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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: 458

Lot Title Estimate Hammer price
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
344 CAMDEN, WILLIAM: ‘THE HISTORY OF…PRINCESS ELIZABETH, LATE QUEEN OF ENGLAND’
third edition, 4to, printed by E. Flesher for Charles Harper, Fleetstreet, 1675, full calf bound with later half title
£300 - £500 - View
345 CAMPBELL, JOHN: 'FISHERIES OF ZETLAND’
lacking title page but otherwise complete, 34pp pamphlet, later cloth covered card binding, together with another volume similarly bound labelled ‘Nature Notes’, being a collection of Shetland themed…
£100 - £200 £60 View
346 CANTERI, GULIELMI: ‘LYCOPHRONIS CHALCIDENSIS’
Latin and Greek, 8vo, published by Hieronymum Commelinum, Geneva, 1596, gilt tooled full brown calf binding
£500 - £1,000 - View
347 CARROLL, LEWIS: ‘THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK’
illustrated by Louis Arragon, limited edition 4/50, signed by the illustrator, fo, published by The Hours Press, 1929, red card bound
£300 - £500 £280 View
348 CATTON, REV. JAMES: ‘THE HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF THE SHETLAND ISLANDS’
8vo, printed and published by P.I. Tuxford, Wainfleet, 1838, half red tooled cloth bound with blue paper boards
£100 - £200 £120 View
349 CLARKSON, THOMAS: ‘THE HISTORY OF THE RISE, PROGRESS AND ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE ABOLITION OF THE AFRICAN SLAVE-TRADE’
volume 1, 8vo, printed by R. Taylor and Co, Shoe Lane for Longman, Hurst et al, London 1808, full calf bound, retaining fold-out river plan plate
£100 - £200 £80 View
350 COOK, JAMES: A VOYAGE TOWARDS THE SOUTH POLE’
3rd edition, volumes 1 & 2, 8vo, printed for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, London, 1779, full calf bound with red and green leather half titles (2)
£500 - £1,000 £1,300 View
351 DAGLEY, R: ‘DEATH’S DOINGS’
second edition, volumes 1 and 2, 8vo, published by J. Andrews, London, three-quarter brown leather binding with marbled boards (2)
£50 - £100 £30 View
352 DARWIN, CHARLES: SIX VOLUMES
comprising ‘The Movements of Plants’, ‘Fertilisation of Orchids’, ‘Vegetable Mould and Earthworms’, ‘Naturalist’s Voyage around the World’, ‘Expression of the Emotions’ and ‘Origin of Species’, 8vo,…
£300 - £500 £950 View
353 DICKENS, CHARLES: 'THE POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF THE PICKWICK CLUB’
illustrated by Cecil Aldin, volumes 1 and 2, 8vo, jointly published by Chapman & Hall and Lawrence & Jellicoe, London 1910, half grey cloth binding (2)
£100 - £200 £40 View
354 DICKENS, CHARLES: TWO FIRST EDITION TITLES
comprising ‘The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club’ and ‘The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby’, 8vo, both published by Chapman and Hall, London, 1837 and 1839 respectively, both in three…
£200 - £400 £220 View
355 DU HALDE, J.B.: 'DESCRIPTION…DE L’EMPIRE DE LA CHINE’
volumes 1-4, 4to, published by Henri Scheurleer, The Hague, 1736, full calf bound, the gilt tooled spines with red and green leather half titles (4)
£500 - £1,000 £1,400 View
356 EDMONDSTON, ARTHUR: ‘A VIEW OF THE….ZETLAND ISLANDS’
volumes 1 and 2, 8vo, printed by James Ballantyne and Co, Edinburgh 1809, three-quarter leather bound with marbled boards and gilt tooled spines, sold together with Skirress, John - ‘A Statistical…
£100 - £200 £80 View
357 EDWARDS, GEORGE: ‘A NATURAL HISTORY OF UNCOMMON BIRDS’
volumes 1-3, fo, printed for the author at the College of Physicians, Warwick Lane, London, 1743-51, together with 'Gleanings of Natural History', volumes 1-4, 1758-64, all bound uniformly in red…
£4,000 - £6,000 £7,150 View
358 ELIOT, GEORGE - ‘MIDDLEMARCH’
8vo, first edition, volumes 1-4, published by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London 1872, three-quarter brown leather binding with marbled boards
£200 - £400 £850 View
359 ELIOT, GEORGE: ‘SILAS MARNER’
8vo, first edition, published by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1861, three-quarter leather bound volume with marbled boards
£200 - £400 £120 View
360 EVELYN, JOHN - 'SILVA OR A DISCOURSE OF FOREST-TREES'
with notes by A. Hunter, 4to, printed by A. Ward for J. Dodsley, York, 1776, gilt tooled brown leather binding, inside front board pasted with bookplate for Sarah Sophia Child and with pencil…
£150 - £250 £240 View

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