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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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of 19

Lots per page:

Total lots: 448

Lot Title Estimate Hammer price
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
385 PRESTON, JOHN: 'THE SAINTS QUALIFICATION'
8vo, printed by R.B. for Nicolas Bourne, Royal Exchange, London, 1633, original full brown leather binding
£200 - £400 £100 View
386 RALEGH, SIR WALTER: ‘THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD’
fo, printed for Walter Burre, 1614, three-quarter leather bound with marbled boards
£700 - £1,000 £500 View
387 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…
£300 - £500 £440 View
388 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
£500 - £1,000 £380 View
389 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…
£100 - £200 £500 View
391 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…
£250 - £350 - View
392 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)
£100 - £200 £100 View
393 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…
£200 - £400 - View

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