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Antiques, Interiors and Collectables
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Venue address
8 Downham Road
Ely, Cambridgeshire
CB6 1AH
United Kingdom
Antiques, Interiors and Collectables

To include a large and important collection of early travel and natural history antiquarian books from a Suffolk country house: the property of a Gentleman, works of art, Oriental items, printed ephemera, clocks, silver and silver plate, jewellery, watches and objects of vertu, pottery, porcelain, glassware, pictures, prints and engravings, taxidermy, furniture and furnishings.  

Auction dates
Apr 15, 2023 10:00 AM BST
Lots: 1-1064
Viewing dates
Apr 13, 2023 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM BST
Apr 14, 2023 09:00 AM - 06:00 PM BST
Apr 15, 2023 09:00 AM - 10:00 AM BST
Auction currency
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There are 1075 lots within this auction
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Addison (Joseph) and others, The Spectator, Payne, Rivington, Davis and Longman, circa 1790,
320 GBP
300 - 400 GBP
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Andrews (Henry Charles),
5,500 GBP
3,000 - 4,000 GBP
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Ascham (Roger), The Schoolmaster: Or a Plain and Perfect Way of Teaching Children to Understand,
65 GBP
50 - 80 GBP
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Baluze (Etienne), Histoire Genealogique de la Maison D'Auvergne, Antoine Dezallier, Paris, 1708,
160 GBP
150 - 200 GBP
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Barrow (John), An Account of Travels into the Interior of Southern Africa, T Cadell and W Davies,
0 GBP
400 - 600 GBP
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Blackstone (William), Commentaries on the Laws of England, fifteenth edition, 4 volumes, 1809,
170 GBP
50 - 80 GBP
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Boccaccio (Giovanni), Il Decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio, Tommaso Edlin, 1725, frontis,
190 GBP
100 - 150 GBP
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Bowdler (Thomas), Letters Written in Holland in the Months of September and October 1787,
65 GBP
80 - 100 GBP
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Burke (Edmund), An Account of the European Settlements in America, R and J Dodsley, 1757,
350 GBP
250 - 350 GBP
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Byron (Lord), The Poetical Works of Lord Byron, John Murray 1855-6, 6 volumes,
260 GBP
100 - 150 GBP
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Castelli (G L), Storia di Alesa Antica Citta di Sicilia,
220 GBP
100 - 150 GBP
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Caulfield (James), Portraits,
320 GBP
80 - 120 GBP
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Cervantes (Miguel de), The History of Don Quixote,
130 GBP
80 - 120 GBP
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Chardin (Sir John), Voyages du Chevalier Chardin en Perse et Autres Lieux de l'Orient, Amsterdam,
360 GBP
400 - 500 GBP
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Chesterfield (Earl of), Miscellaneous Works, 1779, second edition, 4 volumes,
40 GBP
30 - 50 GBP
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Christyn (Jean Baptiste), Histoire Generale Des Pais-Bas,
180 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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Christyn (Jean Baptiste), Les Delices Des Pays-Bas, Ou Description,
180 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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Cicero (M Tullius), Opera, 1797, 14 volumes, contemporary full tree calf, little worn,
300 GBP
150 - 200 GBP
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Copeland (Samuel), A History of the Island of Madagascar, Burton and Smith, 1822, first edition,
170 GBP
150 - 200 GBP
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Coronelli (Vincenzo Maria), Description Geographique et Historique de la Moree,
2,600 GBP
1,000 - 1,200 GBP
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Cowley (Abraham), The Works, printed by J M for Henry Herringman, 1678, fifth edition, 4to,
90 GBP
100 - 150 GBP
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Croker (Thomas Crofton), Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland, John Murray, 1826-8,
70 GBP
80 - 120 GBP
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Cervantes et Ingenioso Hidalgo, Don Quixote, 4 volumes, calf,
180 GBP
50 - 80 GBP
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Dalrymple (Alexander), A Collection of Charts and Memoirs, A Dalrymple, 1772.
