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Auction date Tuesday 8 July 2025 10:00 - 17:30 BST

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Total lots: 659

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

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