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Auction date Tuesday 5 December 2023 10:00 - 17:30 GMT
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Tuesday 5th December

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Total lots: 977

TO THE SOUTH POLAR REGIONS, LOUIS BERNACCHI
Lot 716 Sold
TO THE SOUTH POLAR REGIONS, LOUIS BERNACCHI
Hurst and Blackett, Ltd, London, 1901
Hammer price: £320
Estimate: £60 - £80
5 December 2023
5 December 2023
THE 1874 TAUNTON ELECTION PETITION
Lot 717 Sold
THE 1874 TAUNTON ELECTION PETITION
a three-quarter cloth and card album containing pasted typescripts, ex libris Taunton Library; together with Bracg, W (printer) 'The Trial of the Taunton Election Petition before a Committee of the House of Commons, February 23rd 1831', in a later brown cloth binding
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £20 - £40
5 December 2023
5 December 2023
SWITZERLAND - ITS SCENERY AND PEOPLE
Lot 718 Sold
SWITZERLAND - ITS SCENERY AND PEOPLE
Represented by Eminent Swiss and German Artists, London, Blackie & Son, 1881
Hammer price: £10
Estimate: £20 - £40
5 December 2023
5 December 2023
'MINUTES OF EVIDENCE TAKEN AT THE TRIAL AT THE PARLIMENTARY ELECTION PETITION
Lot 719 Unsold
'MINUTES OF EVIDENCE TAKEN AT THE TRIAL AT THE PARLIMENTARY ELECTION PETITION
for the Eastern Division on the County of Dorset, 5th May, 1910' printed by Eyre & Spottiswoode for HMSO, London 1910, in green cloth binding
Estimate: £20 - £40
5 December 2023
5 December 2023
CHAPPLE, WILLIAM: 'A REVIEW OF PART OF RISDON'S SURVEY OF DEVON'
Lot 720 Sold
CHAPPLE, WILLIAM: 'A REVIEW OF PART OF RISDON'S SURVEY OF DEVON'
volumes I and II, printed by R. Thorn, Exeter 1785, in later three-quarter brown leather binding
Hammer price: £70
Estimate: £20 - £40
5 December 2023
5 December 2023
JEBOULT, EDWARD: 'A GENERAL ACCOUNT OF THE WEST SOMERSET'
Lot 721 Sold
JEBOULT, EDWARD: 'A GENERAL ACCOUNT OF THE WEST SOMERSET'
published by Somerset and Bristol Steam Press, Taunton 1873, in red cloth binding; together with a facsimile copy of the same title in modern blue vinyl binding (2)
Hammer price: £10
Estimate: £20 - £40
5 December 2023
5 December 2023
A QUANTITY OF FOLIO SOCIETY BOOKS
Lot 722 Sold
A QUANTITY OF FOLIO SOCIETY BOOKS
and similar (some damaged)
Hammer price: £60
Estimate: £30 - £40
5 December 2023
5 December 2023
A COLLECTION OF VINTAGE LADYBIRD BOOKS
Lot 723 Sold
A COLLECTION OF VINTAGE LADYBIRD BOOKS
various series and dates
Hammer price: £15
Estimate: £30 - £40
5 December 2023
5 December 2023
THE WORKS OF WHYTE MELVILLE HALF-CALF BOUND
Lot 724 Unsold
THE WORKS OF WHYTE MELVILLE HALF-CALF BOUND
with marbled boards, and a similar set of Kingsley, and 3 vols Works of Shakespear, ed. Howard Staunton, ill. John Gilbert, engr. Brothers Dalziel, Routledge and Sons 1866 (a/f, some staining etc)
Estimate: £200 - £300
5 December 2023
5 December 2023
RIGG, ARTHUR, ‘A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE STEAM ENGINE’
Lot 725 Unsold
RIGG, ARTHUR, ‘A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE STEAM ENGINE’
published by E & FN Spon, London 1878, blue cloth bound and a quantity of train related books
Estimate: £100 - £200
5 December 2023
5 December 2023
A QUANTITY OF DORSET NATURAL HISTORY AND ARCHAELOGICAL SOCIETY BOOKS
Lot 726 Unsold
A QUANTITY OF DORSET NATURAL HISTORY AND ARCHAELOGICAL SOCIETY BOOKS
and Proceedings
Estimate: £100 - £200
5 December 2023
5 December 2023
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS, INCLUDING FOLIO SOCIETY EDITIONS
Lot 727 Sold
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS, INCLUDING FOLIO SOCIETY EDITIONS
V, Sackville-West 'English country houses' (Britain in pictures) Betjeman; 'Continual dew' (1977 reprint), and others
Hammer price: £15
Estimate: £30 - £50
5 December 2023
5 December 2023
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS
Lot 728 Sold
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS
travel, old penguins, history, religion etc.
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £20 - £40
5 December 2023
5 December 2023
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS
Lot 729 Sold
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS
Dorset and other subjects, travel, religion, history etc
Hammer price: £40
Estimate: £20 - £40
5 December 2023
5 December 2023
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS
Lot 730 Sold
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS
travel, philosophy, biography etc.
