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| Lot | Title | Estimate | Hammer price | |
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| 481 |
BOSWELL, EDWARD, ‘THE CIVIL DIVISION OF THE COUNTY OF DORSET’
Sherborne, 1795, three quarter leather bound
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£40 - £60 | £10 | View |
| 482 |
THE ROYAL COMMISSION ON HISTORICAL MONUMENTS
'An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset', volume II (parts I,II and III), volume III (parts I and II) and volume IV (North) – six volumes in total, all published by HMSO 1970…
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£100 - £200 | £25 | View |
| 483 |
ROBINSON, C.R.B: 'A ROYAL WARRANT'
or 'Picturesque Ramble in the Isle of Purbeck', with etchings by Alfred Dawson, published by The Typographic Etching Co. London 1882, in red cloth binding
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£20 - £30 | £15 | View |
| 484 |
HUTCHINS, JOHN: 'THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE COUNTY OF DORSET'
volumes 1 and 2, printed by Bowyer & Nichols, London 1774, two full leather-bound volumes, re-spined (2)
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£200 - £300 | £160 | View |
| 485 |
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…
|
£50 - £70 | - | View |
| 486 |
MOULE, H.J.: 'THE DESCRIPTORS CATALOGUE OF THE CHARTER MINUTE BOOKS AND OTHER DOCUMENTS OF THE BOROUGH OF WEYMOUTH AND MELCOMBE REGIS'
published by Sherren & Son Weymouth, 1883, in cloth and rebound half-leather bindings respectively; together with three copies of Moule's ‘Old Dorset” (4)
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£30 - £40 | £20 | View |
| 487 |
FÄGERSTEN, ANTON: 'THE PLACE-NAMES OF DORSET - INAUGURAL DISSERTATION'
published Uppsala 1933, in three-quarter brown cloth binding with marble boards, pencil annotation to front fly leaf noting that this was Professor Zachrisnons copy who assisted with compiling this…
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£30 - £40 | £20 | View |
| 488 |
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
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£60 - £80 | - | View |
| 489 |
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)
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£40 - £60 | - | View |
| 490 |
ROGERS, REVEREND HENRY: 'THE CALENDARS OF AL-HALLOWEN, BRYSTOWE'
published by Light and Ridler, Bristol 1846, in card binding with later dust jacket
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£20 - £30 | £15 | View |
| 491 |
PRICE, JOHN: 'THE WORTHIES OF DEVON'
new edition with notes, printed for Rees & Curtis, Plymouth 1810, in later red cloth binding
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£60 - £80 | £80 | View |
| 492 |
J.K. ROWLING: HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX
Bloomsbury 2003, first edition
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£50 - £100 | - | View |
| 493 |
BIGGS, J.R., & MASTERS, J.E., ‘SHAFTESBURY’
Twelve Wood Engravings, published at the High House Press, 1932, half green cloth and marbled boards
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£40 - £60 | £25 | View |
| 494 |
LYSONS, DANIEL: 'AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THOSE PARISHES IN THE COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX'
printed for Cadell, London 1800, in later red cloth binding, ex libris The Tate Central Library, Brixton
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£40 - £60 | £25 | View |
| 495 |
TOULMIN, JOSHUA: 'THE HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF TAUNTON'
printed by Norris, Taunton 1791, in red cloth binding. Purchased from Bonham’s 27th November 2007, Lot 895
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£40 - £60 | £20 | View |
| 496 |
MACDERMOT, EDWARD T.: 'THE HISTORY OF THE FOREST OF EXMOOR'
published by Barnicott & Pearce, Taunton 1911, in blue cloth binding
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£20 - £30 | £10 | View |
| 497 |
SELBY, PRIDEAUX JOHN, ‘ILLUSTRATIONS OF BRITISH ORNITHOLOGY’
volumes I & II, published by Lizars, Edinburgh, 1833, red three quarter leather bound (2)
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£50 - £100 | £60 | View |
| 498 |
STANLEY, HENRY M. 'IN DARKEST AFRICA'
vol. I, published by Sampson Lowe, Marston & Co. London 1890, in red cloth binding
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£30 - £40 | £20 | View |
| 499 |
HARDY, THOMAS: 'MOMENTS OF CISION AND MISCELLANEOUS VERSES"'
a facsimile edition, no. 14 of 200, signed by Walter Hamilton, Master of Magdelene College, Cambridge, published by Paradean 1978, in gilt-tooled blue leather binding with slip case
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£100 - £200 | £35 | View |
| 500 |
