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Total lots: 659

TWO MANUSCRIPT BOOKS
Lot 433 Sold
TWO MANUSCRIPT BOOKS
One The Annals of the Ringrose Family, various hands, no date but perhaps started in the late 18th century, the other one dated 1836
Hammer price: £35
Estimate: £30 - £50
8 July 2025
8 July 2025
EROTICA; DAVID RUSSELL, 'THE SECRET CARNIVAL'
Lot 434 Sold
EROTICA; DAVID RUSSELL, 'THE SECRET CARNIVAL'
a pop-up book, Hobart and Maclean, two copies no. 239 and un-numbered, with Ballivet 'Initiation Amoureuse', Erotic Print Society, and other items (7)
Hammer price: £120
Estimate: £40 - £60
8 July 2025
8 July 2025
A BOOK OF PRINTED MUSIC FOR PIANOFORTE
Lot 435 Unsold
A BOOK OF PRINTED MUSIC FOR PIANOFORTE
works by many famous composers included, opera, marches etc, no date but probably early 19th century
Estimate: £30 - £50
8 July 2025
8 July 2025
ABBE PREVOST: MANON LESCAUT, WITH BOOKPLATE OF BARRY HUMPHRIES
Lot 436 Sold
ABBE PREVOST: MANON LESCAUT, WITH BOOKPLATE OF BARRY HUMPHRIES
(Australian actor and writer) illustrations by ALASTAIR , London, John Lane, New York, Dodd, Mead and Co, 1928, 1212/1850, (a/f) with Mark Twain; Eve's Diary, Harper and Bros, 1906, More Tramps Abroad, Chatto and Windus, 1897, Charles Lamb; The Praise of Chimney-Sweepers, Dent, 1929, Arthur Rackham (illus); The Night Before Christmas (missing one colour plate), Lewis Carroll; Useful and instructive Poetry, G. Bles, 1954 (2nd ed), and others (8)
Hammer price: £25
Estimate: £40 - £60
8 July 2025
8 July 2025
THE POETICAL WORKS OF ROBERT HERRICK
Lot 437 Sold
THE POETICAL WORKS OF ROBERT HERRICK
4 vols, no. 14/750, on mould-made paper, vellum bound with slipcase, London, Cresset Press Ltd, 1928 (spines dirty, case damaged)
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £40 - £60
8 July 2025
8 July 2025
EROTICA; DAVID RUSSELL, 'THE SECRET CARNIVAL'
Lot 438 Sold
EROTICA; DAVID RUSSELL, 'THE SECRET CARNIVAL'
a pop-up book, Hobart and Maclean, two copies nos. 228 and 230, with Ballivet 'Initiation Amoureuse', Erotic Print Society, and other items (7)
Hammer price: £130
Estimate: £40 - £60
8 July 2025
8 July 2025
THOMAS WRIGHT: THE HISTORY AND TOPOGRAPHY OF THE COUNTY OF ESSEX
Lot 439 Sold
THOMAS WRIGHT: THE HISTORY AND TOPOGRAPHY OF THE COUNTY OF ESSEX
illustrated by Arnold, Bartlett, Campion, etc, two volumes, London, George Virtue, 1836, with Kirby's Suffolk Traveller (rebound), and other 19th century books of travel and topographical interest (a/f) (13)
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £40 - £60
8 July 2025
8 July 2025
EROTICA; DAVID RUSSELL, 'THE SECRET CARNIVAL'
Lot 440 Sold
EROTICA; DAVID RUSSELL, 'THE SECRET CARNIVAL'
a pop-up book, Hobart and Maclean, two copies no. 235 and 224, with Ballivet 'Initiation Amoureuse', Erotic Print Society, and other items (8)
Hammer price: £140
Estimate: £40 - £60
8 July 2025
8 July 2025
JOHN HUTCHINS, THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE COUNTY OF DORSET
Lot 441 Sold
JOHN HUTCHINS, THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE COUNTY OF DORSET
2 vols, Bowyer & Nichols, London, 1774, 1st edition
Hammer price: £250
Estimate: £300 - £500
8 July 2025
8 July 2025