Hammer price: £25
Estimate: £20 - £40
5 December 2023
5 December 2023
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS
Lot 731 Sold
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS
mostly travel, with cookery, art etc
Hammer price: £10
Estimate: £20 - £40
5 December 2023
5 December 2023
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS
Lot 732 Sold
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS
including Dorset, William Barnes, travel, art etc
Hammer price: £120
Estimate: £20 - £40
5 December 2023
5 December 2023
THOMAS HARDY: 'TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES' HARPER & BROS, 1891
Lot 733 Sold
THOMAS HARDY: 'TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES' HARPER & BROS, 1891
(a/f), other 'Wessex novels', with various Dorset/Devon interest books and guides, and others
Hammer price: £60
Estimate: £20 - £40
5 December 2023
5 December 2023
BONNINGTON SHIRLEY ENGLISH MASTER PAINTERS
Lot 734 Sold
BONNINGTON SHIRLEY ENGLISH MASTER PAINTERS
edited by Herbert Read, "first published 1940", printed by Chiswick Press London. Together with a collection of Art books and Sotheby catalogues
Hammer price: £30
Estimate: £50 - £100
5 December 2023
5 December 2023
WINSTON S.CHURCHILL: 'A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH SPEAKING PEOPLES'
Lot 735 Sold
WINSTON S.CHURCHILL: 'A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH SPEAKING PEOPLES'
3 vols.1956/7 (vol I no jacket), and various other works by and about Churchill
Hammer price: £25
Estimate: £30 - £50
5 December 2023
5 December 2023
THE TIMES WEEKLY EDITION
Lot 736 Sold
THE TIMES WEEKLY EDITION
bound volume, Jan-Dec 1919
Hammer price: £5
Estimate: £10 - £20
5 December 2023
5 December 2023
FOXE'S BOOK OF MARTYRS
Lot 737 Sold
FOXE'S BOOK OF MARTYRS
Revised with notes, Cassell, Petter and Galpin, late 19th century
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £20 - £40
5 December 2023
5 December 2023
RALEIGH, SIR WALTER, 'THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD;
Lot 738 Sold
RALEIGH, SIR WALTER, 'THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD;
printed for Walter Burre, London, 1614, brown leather binding, respined and some plates absent
Hammer price: £190
Estimate: £100 - £200
5 December 2023
5 December 2023
'SNAFFLES' , CHARLES JOHNSON PAYNE
Lot 739 Sold
'SNAFFLES' , CHARLES JOHNSON PAYNE
being a selection of his hunting and racing prints, compiled by Mark Flower, Millwood Press Ltd 1983, no.565/750, in (faded) cloth covered board case, with presentation label; '..to The Lady De Clifford...'
Hammer price: £60
Estimate: £80 - £150
5 December 2023
5 December 2023
MILLAIS, JOHN GUILLE, ‘A BREATH FROM THE VELDT’
Lot 740 Sold
MILLAIS, JOHN GUILLE, ‘A BREATH FROM THE VELDT’
published by Henry Sotheran, London, 1895, three quarter brown leather bound with illustrated front cover
Hammer price: £70
Estimate: £70 - £100
5 December 2023
5 December 2023
REVd Dr HENRY SOUTHWELL'S UNIVERSAL FAMILY BIBLE
Lot 741 Sold
REVd Dr HENRY SOUTHWELL'S UNIVERSAL FAMILY BIBLE
with engravings, printed J. Cooke, Paternoster Row, London (a/f)
Hammer price: £15
Estimate: £30 - £50
5 December 2023
5 December 2023
THE GRAPHIC ILLUSTRATED NEWSPAPER 1875
Lot 742 Sold
THE GRAPHIC ILLUSTRATED NEWSPAPER 1875
volumes XI and XII, half leather binding with marbled boards (2)
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £40 - £60
5 December 2023
5 December 2023
HUTCHINS, JOHN: ‘THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE COUNTY OF DORSET’
Lot 743 Sold
HUTCHINS, JOHN: ‘THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE COUNTY OF DORSET’
third edition, volumes I-IV, printed by John Bowyer Nichols and Sons, Westminster, 1861, three-quarter vellum binding with gilt tooled black leather half titles and blue cloth boards
Hammer price: £150
Estimate: £150 - £200
5 December 2023
5 December 2023
R.L. HOBSON: 'THE WARES OF THE MING DYNASTY'
Lot 744 Sold
R.L. HOBSON: 'THE WARES OF THE MING DYNASTY'
Benn Brothers Limited 1923, with 'Dutch pottery and porcelain' by W.P. Knowles, and a further quantity of mixed books
Hammer price: £130
Estimate: £30 - £50
5 December 2023
5 December 2023
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS ON ARCHITECTURE
Lot 745 Sold
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS ON ARCHITECTURE
including Betjeman 'Ghastly good taste' 1970 ed
Hammer price: £140
Estimate: £30 - £50
5 December 2023
5 December 2023
MR JORROCKS' LECTORS, ILLUSTRATED G. DENHOLM ARMOUR
Lot 746 Unsold
