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Bridehead: Auction of the Contents

Sale Days:
Thursday 12 June 2025 10:30 - 17:30 BST Starts with Lot 1
Friday 13 June 2025 10:30 - 17:30 BST Starts with Lot 500

Read more about Bridehead here

Auction

Thursday 12th & Friday 13th June at 10.30am

at Duke's Fine Art Saleroom, DT1 1GA

Day one: The Principal Contents

Day two: The Library


Viewing

at Bridehead Manor, Littlebredy, Dorchester, Dorset, DT2 9JA

Entry will be by catalogue only.  £30 admits two people.

Saturday 7th June 11am - 4pm 

Sunday 8th June 11am - 4pm

Monday 9th June 11am - 4pm

Tuesday 10th June 11am - 4pm

Wednesday 11th June 11am - 4pm

There will be no viewing on either sale day.

Please note:

Access at the Manor is limited with uneven surfaces and steep stairs.

We regret the property is not wheelchair accessible.


To pre-order a catalogue or if you have any enquiries please contact 

bridehead@dukes-auctions.com or call +44 (0)1305 265080

£30 (plus postage)


Bidding:

Live bidding will be available for this auction through this website, The-Saleroom and EasyLive Auction. Please ensure your registration is completed early to avoid disappointment. Commission bidding and Telephone bidding is also available. 

Unfortunately, Duke's are unable to offer a postal or delivery service. We are pleased to recommend reputable carriers and can advise on air-freight and other forms of dispatch.

For more information please contact Duke's on +44 (0)1305 265080 or email enquiries@dukes-auctions.com.


Collection

On proof of payment, purchased lots will be available for collection from Bridehead from Friday 13th June to Thursday 19th June from 10am - 4pm, excluding the weekend 14th - 15th June. Whilst we are happy to provide assistance please bring the requisite people required to collect your purchases. All items not collected from Bridehead by 4pm Thursday 19th June will be moved to Sackville-West (Andover) at the buyer's risk and expense of £20 (plus VAT) per lot.

Please note: Collections unavailable on the 12th June.

Specialist Items: Removal of all electrical fittings, garden effects and large furniture is entirely at the buyer's risk and expense. Please note that we will be unable to provide assistance with these items.


Storage Charges

Items removed to Sackville-West in Andover will be available for collection from 9am on Monday 23rd June. All items will incur a minimum transfer to storage charge of £20 (plus VAT) per lot, and a further storage charge of £3 (plus VAT) per lot per day from this point. These charges will be the sole liability of the purchaser, and will be billed directly to them by Sackville West (Andover). Sackville-West may be willing to adjust their charges if they are instructed by the purchaser to deliver to them. On payment of all sales and storage costs items will be available for collection by appointment from Sackville-West (Andover). These charges are set by Sackville-West., (Andover); we recommend that you contact them directly regarding queries relating to these charges and other matters arising in relation to storage. Staff at the saleroom will be unable to answer questions relating to items that have been removed from Bridehead. 

Sackville-West -www.sackvillewest.co.uk - 02080 909988

Page:

of 30

Lots per page:

Total lots: 715

Lot Title Estimate Hammer price
603 CARRINGTON, JOHN BODMAN AND HUGHES, GEORGE RAVENSWORTH: 'THE PLATE OF THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF GOLDSMITHS'
two copies, both printed at The University Press, Oxford 1926, in gilt tooled leather and red cloth binding respectively, the latter retaining compliment slip from The Worshipful Company of…
£50 - £100 £70 View
604 HUME, DAVID: 'THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND'
volumes 1-5, printed by T. Bensley, Bolt-Court, Fleet-Street, for Robert Bowyer, Pall-Mall, London 1806, folio size gilt tooled red leather bound with titled spines, inscribed in ink to front end…
£300 - £500 £300 View
605 GIBBON, EDWARD: 'THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE'
fourth edition, volumes 1-6, printed for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, London 1781; together with 'Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq.' volumes 1-3, volumes 1 and 2 printed for A. Strahan and T.…
£200 - £400 £950 View
606 CAREW, RICHARD: 'SURVEY OF CORNWALL'
with notes by Tomkin and Lord de Dunstanville, printed by T. Bensley for Faulder, London and Rees & Curtis, Plymouth 1811, grained brown leather bound with black leather half title and Bridehead…
£50 - £100 £90 View
607 MARSHALL, JOHN: 'THE LIFE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON'
volumes 1-5, printed for Richard Phillips, London 1804, gilt tooled leather binding with titled spines, Bridehead bookplates, volume 1 retaining the Washington portrait frontispiece (5)
£200 - £400 £550 View
608 ROSCOE, WILLIAM: 'THE LIFE AND PONTIFICATE OF LEO THE TENTH'
volumes 1-4, printed by J. McCreery for T. Cadell & W. Davies, London 1805, gilt tooled leather bound with titled spines and Bridehead bookplates (4)
£50 - £100 £70 View
609 EDWARDS, BRYAN: 'THE HISTORY, CIVIL AND COMMERCIAL, OF THE BRITISH COLONIES IN THE WEST INDIES'
second edition, volumes 1-2, printed for John Stockdale, London 1794, three-quarter brown leather bound with gilt titled spines and marbled boards, Bridehead bookplates and retaining copious fold-out…
£500 - £1,000 £400 View
610 BUCKINGHAM, J. S.: 'TRAVELS IN PALESTINE THROUGH THE COUNTRIES OF BASHAN AND GILEAD'
printed for Longman et al, London 1821, brown leather bound with gilt titled spine, Bridehead bookplate and retaining copious plates and maps within the text, with a folding map of Palestine dated…
£300 - £500 £320 View
611 LYON, CAPTAIN G. F.: 'A NARRATIVE OF TRAVELS IN NORTHERN AFRICA'
published by John Murray, London 1821, gilt tooled brown leather bound with red leather half title, Bridehead bookplate and retaining copious coloured illustrations within the text, with fold-out map…
£500 - £1,000 £550 View
612 PORTLOCK, CAPTAIN NATHANIEL: 'A VOYAGE AROUND THE WORLD'
printed for John Stockdale and George Goulding, London 1789, gilt tooled brown leather bound with titled spine and retaining numerous fold-out charts and plates within the text including…
£300 - £500 £240 View
613 PENNANT, THOMAS: 'SOME ACCOUNT OF LONDON'
second edition, printed for Robert Faulder, London 1791, grained brown leather bound, the gilt tooled spine with red leather half title, Bridehead bookplate and retaining numerous plates including…
£200 - £400 £100 View
614 BACON, FRANCIS: 'THE WORKS'
volumes 1-5, printed for Rivington & Sons et al, London 1778, gilt tooled brown leather binding with titled spines, Bridehead book plates and retaining plates within the text including fold-out …
£200 - £400 £200 View
615 BEAUMONT, ALBANIS: 'TRAVELS THROUGH THE MARITIME ALPS FROM ITALY TO LYONS ACROSS THE COL DE TENDE'
printed by T. Bentley for J. Edwards et al, London 1795, folio, gilt tooled brown leather bound with titled spine, Bridehead bookplate pasted over earlier bookplate and retaining extensive mezzotints…
£300 - £500 £300 View
616 CAMDEN, WILLIAM: 'BRITANNIA: OR A COROGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION'
from the 1607 edition, enlarged by Richard Gough, volumes 1-3, printed by John Nichols for T. Payne & Son et al, London 1789, mottled brown leather bound, the gilt tooled spines with red and…
£500 - £1,000 £600 View
617 DANIELL, THOMAS AND WILLIAM: 'ORIENTAL SCENERY'
parts 1-5; together with Wales, James and Daniell, Thomas: 'Hindoo Excavations in the Mountain of Ellora', all published by William Daniell and Longman et al, London 1812-1816, reduced Quarto edition…
£1,000 - £2,000 £8,500 View
618 AYTON, RICHARD AND DANIELL, WILLIAM: 'A VOYAGE ROUND GREAT BRITAIN'
volumes 1-8, printed for Longman et al and William Daniell, London 1814-1825, bound in four gilt tooled red leather volumes with titled spines, Bridehead bookplates and retaining coloured and plain…
£500 - £1,000 £3,200 View
619 MARTYNS, JOHANN: 'ABBILDUNG UND BESCHREIBUNG SELTENER GEWAECHSE'
published by Frauenholzischen Kunsthandlung Nuremberg 1797, folio, three-quarter brown leather bound with titled spine, marbled boards, Bridehead bookplate pasted over earlier bookplate, and…
£500 - £1,000 £850 View
620 PARK, MUNGO: 'TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR DISTRICTS OF AFRICA'
with illustrations by Major Rennell, printed by W. Bulmer & Co., for the author and sold by G. & W. Nicol, London 1799, gilt tooled spotted brown leather bound with green leather half title,…
£300 - £500 £300 View
621 CRAVEN, RICHARD KEPPEL: 'A TOUR THROUGH THE SOUTHERN PROVINCES OF THE KINGDOM OF NAPLES'
printed for Rodwell & Martin, London 1821, gilt tooled and brown leather bound with black leather half title, Bridehead bookplate and retaining numerous plates and illustrations to text
£300 - £500 £150 View
622 TINDAL, WILLIAM: 'THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE ABBEY AND BOROUGH OF EVESHAM'
printed and sold by John Agg, Evesham, and T. N. Longman, London 1794, gilt tooled brown leather bound with titled spine, Bridehead bookplate and retaining various plates and illustrations to text…
£100 - £200 - View
623 NEALE, J. P.: 'VIEWS OF THE SEATS OF NOBLEMEN AND GENTLEMEN IN ENGLAND, WALES, SCOTLAND AND IRELAND'
volumes 1-3, published for the proprietors by W. H. Reid, London 1818, three-quarter brown leather bound with marbled boards and titled spines, the binding by S. Mepham, Dorchester, and retaining…
£100 - £200 £70 View
624 CLARKE, EDWARD DANIEL: 'TRAVELS IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES OF EUROPE, ASIA AND AFRICA'
third edition, volumes 1-7, printed by R. Watts, Broxbourn, Herts for T. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, London 1813, tooled brown leather bound, the gilt tooled spine titled, with Bridehead bookplates…
£500 - £1,000 £480 View
625 JONES, SIR WILLIAM: 'THE WORKS'
volumes 1-6, printed for G. G. and J. Robinson and R. H. Evans, London 1799, gilt tooled brown leather bound with titled spines, Bridehead bookplates pasted over earlier bookplates and retaining…
£150 - £250 £130 View
626 LARDNER, NATHANIEL: 'THE WORKS'
with Life of the Author by Andrew Kippis, ten volumes, printed for J. Johnson, London 1788, gilt tooled brown leather bound with black leather half titles; together with the Editor of Madame Deffand:…
£100 - £200 £80 View

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