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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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Wednesday 15th October at 10.30am

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Lots per page:

Total lots: 590

Lot Title Estimate Hammer price
594 FIVE 19TH CENTURY FRENCH/ENGLISH CHILDREN’S ILLUSTRATED PHRASE BOOKS
including ‘Enclyclopedy for Children’ illus. by H. Duru, some incomplete (5)
£50 - £100 £460 View
595 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…
£100 - £200 £650 View
596 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,…
£100 - £200 £70 View
597 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…
£100 - £200 £120 View
598 ‘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…
£150 - £250 £1,000 View
599 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:…
£100 - £200 £60 View
600 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…
£50 - £100 £110 View
601 ‘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…
£100 - £200 £220 View
602 ‘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…
£100 - £200 £800 View
603 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…
£100 - £200 - View
604 A LARGE COLLECTION OF EPHEMERA £300 - £500 £1,600 View
605 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……
£100 - £200 £140 View
606 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…
£100 - £200 £50 View
607 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…
£50 - £100 £30 View

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