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Auction date Wednesday 15 October 2025 10:30 - 17:30 BST

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Lot	Title	Estimate	Hammer price
481	DICKENS, CHARLES: 'MASTER HUMPHREY'S CLOCK' illustrated by George Cattermole & Hablot Browne, volumes 1 & 2, published by Chapman & Hall, London 1840/41, three-quarter brown leather bound with marbled boards (2) Provenance: A…	£100 - £200	-	View
482	DICKENS, CHARLES: 'DOMBEY AND SON' first edition, illustrated by H. K. Browne, published by Bradbury & Evans, London 1848, black three-quarter leather bound with marbled boards and brown leather half title	£50 - £100	£50	View
483	DICKENS, CHARLES: 'LITTLE DORRIT' first edition, illustrated by H.K. Browne, published by Bradbury and Evans, London, 1857, brown three-quarter leather bound with marbled boards	£50 - £100	£40	View
484	DICKENS, CHARLES: 'THE POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF THE PICKWICK CLUB' illustrated by R. Seymour and Phiz, published by Chapman and Hall, London, 1837, gilt tooled blue cloth binding, red leather half title	£50 - £100	£30	View
485	EMERSON, W.: ‘THE ELEMENTS OF OPTICS’ books 1-4, printed for J. Nourse, London, 1768, all bound within one gilt tooled brown leather volume with black half title, retaining plates Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.	£100 - £200	-	View
486	EVELYN, JOHN: ‘SILVA, OR A DISCOURSE OF FOREST-TREES’ books 1 & 2, fourth edition, printed for Robert Scott, London, 1706, quarto, original gilt tooled brown calf bound with black leather half title, pasted inside front cover with bookplate for E.W.…	£300 - £500	-	View
487	FABRE, J.H.: 'THE LIFE OF THE SPIDER', 'THE MASDON-BEES' and 'BRAMBLE-BEES AND OTHERS' each published by Hodder & Stoughton, 1912, 1914 and 1915 respectively, green cloth bound (3) Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.	£30 - £50	-	View
488	FARADAY, MICHAEL: TWO VOLUMES - ‘VARIOUS FORCES OF NATURE’ AND ‘THE CHEMICAL HISTORY OF A CANDLE’ both new editions and published by Chatto & Windus, Piccadilly, brown and blue leather bound respectively (2) Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.	£30 - £50	£70	View
489	FENNING, DANIEL: 'A NEW AND EASY GUIDE TO THE USE OF THE GLOBES' 8th edition, printed for J. Johnson et al, London 1804, rebound black half-leather with marbled boards, retaining numerous plates including a fold-out 'The World' before the title page; together with…	£100 - £200	-	View
490	FERGUSON, JAMES: ‘LECTURES ON SELECT SUBJECTS IN MECHANICS….’ new edition, published Sherwood & Co, London 1852, green cloth bound retaining plates, Atkinson, E. - ‘Elementary Treatise on Physics’, second edition, published by Bailliere, London 1866,…	£100 - £200	-	View
491	FORSYTH, J.S.: 'THE ANTIQUARY'S PORTFOLIO' volumes 1 and 2, printed for George Wightman, London 1825, repaired half cloth binding with original mottled boards, volume 1 with bookplate for Marcel Lachaert (2) Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.	£50 - £100	-	View
492	FOURCROY, A.F.: 'A GENERAL SYSTEM OF CHEMICAL KNOWLEDGE' translated by William Nicholson, volumes 1-11 (10 and 11 bound together), printed for Cadell & Davies et al, London 1804, three-quarter red leather bound with gilt tooled spines and marbled…	£100 - £200	-	View
493	GIRARDIN, M.J.: ‘LECONS DE CHIMIE ELEMENTAIRE’ fifth edition, volumes 1-5, published by Masson, Paris, 1873, gilt tooled green leather bound (5) Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.	£30 - £50	-	View
494	GLADSTONE, W. E: 'THE STATE IN ITS RELATIONS WITH THE CHURCH' and 'CHURCH PRINCIPLES CONSIDERED IN THEIR RESULTS' both published by John Murray, London 1838 and 1840 respectively, both three-quarter brown leather bound, the gilt tooled spines with red half titles and marbled boards (2) Provenance: Bridehead,…	£50 - £100	£20	View
495	GOLDSMITH, OLIVER: ‘AN HISTORY OF THE EARTH’ second edition, volumes 1-8, printed for J. Nourse, Strand, 1779, brown leather bound with red and green half titles, retaining some plates; together with Goldsmith, Oliver: ‘Natural History…	£50 - £100	£80	View
496	GORHAM, MAURICE AND ARDIZZONE, EDWARD: THREE VOLUMES comprising ‘Back to the Local’, first edition and ‘Londoners’ two first edition copies, all published by Percival Marshall, London 1949 and 1951 respectively, one with dustwrapper; together with…	£50 - £100	£50	View
