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Lot	Title	Estimate	Hammer price
433	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	£30 - £50	£35	View
434	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)	£40 - £60	£120	View
435	A BOOK OF PRINTED MUSIC FOR PIANOFORTE works by many famous composers included, opera, marches etc, no date but probably early 19th century	£30 - £50	-	View
436	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…	£40 - £60	£25	View
437	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)	£40 - £60	£20	View
438	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)	£40 - £60	£130	View
439	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…	£40 - £60	£20	View
440	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)	£40 - £60	£140	View
441	JOHN HUTCHINS, THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE COUNTY OF DORSET 2 vols, Bowyer & Nichols, London, 1774, 1st edition	£300 - £500	£250	View
442	WALES ILLUSTRATED IN A SERIES OF VIEWS from original drawings by Henry Gastineau, London, Jones and Co, 1830, tooled leather binding	£40 - £80	-	View
443	IAN FLEMING: FOR YOUR EYES ONLY Jonathan Cape, 1960, black hard covers with dust jacket, with price 15s (some damage and stains to jacket)	£80 - £150	£200	View
444	C. LEONARD WOOLLEY & T.E. LAWRENCE: THE WILDERNESS OF ZIN Jonathan Cape Ltd 1936 hard cover edition, with dust jacket (damaged) with unclipped price	£30 - £60	£25	View
445	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)	£40 - £80	£70	View
446	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)	£30 - £60	£25	View
447	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)	£30 - £50	-	View
448	NATURAL HISTORY OF BIRDS Brightly & Childs, Bungay 1815, with hand coloured plates, volume 1 only	£100 - £200	-	View
449	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…	£30 - £50	-	View
450	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…	£30 - £50	-	View
451	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,…	£30 - £60	£20	View
452	'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)	£40 - £60	£40	View
453	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…	£30 - £50	£30	View
454	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)	£40 - £80	£15	View
455	JAMES EDWARD SMITH: AN INTRODUCTION TO PHYSIOLOGICAL AND SYSTEMICAL BOTANY third edition, London, 1814, calf, gilt (split along spine, foxed endpapers and frontis)	£40 - £80	-	View
456	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)	£40 - £80	-	View
457	THE COLLECTED WORKS OF DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Edited with preface and notes by William M. Rossetti, two volumes, Ellis and Elvey, London, 1890	£40 - £60	£40	View
458	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)	£40 - £60	-	View
459	OLIVER GOLDSMITH: A HISTORY OF THE EARTH AND ANIMATED NATURE four volumes, A. Fullarton and Co, Glasgow, 1832, (worn marbled boards, loose spines)	£50 - £100	£30	View
460	HINTS TOWARDS FORMING THE CHARACTER OF A YOUNG PRINCESS two volumes, 3rd ed, London, printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1805, calf (worn)	£40 - £60	-	View
461	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)	£40 - £80	£40	View
462	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)	£30 - £60	£30	View
463	BURKE'S HERALDIC ILLUSTRATIONS WITH EXPLANATORY PEDIGREES 3 vols, London, Edward Churton, 1844, bound in green leather (bindings a/f, some foxing)	£100 - £200	-	View
464	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	£200 - £400	-	View
465	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…	£30 - £60	-	View
466	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	£40 - £60	£20	View
467	STAMP COLLECTOR'S FORTNIGHTLY, FOUR VOLUMES 1894 - 1898, cloth bound	£30 - £50	-	View
468	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.…	£40 - £60	-	View
469	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,…	£40 - £60	£15	View
470	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…	£40 - £80	£15	View
471	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)	£150 - £250	-	View
472	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)	£30 - £50	£60	View
473	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	£40 - £60	£25	View
474	A COLLECTION OF WISDENS including 1929 and 1946, with Playfair Cricket Annuals, 1948, 1949, 1951, 1952, 1955	£30 - £50	£50	View
475	FOLIO SOCIETY: A VARIED COLLECTION OF VOLUMES and a few other books	£80 - £120	£70	View
476	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	£80 - £120	£100	View
477	JOHN NORTON: THE MANY FACES OF AMERICA Elephant Press, 1978, with a collection of books; Sassoon, Greene, Mungo, Hoffmann, etc (9)	£30 - £40	£15	View
478	'THE TEMPLE SHAKESPEARE' PUBLISHED BY J.M. DENT and a collection of popular editions; Scott, Dickens, Dumas etc, and other books	£30 - £50	£70	View
479	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)	£150 - £250	-	View
480	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),…	£100 - £200	£100	View

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