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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 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 32

Lots per page:

Total lots: 753

Lot 663 Sold
BENSON, ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER: ‘FASTI ETONENSES - A BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF ETON’
published by R. Ingalton Drake, Eton, 1899, gilt tooled brown calf bound and inscribed to front flyleaf ‘Philip F.C Williams with all best wishes from his Tutor Stuart A. Donaldson, Eton Election 1903’
Hammer price: £30
Estimate: £30 - £50
13 June 2025
13 June 2025
Lot 664 Sold
CONYBEARE, REV. W. J. AND HOWSON, REV. J. S.: ‘THE LIFE AND EPISTLES OF ST. PAUL’
volumes 1-2, published by Longman, Brown, Green and Longman, London 1853, gilt tooled blue leather bound; together with Glasse, Rev. Samuel ‘The New Testament of our Lord Jesus Christ’, volumes 1 and 2, printed by Savage and Easingwood and sold by Hatchard et al, London 1805, green three-quarter leather bound (4)
Hammer price: £55
Estimate: £30 - £50
13 June 2025
13 June 2025
Lot 665 Sold
‘ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA’
third edition, volumes 1-18, with two volume supplement A-I and I-Z, all printed for A. Bell and C. Mac Farquhar, Edinburgh, 1797, all bound in matching gilt tooled calf with red and black leather half titles, the two supplementary volumes with differing gilt star device to spines, all retaining plates and with Robert Williams Junior bookplates (20)
Hammer price: £900
Estimate: £300 - £500
13 June 2025
13 June 2025
Lot 666 Sold
ROSS, SIR JOHN: ‘NARRATIVE OF A SECOND VOYAGE IN SEARCH OF A NORTH-WEST PASSAGE’
published by A. W. Webster, London 1835, three-quarter brown leather bound with marbled boards, gilt tooled spine and yellow fore edge, retaining fold-out maps and plates, one volume only
Hammer price: £120
Estimate: £200 - £400
13 June 2025
13 June 2025
Lot 667 Sold
LEWIS, SAMUEL: ‘A TOPOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF WALES’ AND ‘A TOPOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF ENGLAND’
the former with volumes 1 and 2, the latter with volumes 1-4, both published by S. Lewis and Co, London 1833, all bound in matching three-quarter brown leather with marbled boards and yellow fore edges (6)
Hammer price: £150
Estimate: £200 - £400
13 June 2025
13 June 2025
Lot 668 Sold
HAGHE, LOUIS, AFTER DAVID ROBERTS: ‘THE HOLY LAND’
volumes 1-6, with text by Rev. George Croley, lithographed, printed and published by Day & Son, London 1855, bound in three volumes with red three-quarter leather and green cloth boards by Leighton Son & Hodge Shoe Lane London (3)
Hammer price: £700
Estimate: £400 - £600
13 June 2025
13 June 2025
Lot 669 Sold
‘ENGLAND AND WALES - RETURN OF OWNERS OF LAND 1873’
volumes 1 and 2, printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode for HMSO, London 1875, three-quarter brown leather bound with gilt tooled spines and red cloth boards (2)
Hammer price: £100
Estimate: £100 - £200
13 June 2025
13 June 2025
Lot 670 Sold
JOHNSTON, ALEXANDER KEITH: ‘THE HANDY ROYAL ATLAS OF MODERN GEOGRAPHY’
published by William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1868, three-quarter green leather bound with green cloth boards, retaining plates
Hammer price: £30
Estimate: £50 - £100
13 June 2025
13 June 2025
Lot 671 Sold
BUCHANANI (BUCHANAN) GEORGII (GEORGE): ‘OPERA OMNIA’
edited by Thomas Ruddiman, volumes 1-2, printed by Robert Freebairn, Edinburgh 1715, full calf bound with gilt tooled spines and Bridehead bookplates designed by G. Haines and engraved by W. H. Toms, 1752 (2)
Hammer price: £150
Estimate: £150 - £250
13 June 2025
13 June 2025
Lot 672 Sold
MAYO, CHARLES: ‘A CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY OF THE EUROPEAN STATES’
printed by S. Hazard, Bath for G. G. and J. Robinson, London, 1793, full spotted brown calf with gilt tooled spine and Bridehead bookplate
Hammer price: £80
Estimate: £100 - £200
13 June 2025
13 June 2025
Lot 673 Sold
‘SERMONS OR HOMILIES APPOINTED TO BE READ IN CHURCHES DURING THE TIME OF QUEEN ELIZABETH’
printed by Ellerton & Henderson for the Prayer-Book and Homily Society, London 1815, tooled brown leather bound with gilt tooled spine, pencil annotation to front flyleaf ‘Robert Williams, Bridehead’
Hammer price: £30
Estimate: £50 - £100
13 June 2025
13 June 2025
Lot 674 Sold
WELLER, EDWARD: ‘PHILIPS’ ATLAS OF THE COUNTIES OF ENGLAND’
new edition with index by John Bartholomew, published by George Philip and Son, London and Liverpool, red three-quarter leather bound with gilded red cloth boards and spine, inscribed to front flyleaf ‘R. Williams, Jnr from J.A.W. 15th June 1883’
Hammer price: £70
Estimate: £50 - £100
13 June 2025
13 June 2025
Lot 675 Sold
KITCHEN, THOMAS: ‘A GENERAL ATLAS DESCRIBING THE WHOLE UNIVERSE’
