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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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Total lots: 608

HAYTER: ‘AN INTRODUCTION TO PERSPECTIVE’
Lot 505 Sold
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.
Hammer price: £100
Estimate: £100 - £200
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
HEBBEL, FRIEDRICH: ‘THE NIEBELUNGS’
Lot 506 Unsold
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, red leather bound; Wagner, Richard: ‘Das Rheingold’, published by Bayreuther Festspiele 1957, black cloth bound; two other Wagner works; four commentaries on Wagner; an Opera volume; and four related volumes (14)

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
Estimate: £100 - £200
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
HILL, JOHN: 'THE VEGETABLE SYSTEM'
Lot 507 Sold
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 earlier bookplates and retaining all uncoloured plates (13)

Provenance: Bridehead, Dorset.
Hammer price: £750
Estimate: £1,500 - £2,500
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
HOOD, THOMAS: 'POEMS'
Lot 508 Unsold
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.
Estimate: £50 - £100
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
HOWARD, JOHN: 'AN ACCOUNT OF THE PRINCIPAL LAZARETTOS IN EUROPE’
Lot 509 Unsold
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.
Estimate: £150 - £250
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
HUBER, FRANCIS: TWO VOLUMES - 'NEW OBSERVATIONS ON THE NATURAL HISTORY OF BEES' AND 'THE NATURAL HISTORY OF ANTS'
Lot 510 Sold
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)
Hammer price: £40
Estimate: £30 - £50
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
HULME, EDWARD F.: ‘BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS OF THE COUNTRY SIDE’
Lot 511 Unsold
HULME, EDWARD F.: ‘BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS OF THE COUNTRY SIDE’
published by Hutchinson & Co, London, 1903, green cloth bound

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
Estimate: £70 - £100
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
HUNT, ROBERT: ‘URE’S DICTIONARY OF ARTS, MANUFACTURES AND MINES’
Lot 512 Unsold
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.
Estimate: £50 - £100
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
HUTTON, W.: 'AN HISTORY OF BIRMINGHAM TO THE END OF THE YEAR 1780'
Lot 513 Sold
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

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
Hammer price: £50
Estimate: £50 - £100
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
IMISON, JOHN: ‘ELEMENTS OF SCIENCE AND ART’
Lot 514 Unsold
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.
Estimate: £50 - £100
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
IRVING, WASHINGTON: 'A HISTORY OF THE LIFE AND VOYAGES OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS'
Lot 515 Unsold
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.
Estimate: £200 - £400
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
JESSE, EDWARD: 'GLEANING IN NATURAL HISTORY'
Lot 516 Unsold
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.
Estimate: £50 - £100
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
JOHNSON, SAMUEL: ‘A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE’
Lot 517 Unsold
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, 1783, brown leather bound; two other antiquarian Latin dictionaries; and Lempriere, J.: ‘A Classical Dictionary’, fourth edition, London 1801, brown leather bound (5)

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
Estimate: £50 - £100
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
KIPLING, RUDYARD: 'A SONG OF THE ENGLISH
Lot 518 Unsold
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 retaining a printed pamphlet entitled 'National Bands. A Speech by Rudyard Kipling delivered at the Mansion House on January 27th 1915', the other in blue cloth binding and retaining printed proclamation by George V (2)

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
Estimate: £100 - £200
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
LANG, ANDREW: ‘PRINCE CHARLES EDWARD’
Lot 519 Unsold
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: Bridehead, Dorset.
Estimate: £30 - £50
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
LANG, FRITZ: 'DAS SCHNAUZERBUCH'
Lot 520 Unsold
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
Estimate: £150 - £250
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
LAVATER, J.C.: ‘PHYSIOGNOMY’
Lot 521 Unsold
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 edition, published by Maclachlan and Stewart, Edinburgh 1885, brown leather bound; Hooper, Robert: ‘Lexicon Medicum’, 1831, brown leather bound; and ‘Physic and Physicians’ volumes 1 and 2, 1839, three quarter leather bound (5)

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
Estimate: £100 - £200
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
LE FANU, JOSEPH SHERIDAN: ‘IN A GLASS DARKLY’
Lot 522 Sold
LE FANU, JOSEPH SHERIDAN: ‘IN A GLASS DARKLY’
illustrated by Edward Ardizzone, published by Peter Davies, London 1929, black cloth bound
Hammer price: £80
Estimate: £100 - £200
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
LOWE, E. J.: ‘A NATURAL HISTORY OF BRITISH GRASSES’
Lot 523 Unsold
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 with Aberdeen University Botany prize label pasted to inside front board; and Cooke, M. C.: ‘Microscopic Fungi’ sixth edition, published by Allen and Co, London 1902, brown cloth bound (3)

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
Estimate: £100 - £200
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
MAETERLINCK, MAURICE: 'THE LIFE OF THE BEE'
Lot 524 Sold
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 & Co., London 1905, green leather bound (2)

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
Hammer price: £25
Estimate: £30 - £50
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
MARDUS, J. C.: ‘LE LIVRE DES MILLE NUITS ET UNE NUIT’
Lot 525 Unsold
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’, published by Ferrond, Paris, 1908, later brown leather bound with gilt titled spine and slip case (11)
Estimate: £300 - £500
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
MIEGE, GUY: ‘THE PRESENT STATE OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND’
Lot 526 Unsold
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 verse and also annotated ‘This was Bought in Maiden Lane, Southampton Street in the Strand in London’, also retaining Brunswick Genealogy fold-out plate

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
Estimate: £80 - £150
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
MURPHY, JOHN: 'A TREATISE ON THE ART OF WEAVING'
Lot 527 Unsold
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.
Estimate: £100 - £200
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
NEMNICH, PHILIP ANDREW: ‘AN UNIVERSAL EUROPEAN DICTIONARY OF MERCHANDISE’
Lot 528 Sold
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 binding (2)

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
Hammer price: £50
Estimate: £50 - £100
15 October 2025
15 October 2025

Total lots: 608

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