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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

STACKHOUSE, REVEREND THOMAS: 'A NEW HISTORY OF THE HOLY BIBLE'
Lot 553 Sold
STACKHOUSE, REVEREND THOMAS: 'A NEW HISTORY OF THE HOLY BIBLE'
volumes 1-2, printed for John Hinton, London 1755, gilt tooled brown leather bound with black leather half titles, Bridehead bookplates and retaining various illustrations to the text; together with 'The Book of Common Prayer', printed by John Baskett, Oxford 1720, brown leather bound with green cloth dust wrapper and annotated to front flyleaves; and 'Hymns Ancient and Modern', edited by William Henry Monk, printed by William Clowes & Sons, London, gilt tooled blue leather bound (4)
Provenance: Bridehead, Dorset.
Hammer price: £50
Estimate: £50 - £100
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
STEP, EDWARD: ‘WAYSIDE & WOODLAND BLOSSOMS’
Lot 554 Sold
STEP, EDWARD: ‘WAYSIDE & WOODLAND BLOSSOMS’
volumes 1-3, published by Frederick Warne, London 1941/4; together with Coward, T.A: ‘Life of the Wayside & Woodland’, 1946, all in vinyl binding (4)

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £30 - £50
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
STERNE, LAURENCE: 'TRISTRAM SHANDY'
Lot 555 Unsold
STERNE, LAURENCE: 'TRISTRAM SHANDY'
illustrated by John Austin, published by John Lane of the Bodley Head, London 1928, black cloth bound with dust wrapper and slip case

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
Estimate: £50 - £100
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
STRUTT, JACOB GEORGE: ‘SILVA BRITANNICA; OR PORTRAITS OF FOREST TREES’
Lot 556 Unsold
STRUTT, JACOB GEORGE: ‘SILVA BRITANNICA; OR PORTRAITS OF FOREST TREES’
published for the author by Longman, Rees, et al, London 1830, later three quarter brown calf bound with marbled boards and black leather half title, inside from board pasted with Archbishop of Canterbury bookplate
Provenance: Pasted note to front flyleaf detailing this volume’s history - reputedly a remnant of…
Estimate: £200 - £400
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
SURTEES, R.S.: ‘HUNTING WITH MR. JORROCKS’
Lot 557 Sold
SURTEES, R.S.: ‘HUNTING WITH MR. JORROCKS’
illustrated by Edward Ardizzone, published by Oxford University Press, 1956, cloth bound with dustwrapper; together with eight other books illustrated by Ardizzone (9)
Hammer price: £30
Estimate: £50 - £100
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
SYMONDS, JOHN: ‘ELFRIDA AND THE PIG’
Lot 558 Sold
SYMONDS, JOHN: ‘ELFRIDA AND THE PIG’
illustrated by Edward Ardizzone, first edition, published by George C. Harrap, London 1959, cloth bound with dustwrapper; and a large collection of Ardizzone illustrated children’s books (39)
Hammer price: £340
Estimate: £200 - £400
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
TACITUS, GAIUS CORNELIUS: 'OPERA'
Lot 559 Unsold
TACITUS, GAIUS CORNELIUS: 'OPERA'
edited by Gabriel Brotier, Latin text, volumes 1-4, printed by Jacob Mundell, Edinburgh for G.G. & J. Robinson, London 1796, gilt tooled red leather bound with Bridehead bookplates and attractive marbled fly leaves; together with Hoole, John: 'Dramas and Other Operas of the Abbé Pietro Metastasio', volumes 1-3 similarly bound; and Ariosto, Ludovico: ''Orlando Furioso' with notes by John Hoole, volumes 1-5 (12)

