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

William Batt


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Wednesday 15th October at 10.30am

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Total lots: 590

FIVE 19TH CENTURY FRENCH/ENGLISH CHILDREN’S ILLUSTRATED PHRASE BOOKS
Lot 594 Sold
FIVE 19TH CENTURY FRENCH/ENGLISH CHILDREN’S ILLUSTRATED PHRASE BOOKS
including ‘Enclyclopedy for Children’ illus. by H. Duru, some incomplete (5)
Hammer price: £460
Estimate: £50 - £100
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
A LATE 18TH CENTURY VELLUM BOUND RECIPE AND QUACK CURE BOOK
Lot 595 Sold
A LATE 18TH CENTURY VELLUM BOUND RECIPE AND QUACK CURE BOOK
containing handwritten instructions in a variety of hands, including a cure for Dysentry taken from the General Evening Post for Thursday October 17 1780, the volume 21cm x 6.5cm; together with two other similar recipe books (3)

Provenance: The Loveday family, thence by descent.
Hammer price: £650
Estimate: £100 - £200
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
SARAH ATKINSON: A 19TH CENTURY SCRAP ALBUM
Lot 596 Sold
SARAH ATKINSON: A 19TH CENTURY SCRAP ALBUM
containing a selection of pressed and dried botanical specimens, sketches and verse, the front fly leaf dated ‘49 (1849), the volume with gilt tooled leather binding

Provenance: Sarah Atkinson, thence by family descent.
Hammer price: £70
Estimate: £100 - £200
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
ELIZABETH FOWLE: A 19TH CENTURY LEATHER BOUND ALBUM
Lot 597 Sold
ELIZABETH FOWLE: A 19TH CENTURY LEATHER BOUND ALBUM
containing a selection of botanical watercolour sketches, musical scores and verse by Elizabeth Fowle, some dated 1853, the three quarter leather bound volume with gilt tooled spine and marbled boards, 18.5cm x 11.5cm

Provenance: Elizabeth Fowle, thence by family descent.
Hammer price: £120
Estimate: £100 - £200
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
‘ANN LOVEDAY’S RIDDLE BOOK’
Lot 598 Sold
‘ANN LOVEDAY’S RIDDLE BOOK’
a late 18th/early 19th century half leather bound journal containing 642 handwritten riddles in a variety of hands, the front flyleaf titled in pencil, the binding with brown leather spine and marbled boards, 21.5cm x 17cm; together with a companion marbled paper bound pamphlet of Answers; and a quantity of loose 18th and 19th Century handwritten riddles, notes and letters, including two 19th Century printed riddles by Mallam, Tobacconist, High-street, Oxford (a lot)
Provenance: Ann Loveday, thence by family descent.
Hammer price: £1,000
Estimate: £150 - £250
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
ANN LOVEDAY: A 19TH CENTURY SCRAP BOOK
Lot 599 Sold
ANN LOVEDAY: A 19TH CENTURY SCRAP BOOK
containing a selection of interesting paper scraps, botanical watercolour sketches by Ann Loveday, some dated 1839, with dried botanical specimens, the book 20cm x 15.5cm lacking covers

Provenance: Ann Loveday, thence by family descent.
Hammer price: £60
Estimate: £100 - £200
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
ELIZABETH FOWLE: A SKETCH BOOK OF SOUTH AFRICAN FLOWERS
Lot 600 Sold
ELIZABETH FOWLE: A SKETCH BOOK OF SOUTH AFRICAN FLOWERS
dated 1904, containing nineteen mostly complete watercolours of named botanical specimens, the brown cloth bound sketch book 18.5cm x 13.5cm, label pasted to inside board for ‘West Cliff Fine Art Gallery - E.E Anderson, Whitby’
Hammer price: £110
Estimate: £50 - £100
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
‘THE TELEGRAPH’ - A LATE 18TH CENTURY ALMAMAC OR PERPETUAL CALENDAR
Lot 601 Sold
‘THE TELEGRAPH’ - A LATE 18TH CENTURY ALMAMAC OR PERPETUAL CALENDAR
for the years 1753-1865, yellow and red highlighted three-fold stiffened paper, printed by T.M. Vize, 23cm x 12.5cm, with loose printed explanation, the latter annotated in pencil verso ‘4 Denmark Street, Soho, Mr Vize’; together with an embossed paper document seal dated 1791 (3)
Hammer price: £220
Estimate: £100 - £200
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
‘A NEW PUZZLE OF PORTRAITS’ - A LATE 18TH CENTURY SET OF PUZZLE CARDS
Lot 602 Sold
‘A NEW PUZZLE OF PORTRAITS’ - A LATE 18TH CENTURY SET OF PUZZLE CARDS
nos. 1-12, published by Orme, January 18th 1794, each 8cm x 12cm; together with four other similar puzzle cards; and two late 18th/early 19th century pencil drawings on card titled ‘Cottage at Henbury belonging to I.S Harford Esq’ (18)
Hammer price: £800
Estimate: £100 - £200
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
A COLLECTION OF CORPORATION OF LONDON PROGRAMMES
Lot 603 Unsold
A COLLECTION OF CORPORATION OF LONDON PROGRAMMES
circa 1970s onwards, including a programme for a luncheon celebrating the silver wedding anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, another programme for a luncheon celebrating Queen Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee; together with additional programmes for other stately events at the Guildhall and Mansion House, London (a lot)
Estimate: £100 - £200
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
A LARGE COLLECTION OF EPHEMERA
Lot 604 Sold
A LARGE COLLECTION OF EPHEMERA
comprising a good number of manuscripts and documents on vellum,17th century and later, including a…
Hammer price: £1,600
Estimate: £300 - £500
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
BURTON BRADSTOCK / BRIDPORT INTEREST: ‘A New Song addressed to the Royal Volunteers of Burton Bradstock’
Lot 605 Sold
BURTON BRADSTOCK / BRIDPORT INTEREST: ‘A New Song addressed to the Royal Volunteers of Burton Bradstock’
an early 19th century handwritten musical score, the seven verses including reference to ‘The blood-stain’d sons of France’, presumably a Napoleonic allusion, with text below stating ‘This Musick….may [make] a good Military March’, the unframed page 32.5cm x 19.5cm and folded as a letter, addressed verso to ‘Ian Symes, 1 Dorset Regiment, Lewes Barracks, Sussex’ with postmark for Bridport 137, the page water marked Ployd & Co 1801
Hammer price: £140
Estimate: £100 - £200
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
AFTER SIMON VAN DE PASSE (1595-1647) A series of eight engravings
Lot 606 Sold
AFTER SIMON VAN DE PASSE (1595-1647) A series of eight engravings
comprising Charles I profile, Charles I mounted, two of Anne of Denmark, one other male profile and two Royal seals, each 5.5cm x 4.5cm, a similar engraving of Christ; together with a collection of printed ephemera including prints; an old newspaper clipping relating to the history of Plum Pudding; and a machine woven bookmark (a lot)
Hammer price: £50
Estimate: £100 - £200
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
A COLLECTION OF SIXTEEN LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY CUT OUT PAPER FIGURES
Lot 607 Sold
A COLLECTION OF SIXTEEN LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY CUT OUT PAPER FIGURES
mostly coloured and titled in pencil verso, various sizes, including Signor and Signora Martelli, three paper stencils comprising two human portraits and a cat; together with an embossed paper medallion (20)
Hammer price: £30
Estimate: £50 - £100
15 October 2025
15 October 2025

Total lots: 590

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