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

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William Batt


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Lots per page:

Total lots: 590

Lot Title Estimate Hammer price
450 A MEDIEVAL STONE GARGOYLE
probably c.1400, the four-legged mythical beast figured downfacing with upturned snout, the top of the block inscribed later with the numeral '16', 39cm high x 35cm wide x 60cm deep
£200 - £400 £550 View
451 A PAIR OF VICTORIAN CAST IRON PLANTERS
of rectangular section, decorated in relief with crowns, 35cm high x 61cm wide x 24cm deep (2)
£300 - £500 £360 View
452 ABBOTT À BECKETT, GILBERT: 'THE COMIC HISTORY OF ROME' and 'THE COMIC HISTORY OF ENGLAND'
published by Bradbury, Agnew & Co. and The Punch Office respectively, gilt tooled, green cloth bindings (2)

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
£100 - £200 - View
453 AGRICOLA, GEORGIUS: ‘DE RE METALLICA’
translated from the first Latin edition of 1556 by Hoover, Herbert Clark and Hoover, Lou Henry, published by The Mining Magazine, Salisbury House, London 1912, vellum bound, the front flyleaf with…
£200 - £400 £300 View
454 AIKIN, J: ‘THE WOODLAND COMPANION’
third edition, printed for Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, London 1820, later half green vinyl bound with marbled boards, retaining numerous fold out plates; together with ‘Natural History of Remarkable…
£100 - £200 - View
455 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…
£50 - £100 - View
456 ALDIN, CECIL: 'DOGS OF CHARACTER'
signed and limited edition no. 111/250, published by Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1927, half vellum bound with gilt tooled boards, original paper wrap and box
£100 - £200 £190 View
457 ARDIZZONE, AINGELDA AND ARDIZZONE, EDWARD: TWO COPIES OF ‘THE NIGHT RIDE’
both first editions, published by Longman 1973, one an ex-library copy, hardbound with dustwrapper; together with ‘The Little Girl and the Tiny Doll’, reprinted 1978 (3)
£30 - £50 £30 View
458 ARDIZZONE, EDWARD: EIGHT ‘TIM’ STORIES
mostly first editions, including ‘Tim and Lucy Go To Sea’, published by Oxford University Press, London 1958, with dustwrapper; together with two paperback copies (10)
£100 - £200 £340 View
459 ARDIZZONE, EDWARD: SEVEN CHILDREN’S BOOKS
mostly first editions, comprising ‘Paul - The Hero of the Fire’, published by Porpoise, West Drayton 1948, ‘Johnny The Clockmaker’, OUP 1960, ’Peter The Wanderer’, published by OUP 1963, ‘Sarah and…
£100 - £200 £60 View
460 ARISTOPHANE: ‘LYSISTRATA’
illustrated by Alain Bonnefoit, specimen edition, published by Editions De L’Odeon, unbound folio with loose watered cloth boards; together with Bedier, Joseph - ‘Le Roman de Tristan et Iseut’…
£100 - £200 - View
461 AYRTON, MICHAEL: ‘TITTIVULUS’
first edition, published by Reinhart, London 1953, red cloth bound with dustwrappper

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
£30 - £50 £30 View
462 BAILEY, NICHOLAS: ‘AN UNIVERSAL ETYMOLOGICAL ENGLISH DICTIONARY’
seventh edition, printed for Knapton et al, London 1735, rebound half brown leather with marbled boards; together with
Boyer, Mr A: - ‘Le Dictionanaire Royal Francois-Anglois’, new edition, volumes 1…
£50 - £100 - View
463 BATES, H. E.: ‘MY UNCLE SILAS’
first edition, illustrated by Edward Ardizzone, published by Jonathan Cape, 1939, green cloth bound; together with a Reprint Society copy of the same title, 1947; two copies of ‘Sugar for the Horse,…
£30 - £50 £30 View
464 BEARDSLEY, AUBREY: 'THE EARLY WORK OF AUBREY BEARDSLEY'
with a prefatory note by H.T. Marillier, published by John Lane at The Bodley Head, London 1899, half maroon leather bound with gilt tooled spine and red cloth boards, ex libris Hendon Libraries;…
£100 - £200 - View
465 BOCCACCIO, GIOVANNI: ‘THE DECAMERON’
illustrated by John Payne, limited edition 707/1000, volumes 1 and 2, published by Lawrence and Bullen, 1893, green cloth bound (2)

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
£50 - £100 - View
466 BOUILLON DE LA GRANGE, E.J.B: ‘MANUEL D’UN COURS DE CHIMIE’
volumes 1 and 2, published by Chez Bernard, Paris, An VII, later brown leather binding, ex Libris Athenaeum Library, Liverpool (2)

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
£30 - £50 - View
467 BRADLEY, JOHN: ‘THE HISTORY OF THE SEYCHELLES’
second edition, volumes 1 and 2, printed by the Clarion Presa, Victoria, 1940, rebound in grey card, retaining plates (2)

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
£50 - £100 £90 View
468 BRITTON, JOHN AND BRAYLEY, EDWARD WEDLAKE: ‘THE BEAUTIES OF ENGLAND AND WALES’
volumes 1-6, printed by Thomas Maiden, Sherbourne-Lane, for Vernor and Hood et al, London 1801, three-quarter brown leather bound with marbled boards, red and green leather half titles and Bridehead…
£50 - £100 £140 View
469 CARY, JOHN: ‘CARY’S NEW ITINERARY’
published by J. Cary, London 1798, later three-quarter brown leather bound with marbled boards

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
£30 - £50 £40 View
470 CAVALLO, TIBERIUS: 'A COMPLETE TREATISE ON ELECTRICITY'
4th edition, volumes 1-3, printed for C. Dilly, London 1795, brown leather bound with repaired spines (3)

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
£30 - £50 £150 View
471 CAVE, WILLIAM: ‘PRIMITIVE CHRISTIANITY OR THE RELIGION OF THE ANCIENT CHRISTIANS’
third edition, parts 1-3, printed by J.G for Chiswell, London, 1676, rebound together in one three quarter brown leather volume

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
£100 - £200 £100 View
472 CHEYNE, GEORGE: ‘AN ESSAY OF HEALTH AND LONG LIFE’
sixth edition, printed for George Strahan, London 1725; together with Marryat, Thomas: ‘Therapeutics’, sixteenth edition, Bristol 1802; and Combe, Andrew: The Physiology of Digestion’, Edinburgh 1881…
£50 - £100 £60 View
473 CONAN DOYLE, ARTHUR: 'THE GREAR BOER WAR'
third impression, published by Smith, Elder & Co., London 1900, blue cloth bound with gilt titled spine, retaining maps to rear of volume

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
£50 - £100 - View

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