Provenance: Bridehead, Dorset.
Estimate: £200 - £400
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE: ‘THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND ESQ’
Lot 560 Sold
THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE: ‘THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND ESQ’
illustrated by Edward Ardizzone, printed for members of the Limited Editions Club, 1958, No. 312/1500 signed by Ardizzone, brown cloth bound; together with Thackeray, William Makepeace: ‘The Rose & The Ring’, illustrated by Edward Ardizzone, published by Guilford Press, 1948, cloth bound with dustwrapper (2)
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £30 - £50
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
THOMAS, DYLAN: TWO COPIES OF ‘A CHILD’S CHRISTMAS IN WALES’
Lot 561 Sold
THOMAS, DYLAN: TWO COPIES OF ‘A CHILD’S CHRISTMAS IN WALES’
illustrated by Edward Ardizzone, comprising first illustrated UK and first illustrated USA editions, published by Dent 1978 and David R. Godine 1980, both hardbound with dustwrappers (2)
Hammer price: £70
Estimate: £30 - £50
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
TINDAL, WILLIAM: 'THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE ABBEY AND BOROUGH OF EVESHAM'
Lot 562 Sold
TINDAL, WILLIAM: 'THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE ABBEY AND BOROUGH OF EVESHAM'
printed and sold by John Agg, Evesham, and T. N. Longman, London 1794, gilt tooled brown leather bound with titled spine, Bridehead bookplate and retaining various plates and illustrations to text including fold-out view of Evesham

Provenance: Bridehead, Dorset.
Hammer price: £25
Estimate: £50 - £100
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
URE, ANDREW: ‘A DICTIONARY OF CHEMISTRY’
Lot 563 Unsold
URE, ANDREW: ‘A DICTIONARY OF CHEMISTRY’
printed for Thomas & George Underwood, London 1821, rebound in three-quarter brown leather

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
Estimate: £30 - £50
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
VALMONT DE BOMARE, M.: ‘DICTIONNAIRE RAISONNE UNIVERSEL D’HISTOIRE NATURELLE’
Lot 564 Unsold
VALMONT DE BOMARE, M.: ‘DICTIONNAIRE RAISONNE UNIVERSEL D’HISTOIRE NATURELLE’
volumes 1-5, published by Didot et al, Paris, 1764, brown leather bound with gilt tooled spines and half titles, retaining plates, together with an incomplete fourth edition of the same title lacking plates (13 volumes), and eight other antiquarian French natural history books including Anime-Martin, M.: ‘Etudes de la Nature’, four volumes with attractive grained leather binding (25)

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
Estimate: £100 - £200
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
VERULAM, LORD FRANCIS: TWO WORKS - ‘SYLVA SYLVARUM OR A NATURAL HISTORY’ AND ‘NEW ATLANTIS’
Lot 565 Unsold
VERULAM, LORD FRANCIS: TWO WORKS - ‘SYLVA SYLVARUM OR A NATURAL HISTORY’ AND ‘NEW ATLANTIS’
printed for W. Lee, London, 1631, bound together in tooled dark brown leather, the repaired spine with later half title

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
Estimate: £200 - £400
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
WALLACE, ALFRED RUSSEL: 'A NARRATIVE OF TRAVELS ON THE AMAZON AND RIO NEGRO'
Lot 566 Sold
WALLACE, ALFRED RUSSEL: 'A NARRATIVE OF TRAVELS ON THE AMAZON AND RIO NEGRO'
second edition, published by Ward, Lock & Co., London 1889, blue cloth bound with gilt tooled spine, retaining plates; together with Waterton, Charles: 'Wanderings in South America', new edition, published by MacMillan & Co. London 1880, green cloth bound (2)

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
Hammer price: £100
Estimate: £100 - £200
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
WESLEY: ‘PRIMITIVE PHYSIC’
Lot 567 Sold
WESLEY: ‘PRIMITIVE PHYSIC’
twenty-fourth edition, printed by G. Paramore et al, London 1792, rebound in half red leather; together with Philip, A. P. W.: ‘A Treatise on Indigestion’, third edition, London 1823, three quarter brown leather bound (2)