WALES ILLUSTRATED IN A SERIES OF VIEWS
Lot 442 Unsold
WALES ILLUSTRATED IN A SERIES OF VIEWS
from original drawings by Henry Gastineau, London, Jones and Co, 1830, tooled leather binding
Estimate: £40 - £80
8 July 2025
8 July 2025
IAN FLEMING: FOR YOUR EYES ONLY
Lot 443 Sold
IAN FLEMING: FOR YOUR EYES ONLY
Jonathan Cape, 1960, black hard covers with dust jacket, with price 15s (some damage and stains to jacket)
Hammer price: £200
Estimate: £80 - £150
8 July 2025
8 July 2025
C. LEONARD WOOLLEY & T.E. LAWRENCE: THE WILDERNESS OF ZIN
Lot 444 Sold
C. LEONARD WOOLLEY & T.E. LAWRENCE: THE WILDERNESS OF ZIN
Jonathan Cape Ltd 1936 hard cover edition, with dust jacket (damaged) with unclipped price
Hammer price: £25
Estimate: £30 - £60
8 July 2025
8 July 2025
J.R.R. TOLKIEN: FARMER GILES OF HAM
Lot 445 Sold
J.R.R. TOLKIEN: FARMER GILES OF HAM
fifth impression, 1966, two copies with dust jackets, and The Hobbit, 3rd ed, sixteenth impression (dust jacket poor) (3)
Hammer price: £70
Estimate: £40 - £80
8 July 2025
8 July 2025
CORNWALL ILLUSTRATED IN A SERIES OF VIEWS
Lot 446 Sold
CORNWALL ILLUSTRATED IN A SERIES OF VIEWS
from original drawings by Thomas Allom, etc, Fisher and Son and Co, London, 1831, modern binding with marbled boards, with; Dear old Cornwall, Homeland Association Ltd 3rd ed, 1929 (2)
Hammer price: £25
Estimate: £30 - £60
8 July 2025
8 July 2025
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW: THE PLAYS, BOXED SET
Lot 447 Unsold
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW: THE PLAYS, BOXED SET
Constable and Company, 12 volumes in matching (damaged) blue case (some spines a/f), with 'The apple cart: A political extravaganza', Constable and Co Ltd, 1930 (jacket stained)
Estimate: £30 - £50
8 July 2025
8 July 2025
NATURAL HISTORY OF BIRDS
Lot 448 Unsold
NATURAL HISTORY OF BIRDS
Brightly & Childs, Bungay 1815, with hand coloured plates, volume 1 only
Estimate: £100 - £200
8 July 2025
8 July 2025
FRANCIS CLATER: EVERY MAN HIS OWN FARRIER
Lot 449 Unsold
FRANCIS CLATER: EVERY MAN HIS OWN FARRIER
Milner and Company (19th cent, undated), with Henry Bracken; Farriery Improv'd (vol II) 5th ed, London 1752, and Michael Reynolds; Locomotive Engine Driving, 5th ed, 1882, with a J and C. Walker map of Dorsetshire (showing the railway lines)
Estimate: £30 - £50
8 July 2025
8 July 2025
CORNWALL SIMEON: STRAY NOTES ON FISHING AND NATURAL HISTORY
Lot 450 Unsold
CORNWALL SIMEON: STRAY NOTES ON FISHING AND NATURAL HISTORY
Macmillan and Co, 1860 (foxed), with J. Mortimer; The whole art of husbandry, London, 1721, Rev. W. B. Daniel; Rural Sports ( vols 1 and part 2 vol 3), London, Bunny and Gold, 1801, Thomas Mawe; The Complete Gardener, and other books on natural history (7)
Estimate: £30 - £50
8 July 2025
8 July 2025
SAMUEL BECKETT: OH LES BEAUX JOURS
Lot 451 Sold
SAMUEL BECKETT: OH LES BEAUX JOURS
Paris, Les Editions De Minuit, 1963, with Sean O'Casey; The Star Turns Red, Macmillan and Co, 1940, and Henry Miller: Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, both Grove Press, 1961, and Black Spring, Grove Press, 1963 (5)
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £30 - £60
8 July 2025
8 July 2025
'DORSETSHIRE ILLUSTRATED', MATE'S ILLUSTRATED GUIDE
