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The Winter Auction

Auction date Thursday 29 January 2026 10:30 - 17:30 GMT

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Including property from the following collections:

Galhampton Manor, Somerset

The Collection of Kerrison Preston, Esq., by descent

Coventry Lodge, Corfe Mullen

Deer Park, Weston, Devon

The Peter Newall Collection

The fittings of a Mediterranean yacht

Head of Sale:

William Batt

Auction:

Thursday 29th January at 10.30am

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Lot	Title	Estimate	Hammer price
432	AN ANTIQUE MALAYER COUNTRY HOUSE RUNNER woven in madder with endless boteh repeat field on a blue ground, within multi-stripe conforming borders, 560cm x 160cm	£200 - £400	£600	View
433	A PAIR OF WHITE PAINTED CAST IRON PLANTERS 19th century, of tapered rectangular section, decorated with a central floral patera, on splayed leafy bracket feet, 36cm high x 62cm wide x 37cm deep (2)	£50 - £100	£340	View
434	AN ENGLISH OAK CHEST OF DRAWERS 17th century, with four graduated geometrically moulded drawers, on block legs, 89cm high x 92cm wide x 51cm deep	£200 - £400	£750	View
435	EDWARD VIII, PRINCE OF WALES: A LETTER ADDRESSED TO FREDA DUDLEY WARD 20th January 1919, within the letter Edward reflects candidly on the death of his youngest brother Prince John, paternal uncle to Queen Elizabeth II, the letter and envelope encased within a blonde…	£3,000 - £5,000	£2,600	View
436	ROYAL INTEREST: NINE STUDIO LISA PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINTS the two elder children of Elizabeth II, Prince Charles and Princess Anne, By Lisa Sheridan, circa March-May 1953, found tucked in a book inscribed from Joan Davies, possibly Joan Hoskyn Davies,…	£400 - £600	-	View
437	MARGARET THATCHER: A SIGNED TWO PAGE TYPED LETTER addressed to Graham Brewster on House of Commons headed paper, dated 17th November 1978, discussing the British Government’s support for the Rhodesian transitional government	£100 - £200	£320	View
438	THE THATCHER PAPERS A historically important and comprehensive archive which chronicles the inside story of Margaret Thatcher’s election to the leadership of the Conservative Party in 1975.	£50,000 - £100,000	-	View
439	HARDY, THOMAS - ‘WESSEX TALES’ first edition, volumes 1 and 2, published by Macmillan, London 1888, green cloth bound (2)	£300 - £500	£260	View
440	HARDY, THOMAS - ‘COMPASSION, AN ODE’ No. 32/50, signed and privately printed by A. J. A. Symons, unbound pamphlet, 20.5cm x 12.5cm, contained in brown buckram folding cover with bookplate for Oliver Brett	£100 - £200	£200	View
441	HARDY, THOMAS - 'TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES' first edition, first issue, volumes 1-3, published by James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., London 1891, gilt tooled brown cloth binding (3)	£500 - £1,000	£900	View
442	HILL, JOHN - ‘EDEN: OR A COMPLEAT BODY OF GARDENING’ printed for T. Osborne et al, London, 1757, gilt tooled brown leather folio bound, retaining coloured plates, the inside front board with 18th century bookplate pasted for ‘C.S. Crouch, Surgeon,…	£300 - £500	£900	View
443	MAHON, LORD - ‘HISTORY OF THE WAR OF THE SUCCESSION IN SPAIN’ a unique gifted publisher’s copy, by John Murray, London 1832, and retaining fold out map, bound in to rear with the extremely scarce ‘Letters from the Earl of Peterborough to General Stanhope in…	£800 - £1,200	-	View
444	STILLINGFLEET, EDWARD - ‘ORIGINES BRITANNICAE’ printed by M. Flesher for Henry Mortlock, London 1685; together with ‘Certain Sermons or Homilies’ printed by T. R. for Samuel Mearne, London, 1676, both full brown calf bound (2)	£150 - £250	-	View
445	‘A DESCRIPTION OF ABOVE THREE HUNDRED ANIMALS’ printed for James Morison, Perth, 1807, brown leather bound retaining plates; together with Wilde, Oscar - ‘Fairy Tales’, illus. Vera Bock, published by Peter Pauper Press, green paper bound with…	£100 - £200	£70	View
446	AN EARLY 19TH CENTURY KING JAMES BIBLE printed by Nuttall, Fisher & Dixon, Liverpool, folio size, brown leather bound with gilt tooled red leather inset to cover worded ‘John Keown Jameson 1821’ Provenance: Captain John Keown Jameson…	£100 - £200	-	View
447	‘A SPECIAL CAMPING TOUR TO THE EAST OF THE JORDAN AND PETRA’ an early 20th century maroon three quarter leather bound photograph album containing a series of pasted sepia photographs, mostly annotated, of the trip undertaken by the Perrone family, the inside…	£150 - £250	£340	View
448	'NARRATIVE OF THE LOSS OF THE MARY ROSE AT SPITHEAD’ printed and published by S. Horsey, 43 Queen Street, Portsea, 1844, bound in the wood of the wreck, miniature volume, 9cm x 5.5cm	£150 - £250	£220	View
449	‘A TOUR THROUGH THE BRITISH COLONIES AND FOREIGN POSSESSIONS’ published by John Betts, 115 Strand, London, c.1850, a map game composed of nine piece hand coloured print laid onto folding canvas, 65cm x 50cm, with original slip case but lacking key and games…	£300 - £500	£1,400	View

Total lots: 450

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