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The Spring Auction

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

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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Page:

of 18

Lots per page:

Total lots: 427

Lot Title Estimate Hammer price
361 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…
£5,000 - £10,000 £4,900 View
362 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…
£100 - £200 £70 View
363 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…
£100 - £200 - View
364 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.
£100 - £200 £50 View
365 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.
£50 - £100 - View
366 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…
£100 - £200 £30 View
367 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.
£50 - £100 - View
368 CELLARII, CHRISTOPHORII: ‘SMALCALDENSIS GEOGRAPHIA ANTIQUA’
printed for S. Ballard et al, London, 1731, full brown leather bound, retaining maps

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
£100 - £200 £60 View
369 CHAUVIN, STEPHANUS: ‘LEXICON PHILOSOPHICUM’
published by Petrum Slaart, Rottterdam, 1692, full tooled brown calf bound

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
£200 - £400 £60 View
370 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)
£100 - £200 - View
371 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,…
£100 - £200 - View
372 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)
£200 - £400 £320 View
373 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…
£100 - £200 £160 View
374 DIBDIN, CHARLES: ‘THE MUSICAL TOUR’
printed for the author by J. Gales, Sheffield, 1788, rebound three-quarter leather

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
£100 - £200 £100 View
375 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
£100 - £200 - View
376 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
£100 - £200 - View
377 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
£100 - £200 - View
378 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…
£100 - £200 £130 View
379 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…
£50 - £100 £90 View
380 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…
£100 - £200 £90 View
381 FROHAWK, F.W.: ‘NATURAL HISTORY OF BRITISH BUTTERFLIES’
first edition, fo, published by Hutchinson & Co, London 1924, blue cloth bound with dustwrappers (2)
£200 - £400 £220 View
382 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…
£80 - £150 £60 View
383 GUTHRIE-SMITH, H: ‘MUTTON BIRDS AND OTHER BIRDS’
published by Whitcombe and Tombs, 1914, gilt decorated green cloth bound

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
£30 - £50 - View
384 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…
£100 - £200 £80 View

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