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Auction date Wednesday 16 April 2025 10:30 - 17:30 BST
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Head of Sale: 

William Batt


Auction: 

Wednesday 16th April at 10.30am

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Including the following collections: 

The Bond Family, Holme Priory,

Chalkway House, Ebbesbourne Wake,

Melbury Bubb House, Melbury Bubb,

A private North Dorset collection of a bibliophile.


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Total lots: 427

ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE INTEREST: DISTANT, W.L. - ‘RHOPALOCERA MALAYANA’: A DESCRIPTION OF THE BUTTERFLIES OF THE MALAY PENINSULA
Lot 361 Sold
ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE INTEREST: DISTANT, W.L. - ‘RHOPALOCERA MALAYANA’: A DESCRIPTION OF THE BUTTERFLIES OF THE MALAY PENINSULA
published by West, Newman & Co, London, and also D. Logan, Penang, 1882, retaining colour lithographed plates, with ink annotations throughout, believed to be that of Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913), the volume also annotated to front flyleaf ‘L. Richmond Wheeler….Bound - Chowrata Malay School, Penang, May, 1937’, later red half leather binding
Provenance: By repute, purchased from a second-hand bookshop in Southampton (UK) in 1978, along…
Hammer price: £4,900
Estimate: £5,000 - £10,000
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AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES: ‘THE ORIGINAL WATER-COLOUR PAINTINGS FOR THE BIRDS OF AMERICA’
Lot 362 Sold
AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES: ‘THE ORIGINAL WATER-COLOUR PAINTINGS FOR THE BIRDS OF AMERICA’
introduction by Marshall B. Davidson, volumes 1 and 2, published by American Heritage Publishing Co. Inc, New York, 1966, blue cloth bound with slip case; together with Dock Jr., George - ‘The Audubon Folio’ published by Harry N. Adams, New York, 1964, paper bound (2)
Hammer price: £70
Estimate: £100 - £200
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BAILEY, NICHOLAS: ‘AN UNIVERSAL ETYMOLOGICAL ENGLISH DICTIONARY’
Lot 363 Unsold
BAILEY, NICHOLAS: ‘AN UNIVERSAL ETYMOLOGICAL ENGLISH DICTIONARY’
seventh edition, printed for Knapton et al, London 1735, rebound half brown leather with marbled boards; together with
Boyer, Mr A: - ‘Le Dictionanaire Royal Francois-Anglois’, new edition, volumes 1 and 2, published by Bathurst et al, London 1763, bound together as one in full brown leather (2)

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
Estimate: £100 - £200
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BERGMAN, SIR TORBERN: ‘PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL ESSAYS’
Lot 364 Sold
BERGMAN, SIR TORBERN: ‘PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL ESSAYS’
volumes 1-3, printed for J. Murray, London 1788, later three-quarter leather binding with red leather half titles (3)

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
Hammer price: £50
Estimate: £100 - £200
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BOUILLON DE LA GRANGE, E.J.B: ‘MANUEL D’UN COURS DE CHIMIE’
Lot 365 Unsold
BOUILLON DE LA GRANGE, E.J.B: ‘MANUEL D’UN COURS DE CHIMIE’
volumes 1 and 2, published by Chez Bernard, Paris, An VII, later brown leather binding, ex Libris Athenaeum Library, Liverpool (2)

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
Estimate: £50 - £100
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BROOKES, R: ‘THE GENERAL GAZETTEER’
Lot 366 Sold
BROOKES, R: ‘THE GENERAL GAZETTEER’
fifth edition, printed for Rivington et al, London, 1782, later three-quarter red leather binding; together with Waterton, Charles - ‘Wanderings in South America’, new edition, published by MacMillan, London, 1885, brown leather bound (2)

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
Hammer price: £30
Estimate: £100 - £200
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CARY, JOHN: ‘CARY’S NEW ITINERARY’
Lot 367 Unsold
CARY, JOHN: ‘CARY’S NEW ITINERARY’
published by J. Cary, London 1798, later three-quarter brown leather bound with marbled boards

