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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
553 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 …
£50 - £100 £50 View
554 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.
£30 - £50 £20 View
555 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.
£50 - £100 - View
556 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…
£200 - £400 - View
557 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)
£50 - £100 £30 View
558 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)
£200 - £400 £340 View
559 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…
£200 - £400 - View
560 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 …
£30 - £50 £20 View
561 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)
£30 - £50 £70 View
562 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…
£50 - £100 £25 View
563 URE, ANDREW: ‘A DICTIONARY OF CHEMISTRY’
printed for Thomas & George Underwood, London 1821, rebound in three-quarter brown leather

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.
£30 - £50 - View
564 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…
£100 - £200 - View
565 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.
£200 - £400 - View
566 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,…
£100 - £200 £100 View
567 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…
£30 - £50 £20 View
568 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
£50 - £100 £30 View
569 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)
£50 - £100 - View
570 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.
£20 - £40 £15 View
571 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…
£50 - £100 £25 View
572 '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)
£50 - £100 - View
573 '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…
£30 - £50 - View
574 '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…
£30 - £50 £15 View
575 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.
£50 - £100 - View
576 '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,…
£300 - £500 £100 View

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