497	GRAHAM, ELEANOR AND ARDIZZONE, EDWARD: TWO COPIES OF ‘J.M BARRIE’S PETER PAN’ comprising first edition published by Brockhampton 1962 with dustwrapper and a ninth impression published by Hodder and Stoughton 1983; together with Webster, Jean: two copies of ‘Daddy Long-Legs’…	£30 - £50	-	View
498	GRANVILLE FELL, H. (ILLUS.): 'THE SONG OF SOLOMON' published by The Guild of Women Binders, 61 Charing Cross Road, London 1897, limited edition on Japanese paper, no. 95/100, buff cloth bound, with gilt tooled title to front cover Provenance: A…	£200 - £400	-	View
499	GRAVES, ROBERT: TWO COPIES OF ‘ANN AT HIGHWOOD HALL’ illustrated by Edward Ardizzone, both first editions, one an ex-library copy, pale blue hardbound with dustwrappers (2)	£30 - £50	-	View
500	GREENE, GRAHAM: FOUR ‘LITTLE SERIES’ VOLUMES illustrated by Edward Ardizzone, comprising ‘The Little Train’, ‘The Little Fire Engine’, ‘The Little Steamroller’ and ‘The Little Horse Bus’, published by Bodley Head 1973/4, two with dustwrappers …	£100 - £200	£140	View
501	GREGORY, BARNARD: 'THE SATIRIST, OR MONTHLY METEOR' New Series, Volume XI comprising Nos. 1-5, printed for the proprietor for the Satirist Offfice, London 1812, later three quarter brown leather binding with marbled boards and red half title,…	£200 - £400	-	View
502	GUTHRIE-SMITH, H: ‘MUTTON BIRDS AND OTHER BIRDS’ published by Whitcombe and Tombs, 1914, gilt decorated green cloth bound Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.	£20 - £40	-	View
503	HARDY, THOMAS: ‘TESS OF THE D’URBERVILLES’ first edition, first issue, volumes 1-3, published by James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., London 1891, gilt tooled brown cloth binding, the title pages and explanatory note (volume 1)/front fly…	£500 - £1,000	£700	View
504	HARRIS, JOHN: ‘LEXICON TECHNICUM’ printed volume one to title page but text runs A-Z, printed for Dan. Browne et al, London, 1716, original brown calf bound, retaining numerous plates Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.	£200 - £400	-	View
505	HAYTER: ‘AN INTRODUCTION TO PERSPECTIVE’ printed for the author and sold by Black, Perry and Co, et al, London, 1813, brown leather bound with gilt tooled spine, retaining plates Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.	£100 - £200	£100	View
506	HEBBEL, FRIEDRICH: ‘THE NIEBELUNGS’ translated by Goldberger, illustrated by G.H. McCall, published by A. Siegle, London, card bound; together with Foster-Barham, A.G. (Trans): ‘The Nibelungen Lied’, published by Routledge, London 1887…	£100 - £200	-	View
507	HILL, JOHN: 'THE VEGETABLE SYSTEM' second edition, volumes 1-26, printed for the author and sold by T. Truman, London 1770-1775, folio, bound in 13 gilt tooled brown leather volumes with titled spines, Bridehead bookplates pasted over…	£1,500 - £2,500	£750	View
508	HOOD, THOMAS: 'POEMS' illustrated by Gustave Doré, published by E. Moxon, Son & Co., London 1870, black cloth folio binding with repaired spine Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.	£50 - £100	-	View
509	HOWARD, JOHN: 'AN ACCOUNT OF THE PRINCIPAL LAZARETTOS IN EUROPE’ second edition, printed for Johnson, Dilly and Cadell, London 1791, three quarter brown leather bound, with gilt tooled spine, marbled boards and retaining plates Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.	£150 - £250	-	View
510	HUBER, FRANCIS: TWO VOLUMES - 'NEW OBSERVATIONS ON THE NATURAL HISTORY OF BEES' AND 'THE NATURAL HISTORY OF ANTS' the former published by John Anderson, Edinburgh 1808 second edition, the latter by Longman et al, London 1820, cloth and three quarter leather bindings (2)	£30 - £50	£40	View
511	HULME, EDWARD F.: ‘BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS OF THE COUNTRY SIDE’ published by Hutchinson & Co, London, 1903, green cloth bound Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.	£70 - £100	-	View
512	HUNT, ROBERT: ‘URE’S DICTIONARY OF ARTS, MANUFACTURES AND MINES’ seventh edition, volumes 1-4, published by Longman, London 1878, red cloth bound (4) Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.	£50 - £100	-	View
