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

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Lot	Title	Estimate	Hammer price
474	COOKE, GEORGE ALEXANDER: FIVE TITLES including Topographical and Statistical Descriptions of Bedford, Northampton, Cambridge Huntingdon and Norfolk, printed for C. Cooke, London, all bound in one volume, rebound three-quarter brown…	£50 - £100	-	View
475	CRABB, GEORGE: ‘UNIVERSAL TECHNOLOGICAL DICTIONARY’ volumes 1 and 2, printed for Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, London 1823, three quarter green leather bound (2) Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.	£100 - £200	£110	View
476	CRISWICK, J.: 'A WALK ROUND DORCHESTER' printed by and for J. Criswick, Dorchester 1820, rebound half green cloth with buff card boards, retaining fold-out map Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.	£30 - £50	£30	View
477	DAY LEWIS, CECIL: TWO COPIES OF ‘CHRISTMAS EVE’ illustrated by Edward Ardizzone, both first edition pamphlets published by Faber and Faber 1954, the crisper copy with original envelope containing note from legendary cricket commentator John Arlott…	£50 - £100	£30	View
478	DE AZARA, FELIX: ‘VOYAGES DANS L’AMERIQUE MERIDIONALE’ volumes 1-4, published by Dentu, Paris 1809, gilt tooled brown leather bound; together with Campe: ‘La Decouverte de L’Amerique’ volumes 2 and 3, 1784; and three other antiquarian French books (9) …	£50 - £100	£50	View
479	DEL RIO, MARTIN ‘DISQUISITIONUM MAGICARUM’ books 1 & 2, published by Ursellana, Mainz 1606, vellum bound with painted and hand titled spine Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.	£500 - £1,000	-	View
480	DETMOLD, EDWARD J. (ILLUS.): 'THE FABLES OF AESOP' published by Hodder & Stoughton, London, the title page embossed 'Presentation Copy', in gilt tooled brown cloth binding; together with a collection of nine early 20th century illustrated books;…	£100 - £200	-	View
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

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