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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

WILLIS, BROWNE: ‘A SURVEY OF THE CATHEDRALS’
Lot 394 Sold
WILLIS, BROWNE: ‘A SURVEY OF THE CATHEDRALS’
4to, volumes 1 and 3, printed for T. Osborne, London and T. Bacon, Dublin, 1742, full brown calf binding with red and black half titles (2)
Hammer price: £60
Estimate: £100 - £200
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
DORSET INTEREST: A VICTORIAN BROWN LEATHER PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM RELATING TO MELBURY, C.1868
Lot 395 Sold
DORSET INTEREST: A VICTORIAN BROWN LEATHER PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM RELATING TO MELBURY, C.1868
containing a large collection of mostly portrait photographs of named Dorset and related aristocracy, together with mixed other photographs including landscape views, Nativity scenes, hunting, an interesting view of an English lady in a sedan chair supported by Indian attendants, together with two pieces of pressed seaweed, one within Abbotsbury Castle headed paper wraps, the folio album with gilt tooled binding and gilded clasp
Hammer price: £7,100
Estimate: £100 - £200
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
‘FIELD’S BIBLE’: A KING JAMES BIBLE
Lot 396 Sold
‘FIELD’S BIBLE’: A KING JAMES BIBLE
8vo, printed by John Field, Cambridge, 1657, gilt tooled purple leather bound with prominent spine ridges, gilded fore-edge
Hammer price: £440
Estimate: £100 - £200
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
‘JUS DIVINUM MINISTERII EVANGELICI’ OR ‘THE DIVINE RIGHT OF THE GOSPEL-MINISTRY’
Lot 397 Sold
‘JUS DIVINUM MINISTERII EVANGELICI’ OR ‘THE DIVINE RIGHT OF THE GOSPEL-MINISTRY’
8vo, published by the Provincial Assembly of London, London 1654, later black cloth binding

Provenance: ink inscription to inside front board reads ‘I bought it Sep 1908 from James Hein (?) of Edinburgh…he charged me 2/6 for binding it’
Hammer price: £220
Estimate: £200 - £400
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
‘POETAE HEROICI GRAECI’
Lot 399 Unsold
‘POETAE HEROICI GRAECI’
fo, published by Aureliae Allobrogum, 1606, full calf bound with later red leather half title and spine bands
Estimate: £300 - £500
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
'TEESDALE'S NEW BRITISH ATLAS'
Lot 400 Sold
'TEESDALE'S NEW BRITISH ATLAS'
fo, published by Henry Teesdale & Co, London, 1831, three-quarter brown leather binding with marbled boards
Hammer price: £220
Estimate: £100 - £200
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
'THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER'
Lot 401 Sold
'THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER'
fo, printed by Charles Bill, London 1706, with red lined leaves and gilt tooled red leather binding

Provenance: Bookplate for Matilda Gore, daughter of Sir William Gore and granddaughter of George Compton, 4th Earl of Northampton, who married Charles Greene of Marlingford and died in 1787, then by family descent.
Hammer price: £200
Estimate: £200 - £400
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
‘THE ANTI-JACOBIN: OR WEEKLY EXAMINER’
Lot 402 Sold
‘THE ANTI-JACOBIN: OR WEEKLY EXAMINER’
a bound folio volume of issues 1-36 (November 20th 1797-July 9th 1798), together with the two page Prospectus, all contained in three-quarter brown leather binding
Hammer price: £150
Estimate: £150 - £250
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
‘THE COMPLETE WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE’
Lot 403 Sold
‘THE COMPLETE WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE’
with introduction by Nathan Haskell Dole, Library Edition, 8vo, volumes 1-10, published by The Werner Company, Akron, Ohio, 1908, three-quarter green leather bound (10)
Hammer price: £30
Estimate: £50 - £100
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
‘THE HOLY BIBLE’
Lot 404 Unsold
‘THE HOLY BIBLE’
French, 8vo, printed by B. Griffin and R. Everingham for F. Vaillant Marchand Libraire, Stand, London 1688, full gilt tooled red calf binding
Estimate: £150 - £250
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
TWO VOLUMES FROM 'THE NATURALIST'S LIBRARY'
Lot 405 Sold
TWO VOLUMES FROM 'THE NATURALIST'S LIBRARY'
comprising MacGillivray, William - 'A History of British Quadrupeds' and Jardine, Sir William - 'The Birds of Great Britain and Ireland Part II', 8vo, both published by W.H. Lizars, Edinburgh, 1838 and 1839 respectively, three-quarter dark blue binding with marbled boards (2)

