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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

HILL, JOHN - ‘AN HISTORY OF ANIMALS’
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
HOUSMAN, LAURENCE - ‘THE LOVE CONCEALED’
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
HURD, WILLIAM: 'A NEW UNIVERSAL HISTORY OF THE RELIGIOUS RITES, CEREMONIES AND CUSTOMS OF THE WHOLE WORLD’
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
HUTCHINGS, JOHN: ‘THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE COUNTY OF DORSET’
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
JAMESON, ROBERT: ‘MINERALOGICAL TRAVELS THROUGH THE HEBRIDES, ORKNEY AND SHETLAND ISLANDS…’
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
JANSON, C.W.: ‘THE STRANGER IN AMERICA’
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
KANE, PAUL: ‘WANDERINGS OF AN ARTIST AMONG THE INDIANS OF NORTH AMERICA’
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
KIPLING, RUDYARD: FOUR TITLES
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
LUBBOCK, BASIL: THREE FIRST EDITION VOLUMES
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
MAKEPEACE THACKERAY, WILLIAM: ‘VANITY FAIR’
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
MANELLI, FRANCESCO DI AMARETTO: ‘IL DECAMERON DI BOCCACCIO’
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
MOORE, THOMAS: ‘THE FERNS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND’
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
NEILL, PATRICK: 'A TOUR THROUGH SOME OF THE ISLANDS OF ORKNEY AND SHETLAND’
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
NEWLANDS, JAMES: 'THE CARPENTER'S AND JOINER'S ASSISTANT’
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
NICOLAS, SIR NICHOLAS HARRIS (ED.): THE DISPATCHES AND LETTERS OF VICE ADMIRAL LORD VISCOUNT NELSON’
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
PAINE, THOMAS: THREE WORKS
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
PRESTON, JOHN: 'THE SAINTS QUALIFICATION'
Lot 385 Sold
PRESTON, JOHN: 'THE SAINTS QUALIFICATION'
8vo, printed by R.B. for Nicolas Bourne, Royal Exchange, London, 1633, original full brown leather binding
Hammer price: £100
Estimate: £200 - £400
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
RALEGH, SIR WALTER: ‘THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD’
Lot 386 Sold
RALEGH, SIR WALTER: ‘THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD’
fo, printed for Walter Burre, 1614, three-quarter leather bound with marbled boards
Hammer price: £500
Estimate: £700 - £1,000
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
RALEGH, SIR WALTER: ‘THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN FIVE BOOKS’
Lot 387 Sold
RALEGH, SIR WALTER: ‘THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN FIVE BOOKS’
fo, printed for Robert White et al, London 1677, full calf binding with red leather half title, an interesting handwritten two page document bound in to front of work ‘Part of a speech made by Count Gondamor at his return from England to Spain’, a copy of a 1659 translation
Hammer price: £440
Estimate: £300 - £500
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
SALT, HENRY: ‘A VOYAGE TO ABYSSINIA’
Lot 388 Sold
SALT, HENRY: ‘A VOYAGE TO ABYSSINIA’
fo, published for F.C & J, Rivington, St Paul's Churchyard, London 1814, three-quarter leather bound with gilt tooled spine and cloth boards
Hammer price: £380
Estimate: £500 - £1,000
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
SIR CUTHBERT SHARP (1781-1849): AN ARCHIVE
Lot 389 Sold
SIR CUTHBERT SHARP (1781-1849): AN ARCHIVE
comprising two Continental paper passports dated 1836 (one Belgian, one Luxembourg), an annotated leather bound copy of 'Repertoire des Lettres, Instructions et Autres Pieces de Marie Stuart' with pasted-in letters, one dated May 1839, together with an early 19th Century three-quarter leather bound notebook containing extensive handwritten notes on mixed subjects from Chinese song to English language, annotated to front flyleaf 'These extracts made in France during my detention' (4)
Note: Sir Cuthbert Sharp's life began in Hartlepool, where he was born in 1781. The son of…
Hammer price: £500
Estimate: £100 - £200
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
STRABONIS (STRABO b 63 B.C.): ‘RERUM GEOGRAPHICARUM’
Lot 391 Unsold
STRABONIS (STRABO b 63 B.C.): ‘RERUM GEOGRAPHICARUM’
two volumes titled ‘Liber XVII’ and ‘Tomis Alter’ respectively comprising thirteen chapters with other sections, fo, published by J. Wolters, Amsterdam, 1707, full calf and tooled binding with prominent spine bands and gilt lettered half titles (2)
Estimate: £250 - £350
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
THOMPSON, GEORGE: 'THE NEW HIEROGLYPHICAL BIBLE'
Lot 392 Sold
THOMPSON, GEORGE: 'THE NEW HIEROGLYPHICAL BIBLE'
8vo, published by G. Thompson, 13 Long Lane, West Smithfield, 1794, card bound, together with 'The Primer or Catechism', printed for Company of Stationers, 1771, card bound (2)
Hammer price: £100
Estimate: £100 - £200
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
TWAIN, MARK: TWO TITLES - ‘THE INNOCENTS ABROAD’ AND ‘THE NEW PILGRIMS’ PROGRESS’
Lot 393 Unsold
TWAIN, MARK: TWO TITLES - ‘THE INNOCENTS ABROAD’ AND ‘THE NEW PILGRIMS’ PROGRESS’
8vo, the former published by John Camden Horton, Piccadilly, London, the latter by George Routledge and Sons, The Broadway, Ludgate, London, both bound together in three-quarter red leather with marbled boards
Estimate: £200 - £400
30 January 2025
30 January 2025

Total lots: 448

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