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Auction date Thursday 31 July 2025 10:30 - 17:30 BST

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Head of Sale:

William Batt

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Thursday 31st July at 10.30am

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Lot 471 Sold

HUTCHINS, JOHN: ‘THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE COUNTY OF DORSET’

third edition, volumes 1-4, printed by John Bowyer Nichols, Westminster, London, 1861, three-quarter brown leather bound with brown cloth boards, black leather half titles and Georgii Drewry Squibb bookplates (4)

Hammer price: £280

Estimate: £300 - £500

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Lot 472 Sold

KAIKHOSRU SORABJI: A PRINTED COLLECTION RELATING TO THE MUSICIAN AND COMPOSER

comprising his personal and annotated first edition copy of ‘Mi Contra Fa’, two musical scores (‘Trois Poemes pour Chant et Piano’ and ‘Organ Symphony’), five letters and ephemera contained in six envelopes, together with an OUP printed pamphlet about Sorabji (10)

Hammer price: £600

Estimate: £200 - £400

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Lot 473 Unsold

MAHON, LORD: ‘HISTORY OF THE WAR OF THE SUCCESSION IN SPAIN’

a unique gifted publisher’s copy, by John Murray, London 1832 and retaining fold out map, bound in to rear with the extremely scarce ‘Letters from the Earl of Peterborough to General Stanhope in Spain’ printed by William Clowes, Duke Street, London, 51 pages, unpublished with only 50 copies printed, further bound in to front with two handwritten letters to James Heywood Markland from Lord Mahon one of which being a presentation of the volume to Markland,

brown leather bound with tooled spine, inside front board with bookplate for Major John Ellen CBE,…

Estimate: £1,500 - £2,500

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Lot 474 Unsold

WOOD, J. G.: ‘THE ILLUSTRATED NATURAL HISTORY’

three volumes, comprising ‘Mammalia’, ‘Birds’ and ‘Reptiles, Fishes, Molluscs’, all published by Routledge et al, London, the latter two dated 1862 and 1863 respectively, in matching three-quarter green leather binding each with Leslie Sydney Montgomery bookplates; together with three other Wood volumes - ‘Insects at Home’, ‘History of Man’ volume one and ‘Nature’s Teachings’ (6)

Estimate: £300 - £500

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Lot 475 Unsold

A LARGE INCOMPLETE RUN OF ‘THE STUDIO’ MAGAZINE

variously bound and in original individual paper wraps, roughly covering years 1900-1913 (198 volumes)

Estimate: £300 - £500

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Lot 476 Unsold

A VICTORIAN SCRAP ALBUM

containing an abundance of American coloured scraps, including 'Dan'l Sully's Corner Grocery', 'Thurber's Cod' and 'Sunny South Cigarette Cards', as well as a 19th century baseball scrap, in a gilt tooled maroon leather binding, 37.5cm x 31cm

Estimate: £1,000 - £2,000

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