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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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Lots per page:

Total lots: 427

Lot Title Estimate Hammer price
385 HUBER, M.P: ‘THE NATURAL HISTORY OF ANTS’
printed for Longman et al, London 1820, with ink annotation, later red leather bound; together with Hofmann, Dr E. - ‘The Young Beetle Collector’s Handbook’, published by Swan Sonnenschein & Co,…
£100 - £200 £90 View
386 HUGHES, WILLIAM: ‘PARSON’S LAW’
printed for the author and sold by Thomas Bassett, St. Dunstan’s Churchyard, Fleet Street, London, 1663, rebound three-quarter brown leather

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
£100 - £200 £40 View
387 HULME, EDWARD F.: ‘BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS OF THE COUNTRY SIDE’
published by Hutchinson & Co, London, 1903, green cloth bound

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
£70 - £100 - View
388 HUNTER, REV. HENRY: ‘THE HISTORY OF LONDON’
printed for John Stockdale, London 1811, later three-quarter brown leather binding, retaining plates

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
£100 - £200 £50 View
389 IMISON, JOHN: ‘ELEMENTS OF SCIENCE AND ART’
new edition, volumes 1 and 2, printed for J. Harding et al, London 1803, full brown leather binding with green and black leather half titles (2)

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
£100 - £200 - View
390 INGOLDSBY, THOMAS - TWO COPIES OF ‘THE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS’
one illustrated by Cruikshank et al, published by Richard Bentley, London 1877, green leather bound and Ex. libris Lord Russell, the other illustrated by Arthur Rackham, published by Dent & Co,…
£100 - £200 £50 View
391 KIRBY, W.F.: ‘EUROPEAN BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS’
published by Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co, London 1882, three-quarter brown leather binding with brown cloth boards; together with ‘Familiar Butterflies and Moths’, published by Cassell & Co,…
£100 - £200 £95 View
392 KIRBY, W.F.: ‘LLOYD’S NATURAL HISTORY - A HAND-BOOK TO THE ORDER LEPIDOPTERA’
volumes I-V, published by Edward Lloyd, London, 1896, red cloth bound; together with nine other volumes relating to butterflies, moths, birds and trees (14)
£100 - £200 £130 View
393 LEIGH, CHARLES: ‘THE NATURAL HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE, CHESHIRE AND THE PEAK IN DERBYSHIRE’
printed for the author, London, 1700, full tooled brown leather bound with red leather half title

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
£200 - £400 £300 View
394 MACQUER, JOSEPH: ‘DICTIONNAIRE DE CHYMIE’
new edition, volumes 1 to 4, published by Libraires Associes, Switzerland, 1779, full brown leather bound (4)

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
£100 - £200 £50 View
395 MIEGE, GUY: ‘THE PRESENT STATE OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND’
fifth edition, printed for A. Bettesworth et al, London, 1723, rebound three-quarter red leather, inscribed to front flyleaf in 18th Century ink ‘Richard Thomas, April 11th 1783’, with four line…
£150 - £250 - View
396 MORRIS, REVEREND F.O: ‘A HISTORY OF BRITISH BIRDS’
second edition, volumes 1-6, published by George Bell & Sons, London, 1870, green cloth binding (6)
£500 - £1,000 £400 View
397 MURRAY, GEORGE: ‘AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF SEAWEEDS’
published by Macmillan and Co, London 1895, red cloth bound

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
£100 - £200 £30 View
398 NEMNICH, PHILIP ANDREW: ‘AN UNIVERSAL EUROPEAN DICTIONARY OF MERCHANDISE’
printed for J. Johnson, London 1799, rebound marbled card binding; together with ‘The Dictionary of Merchandise’, anon, printed for the Author and sold by T. Boosey, London 1803, later brown leather…
£100 - £200 - View
399 NICHOLSON, WILLIAM: ‘A DICTIONARY OF CHEMISTRY’
volumes 1 and 2, printed for G.G and J Robinson, London, 1795, rebound three-quarter leather

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
£200 - £400 - View
400 PARKES, SAMUEL: ‘THE CHEMICAL CATECHISM’
seventh edition, published by Baldwin et al, London 1816, rebound half brown leather, retains plates

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
£100 - £200 - View
401 PENNANT, THOMAS: ‘THE LITERARY LIFE OF THE LATE THOMAS PENNANT ESQ. BY HIMSELF’
sold by Benjamin and John White, London 1793, rebound half leather; and ‘The Journey from Chester to London’, three-quarter brown leather binding (2)

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
£50 - £100 - View
402 RACKHAM, ARTHUR - ELEVEN ILLUSTRATED VOLUMES
including Irving, Washington - ‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’, first edition published by George Harrap, London, 1928, green cloth bound; together with two reprint Arthur Rackham illustrated volumes …
£200 - £400 £420 View
403 RAY, JOHN: ‘THE WISDOM OF GOD’
printed by D. Williams, London 1762, later green half leather binding; together with Derham, W. - ‘Physico-Theology’, tenth edition, London 1730, later brown leather bound (2)

Provenance: A Dorset…
£100 - £200 £50 View
404 REECE, RICHARD: ‘A PRACTICAL DICTIONARY OF DOMESTIC MEDICINE’
printed for Longman et al, London 1808, three-quarter brown leather binding

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
£100 - £200 £50 View
405 REGNAULT, P: ‘LES ENTRETIENS PHYSIQUES’
new edition, volumes 1-4, published by Jacques Clouzier, Paris 1732, brown leather bound with Chillingham Castle bookplates (4)

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
£100 - £200 - View
406 RITCHIE, EWING J: ‘THE LIFE AND TIMES OF WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE’
pictorial edition, volumes 1-5, published by James Sangster and Company, London, mustard pictorial cloth binding; together with a large collection of Gladstone related books, many first edition (41)
£100 - £200 - View
407 SADELER, MARCO - 'VESTIGI DELLE ANTICHITA DI ROMA'
an album of Roman views, etchings, numbered 1-50 but seemingly incomplete, published by Jacomo de Rossie, 1660, landscape, gilt tooled brown leather binding; together with three loose examples, cut…
£200 - £400 - View
408 SAVAGE-LANDOR, HENRY A: 'ACROSS UNKNOWN SOUTH AMERICA'
volumes 1 and 2, published by Hodder and Stoughton, London 1913, red cloth binding (2)
£50 - £100 £30 View

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