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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 627 Sold
DE LA PÉROUSE, J. F. G.: 'A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD'
volumes 1-2, printed by A. Hamilton for G. G. & J. Robinson et al, London 1799, gilt tooled grained brown leather bound with red and green leather half titles, and with Bridehead bookplates pasted over earlier bookplates; together with a separately bound companion volume titled to spine 'Plates to La Pérouse's Voyage' published by G. G. & J. Robinson, London 1798, three-quarter brown leather bound with marbled boards, brown leather half title and Bridehead bookplate,
the text containing numbered plates and charts (3)
Hammer price: £700
Estimate: £800 - £1,200
13 June 2025
13 June 2025
Lot 628 Sold
COOK, CAPTAIN JAMES INTEREST: FORSTER, GEORGE: 'A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD' (COOK'S SECOND VOYAGE)
volumes 1-2, printed for B. White et al, London 1777; together with Cook, Captain James and King, Captain James: 'A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean' (Cook's third voyage) volumes 1-3, printed by W & A Strahan for G. Nicol and T. Cadell, London 1784; and Forster, John Reinhold: 'Observations Made During a Voyage Round the World', printed for G. Robinson, London 1778, all bound in matching brown leather, the gilt tooled spines with green leather half titles, Bridehead bookplates and retaining plates (6)
Hammer price: £1,600
Estimate: £500 - £1,000
13 June 2025
13 June 2025
Lot 629 Sold
ROSCOE, WILLIAM: 'THE LIFE OF LORENZO DE' MEDICI'
second edition, volumes 1-2, printed for A. Strahan et al, London 1796, gilt tooled grained brown leather bound with red and green half titles, Robert Williams Junior bookplate and volume one retaining portrait frontispiece (2)
Hammer price: £100
Estimate: £100 - £200
13 June 2025
13 June 2025
Lot 630 Sold
ACKERMANN, R: 'THE HISTORY OF THE COLLEGES OF WINCHESTER, ETON AND WESTMINSTER ...'
volumes 1-2, printed and published for R. Ackerman, London 1816, gilt tooled red leather bound with titled spines, Bridehead bookplates and retaining full series of coloured engravings to text; together with 'List of Etonians who Fought in the Great War 1914-1919', blue paper bound with grey cloth spine (3)
Hammer price: £320
Estimate: £100 - £200
13 June 2025
13 June 2025
Lot 631 Sold
CRAYON, GEOFFREY (WASHINGTON IRVING): 'BRACEBRIDGE HALL; OR THE HUMORISTS'
and 'The Sketchbook', both new editions and both with volumes 1 and 2, published by John Murray, London 1824 and 1826 respectively, gilt tooled green leather bound with brown leather half titles and Robert Williams bookplates; together with a collection of antiquarian literature books (18)
Hammer price: £130
Estimate: £100 - £200
13 June 2025
13 June 2025
Lot 632 Sold
'AN ACCOUNT OF SWITZERLAND WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1714'
printed for Jacob Tomson, London 1714, brown leather bound with red leather half title to spine and Moorpark bookplates; together with 'Narrative of a Three Years' Residence in Italy 1819-1822', printed for John Murray, London 1828, gilt tooled green leather bound; and 'Sketches of Canadian Life, Lay and Ecclesiastical' published by David Bogue, London 1849, green three-quarter leather bound with red leather half title (3)
Hammer price: £140
Estimate: £50 - £100
13 June 2025
13 June 2025
Lot 633 Sold
'THE SPECTATOR'
nos. 1-634, Thursday March 1st 1710 - Friday December 17th 1714, printed for Payne et al, London 1788, and bound in eight grained brown leather volumes with green and black leather half titles; together with another set of 'The Spectator' magazine covering the same time period, this set printed by H. Baldwin for Longman et al, 1797, volumes 1-8, gilt tooled brown leather bound with Bridehead bookplates; and 'The Guardian', nos. 1-175, Thursday March 12th 1713 - Thursday October 1st 1713,
bound in two gilt tooled brown leather volumes with titled spines and Bridehead bookplates (18)
Hammer price: £100
Estimate: £100 - £200
13 June 2025
13 June 2025
Lot 634 Sold
SWIFT, REVEREND JONATHAN: 'THE WORKS'
arranged by Thomas Sheridan, new edition, volumes 1-19, printed for J. Johnson et al, London 1801, gilt tooled brown leather bound with titled spines and Bridehead bookplates (19)
Hammer price: £140
Estimate: £100 - £200
13 June 2025
13 June 2025
Lot 635 Sold
BARROW, JOHN HENRY (ED.): 'THE MIRROR OF PARLIAMENT'
second series, covering sessions 1837-1840, and comprising nos. 1-6563 for 1837-8 (November 15th 1837 - August 16th 1838), volumes 1-6 for 1839, nos. 1-5420 (February 5th 1839 - August 27th 1839), and volumes 1-6 for 1840, nos. 1-5524 (January 16th 1840 - August 11th 1840), all uniformly bound in three-quarter brown leather with marbled boards, by J. Richards & Co., Law Book Sellers, 194 Fleet Street, London, 1837-1839 with black half titles and 1840 with red half titles (20)