Lot 452 Sold
'DORSETSHIRE ILLUSTRATED', MATE'S ILLUSTRATED GUIDE
published W. Mate and Sons, Ltd, Bournemouth, c.1899, with 'The book of the Martyrs of Tolpuddle', published TUC, London, 1934 (2)
Hammer price: £40
Estimate: £40 - £60
8 July 2025
8 July 2025
LLEWELYN POWYS: DORSET ESSAYS
Lot 453 Sold
LLEWELYN POWYS: DORSET ESSAYS
John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1936, with dust jacket (a/f), with other books of Dorset interest including the sale catalogue of the contents of Brownsea Castle, 1927, plus; An exploration of Exmoor and the hill country of West Somerset, Seeley and Co, 1890
Hammer price: £30
Estimate: £30 - £50
8 July 2025
8 July 2025
ROBERT YOUNG 'RABIN HILL': POEMS IN THE DORSET DIALECT
Lot 454 Sold
ROBERT YOUNG 'RABIN HILL': POEMS IN THE DORSET DIALECT
ed. Rev J.C.M. Mansel-Pleydell (vicar of Sturminster Newton), Dorchester 1910, with other books of dialect and other West Country poetry; Moule, Barnes, Slow, and J.C. Powys; Wolf Solent (2 vols) (10)
Hammer price: £15
Estimate: £40 - £80
8 July 2025
8 July 2025
JAMES EDWARD SMITH: AN INTRODUCTION TO PHYSIOLOGICAL AND SYSTEMICAL BOTANY
Lot 455 Unsold
JAMES EDWARD SMITH: AN INTRODUCTION TO PHYSIOLOGICAL AND SYSTEMICAL BOTANY
third edition, London, 1814, calf, gilt (split along spine, foxed endpapers and frontis)
Estimate: £40 - £80
8 July 2025
8 July 2025
THOMAS BEWICK: A HISTORY OF BRITISH BIRDS
Lot 456 Unsold
THOMAS BEWICK: A HISTORY OF BRITISH BIRDS
two vols, Land birds and Water birds, Newcastle, printed by Charles Henry Cook, London, Longman and Co, 1832 (boards rubbed, spine labels poor)
Estimate: £40 - £80
8 July 2025
8 July 2025
THE COLLECTED WORKS OF DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI
Lot 457 Sold
THE COLLECTED WORKS OF DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI
Edited with preface and notes by William M. Rossetti, two volumes, Ellis and Elvey, London, 1890
Hammer price: £40
Estimate: £40 - £60
8 July 2025
8 July 2025
L. FORBES WINSLOW: MAD HUMANITY
Lot 458 Unsold
L. FORBES WINSLOW: MAD HUMANITY
its forms apparent and obscure, C.A. Pearson Ltd, London 1898, with; A.P.W. Philip; A Treatise on Indigestion and its Consequences, London, 1824 (2)
Estimate: £40 - £60
8 July 2025
8 July 2025
OLIVER GOLDSMITH: A HISTORY OF THE EARTH AND ANIMATED NATURE
Lot 459 Sold
OLIVER GOLDSMITH: A HISTORY OF THE EARTH AND ANIMATED NATURE
four volumes, A. Fullarton and Co, Glasgow, 1832, (worn marbled boards, loose spines)
Hammer price: £30
Estimate: £50 - £100
8 July 2025
8 July 2025
HINTS TOWARDS FORMING THE CHARACTER OF A YOUNG PRINCESS
Lot 460 Unsold
HINTS TOWARDS FORMING THE CHARACTER OF A YOUNG PRINCESS
two volumes, 3rd ed, London, printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1805, calf (worn)
Estimate: £40 - £60
8 July 2025
8 July 2025
WILLIAM BARRETT: THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE CITY OF BRISTOL
Lot 461 Sold
WILLIAM BARRETT: THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE CITY OF BRISTOL
Bristol, William Pine, Wine St, 1789, with fold-out maps and illustrations (two copies; one with marbled boards, the other with detached board, ex Bath Public Library, both worn) (2)
Hammer price: £40