19,000 GBP
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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D'Arnaud (Francois Baculand), Epreuves du Sentiment, Maestricht, 1779-83, 7 volumes,
130 GBP
100 - 150 GBP
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Daulier Deslandes (Andre), Les Beautez de la Perse, Gervaise Clouzier, 1673, first edition,
650 GBP
600 - 800 GBP
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Davis (John Francis),
180 GBP
100 - 150 GBP
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Defoe (Daniel), Robinson Crusoe, 2 volumes, 1790,
400 GBP
50 - 80 GBP
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Dickens (Charles), Cricket on the Hearth, A Fairy Tale of Home, first edition, second state,
260 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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Dickens (Charles), Dombey and Sons, Bradbury and Evans, 1849, first edition, contemporary half calf,
130 GBP
80 - 120 GBP
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Dickens (Charles), Barnaby Rudge, A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty', Chapman and Hall, 1841,
160 GBP
100 - 150 GBP
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Duff (James Grant), A History of the Mahrattas, Longman, Rees, Orme, Browne and Green, 1828,
350 GBP
300 - 500 GBP
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Du Halde (Jean Baptiste), The General History of China, Containing a Geographical, Historical,
750 GBP
400 - 600 GBP
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Edmonds (Clement), The Commentaries of C Julius Caesar of his Wars in Gallia, Thomas Newcomb, 1677,
170 GBP
80 - 120 GBP
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Edwards (Sydenam) and others, The Botanical Register or Ornamental Flower Garden and Shrubbery,
1,700 GBP
1,800 - 2,000 GBP
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Evelyn (John), Memoirs of John Evelyn, Comprising His Diary from 1641 to 1705/6,
160 GBP
100 - 150 GBP
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Forbes (J), Hortus Woburnensis,
260 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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Frezier (Amedee Francois),
1,000 GBP
800 - 1,200 GBP
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Gibbon (Edward), The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,
180 GBP
100 - 150 GBP
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Gilpin (William), Northern Tour, 2 volumes, 2nd edition, 1789; together with Tour of Scotland,
170 GBP
150 - 200 GBP
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Geothe (Johann Von), Werke, 1806-1810, 13 volumes, contemporary tree calf, spines rubbed.
120 GBP
100 - 150 GBP
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Grant (Charles), The History of Mauritius or the Isle of France and Neighbouring Islands,
1,100 GBP
700 - 800 GBP
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Hamilton (Francis),
1,300 GBP
600 - 800 GBP
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Hawker (Peter), Instructions to Young Sportsmen on the Choice, Care, and Management of Guns,
90 GBP
100 - 150 GBP
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Herrera (Antonio de), The General History of the Vast Continent and Islands of America,
0 GBP
800 - 1,200 GBP
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Herrera (Antonio de),
0 GBP
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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Home Henry (Lord Kames), Elements of Criticism, fourth edition, 2 volumes, A Millar and T Caddel,
0 GBP
100 - 150 GBP
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Irving (Washington), A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus, John Murray, 1828,
140 GBP
150 - 200 GBP
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Ives (Edward),
1,000 GBP
500 - 700 GBP
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Jardine (Sir William) Editor, The Naturalist's Library, W H Lizard, 1833-1843, 40 volumes,
2,800 GBP
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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Johnson (Lt Col John), A Journey From India to England Through Persia, Georgia, Russia,
1,300 GBP
600 - 800 GBP
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Jesse (J Heneage), Literary and Historical Memorials of London, 2 volumes,
260 GBP
100 - 150 GBP
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Johnson (Daniel), Sketches of Field Sports as Followed by the Natives of India,
100 GBP
100 - 150 GBP
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Johnson (Samuel), The Works of the English Poets, 1790, 73 or 75 volumes, lacks volume 1 and 27,
300 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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Joutel (Henry), A Journal of the Last Voyage Perform'd by Monsr de la Sale to the Gulph of Mexico,
1,400 GBP
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Les Acquistions de la France en Lorraine, a collection of 40 17th century maps and plans,
380 GBP
100 - 150 GBP
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King (Capt Phillip P),
4,800 GBP
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Labat (Jean-Baptiste), Nouveau Voyage aux Isles de L'Amerique, Contenant,
750 GBP
800 - 1,200 GBP
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Leyden (J) and Erskine (W), Translators, Memoirs of Zehir-ed-din Muhammed Baber,
500 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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Lindley (John),
70 GBP
80 - 120 GBP
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