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Auction date Tuesday 7 November 2023 10:00 - 17:30 GMT

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Lots per page:

Total lots: 783

Lot Title Estimate Hammer price
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…
£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)
£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.
£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
£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
£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
£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
£100 - £200 £110 View
523 LYSONS, DANIEL & SAMUEL: 'MAGNA BRITANNIA – VOLUME 3 – CORNWALL'
printed for Cadell & Davies, London 1814, three-quarter brown leather binding
£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)
£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…
£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
£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)
£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)
£20 - £30 £10 View
530 EVELYN WAUGH: 'OFFICERS AND GENTLEMEN'
1st edition 1955, with Blue dust jacket, with Conrad Aiken, The Kid, with autographed letter from Aiken to John Lehrmann, dated 29 Dec 1947, and J R R Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, vols 1 and 3,…
£60 - £100 £120 View
532 REX AND LAURENCE WHISTLER
The World's Room, The English Festivals, Rex Whistler by Laurence Whistler
£20 - £40 £35 View
533 HOLLOWAY, WILLIAM, ‘PROVINCIALISMS’
printed and published by Baxter & Son, Lewes, 1839, later three quarter leather binding with marbled boards, together with Pulman, George R., ‘A Lecture on the Names of Places in the West of…
£30 - £50 £20 View
534 WARNE, CHARLES, ‘AN ILLUSTRATED MAP OF DORSETSHIRE’
together with the Index volume, both published by Sydenham, Poole and Hotten, Piccadilly, 1865, purple cloth bound (2)
£40 - £60 £30 View
535 WARNE, CHARLES, ‘ANCIENT DORSET’
first edition, published by Sydenham Bournemouth, 1872, blue cloth bound, dedicated and signed by author, together with Heath and Prideaux, ‘Some Dorset Manor Houses, London 1907, red cloth bound (2)
£30 - £50 £35 View
536 ELLIS, H. HAVELOCK, ‘CONCERNING JUDE THE OBSCURE’
published by the Ulysses Bookshop London, No. 82 of 185, signed by author, blue cloth half bound
£40 - £60 £10 View
537 'THE INSCRIPTIONAL WORK OF ERIC GILL'
introduction by David Peace, published by the Brick Row Bookshop, San Francisco, 1972, grey paper bound, two poetry volumes issued by The Lomod Press and a seelction of books including Folio Society
£30 - £50 £10 View
538 A QUANTITY OF TOUCAN PRESS, BEAMINSTER PAMPHLETS
mostly relating to Thomas Hardy
£30 - £50 £40 View
539 ‘THE WILTSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY MAGAZINE’
two copies Nos 25 & 26, paper bound, ‘Wiltshire Notes & Queries’, vols. 1-3, published by George Simpson, Gazette Office, Devizes 1896, three blue cloth-bound volumes; together with Hodder, …
£30 - £40 £10 View
540 A COLLECTION OF LEATHER BOUND BOOKS £30 - £50 £180 View
541 THE SHERBORNE PAGEANT 1905: A GILT TOOLED RED LEATHER PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM
originally presented to James Douglas, Honorary Secretary and containing photographs of scenes from the Pageant, which dramatised the history of Sherborne from the founding by St Aldhelm in AD 705,…
£100 - £200 £60 View

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