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
Estimate: £50 - £100
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16 April 2025
CELLARII, CHRISTOPHORII: ‘SMALCALDENSIS GEOGRAPHIA ANTIQUA’
Lot 368 Sold
CELLARII, CHRISTOPHORII: ‘SMALCALDENSIS GEOGRAPHIA ANTIQUA’
printed for S. Ballard et al, London, 1731, full brown leather bound, retaining maps

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
Hammer price: £60
Estimate: £100 - £200
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16 April 2025
CHAUVIN, STEPHANUS: ‘LEXICON PHILOSOPHICUM’
Lot 369 Sold
CHAUVIN, STEPHANUS: ‘LEXICON PHILOSOPHICUM’
published by Petrum Slaart, Rottterdam, 1692, full tooled brown calf bound

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
Hammer price: £60
Estimate: £200 - £400
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CHEYNE, GEORGE: ‘AN ESSAY OF HEALTH AND LONG LIFE’
Lot 370 Unsold
CHEYNE, GEORGE: ‘AN ESSAY OF HEALTH AND LONG LIFE’
sixth edition, printed for George Strahan, London 1725, Marryat, Thomas - ‘Therapeutics’, sixteenth edition, Bristol 1802; and Combe, Andrew - The Physiology of Digestion’, Edinburgh 1881 (3)

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
Estimate: £100 - £200
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16 April 2025
COOKE, GEORGE ALEXANDER - FIVE TITLES
Lot 371 Unsold
COOKE, GEORGE ALEXANDER - FIVE TITLES
Topographical and Statistical Descriptions of Bedford, Northampton, Cambridge Huntingdon and Norfolk, printed for C. Cooke, London, all bound in one volume, rebound three-quarter brown leather, retaining fold-out plates

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
Estimate: £100 - £200
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CUVIER, BARON: ‘THE ANIMAL KINGDOM’
Lot 372 Sold
CUVIER, BARON: ‘THE ANIMAL KINGDOM’
translated from the French, volumes I-IV, published by G. Henderson, Ludgate Hill, London 1837, three-quarter brown leather binding with marbled boards, retaining original hand coloured plates (4)
Hammer price: £320
Estimate: £200 - £400
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DEUCHAR, DAVID AFTER HOLBEIN, JEAN: ‘LE TRIOMPHE DE LA MORT’
Lot 373 Sold
DEUCHAR, DAVID AFTER HOLBEIN, JEAN: ‘LE TRIOMPHE DE LA MORT’
a volume of engravings with companion text, printed by S. Gosnell, Holborn, 1786, three-quarter brown leather bound; together with a later red vinyl bound companion volume of Holbein prints, all contained together in slip case

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
Hammer price: £160
Estimate: £100 - £200
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DIBDIN, CHARLES: ‘THE MUSICAL TOUR’
Lot 374 Sold
DIBDIN, CHARLES: ‘THE MUSICAL TOUR’
printed for the author by J. Gales, Sheffield, 1788, rebound three-quarter leather

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
Hammer price: £100
Estimate: £100 - £200
16 April 2025
16 April 2025
DICKENS, CHARLES: 'DOMBEY AND SON'
Lot 375 Unsold
DICKENS, CHARLES: 'DOMBEY AND SON'
first edition, illustrated by H. K. Browne, published by Bradbury & Evans, London 1848, black three-quarter leather bound with marbled boards and brown leather half title
Estimate: £100 - £200
16 April 2025
16 April 2025
DICKENS, CHARLES: 'LITTLE DORRIT'
Lot 376 Unsold
DICKENS, CHARLES: 'LITTLE DORRIT'
first edition, illustrated by H.K. Browne, published by Bradbury and Evans, London, 1857, brown three-quarter leather bound with marbled boards
Estimate: £100 - £200
16 April 2025
16 April 2025
DICKENS, CHARLES: 'THE POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF THE PICKWICK CLUB'
Lot 377 Unsold
DICKENS, CHARLES: 'THE POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF THE PICKWICK CLUB'
illustrated by R. Seymour and Phiz, published by Chapman and Hall, London, 1837, gilt tooled blue cloth binding, red leather half title
Estimate: £100 - £200
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16 April 2025
DULAC, EDMUND: TWO ILLUSTRATED VOLUMES
Lot 378 Sold
DULAC, EDMUND: TWO ILLUSTRATED VOLUMES
comprising Guyot, Charles - ‘La Toison D’Or’ limited edition no. 1139 and Rosenthal, Leonard - ‘Au Royame de la Perle’, limited edition no. 410, both published by L’Edition d’Art, Paris, both in three-quarter brown leather binding (2)