MR JORROCKS' LECTORS, ILLUSTRATED G. DENHOLM ARMOUR
72 of 350 copies signed by the artist, Hodder and Stoughton, 1910, with 'Hunts with Jorrocks' 1908, 'With horse and hound' 1911, and 'Thoughts on hunting', all illust. by G Denholm Armour (scuffs, bumped, fading, foxed etc) , and a further collection of sporting books, Sponge's Sporting tour, etc (a/f)
Estimate: £150 - £200
5 December 2023
5 December 2023
MARK TWAIN: VARIOUS WORKS, SOME 1st U.K. Edns
Lot 747 Sold
MARK TWAIN: VARIOUS WORKS, SOME 1st U.K. Edns
and books about Twaai, and others
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £30 - £40
5 December 2023
5 December 2023
A LARGE RUN OF SCOTTS NOVELS
Lot 748 Sold
A LARGE RUN OF SCOTTS NOVELS
Blue leather bound and a quantity of other books, Macaulay's works, Macmillan's pocket Kipling etc
Hammer price: £120
Estimate: £100 - £200
5 December 2023
5 December 2023
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS ON EUROPEAN HOUSES
Lot 749 Sold
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS ON EUROPEAN HOUSES
domestic architecture and others
Hammer price: £260
Estimate: £40 - £60
5 December 2023
5 December 2023
A QUANTITY OF MIXED BOOKS
Lot 750 Sold
A QUANTITY OF MIXED BOOKS
architecture, novels etc
Hammer price: £15
Estimate: £20 - £40
5 December 2023
5 December 2023
THE WATERCOLOUR DRAWINGS OF J M W TURNER
Lot 751 Unsold
THE WATERCOLOUR DRAWINGS OF J M W TURNER
Cassell, London, 1904, limited edition, with John Ruskin, Lectures on Landscape, George Allen, 1897 and D Y CAMERON and H Rushbury, Modern Masters of Etching series
Estimate: £30 - £50
5 December 2023
5 December 2023
A COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS OF TRIBAL CULTURE
Lot 752 Sold
A COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS OF TRIBAL CULTURE
costume and customs etc, Africa, Asia and others
Hammer price: £90
Estimate: £30 - £50
5 December 2023
5 December 2023
A COLLECTION OF ART REFERENCE BOOKS
Lot 753 Sold
A COLLECTION OF ART REFERENCE BOOKS
including Benezit's Dictionnaire des Peintres
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £30 - £50
5 December 2023
5 December 2023
A COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS; JOHN D. GREEN: 'BIRDS OF BRITAIN'
Lot 754 Unsold
A COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS; JOHN D. GREEN: 'BIRDS OF BRITAIN'
1967, Photography year books 1950s-70s, Sam Haskins, Marvin Israel, etc, and 'Colour photography' 1959-65 (bound)
Estimate: £30 - £50
5 December 2023
5 December 2023
A QUANTITY OF BOOKS ON THEATRE, CINEMA
Lot 755 Sold
A QUANTITY OF BOOKS ON THEATRE, CINEMA
biographies, art, 'Picture Show' annuals etc
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £30 - £50
5 December 2023
5 December 2023
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS
Lot 756 Sold
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS
including art, literature, reference, French etc
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £20 - £40
5 December 2023
5 December 2023
A MIXED COLLECTION OF CHILDRENS' BOOKS
Lot 757 Sold
A MIXED COLLECTION OF CHILDRENS' BOOKS
Hammer price: £60
Estimate: £30 - £50
5 December 2023
5 December 2023
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS ON ART AND ANTIQUES
Lot 758 Sold
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS ON ART AND ANTIQUES
Hammer price: £25
Estimate: £20 - £40
5 December 2023
5 December 2023
A LARGE QUANTITY OF MIXED BOOKS
Lot 759 Sold
A LARGE QUANTITY OF MIXED BOOKS
art, history, travel etc etc
Hammer price: £50
Estimate: £100 - £200
5 December 2023
5 December 2023
A QUANTITY OF BOOKS OF MILITARY INTEREST
Lot 760 Unsold
WITHDRAWN
Estimate: £70 - £100
5 December 2023
5 December 2023
A QUANTITY OF VINTAGE PENGUIN GREEN/ORANGE PAPERBACKS
Lot 761 Sold
A QUANTITY OF VINTAGE PENGUIN GREEN/ORANGE PAPERBACKS
and other books including crime, fiction, works by CS Forester Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh etc
Hammer price: £120
Estimate: £30 - £50
5 December 2023
5 December 2023
A QUANTITY OF AFRICA AND RHODESIA RELATED BOOKS
Lot 762 Sold
A QUANTITY OF AFRICA AND RHODESIA RELATED BOOKS
Baden-Powell, Major General RSS, ‘The Matabele Campaign’, fourth edition 1901
Hammer price: £550
Estimate: £50 - £70
5 December 2023
5 December 2023
A QUANTITY OF NAVAL BOOKS
Lot 763 Sold
A QUANTITY OF NAVAL BOOKS
mostly WWII, including two copies of Jane’s Fighting Ships (1939 and 1943-4)
Hammer price: £30
Estimate: £50 - £70
5 December 2023
5 December 2023

Total lots: 977

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