513	HUTTON, W.: 'AN HISTORY OF BIRMINGHAM TO THE END OF THE YEAR 1780' printed by and for Pearson & Rollason, Birmingham 1781, three-quarter grained brown leather bound with repaired spine, retaining fold-out south view of Birmingham before the title page …	£50 - £100	£50	View
514	IMISON, JOHN: ‘ELEMENTS OF SCIENCE AND ART’ new edition, volumes 1 and 2, printed for J. Harding et al, London 1803, full brown leather binding with green and black leather half titles (2) Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.	£50 - £100	-	View
515	IRVING, WASHINGTON: 'A HISTORY OF THE LIFE AND VOYAGES OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS' volumes 1-4, published by John Murray, London 1828, gilt tooled brown cloth bound, retaining fold-out 'Chart of the West Indies' to volume 1 (4) Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.	£200 - £400	-	View
516	JESSE, EDWARD: 'GLEANING IN NATURAL HISTORY' new edition, volumes 1 and 2, published by John Murray, London, 1832, three quarter brown leather bound with marbled boards and red half title, retaining plates (2) Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.	£50 - £100	-	View
517	JOHNSON, SAMUEL: ‘A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE’ eleventh edition, printed for Brown et al, Edinburgh 1797, rebound half brown leather; together with Ainsworth, Robert - A Dictionary of the Latin Tongue’ new edition, printed for Bathurst et al,…	£50 - £100	-	View
518	KIPLING, RUDYARD: 'A SONG OF THE ENGLISH two copies, illustrated by William Heath Robinson, both published by Hodder and Stoughton, one in pale yellow cloth binding published on behalf of 'The Daily Telegraph' National Bands Fund and…	£100 - £200	-	View
519	LANG, ANDREW: ‘PRINCE CHARLES EDWARD’ limited edition no. 1116 of 1500; together with Skelton, Sir John: ‘Charles I’, both published by Goupil & Co, London 1900 and 1898 respectively, gilt tooled red cloth bound (2) Provenance:…	£30 - £50	-	View
520	LANG, FRITZ: 'DAS SCHNAUZERBUCH' a card bound volume of nine woodblock prints, each depicting Schauzers at play, each signed in pencil 'F Lang', the volume 27cm x 24cm	£150 - £250	-	View
521	LAVATER, J.C.: ‘PHYSIOGNOMY’ translated by Samuel Shaw, printed for H.D. Symonds, London, brown leather bound with red leather half title, retaining plates; together with Combe, Andrew: ‘The Principles of Physiology’ sixteenth…	£100 - £200	-	View
522	LE FANU, JOSEPH SHERIDAN: ‘IN A GLASS DARKLY’ illustrated by Edward Ardizzone, published by Peter Davies, London 1929, black cloth bound	£100 - £200	£80	View
523	LOWE, E. J.: ‘A NATURAL HISTORY OF BRITISH GRASSES’ published by John C. Nimmo, London 1891, gilt tooled green cloth bound; together with Plues, Margaret: ‘British Grasses’, published by Reeve & Co, London, 1867, gilt tooled brown leather bound…	£100 - £200	-	View
524	MAETERLINCK, MAURICE: 'THE LIFE OF THE BEE' illustrated by E.J. Detmold, published by George Allen & Co., London 1912, decorated buff cloth bound; together with Maeterlinck, Maurice: 'The Treasure of the Humble', published by George Allen …	£30 - £50	£25	View
525	MARDUS, J. C.: ‘LE LIVRE DES MILLE NUITS ET UNE NUIT’ illustrated by Leon Carre, volumes 3-12, published by L’ Edition Art, Paris, paper bound with original dustwrappers and slip cases; together with Bussiere, Gaston: ‘La Derniere Nuit de Judas’,…	£300 - £500	-	View
526	MIEGE, GUY: ‘THE PRESENT STATE OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND’ fifth edition, printed for A. Bettesworth et al, London, 1723, rebound three-quarter red leather, inscribed to front flyleaf in 18th Century ink ‘Richard Thomas, April 11th 1783’, with four line…	£80 - £150	-	View
527	MURPHY, JOHN: 'A TREATISE ON THE ART OF WEAVING' 9th edition, published by Blackie & Son, Glasgow 1847, full brown calf bound with gilt tooled maroon leather half title and retaining fold-out plans and charts Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.	£100 - £200	-	View
528	NEMNICH, PHILIP ANDREW: ‘AN UNIVERSAL EUROPEAN DICTIONARY OF MERCHANDISE’ printed for J. Johnson, London 1799, rebound marbled card binding; together with ‘The Dictionary of Merchandise’, anon, printed for the Author and sold by T. Boosey, London 1803, later brown leather…	£50 - £100	£50	View

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