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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

PRESTON, JOHN: 'THE SAINTS QUALIFICATION'
Lot 385 Sold
PRESTON, JOHN: 'THE SAINTS QUALIFICATION'
8vo, printed by R.B. for Nicolas Bourne, Royal Exchange, London, 1633, original full brown leather binding
Hammer price: £100
Estimate: £200 - £400
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
RALEGH, SIR WALTER: ‘THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD’
Lot 386 Sold
RALEGH, SIR WALTER: ‘THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD’
fo, printed for Walter Burre, 1614, three-quarter leather bound with marbled boards
Hammer price: £500
Estimate: £700 - £1,000
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
RALEGH, SIR WALTER: ‘THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN FIVE BOOKS’
Lot 387 Sold
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 Gondamor at his return from England to Spain’, a copy of a 1659 translation
Hammer price: £440
Estimate: £300 - £500
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
SALT, HENRY: ‘A VOYAGE TO ABYSSINIA’
Lot 388 Sold
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
Hammer price: £380
Estimate: £500 - £1,000
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
SIR CUTHBERT SHARP (1781-1849): AN ARCHIVE
Lot 389 Sold
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 pasted-in letters, one dated May 1839, together with an early 19th Century three-quarter leather bound notebook containing extensive handwritten notes on mixed subjects from Chinese song to English language, annotated to front flyleaf 'These extracts made in France during my detention' (4)
Note: Sir Cuthbert Sharp's life began in Hartlepool, where he was born in 1781. The son of…
Hammer price: £500
Estimate: £100 - £200
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
SMITH, ADAM: 'AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS’
Lot 390 Sold
SMITH, ADAM: 'AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS’
second edition, fo, volumes 1 & 2, printed for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, London, 1778, full calf bound with black leather half titles (2)
Hammer price: £8,400
Estimate: £4,000 - £6,000
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
STRABONIS (STRABO b 63 B.C.): ‘RERUM GEOGRAPHICARUM’
Lot 391 Unsold
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 prominent spine bands and gilt lettered half titles (2)
Estimate: £250 - £350
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
THOMPSON, GEORGE: 'THE NEW HIEROGLYPHICAL BIBLE'
Lot 392 Sold
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)
Hammer price: £100
Estimate: £100 - £200
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
TWAIN, MARK: TWO TITLES - ‘THE INNOCENTS ABROAD’ AND ‘THE NEW PILGRIMS’ PROGRESS’
Lot 393 Unsold
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 marbled boards
Estimate: £200 - £400
30 January 2025
30 January 2025
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
‘NARRATIVE OF THE SURVEYING VOYAGES ON HIS MAJESTY’S SHIPS ADVENTURE AND BEAGLE’
Lot 398 Sold
‘NARRATIVE OF THE SURVEYING VOYAGES ON HIS MAJESTY’S SHIPS ADVENTURE AND BEAGLE’
volumes 1 & 2, together with Appendix, 4to, published by Henry Colburn, London 1839, together with Darwin, Charles - ‘Journal of the Researches in the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries visited by HMS Beagle’, also published by Henry Colburn, London 1840, all bound by S. Mepham, Dorchester in three-quarter brown leather with marbled boards, the gilt tooled spines with black leather half titles (4)
Hammer price: £4,800
Estimate: £5,000 - £10,000
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

Total lots: 458

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