WALKER, A., ‘THE NEW LAVATER’
published by S. Cornish, London 1839, purple cloth bound (faded)
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£30 - £50 | £10 | View |
| 501 |
HOLLOWAY, WILLIAM, ‘THE MINOR MINSTREL’
printed for Suttaby et al, London, 1808, three quarter maroon leather bound, first and possibly only edition, together with ‘The Peasant’s Fate’ by the same author, printed for Vernor & Hood,…
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£30 - £50 | £15 | View |
| 502 |
CHALMERS, PATRICK, ‘BIRDS ASHORE AND AFORESHORE’
illustrated by Winifred Austen, published by Collins, London 1935, together with eight other books of ornithological interest (9)
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£30 - £50 | £10 | View |
| 503 |
‘REPORT ON THE CITY AND COUNTY OF BRISTOL’
printed by James & Luke Hansard, London, 1835, brown three quarter leather bound, ex libris FW Morris, John E Pritchard and Terence Bryant Bristol Collection (repaired spine)
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£40 - £60 | - | View |
| 504 |
‘THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER’
printed by W. Jackson, 1784, brown leather bound, together with another copy of the same title, 1846, blue leather bound (2)
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£20 - £40 | £10 | View |
| 505 |
PERRY, FRED, ‘MY STORY’
presentation copy, published by Hutchinson & Co, London, green cloth bound
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£20 - £40 | - | View |
| 506 |
HUXLEY, ALDOUS, ‘TIME MUST HAVE A STOP’
first edition, published by Chatto & Windus, 1945 (lacking dust wrapper), one other title by Huxley, Lawrence, TE, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, 1935 edition, together with Woolf, Virginia, ‘To The…
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£30 - £50 | £10 | View |
| 507 |
‘THE IMMACULATE CARD MAGIC OF WALT LEES’
edited and photographed by Lewis Ganson, paper bound, together with fourteen other magic related pamphlets (15)
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£30 - £50 | £30 | View |
| 508 |
THE REV. F. O. MORRIS: 'A HISTORY OF BRITISH BUTTERFLIES'
Groombridge and Sons 1868 (wear to binding)
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£50 - £80 | £60 | View |
| 509 |
JAMES ELROY FLECKER: 'HASSAN'
illustrated by Thomas Mackenzie, Heinemann Ltd 1924, with 'Alice's adventures in Wonderland', illustrated by Harry Rountree (a/f) (2)
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£30 - £60 | £45 | View |
| 510 |
‘RYDE CARNIVAL 1951 LUCKY PROGRAMME’
No. 4513, with supplementary programme, the Royal Isle of Wight Agricultural Society 51st show catalogue, July 1947, and eight other pamphlets of Isle of Wight interest (10)
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£30 - £50 | - | View |
| 511 |
'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
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£40 - £60 | - | View |
| 512 |
PINDAR, PETER: 'THE ROYAL TOUR AND WEYMOUTH AMUSEMENTS'
new edition, printed for J. Walker et al, London 1795, rebound
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£60 - £100 | £35 | View |
| 513 |
DOMESDAY BOOK - THE PART RELATED TO DORSETSHIRE'
a facsimile edition, published by The Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton 1862, in red cloth bindings; and a version of the Domesday Book with Dorset section by Alecto editions 1991 with slipcase (2)
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£30 - £50 | £50 | View |
| 514 |
POTTER, BEATRIX, ‘THE TALE OF PIGLING BLAND’
first edition, published by Frederick Warne, with dust wrapper, four other Beatrix Potter books (poor condition), ‘The Colorful Tale of Peter Rabbit’, published by Determined Publications, San…
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£30 - £50 | £10 | View |
| 515 |
MARSHALL, ARTHUR, ‘SPECIMENS OF ANTIQUE CARVED FURNITURE AND WOODWORK’
published by Allen, London, 1888, folio size, brown half leather bound
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£30 - £50 | £20 | View |
| 516 |
ADAM, W., ‘THE GEM OF THE PEAK’
fourth edition, published by Longman & Co, 1845, brown cloth bound with folding map to front, Whitaker, ‘History of Whalley’, London 1818, ‘Pedigree of the family of Kenney of Kilclogher’, green…
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£20 - £40 | £10 | View |
| 517 |
‘EAST PURBECK DEFENCE OF THE REALM - 1803 CENSUS’
copied by John Mowlem, 1935, red binding, ‘Sydenham’s Guide to Bournemouth’, 18th edition, 1890, brown cloth bound, and three other volumes (5)
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£50 - £100 | £20 | View |
| 518 |
'THE SEAL OF DORCHESTER, DORSET 1307-1623"'
a three-quarter leather-bound volume containing pasted, typed, printed and wax examples of Dorchester’s seal.