Estimate: £40 - £80
8 July 2025
8 July 2025
JAMES McNEILL WHISTLER: THE GENTLE ART OF MAKING ENEMIES
Lot 462 Sold
JAMES McNEILL WHISTLER: THE GENTLE ART OF MAKING ENEMIES
William Heinemann, London 1890, with E.R. and J. Pennell; The life of James McNeill Whistler (2 copies 1911 and 1925), The Whistler Journal (1921), and T.R. Way; Memories of...Whistler' 1912 (5)
Hammer price: £30
Estimate: £30 - £60
8 July 2025
8 July 2025
BURKE'S HERALDIC ILLUSTRATIONS WITH EXPLANATORY PEDIGREES
Lot 463 Unsold
BURKE'S HERALDIC ILLUSTRATIONS WITH EXPLANATORY PEDIGREES
3 vols, London, Edward Churton, 1844, bound in green leather (bindings a/f, some foxing)
Estimate: £100 - £200
8 July 2025
8 July 2025
T .E. LAWRENCE, THE SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM
Lot 464 Unsold
T .E. LAWRENCE, THE SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM
first public edition 1935, worn condition , with The Illustrated Family Burns, 100 engravings by Evans, William MaKenzie, Glasgow
Estimate: £200 - £400
8 July 2025
8 July 2025
PLAIN OR RINGLETS 'BY THE AUTHOR OF HANDLEY CROSS..'
Lot 465 Unsold
PLAIN OR RINGLETS 'BY THE AUTHOR OF HANDLEY CROSS..'
illus John Leech, printed for subscribers from plates of the original ed, Bradbury, Agnew and Co, London, with other similar volumes, and The tour of Doctor Syntax in search of the Picturesque, illus Rowlandson (variable condition) (7)
Estimate: £30 - £60
8 July 2025
8 July 2025
VICTORIAN BROWN LEATHER PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM
Lot 466 Sold
VICTORIAN BROWN LEATHER PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM
family photos mostly Manchester area and North West, album with floral pages, with Daniel Lyons, American Dictionary of the English Language, New York 1897
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £40 - £60
8 July 2025
8 July 2025
STAMP COLLECTOR'S FORTNIGHTLY, FOUR VOLUMES
Lot 467 Unsold
STAMP COLLECTOR'S FORTNIGHTLY, FOUR VOLUMES
1894 - 1898, cloth bound
Estimate: £30 - £50
8 July 2025
8 July 2025
JOHN E. SOWERBY (ILLUS): THE GRASSES OF GREAT BRITAIN
Lot 468 Unsold
JOHN E. SOWERBY (ILLUS): THE GRASSES OF GREAT BRITAIN
described by Charles Johnson, London, Robert Hardwicke, c.1860, with F.E. Tripp: British Mosses, 2 vols, London, George Bell, 1874, F.O. Morris; A History of British Butterflies, London, John C. Nimmo, 1895, and three vols of Lydekker's Natural History (III, IV, V) (7)
Estimate: £40 - £60
8 July 2025
8 July 2025
DOMESDAY BOOK, 1783 VOL I ONLY
Lot 469 Sold
DOMESDAY BOOK, 1783 VOL I ONLY
(poor condition, ex library copy) with Morden's map of Wiltshire (folded), and other books including 19th century bound sheet music, T. Moore; Lalla Rookh, Longman, 1863, Sidney Dark; Paris, Macmillan, 1926, Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to his brother, vol I, and Thomas Archer; Charles Dickens: A gossip about his work and characters (incomplete)
Hammer price: £15
Estimate: £40 - £60
8 July 2025
8 July 2025
WALTER SCOTT: THE VISION OF DON RODERICK
Lot 470 Sold
WALTER SCOTT: THE VISION OF DON RODERICK
