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The Winter Auction

Auction date Thursday 30 January 2025 10:30 - 17:30 GMT

Head of Sale: 

William Batt


Auction

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
361 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
£200 - £400 £380 View
362 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…
£100 - £200 £220 View
363 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…
£100 - £200 £80 View
364 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…
£300 - £500 - View
365 GUICCIARDINI, FRANCESCO: ‘THE HISTORY OF FLORENCE’
Latin, fo, published Basel, 1566, nineteenth century three quarter leather bound with marbled boards
£500 - £1,000 - View
366 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)
£1,500 - £2,500 £2,000 View
367 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
£700 - £1,000 £1,400 View
368 HIBBERT, SAMUEL: 'A DESCRIPTION OF THE SHETLAND ISLANDS’
first edition, 4to, printed for Archibald Constable, Edinburgh 1822, three-quarter brown leather binding
£100 - £200 £160 View
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

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