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
Hammer price: £130
Estimate: £100 - £200
16 April 2025
16 April 2025
FERGUSON, JAMES: ‘THE YOUNG GENTLEMAN AND LADY’S ASTRONOMY’
Lot 379 Sold
FERGUSON, JAMES: ‘THE YOUNG GENTLEMAN AND LADY’S ASTRONOMY’
sixth edition, printed by James Williams, Dublin, 1778, brown leather bound; together with Oxley, Thomas - ‘The Celestial Planispheres’, published by Davis & Dickson, London 1830, three-quarter brown leather bound (2)

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
Hammer price: £90
Estimate: £50 - £100
16 April 2025
16 April 2025
FONTENELLE, M: ‘CONVERSATIONS WITH A LADY ON THE PLURALITY OF WORLDS’
Lot 380 Sold
FONTENELLE, M: ‘CONVERSATIONS WITH A LADY ON THE PLURALITY OF WORLDS’
translated by Glanvill, fourth edition, printed by J. Darby for M. Wellington, London 1719, later brown leather bound; a 1769 edition of the same work; together with an 1804 French edition of the same work (3)

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
Hammer price: £90
Estimate: £100 - £200
16 April 2025
16 April 2025
FROHAWK, F.W.: ‘NATURAL HISTORY OF BRITISH BUTTERFLIES’
Lot 381 Sold
FROHAWK, F.W.: ‘NATURAL HISTORY OF BRITISH BUTTERFLIES’
first edition, fo, published by Hutchinson & Co, London 1924, blue cloth bound with dustwrappers (2)
Hammer price: £220
Estimate: £200 - £400
16 April 2025
16 April 2025
GODWYN, THOMAS: 'MOSES & AARON: CIVIL AND ECCLESTIASTICAL RITES'
Lot 382 Sold
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' eighth edition, printed by Henry Hall for Richard Davis, Oxford, 1675, all in brown calf binding

Provenance: Hunstanton Hall, Norfolk and by family descent.
Hammer price: £60
Estimate: £80 - £150
16 April 2025
16 April 2025
GUTHRIE-SMITH, H: ‘MUTTON BIRDS AND OTHER BIRDS’
Lot 383 Unsold
GUTHRIE-SMITH, H: ‘MUTTON BIRDS AND OTHER BIRDS’
published by Whitcombe and Tombs, 1914, gilt decorated green cloth bound

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
Estimate: £30 - £50
16 April 2025
16 April 2025
HINDE, SQUIRE, MARSHALL & COOKE: ‘A NEW ROYAL AND UNIVERSAL DICTIONARY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES’
Lot 384 Sold
HINDE, SQUIRE, MARSHALL & COOKE: ‘A NEW ROYAL AND UNIVERSAL DICTIONARY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES’
volumes 1 and 2, printed for J. Cooke at Shakespeare's Head, London, 1770, full brown leather binding with red and black leather half titles, both volumes with red tooled leather bookplate worded ‘George Murdoch at Eltham in Kent 1772’

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
Hammer price: £80
Estimate: £100 - £200
16 April 2025
16 April 2025

Total lots: 427

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