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£20 - £30 | £25 | View |
| 519 |
HITCHINS, FORTESCUE: 'THE HISTORY OF CORNWALL'
vols. I & II, printed by William Penaluna, Helston 1824, two volumes in three-quarter brown leather binding
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£60 - £80 | £130 | View |
| 520 |
BROWNLOW, JOHN, ‘MEMORANDA OR CHRONICLES OF THE FOUNDLING HOSPITAL’
published by Sampson Low, London, 1847, blue cloth bound, presentation copy to John Casley, with letter from author to Casley dated 11th April 1848
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£100 - £200 | £30 | View |
| 521 |
‘THE BERKELEY MANUSCRIPTS’
edited by Sir John Maclean, volumes I-III, privately printed by John Bellows, Gloucester, 1883, half green cloth binding
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£30 - £50 | £90 | View |
| 522 |
DENHAM, MAJOR DIXON & CLAPPERTON, CAPTAIN HUGH: 'NARRATIVE OF TRAVELS '
and discoveries in Northern and Central Africa in tye Years 1822, 1823 and 1824, published by John Murry, London 1826, in blue cloth binding
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£100 - £200 | £110 | View |
| 523 |
LYSONS, DANIEL & SAMUEL: 'MAGNA BRITANNIA – VOLUME 3 – CORNWALL'
printed for Cadell & Davies, London 1814, three-quarter brown leather binding
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£40 - £60 | £45 | View |
| 524 |
SILK BUCKINGHAM, JAMES, ‘A SUMMER TRIP TO WEYMOUTH AND DORCHESTER’
Published by Benson, Weymouth, 1842, rebound red half leather and six other Weymouth/Dorchester volumes (7)
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£100 - £200 | £110 | View |
| 525 |
DARWIN, CHARLES, ‘THE ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES’
volumes I & II, published by John Murray, 1897, a later single volume of the same title, 1899, two other Darwin volumes and Huxley, ‘On Origin of Species’, Robert Harwicke, 1863, all green cloth…
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£40 - £60 | £300 | View |
| 526 |
PARK, MUNGO, ‘THE JOURNAL OF A MISSION TO THE INTERIOR OF AFRICA IN THE YEAR 1805’
printed by John Murray, London, 1815, brown calf bound, folding map to front, spine repaired
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£200 - £300 | £80 | View |
| 527 |
CLARK, JAMES, ‘CORFE CASTLE OR KENESWITHA’
published by Hurst, Robinson & Co, London, 1824, half cloth and card bound, together with Bond, Thomas, ‘A History of Corfe Castle’, green cloth bound (2)
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£50 - £100 | £10 | View |
| 528 |
MARSH, JOHN B., ‘STEEPHILL CASTLE, VENTNOR, ISLE OF WGHT”
privately printed by Dangerfield Printing, London, green half cloth bound, and four Isle of Wight pamphlets (5)
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£20 - £30 | £10 | View |