Provenance: Emily Dowker (d. 1916) of Huntington Hall, Yorkshire, then by family descent.
Hammer price: £90
Estimate: £100 - £200
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
AN EARLY 18TH CENTURY VELLUM BOUND SCHOOL BOOK
Lot 406 Sold
AN EARLY 18TH CENTURY VELLUM BOUND SCHOOL BOOK
inscribed to front fly leaf 'Sam. Palmer 17 Sep.r 1740' and containing numerous handwritten mathematical practice equations and other schoolwork, including a note of thirteen months of twenty eight days in a year, 4to

Provenance: By repute from Holme Park, Sonning, Berkshire, thence by family descent.
Hammer price: £130
Estimate: £50 - £100
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
AN 18TH CENTURY SKETCH BOOK
Lot 407 Sold
AN 18TH CENTURY SKETCH BOOK
the half leather bound volume containing numerous portrait and landscape pencil sketches, 8vo

Provenance: Hunstanton Hall, Norfolk and by family descent.
Hammer price: £90
Estimate: £50 - £100
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
TWO EARLY 19TH CENTURY CHILDREN'S BOOKS
Lot 408 Sold
TWO EARLY 19TH CENTURY CHILDREN'S BOOKS
comprising 'Mamma's Present of Pictures' and 'The Infant's Museum or Book of Pictures', both published by Harvey and Darton, 55 Gracechurch Street, London, c. 1820, red and pink paper bound respectively (2)

Provenance: Thomas L' Estrange Ewen (1824-1901) of Hunstanton Hall, Norfolk, the former volume inscribed in ink with his name, thence by family descent.
Hammer price: £240
Estimate: £50 - £100
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
TWO EARLY 19TH CENTURY SCRAP ALBUMS
Lot 409 Sold
TWO EARLY 19TH CENTURY SCRAP ALBUMS
compiled by Anna Maria Ewen (1786-1857), continued by Charlotte Maria Ewen (1833-1915) and others, containing a mixture of Grand Tour, Military, fashion and other coloured scraps, many of the fashion scraps arranged into room settings, both folio, one green three-quarter bound, the other red leather, both with marbled boards, together with some loose scraps and a loose coloured Vowles lithograph - ‘The Tyrolese Family’, dated 1827

Provenance: Hunstanton Hall, Norfolk and by family descent.
Hammer price: £1,000
Estimate: £200 - £400
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
LES CAVES DES HAUTES-CÔTES MOREY-SAINT-DENIS 1997
Lot 410 Sold
LES CAVES DES HAUTES-CÔTES MOREY-SAINT-DENIS 1997
one 75cl bottle
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £30 - £50
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
CHÂTEAU LEZONGARS BORDEAUX 1996
Lot 411 Sold
CHÂTEAU LEZONGARS BORDEAUX 1996
four magnum bottles (4)
Hammer price: £100
Estimate: £100 - £200
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
CHÂTEAU LEZONGARS BORDEAUX 1996
Lot 412 Sold
CHÂTEAU LEZONGARS BORDEAUX 1996
six magnum bottles, boxed (6)
Hammer price: £220
Estimate: £150 - £250
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
DOMAINE DE LA PINEDE CHÂTEAUNEUF-DU-PAPE 1986
Lot 413 Sold
DOMAINE DE LA PINEDE CHÂTEAUNEUF-DU-PAPE 1986
twelve 75cl bottles, boxed (12)
Hammer price: £160
Estimate: £100 - £200
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
BETHANY PRESSINGS BAROSSA GRENACHE 1997
Lot 414 Sold
BETHANY PRESSINGS BAROSSA GRENACHE 1997
twelve 75cl bottles, with associated wooden case (12)
Hammer price: £140
Estimate: £80 - £150
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
CHÂTEAU HELENE ‘CUVÉE ULYSSE’ CORBIÈRES 1991
Lot 415 Sold
CHÂTEAU HELENE ‘CUVÉE ULYSSE’ CORBIÈRES 1991
twelve 75cl bottles, boxed (12)
Hammer price: £100
Estimate: £150 - £250
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
CHÂTEAU DU PLANTER BORDEAUX 1986
Lot 416 Sold
CHÂTEAU DU PLANTER BORDEAUX 1986
six 75cl bottles (6)
Hammer price: £80
Estimate: £50 - £100
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
IRONSTONE CABERNET SHIRAZ 1995
Lot 417 Sold
IRONSTONE CABERNET SHIRAZ 1995
twelve 75cl bottles, boxed (12)
Hammer price: £150
Estimate: £100 - £200
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
DOMAINE FILLIATREAU CHÂTEAU FOUQUET SAUMUR 2003
Lot 418 Sold
DOMAINE FILLIATREAU CHÂTEAU FOUQUET SAUMUR 2003
five 75cl bottles (5)
Hammer price: £70
Estimate: £50 - £100
30 January 2025
30 January 2025

Total lots: 448

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