printed and sold by R. Sayer and J. Bennett, Map, Chart and Print Sellers, London 1780, three-quarter brown leather bound with gilt lettered spine and brown cloth boards, retaining folding maps and plates
Hammer price: £4,000
Estimate: £1,000 - £2,000
13 June 2025
13 June 2025
Lot 676 Sold
BUCHOZ, M: ‘PLANCHES ENLUMINÉES ET NON ENLUMINÉES’
volumes (‘centuries’) 1 and 2, uncoloured, mostly published by the author, rue de la Harpe 1778-81, but also some by Marc-Michel Rey, Amsterdam, three-quarter red leather bound with marbled boards and gilt lettered spines (2)
Hammer price: £1,400
Estimate: £2,000 - £4,000
13 June 2025
13 June 2025
Lot 677 Sold
BURN, RICHARD: 'THE JUSTICE OF THE PEACE AND PARISH OFFICER'
volumes 1, 2 and 4, printed for T. Cadell et al, London 1836, brown leather bound with red leather half titles (3)
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £30 - £50
13 June 2025
13 June 2025
Lot 678 Sold
'BRITISH HUSBANDRY; EXHIBITING THE FARMING PRACTICE IN VARIOUS PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM'
volumes 1-3, published by Baldwin & Cradock, London 1834; together with Low, David: 'Elements of Practical Agriculture', 4th edition, published by Longman, London and Adam & Charles Black, Edinburgh 1843; and Johnson, Cuthbert W: 'The Farmers' Encyclopaedia', published by Longman et al, London 1842, all bound in three-quarter brown leather with coloured half titles and marbled boards (5)
Hammer price: £200
Estimate: £100 - £200
13 June 2025
13 June 2025
Lot 679 Sold
LYSONS, REVEREND DANIEL: 'THE ENVIRONS OF LONDON'
volumes 1-4, printed by A. Strahan for T. Cadell Junior and W. Davies, London 1791, gilt tooled grained brown leather bound with red and black leather half titles, Robert Williams Junior bookplates and containing extensive plates and illustrations to text, some coloured and including fold-out plates - 'Pedigree of Carew of Beddington' and others (4)
Hammer price: £260
Estimate: £300 - £500
13 June 2025
13 June 2025
Lot 680 Sold
NICHOLSON, PETER: 'AN ARCHITECTURAL AND ENGINEERING DICTIONARY'
volumes 1-2, published by John Weale, London 1835, three-quarter brown leather bound with tooled and lettered spines, marbled boards and retaining numerous plates within the text (2)
Hammer price: £120
Estimate: £200 - £400
13 June 2025
13 June 2025
Lot 681 Unsold
AIMSWORTH, ROBERT: 'THESAURUS LINGAE LATINAE COMPENDIARIUS'
new edition, volumes 1-2, printed for T. Longman et al, London 1796, gilt tooled brown leather bound with titled spines and Bridehead bookplates; together with Vieyra, Anthony: 'A Dictionary of the Portuguese and English Languages', new edition, printed for F. Wingrave et al, London 1794, gilt tooled brown leather bound with titled spine (3)
Estimate: £100 - £200
13 June 2025
13 June 2025
Lot 682 Sold
H. B. (JOHN DOYLE): 'POLITICAL SKETCHES'
volumes 1-9, published by Thomas McLean, Haymarket and S. W. Fores, Piccadilly, folio, three-quarter red leather bound; together with two copies of 'Descriptive Key to HB nos. 601-800', published by Thomas McLean, London 1844 and 1841 respectively, both tooled brown cloth bound (11)
Hammer price: £1,400
Estimate: £2,000 - £4,000
13 June 2025
13 June 2025
Lot 683 Sold
THOMSON, JAMES: 'THE SEASONS'
illustrated with engravings by Bartolozzi and Tomkins after W. Hamilton, printed by T. Bensley for Longman et al, London 1807, folio, attractively gilt tooled brown leather bound, the titled spine with prominent ridge bands, Bridehead bookplate and extensive illustrations to text
Hammer price: £240
Estimate: £300 - £500
13 June 2025
13 June 2025
Lot 684 Sold
LEBRUN, M: 'GALERIE DES PEINTRES FLAMANDS, HOLLANDAIS ET ALLEMANDS'
volumes 1-3, published by the author at rue du Gros-Chenet and Poignant at rue et Hotel Serpente, Paris, 1792-1796, bound in two gilt tooled brown leather volumes, with titled spines, watered purple silk linings to inside boards and with numerous engravings to text (2)
Hammer price: £550
Estimate: £300 - £500
13 June 2025
13 June 2025
Lot 685 Sold
ROBERTSON, WILLIAM: 'THE WORKS'
volumes 1-8, printed for T. Cadell, London 1827, gilt tooled blue leather bound with red leather half titles and Robert Williams bookplate, volumes 6, 7 and 8 retaining fold-out maps (8)
Hammer price: £60
Estimate: £100 - £200
13 June 2025
13 June 2025
Lot 686 Sold
'THE ANNUAL REGISTER'
volume 11 (1768), volume 15 (1772) and volume 21 (1778), fourth, fourth and third editions respectively, printed for J. Dodsley, London 1786; together with 'General Index to Dodsley's Annual Register, 1758-1819', printed for Baldwin, Cradock & Joy, London 1826; and 'The Quarterly Review', volumes 1-7 (July and October 1869), volume 138 (January and April 1875) and volume 139 (July and October 1875), published by John Murray, London 1869-1875,
variously grained full brown leather bound and three-quarter brown leather bound, all with half…
Hammer price: £50
Estimate: £50 - £100
13 June 2025
13 June 2025

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