Thursday 7 December – Sussex Saleroom
Lot 601 - 703 Printed Books, Manuscripts & Maps 2pm
Viewing- Sussex Saleroom
Monday 4 December 10am – 4.00pm
Tuesday 5 December 10am – 4.00pm
Wednesday 6 December 10am – 4.00pm
Thursday 7 December 10am – 2.00pm
Payment
Payment to be received by bank transfer or on collection by 13 December
Collections - Sussex Saleroom
We will be open for collections on sale days 9am -4.30pm and additionally
Friday 8 December 9am – 4.30pm
Monday 11 December 9am – 4.30pm
Tuesday 12 December 9am – 4.30pm
Wednesday 13 December 9am – 4.30pm
Lot | Title | Estimate | Hammer price | |
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625 | CINEMA - Le Tout-Cinema. Annuaire Général Illustré du Monde Cinématographique. 6e Année, Paris, 1927, large 8vo, portraits, original blue cloth gilt. | £100 - £150 | £20 | View |
626 | CRANE, Walter (1845-1915). Renascence, London, 1891, small 4to, illustrations by Crane, boards. ONE OF 500 COPIES. With Voltaire's The Princess of Babylon (The Nonesuch Press, 1927, 8vo, illustrated by T. Lowinsky, INSCRIBED by William Russell Flint). (2) | £200 - £300 | £60 | View |
627 | DAVIES, John (1569-1626). Orchestra, London, The Stanton Press, 1922, 4to, illustrations by Elinor Lambert, original boards, ONE OF 175 COPIES. With 2 other limited edition books in 3 vols. Please see the full description below. (4) | £100 - £150 | £130 | View |
628 | DETMOLD, Edward Julius (1883-1957, illustrator) - The Fables of Aesop, London, [1909], 4to, 23 mounted coloured plates by Detmold, illustrations, original tan pictorial buckram gilt. A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST TRADE EDITION. | £100 - £150 | £170 | View |
629 | DOUGLAS, Alfred, Lord (1870-1945, editor). The Spirit Lamp. An Aesthetic, Literary and Critical Magazine, Oxford, June 1893, Vol. IV, No. II, original blue wrappers (defective). FIRST EDITION. RARE. | £150 - £250 | - | View |
630 | DUDLEY, Robert (1573-1649). Carta particolare della Britannia, [Florence, c.1660], engraved chart, 470 x 740mm. With another chart by Dudley. (2) | £300 - £500 | £320 | View |
631 | EDEN, Anthony (1897-1977), 1st Earl of Avon - Books annotated by, or otherwise associated with, Anthony Eden. Please see the full listing below. Sold not subject to return. (c.60) | £1,000 - £1,500 | £850 | View |
632 | [EDEN, Anthony (1897-1977)] - Alice ACHESON (1895-1996). Two Views of the Villa Nova, Barbados, signed "Alice Acheson" lower right, one watercolour on paper, the other pen on paper, framed and glazed. Provenance: ANTHONY EDEN, 1st Earl of Avon. (2) | £200 - £300 | £120 | View |
633 | [?EGAN, Pierce (1772-1849), and others]. Real Life in London, London, 1821-22, 2 vols., 8vo, hand-coloured aquatint frontispieces, titles and 28 plates, FINELY BOUND in 19th-century red morocco. And another related book. Sold not subject to return. (3) | £200 - £300 | £140 | View |
634 | FARJEON, Eleanor (1881-1965). Mrs Malone. London: Oxford University Press, 1962, 12mo, illustrations by Edward Ardizzone, original pictorial boards, dust-jacket, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR. With 2 other illustrated books. (3) | £200 - £300 | £100 | View |
635 | "FOUGASSE" [i.e. Cyril Kenneth BIRD (1887-1965), artist]. Drawing the Line Somewhere, London, 1937, 8vo, original buckram, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, with an original pencil and watercolour drawing signed "Fougasse". And another. (2) | £100 - £150 | £70 | View |
636 | FREEMASONRY - James ANDERSON (c.1680-1739). Constitution of the Antient and Honourable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons, London, 1757, 4to, engraved allegorical frontispiece (variable spotting, staining and browning), contemporary Masonic calf. | £400 - £600 | £1,100 | View |
637 | GILBERT & GEORGE - The Complete Pictures 1971-2005, London, 2007, 2 volumes, oblong 4to, coloured illustrations, original red cloth gilt, both volumes contained in their original card-case with handles. EACH VOLUME SIGNED "GILBERT AND GEORGE." (2) | £70 - £100 | £40 | View |
638 | GLASTONBURY - P. W. THOMPSON. Glastonbury, London, 1927, 8vo, FINELY BOUND in red crushed morocco gilt. FIRST EDITION, ASSOCIATION COPY, heavily annotated throughout in pencil by Lionel Smithett Lewis. | £70 - £100 | £45 | View |
639 | GREEN, Andy (dates unknown, photographer). Here Comes the Sun, London, BolamRose, 2011, oblong 4to, full-page coloured photographed illustrations by Andy Green with quotations relating to global warming, original silver boards. | £30 - £50 | £20 | View |
640 | GREENE, Graham (1904-91). Why the Epigraph? London, The Nonesuch Press, 1989, 8vo, half title, original tan buckram lettered in gilt, [?]original glassine wrapper. FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 16 OF 950 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. | £50 - £80 | £90 | View |
641 | GREENE, Graham (1904-91). A typed letter, signed, dated 1984, stating, "Dear John Wilkins, My warmest congratulations on your article on the Kissinger report. There is not a word I would wish to see altered. My own feelings are very much engaged ..." | £50 - £80 | £80 | View |
642 | GREENWICH - [?Margaret MASKELYNE (1785-1858)]. A fine watercolour study of the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, 362 x 470mm., unframed; with another of Greenwich Park [?]by the same artist; and another initialled "J.W." (3) | £2,000 - £3,000 | £1,700 | View |
643 | GUICCIARDINI, Lodovico (1521-89). Commentarii ... Delle cose piu memorabili seguite in Europa: specialmente in questi paesi bassi, Venice, 1565, 4to, contemporary limp vellum. FIRST EDITION. | £100 - £150 | £260 | View |
644 | HAY, Robert (1799-1863). Illustrations of Cairo, London, 1840, folio, additional lithographed title, 30 lithographed views on 29 plates (one plate heavily spotted, some other spotting and staining), contemporary roan-backed boards (worn). FIRST EDITION. | £500 - £800 | £700 | View |
645 | [HAZLITT, William (1778-1830)]. Liber Amoris; Or, the New Pygmalion, London, 1823, 12mo, engraved title with portrait (some very light staining), contemporary red half morocco. FIRST EDITION. Provenance: ANTHONY EDEN (1897-1977, 1st Earl of Avon). | £100 - £150 | £45 | View |
646 | HOBAN, Russell (1925-2011) & Quentin BLAKE (b.1932, illustrator). Woman with a Book, London, 1999, oblong 4to, 20 plates by Blake, hessian boards. Provenance: FROM THE ESTATE OF RUSSELL HOBAN. NUMBER 82 OF 300 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND ARTIST. | £300 - £500 | - | View |
647 | HOMANN, Johann Baptist (1664-1724). Nova Anglia Septentrionali Americae, [Nuremberg: c.1720], hand-coloured engraved map of New England, title cartouche, 483 x 574mm., unframed | £400 - £600 | £300 | View |
648 | NO LOT | £0 - £0 | - | View |