Edinburgh, James Ballantyne, 1811 (detached boards), with Oeuvres de Victor Hugo, two vols, Brussels, 1843, Rev E. Blomfield; The History of the Martyrs, two vols, Bungay, 1810 (a/f), Taylor's Holy Living, and Holy Dying, Wm Pickering, 1847, and Sir Francis Montefiore; The Princesse de Lamballe: A Sketch, London, 1896 (8)
Hammer price: £15
Estimate: £40 - £80
8 July 2025
8 July 2025
FOLIO SOCIETY: VARIOUS, INCLUDING; MATURIN, CHARLES - ‘MELMOTH THE WANDERER’
Lot 471 Unsold
FOLIO SOCIETY: VARIOUS, INCLUDING; MATURIN, CHARLES - ‘MELMOTH THE WANDERER’
1993, with slip case and a further collection of Folio Society books (some wear) (right-hand side of bookcase)
Estimate: £150 - £250
8 July 2025
8 July 2025
PRINCE RANJITSINHJI: THE JUBILEE BOOK OF CRICKET
Lot 472 Sold
PRINCE RANJITSINHJI: THE JUBILEE BOOK OF CRICKET
Wm Blackwood and Sons, 3rd ed, 1897, and other books of cricketing interest, including Wisden Almanacks, 1956 - 2010 (with many gaps)
Hammer price: £60
Estimate: £30 - £50
8 July 2025
8 July 2025
FOLIO SOCIETY: VARIOUS VOLUMES
Lot 473 Sold
FOLIO SOCIETY: VARIOUS VOLUMES
including 'Daphnis and Chloe, illus. Marcel Vertes,1954 (case scruffy), 'The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night', 2 vols, 1958 (no case), others and similar
Hammer price: £25
Estimate: £40 - £60
8 July 2025
8 July 2025
A COLLECTION OF WISDENS
Lot 474 Sold
A COLLECTION OF WISDENS
including 1929 and 1946, with Playfair Cricket Annuals, 1948, 1949, 1951, 1952, 1955
Hammer price: £50
Estimate: £30 - £50
8 July 2025
8 July 2025
FOLIO SOCIETY: A VARIED COLLECTION OF VOLUMES
Lot 475 Sold
FOLIO SOCIETY: A VARIED COLLECTION OF VOLUMES
and a few other books
Hammer price: £70
Estimate: £80 - £120
8 July 2025
8 July 2025
ROBERT SABUDA & MATTHEW REINHART: MEGA BEASTS
Lot 476 Sold
ROBERT SABUDA & MATTHEW REINHART: MEGA BEASTS
Encyclopedia Prehistorica; a pop-up book, Candlewick Press, Cambridge, Massschusetts 2007, signed and numbered edition 267/300, in slip case
Hammer price: £100
Estimate: £80 - £120
8 July 2025
8 July 2025
JOHN NORTON: THE MANY FACES OF AMERICA
Lot 477 Sold
JOHN NORTON: THE MANY FACES OF AMERICA
Elephant Press, 1978, with a collection of books; Sassoon, Greene, Mungo, Hoffmann, etc (9)
Hammer price: £15
Estimate: £30 - £40
8 July 2025
8 July 2025
'THE TEMPLE SHAKESPEARE' PUBLISHED BY J.M. DENT
Lot 478 Sold
'THE TEMPLE SHAKESPEARE' PUBLISHED BY J.M. DENT
and a collection of popular editions; Scott, Dickens, Dumas etc, and other books
Hammer price: £70
Estimate: £30 - £50
8 July 2025
8 July 2025
FOLIO SOCIETY: VARIOUS, INCLUDING; DARWIN, CHARLES - ‘THE ESSENTIAL DARWIN’
Lot 479 Unsold
FOLIO SOCIETY: VARIOUS, INCLUDING; DARWIN, CHARLES - ‘THE ESSENTIAL DARWIN’
four volume set, together with a further collection of Folio Society volumes (top shelf of bookcase)
Estimate: £150 - £250
8 July 2025
8 July 2025
THOMAS HARDY: VARIOUS WORKS
Lot 480 Sold
THOMAS HARDY: VARIOUS WORKS
including Two on a tower, Osgood, McIlvaine and Co, 1895, The well-beloved, 2nd ed, A group of noble dames, 1891, Human shows Far phantasies, Macmillan and Co, 1925 reprint (with jacket, a/f), Desperate Remedies, Rand, McNally and Co, and other Wessex novels, later eds, poems and books about Hardy (25)
Hammer price: £100
Estimate: £100 - £200
8 July 2025
8 July 2025

Total lots: 659

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