Duke's: Avenue Auction, 60926, Dorchester

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
June 09, 2026 - June 10, 2026
Page Size: 110 items in 5 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
984 Hardy Thomas

Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres

1930 GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 91.00
985 Hutchins John

The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset

1863 GBP 150.00 - 300.00 GBP 286.00
986 Collinson John; Page William; Heathcote M.F.; Berkeley Joan

N Books, including: The History and Antiquities of the County of Somerset

Bath 1791; 1898; 1911 GBP 150.00 - 300.00 GBP 143.00
987 Crafty; Caldecott Randolph; Gonne C.M.; Mason G. Finch; Cruikshank Geo.

N Books, including: La Chasse a Courre

Paris N/A GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 65.00
988 Lamb Charles; Lamb Mary; Rackham Arthur; Swinburne; de La Motte Fouque; Grahame; Reynolds Frank; Smith Jessie Willcox; Austen John

N Books, including: Tales from Shakespeare

1909; 1918; 1911; 1950 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 650.00
989 Cust Lionel; Gray Thomas

N Books, including: Eton College Portraits

1910 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
990 Benson Freeman

N Books, including: The Honourable Women of the Great War

1919 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 312.00
991 Gray Thomas; Kobb

N Books, including: Poems and Letters

1879; 1817; 1933 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 143.00
992 Dulac Edmund

N Books, including: Picture Book for the French Red Cross

N/A GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 312.00
994 Defoe Daniel; Stothard Thomas; Mitford M.R.; Coleridge S.T.; Dickens Charles

N Books, including: The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

London 1820; 1824; 1836 GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 169.00
995 Winthrop John; Savage James; Dulac Edmund

N Books, including: The History of New England from 1630 to 1649

Boston 1825 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 26.00
996

A Collection of Art Books

N/A GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 26.00
998

Taschen Books: Eight Books on Architecture and Interiors

N/A GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 117.00
999 Bronte Charlotte; Bronte Emily; Bronte Anne

N Books, including: A Boxed Set of Novels by the Bronte Sisters

N/A GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 39.00
1000 Fairburn; Copinger; Burke

Fairburn's Crests; Armorial Bearings; Heraldry simplified

1750 GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 338.00
1001

31 Books, including: Art

N/A GBP 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
1002

43 Books, including: William Morris

N/A GBP 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
1003

Cambridge Natural History

N/A GBP 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
1004 Bewick Thomas; Surtees

14 Books, including: My life

N/A GBP 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
1005

Sarraceniaceae: North and South America

N/A GBP 30.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
1006

A Collection of Manchester United Football Club Related Books

N/A GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 26.00
1007 Yates Dornford; Walsh Maurice; Ellis Edward S; Charteris Leslie

A Collection of Books by Dornford Yates

N/A GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 52.00
1008

A Collection of Books on Art

N/A GBP 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
1009 Bowen Eman

An Accurate Map of the County of Worcester

N/A GBP 50.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
1017

Harrod's Stores Limited

London c.1897 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 65.00
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