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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
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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 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

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Lots per page:

Total lots: 753

BEAUMONT, ALBANIS: 'TRAVELS THROUGH THE MARITIME ALPS FROM ITALY TO LYONS ACROSS THE COL DE TENDE'
Lot 615 Sold
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 to text
Hammer price: £300
Estimate: £300 - £500
13 June 2025
13 June 2025
CAMDEN, WILLIAM: 'BRITANNIA: OR A COROGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION'
Lot 616 Sold
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 green leather half titles, Bridehead bookplates pasted over earlier bookplates and retaining an extensive selection of plates within the texts and fold-out maps, including for example Great Britain and Ireland with Judges Circuits (opposite page 144) (3)
Hammer price: £600
Estimate: £500 - £1,000
13 June 2025
13 June 2025
DANIELL, THOMAS AND WILLIAM: 'ORIENTAL SCENERY'
Lot 617 Sold
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, contained in two gilt tooled red leather bound volumes with titled spines, attractive marbled boards, Bridehead bookplates and retaining all plates (2)
Hammer price: £8,500
Estimate: £1,000 - £2,000
13 June 2025
13 June 2025
AYTON, RICHARD AND DANIELL, WILLIAM: 'A VOYAGE ROUND GREAT BRITAIN'
Lot 618 Sold
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 aquatints and other illustrations including fold-out index map to volume one (4)
Hammer price: £3,200
Estimate: £500 - £1,000
13 June 2025
13 June 2025
MARTYNS, JOHANN: 'ABBILDUNG UND BESCHREIBUNG SELTENER GEWAECHSE'
Lot 619 Sold
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 retaining extensive hand-coloured plates to text
Hammer price: £850
Estimate: £500 - £1,000
13 June 2025
13 June 2025
PARK, MUNGO: 'TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR DISTRICTS OF AFRICA'
Lot 620 Sold
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, Bridehead bookplate pasted over earlier bookplate and retaining plate to text and fold-out maps including 'The Route of Mr Mungo Park from Pisania on the River Gambia to Silla'
Hammer price: £300
Estimate: £300 - £500
13 June 2025
13 June 2025
CRAVEN, RICHARD KEPPEL: 'A TOUR THROUGH THE SOUTHERN PROVINCES OF THE KINGDOM OF NAPLES'
Lot 621 Sold
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
Hammer price: £150
Estimate: £300 - £500
13 June 2025
13 June 2025
TINDAL, WILLIAM: 'THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE ABBEY AND BOROUGH OF EVESHAM'
Lot 622 Unsold
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 including fold-out view of Evesham
Estimate: £100 - £200
13 June 2025
13 June 2025
NEALE, J. P.: 'VIEWS OF THE SEATS OF NOBLEMEN AND GENTLEMEN IN ENGLAND, WALES, SCOTLAND AND IRELAND'
Lot 623 Sold
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 full series of plates; together with 'The Tatler' volumes 1-4, printed by Bye & Law for Longman et al, London 1797, gilt tooled brown leather bound volumes, numbered to spines 1-271 (7)
Hammer price: £70
Estimate: £100 - £200
13 June 2025
13 June 2025
CLARKE, EDWARD DANIEL: 'TRAVELS IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES OF EUROPE, ASIA AND AFRICA'
Lot 624 Sold
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 and retaining plates to text including fold-outs such as 'Plan of the Island and Town of Tscherchaskoy'
Hammer price: £480
Estimate: £500 - £1,000
13 June 2025
13 June 2025
JONES, SIR WILLIAM: 'THE WORKS'
Lot 625 Sold
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 extensive plates within the text (6)
Hammer price: £130
Estimate: £150 - £250
13 June 2025
13 June 2025
LARDNER, NATHANIEL: 'THE WORKS'
Lot 626 Sold
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: 'Some Account of the Life of Rachael Wriothesley, Lady Russell', published by Longman et al, London 1819, gilt tooled brown leather bound with green leather half title (11)
Hammer price: £80
Estimate: £100 - £200
13 June 2025
13 June 2025
DE LA PÉROUSE, J. F. G.: 'A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD'
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
COOK, CAPTAIN JAMES INTEREST: FORSTER, GEORGE: 'A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD' (COOK'S SECOND VOYAGE)
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
ROSCOE, WILLIAM: 'THE LIFE OF LORENZO DE' MEDICI'
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
ACKERMANN, R: 'THE HISTORY OF THE COLLEGES OF WINCHESTER, ETON AND WESTMINSTER ...'
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
CRAYON, GEOFFREY (WASHINGTON IRVING): 'BRACEBRIDGE HALL; OR THE HUMORISTS'
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
'AN ACCOUNT OF SWITZERLAND WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1714'
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
'THE SPECTATOR'
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
SWIFT, REVEREND JONATHAN: 'THE WORKS'
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
BARROW, JOHN HENRY (ED.): 'THE MIRROR OF PARLIAMENT'
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
BRYAN, MARGARET: 'LECTURES ON NATURAL PHILOSOPHY'
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
'MORE LEAVES FROM THE JOURNAL OF A LIFE IN THE HIGHLANDS FROM 1862-1882'
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
‘THE MODERN TRAVELLER’
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

Total lots: 753

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