide approximately (2)
£100 - £200 £650 View
331 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…
£300 - £500 £200 View
332 APPULEII (APULEIUS c. AD 124-170): ‘METAMORPHOSEON’
Latin, with preface by David Ruhnken, 4to, published by Van der Eyk, Leiden, 1786, full calf binding
£100 - £200 - View
333 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…
£50 - £100 £280 View
334 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
£100 - £200 £60 View
335 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
£80 - £150 £80 View
336 ‘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…
£200 - £400 £240 View
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

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