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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: 608

Lot Title Estimate Hammer price
529 NEWTON, ISAAC: ‘ARITHMETICA UNIVERSALIS’
volume 2, published by Rey, Amsterdam, London, 1761, brown leather bound

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
£50 - £100 £100 View
530 NICHOLSON, WILLIAM: ‘THE FIRST PRINCIPLES OF CHEMISTRY’
third edition, printed for G.G and J. Robinson, London 1796, gilt tooled brown leather bound with green half title and retaining plates; together with Parkes, Samuel: ‘The Rudiments of Chemistry,…
£100 - £200 - View
531 NICHOLSON, WILLIAM: ‘A DICTIONARY OF CHEMISTRY’
volumes 1 and 2, printed for G.G and J Robinson, London, 1795, rebound three-quarter leather

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
£100 - £200 - View
532 NICHOLSON, WILLIAM: 'THE BRITISH ENCYCLOPAEDIA or DICTIONARY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES'
volumes 1-6, printed by C. Whittingham for Longman et al, London 1809, gilt tooled brown calf binding, retaining various plates to text, ex libris Harold & Margaret Michelmore

Provenance: A…
£100 - £200 - View
533 NOLLET, ABBE: ‘LECONS DE PHYSIQUE EXPERIMENTALE’
seventh edition, volumes 1-6, published by Chez Durand et al, Paris 1771; together with Nollet, Abbe: ‘Lettres Sur Electricite’, published by Geurin et al, Paris 1753; and a quantity of antiquarian…
£300 - £500 - View
534 OZANAM, M.: ‘RECREATIONS MATHEMATIQUES ET PHYSIQUES’
volumes 1-4, published by Chez Didot, Paris, 1790, half brown leather bound with gilt tooled spines and half titles, retaining plates (4)

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
£100 - £200 - View
535 PARKES, SAMUEL: ‘THE CHEMICAL CATECHISM’
seventh edition, published by Baldwin et al, London 1816, rebound half brown leather, retains plates

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
£50 - £100 £50 View
536 PARSONS, REV. B: ‘ANTI-BACCHUS: AN ESSAY’
published by John Snow, London, 1843, bound with Whately, Richard: ‘Thoughts on the Sabbath’ and a Welsh language pamphlet, all contained in a single three quarter black leather binding; together…
£50 - £100 £80 View
537 PENNANT, THOMAS: ‘THE LITERARY LIFE OF THE LATE THOMAS PENNANT ESQ. BY HIMSELF’
sold by Benjamin and John White, London 1793, rebound half leather; together with ‘The Journey from Chester to London’, three-quarter brown leather binding (2)

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
£30 - £50 - View
538 PHILLIPS, EDWARD: ‘THE NEW WORLD OF WORDS: OR THE UNIVERSAL ENGLISH DICTIONARY’
sixth edition, printed for J. Phillips, London, 1706, original brown calf bound, the restored spine with gilt tooled maroon half titles, bookplate for Philip Eyre pasted inside front cover
£200 - £400 £200 View
539 PITT, WILLIAM: 'A TOPOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF STAFFORDSHIRE'
printed by and for J. Smith, Newcastle under Lyme, 1817, rebound three-quarter maroon leather with marble boards, retaining fold-out plates to rear of volume

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
£100 - £200 - View
540 PLANTA, EDWARD: ‘A NEW PICTURE OF PARIS’
fourteenth edition, printed for Samuel Leigh, London 1824, gilt tooled black leather bound; together with Alhoy and Lurine: ‘Les Prisons de Paris’, new edition, published by Gustave Havard, 1846,…
£100 - £200 - View
541 PRATT, ANNE: 'THE FERNS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND THEIR ALLIES'
published by Frederick Warne & Co., London, original gilt-tooled green cloth bound, retaining numerous lithograph plates

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
£100 - £200 £100 View
542 RACKHAM, ARTHUR (ILLUS) - FIVE VOLUMES
comprising ‘A Midsummer-Night’s Dream’, ‘The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie’, a French language version of the same work, ‘Siegfried & The Twilight of the Gods’ and ‘Poor Cecco’, 1908-1923,…
£150 - £250 £260 View
543 RAPIN DE THOYRAS: 'THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND'
translated by M. Tindal, second edition, volumes 1-2, printed for James, John and Paul Knapton, London 1732, full brown leather folio binding with red leather half titles, Moor Park bookplate and…
£150 - £250 £130 View
544 RAY, CYRIL: ‘MERRY ENGLAND’
illustrated by Edward Ardizzone, first edition, published by Vista 1960; together with Strong, L.A.G: Trevannion’, also illustrated by Edward Ardizzone, first edition, published by Methuen, 1948,…
£30 - £50 £30 View
545 REEVES, JAMES: TEN CHILDREN’S BOOKS
all illustrated by Edward Ardizzone, mostly first editions including ‘Prefabulous Animiles’, published by Heinemann 1957, two copies of ‘Exploits of Don Quixote’, published by Blackie 1959, ‘Three…
£50 - £100 £40 View
546 REGNAULT, P: ‘LES ENTRETIENS PHYSIQUES’
new edition, volumes 1-4, published by Jacques Clouzier, Paris 1732, brown leather bound with Chillingham Castle bookplates (4)

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
£50 - £100 - View
547 RITCHIE, EWING J: ‘THE LIFE AND TIMES OF WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE’
pictorial edition, volumes 1-5, published by James Sangster and Company, London, mustard pictorial cloth binding; together with a large collection of Gladstone related books, many first edition (41)
£50 - £100 - View
548 SADELER, MARCO: 'VESTIGI DELLE ANTICHITA DI ROMA'
an album of Roman views, etchings, numbered 1-50 but seemingly incomplete, published by Jacomo de Rossie, 1660, landscape, gilt tooled brown leather binding; together with three loose examples, cut…
£100 - £200 £120 View
549 SEARLE, RONALD: 'SLIGHTLY FOXED - BUT STILL DESIRABLE'
first edition, published by Souvenir Press, 1989, cloth bound with dust wrapper

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
£50 - £100 £50 View
550 SIMSON, ROBERT: ‘ELEMENTS OF THE CONIC SECTIONS’
new edition, printed by R. Chapman, Glasgow, 1817, brown leather bound, retaining plates; together with Field, Rev. W.: 'An Introduction to the Use of the Globes’, sixth edition, printed for R.…
£50 - £100 - View
551 SOAVE, FRANCESCO: 'ELEMENTI DI GEOMETRIA TEORICO-PRATICA'
published by Giacomo Storti, Venice, 1793, grey card bound, with later slip case

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
£30 - £50 £20 View
552 SOUVERAIN DE DOMBS, PRINCE: ‘DICTIONNAIRE UNIVERSEL FRANCOIS ET LATIN’
6 volumes, published Paris 1743, rebound in brown three-quarter calf with marbled board, volumes 1, 2, 13, 14, 15, 16

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
£100 - £200 - View

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