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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: 458

FENNELL ROBSON, GEORGE: 'SCENERY OF THE GRAMPIAN MOUNTAINS'
Lot 361 Sold
FENNELL ROBSON, GEORGE: 'SCENERY OF THE GRAMPIAN MOUNTAINS'
fo, published by Longman, Hurst, et al, London 1819, three-quarter red leather bound with marbled boards
Hammer price: £380
Estimate: £200 - £400
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
FRAZER, SIR JAMES GEORGE: ‘THE GOLDEN BOUGH’
Lot 362 Sold
FRAZER, SIR JAMES GEORGE: ‘THE GOLDEN BOUGH’
comprising ‘Adonis, Attis and Osiris’ volumes 1 and 2, ‘Spirits of the Corn’ volumes 1 and 2’, ‘The Magic Art’ volumes 1 and 2, ‘Balder the Beautiful’ volumes 1 and 2, ‘The Dying God’, ‘The Scapegoat’, ‘Taboo and the Perils of the Soul’ and Bibliography, 8vo, published by Macmillan and Co, London 1936-8, green cloth bound (12)
Hammer price: £220
Estimate: £100 - £200
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
GIFFORD, THOMAS: 'AN HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE ZETLAND ISLANDS’
Lot 363 Sold
GIFFORD, THOMAS: 'AN HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE ZETLAND ISLANDS’
lacking title page, 99pp, with letter from Captain Preston to Joseph Ames, later green cloth binding, sold together with three 18th Century Shetland petitions - William Sinclair of Toft, Walter Scott of Scotshall and Sir Laurence Dundas, cloth, paper and leather bound respectively (4)
Hammer price: £80
Estimate: £100 - £200
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
GODWYN, THOMAS: 'MOSES & AARON: CIVIL AND ECCLESTIASTICAL RITES'
Lot 364 Unsold
GODWYN, THOMAS: 'MOSES & AARON: CIVIL AND ECCLESTIASTICAL RITES'
twelfth edition, 8vo, printed by Richard Hodkin, bound together with two other works - 'Romanae Historiae' by the same author, stated for 'use of the Abingdon School', printed by R.W. for Peter Parker, London 1674; and 'Archaeologiae Atticae' eight edition, printed by Henry Hall for Richard Davis, Oxford, 1675, all in brown calf binding

Provenance: Hunstanton Hall, Norfolk and by family descent.
Estimate: £300 - £500
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
GUICCIARDINI, FRANCESCO: ‘THE HISTORY OF FLORENCE’
Lot 365 Unsold
GUICCIARDINI, FRANCESCO: ‘THE HISTORY OF FLORENCE’
Latin, fo, published Basel, 1566, nineteenth century three quarter leather bound with marbled boards
Estimate: £500 - £1,000
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
HAWKESWORTH, JOHN: ‘AN ACCOUNT OF THE VOYAGES UNDERTAKEN….IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE’
Lot 366 Sold
HAWKESWORTH, JOHN: ‘AN ACCOUNT OF THE VOYAGES UNDERTAKEN….IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE’
volumes 1-3, 4to, printed for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, London, 1773, full calf bound with red and green leather half titles (3)
Hammer price: £2,000
Estimate: £1,500 - £2,500
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
HERIOT, GEORGE - ‘TRAVELS THROUGH THE CANADAS’
Lot 367 Sold
HERIOT, GEORGE - ‘TRAVELS THROUGH THE CANADAS’
4to, printed by T. Gillet, Wild-court for Richard Phillips, London, 1807, three-quarter blue leather binding with marbled boards, gilt tooled spine
Hammer price: £1,400
Estimate: £700 - £1,000
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
HIBBERT, SAMUEL: 'A DESCRIPTION OF THE SHETLAND ISLANDS’
Lot 368 Sold
HIBBERT, SAMUEL: 'A DESCRIPTION OF THE SHETLAND ISLANDS’
first edition, 4to, printed for Archibald Constable, Edinburgh 1822, three-quarter brown leather binding
Hammer price: £160
Estimate: £100 - £200
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
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

Total lots: 458

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