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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
385 PRESTON, JOHN: 'THE SAINTS QUALIFICATION'
8vo, printed by R.B. for Nicolas Bourne, Royal Exchange, London, 1633, original full brown leather binding
£200 - £400 £100 View
386 RALEGH, SIR WALTER: ‘THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD’
fo, printed for Walter Burre, 1614, three-quarter leather bound with marbled boards
£700 - £1,000 £500 View
387 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…
£300 - £500 £440 View
388 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
£500 - £1,000 £380 View
389 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…
£100 - £200 £500 View
390 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)
£4,000 - £6,000 £8,400 View
391 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…
£250 - £350 - View
392 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)
£100 - £200 £100 View
393 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…
£200 - £400 - View
394 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)
£100 - £200 £60 View
395 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…
£100 - £200 £7,100 View
396 ‘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
£100 - £200 £440 View
397 ‘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…
£200 - £400 £220 View
398 ‘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…
£5,000 - £10,000 £4,800 View
399 ‘POETAE HEROICI GRAECI’
fo, published by Aureliae Allobrogum, 1606, full calf bound with later red leather half title and spine bands
£300 - £500 - View
400 'TEESDALE'S NEW BRITISH ATLAS'
fo, published by Henry Teesdale & Co, London, 1831, three-quarter brown leather binding with marbled boards
£100 - £200 £220 View
401 '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…
£200 - £400 £200 View
402 ‘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
£150 - £250 £150 View
403 ‘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)
£50 - £100 £30 View
404 ‘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
£150 - £250 - View
405 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…
£100 - £200 £90 View
406 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…
£50 - £100 £130 View
407 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.
£50 - £100 £90 View
408 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…
£50 - £100 £240 View

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