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £30 - £50
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
WHITE, GILBERT: ‘THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE’
Lot 568 Sold
WHITE, GILBERT: ‘THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE’
edited by Grant Allen, illustrated by Edmund H. New, published by John Lane at The Bodley Head, London 1900, illustrated brown cloth
Hammer price: £30
Estimate: £50 - £100
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
WITHERBY, H.F. ET AL: 'THE HANDBOOK OF BRITISH BIRDS’
Lot 569 Unsold
WITHERBY, H.F. ET AL: 'THE HANDBOOK OF BRITISH BIRDS’
volumes 1-5, published by H.F. & G. Witherby Ltd, High Holborn, London, 1938-41, blue cloth bound (5)
Estimate: £50 - £100
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
WOOD, JAMES: ‘THE ELEMENTS OF OPTICS’
Lot 570 Sold
WOOD, JAMES: ‘THE ELEMENTS OF OPTICS’
third edition, printed by J. Smith, Cambridge 1811, three-quarter brown leather bound with marbled boards

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
Hammer price: £15
Estimate: £20 - £40
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
WOOD, J. G.: ‘THE ILLUSTRATED NATURAL HISTORY’
Lot 571 Sold
WOOD, J. G.: ‘THE ILLUSTRATED NATURAL HISTORY’
three volumes, comprising ‘Mammalia’, ‘Birds’ and ‘Reptiles, Fishes, Molluscs’, all published by Routledge et al, London, the latter two dated 1862 and 1863 respectively, in matching three-quarter green leather binding each with Leslie Sydney Montgomery bookplates; together with three other Wood volumes - ‘Insects at Home’, ‘History of Man’ volume one and ‘Nature’s Teachings’ (6)
Hammer price: £25
Estimate: £50 - £100
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
'THE HOLY BIBLE'
Lot 572 Unsold
'THE HOLY BIBLE'
with notes by Thomas Scott, fifth edition, volumes 1-6, printed by C. Baldwin for L. B. Seeley et al, London 1822, gilt tooled brown leather bound with titled spine and Bridehead bookplates (6)

Provenance: Bridehead, Dorset.
Estimate: £50 - £100
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
'LA SAINTE BIBLE'
Lot 573 Unsold
'LA SAINTE BIBLE'
with notes by David Martin, published by Mortier et al, Amsterdam 1712, brown leather bound, the gilt tooled spine with brown leather half title and with William Williams bookplate, retaining frontispiece

Provenance: Bridehead, Dorset.
Estimate: £30 - £50
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
'DICTIONNAIRE DE L'ACADÉMIE FRANҀAISE'
Lot 574 Sold
'DICTIONNAIRE DE L'ACADÉMIE FRANҀAISE'
sixth edition, volumes 1-3, published by L'Institut de France, Paris, grained brown leather bound, the gilt tooled spines with black leather half titles; together with Maltby, Edward: 'Lexicon Graeco-Prosodiacum', published by Cadell & Davies, Cambridge 1815, gilt tooled leather bound with green leather half title (4)

Provenance: Bridehead, Dorset.
Hammer price: £15
Estimate: £30 - £50
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
WINKLE’S ARCHITECTURAL AND PICTURESQUE ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE CATHEDRAL CHURCHES OF ENGLAND AND WALES
Lot 575 Unsold
WINKLE’S ARCHITECTURAL AND PICTURESQUE ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE CATHEDRAL CHURCHES OF ENGLAND AND WALES
new edition, volumes 1-3, published by W. Kent & Co, London 1860, gilt tooled brown cloth bound (3)

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
Estimate: £50 - £100
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
'JOURNALS OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS'
Lot 576 Sold
'JOURNALS OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS'
volumes 1-33 (1513-1773); together with 'Journals of the House of Commons volumes 1-59 (1547-1804), and with duplicate volumes 34, 35, 36, 37, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54 and 55 of the same title; 12 volumes of 'Journals of the House of Commons Index', variously numbered and from different series, but broadly covering 1547-1790; 'House of Commons Reports from Committees', volumes 1-4 (1715-1773),
all bound in matching three-quarter green leather with titled spines and marbled boards (126); and…
Hammer price: £100
Estimate: £300 - £500
15 October 2025
15 October 2025

Total lots: 608

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