Hammer price: £70
Estimate: £100 - £200
13 June 2025
13 June 2025
Lot 636 Sold
BRYAN, MARGARET: 'LECTURES ON NATURAL PHILOSOPHY'
printed by Thomas Davison, retold by George Kearsley and James Carpenter, London 1806, three-quarter brown leather bound with gilt tooled spine and marbled boards, with Bridehead bookplate, and retaining interesting plates to text
Hammer price: £600
Estimate: £150 - £250
13 June 2025
13 June 2025
Lot 637 Sold
'MORE LEAVES FROM THE JOURNAL OF A LIFE IN THE HIGHLANDS FROM 1862-1882'
published by Smith, Elder & Co., London 1884, gilt tooled blue leather bound with titled spine
Hammer price: £30
Estimate: £30 - £50
13 June 2025
13 June 2025
Lot 638 Sold
‘THE MODERN TRAVELLER’
comprising Mexico and Guatemala (volumes 1 and 2), Syria and Asia Minor (volumes 1 and 2), Brazil and Buenos Aires (volumes 1 and 2), Colombia, Russia, Arabia and Palestine, printed for James Duncan, London 1824/5, full brown calf bound with gilt tooled spines (10)
Hammer price: £480
Estimate: £100 - £200
13 June 2025
13 June 2025
Lot 639 Sold
‘THE WORKS OF LAURENCE STERNE’
volumes 1-8, printed for the proprietor, London, 1790, full brown calf bound, the gilt tooled spines with black leather half titles; together with another incomplete set of ‘The Works of Laurence Sterne’ printed for J. Johnson et al, London 1798, volumes 2-10, gilt tooled brown calf bound (17)
Hammer price: £80
Estimate: £30 - £50
13 June 2025
13 June 2025
Lot 640 Sold
ELLIS, WILLIAM: ‘NARRATIVE OF A TOUR THROUGH HAWAII’
quarto, second edition, published by H. Fisher, Son and P. Jackson, London 1827, full purple calf bound with gilt tooled spine
Hammer price: £80
Estimate: £50 - £100
13 June 2025
13 June 2025
Lot 641 Sold
‘EURIPIDIS OPERA OMNIA’
volumes 1-7 and 9, printed by Richard Priestley, Glasgow 1821, gilt tooled brown calf bound with black leather half titles (8)
Hammer price: £60
Estimate: £30 - £50
13 June 2025
13 June 2025
Lot 642 Sold
BURKE, JOHN AND BURKE, JOHN BERNARD: ‘A…DICTIONARY OF THE LANDED GENTRY’
volumes 1-3, published by Henry Colburn, London 1847, three-quarter brown leather bound with gilt tooled spines and marbled boards (3)
Hammer price: £210
Estimate: £100 - £200
13 June 2025
13 June 2025
Lot 643 Sold
BURKE, JOHN: ‘A…HISTORY OF THE COMMONERS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND’
volumes 1-4, published for Henry Colburn, London 1833-8, three-quarter brown leather bound with marbled boards, the spines with red and black leather half titles (4)
Hammer price: £60
Estimate: £100 - £200
13 June 2025
13 June 2025
Lot 644 Sold
WALSH, THOMAS: ‘JOURNAL OF THE LATE CAMPAIGN IN EGYPT’
printed by Luke Hansard for T. Cadell Jnr and W. Davies, Strand, London 1803, full brown calf bound, the gilt tooled spine with red leather half title
Hammer price: £240
Estimate: £200 - £400
13 June 2025
13 June 2025
Lot 645 Sold
BARETTI, JOSEPH: ‘A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH AND ITALIAN LANGUAGES’
new edition, volumes 1 and 2 bound together, printed for Rivington et al, London 1790, full brown leather bound with black leather half title; together with an 1824 seventh edition, 2 volumes, of the same work (3)
Hammer price: £30
Estimate: £30 - £50
13 June 2025
13 June 2025
Lot 646 Sold
ALISON, REV. ARCHIBALD: ‘ESSAYS ON THE NATURE AND PRINCIPLES OF TASTE’
printed for Robinson, London and Bell & Bradfute, Edinburgh, 1790, full brown calf bound
Hammer price: £70
Estimate: £30 - £50
13 June 2025
13 June 2025
Lot 647 Sold
‘ASIATIC RESEARCHES, OR, TRANSACTIONS OF THE SOCIETY INSTITUTED IN BENGAL’
volumes 1-5, printed for J. Sewell et al, London 1799, gilt tooled brown leather bound (5)
Hammer price: £900
Estimate: £200 - £400
13 June 2025
13 June 2025
Lot 648 Sold
BRYDGES, SIR EGERTON: ‘COLLINS’S PEERAGE OF ENGLAND’
volumes 2-9, printed for F. C. and J. Rivington et al, London 1812, full brown leather bound with gilt tooled spines and Bridehead bookplates (8)
Hammer price: £140
Estimate: £50 - £100
13 June 2025
13 June 2025
Lot 649 Sold
ASHLEY, ANTHONY: ‘CHARACTERISTICKS OF MEN, MANNERS, OPINIONS, TIMES’
fourth edition, volumes 1-3, published 1727, full brown gilt tooled leather binding; together with a selection of antiquarian literature and educational volumes (18)
Hammer price: £80
Estimate: £100 - £200
13 June 2025
13 June 2025
Lot 650 Sold
‘A PLAIN ACCOUNT OF THE NATURE AND END OF THE SACRAMENT OF THE LORD'S-SUPPER’
third edition, printed for James, John and Paul Knapton, at the Crown, Ludgate-Street, London, 1735, full brown leather bound, with Moor Park bookplate; together with four other Christianity related volumes (5)
Hammer price: £40
Estimate: £30 - £50
13 June 2025
13 June 2025

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