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
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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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649 | HOOGHE, Romein de (1645-1708). Carte Marine des Environs de l' Isle d' Oleron a l' Usage des Armees du Roy de Land Grande Bretagne, Amsterdam, [Pieter Mortier], 1693, hand-coloured engraved chart, inset views, 635 x 508mm., unframed. | £400 - £600 | £300 | View |
650 | HOOKER, William Jackson (1785-1865). Pomona Londinensis, London, [1813]-18. Volume one only [all published], 4to, 49 exceptionally fine hand-coloured aquatint plates of fruit, contemporary half morocco (rubbed). FIRST EDITION. | £3,000 - £5,000 | £2,800 | View |
651 | [HUMPHREYS, Henry Noel (1810-79), chromolithographer)]. The Parables of our Lord, London, 1847, 8vo, chromolithographed throughout, FINELY BOUND in original elaborately embossed morocco on bevelled boards. FIRST EDITION. A FINE COPY. | £200 - £300 | £130 | View |
652 | JAMES, Henry (1843-1916). The Europeans, London, 1878, 2 vols. bound in one, original buckram gilt. FIRST EDITION. With the same author's Confidence (London, 1883, original cloth, FIRST EDITION). (2) | £150 - £250 | £120 | View |
653 | KEULEN, Gerard van (1678-1726). Nouvelle Carte de la Riviere de Canada ou St. Laurens, [Amsterdam: c.1734], hand-coloured engraved chart of the St. Lawrence River, Canada, 5225 x 610mm., unframed. RARE. | £500 - £800 | £600 | View |
654 | KEULEN, Johannes van (1654-1715). Nieuwe Wassende Graade Paskaart Over de Geeheele Oost-Zee. Amsterdam: [c.1710], hand-coloured engraved chart of the Baltic Sea, elaborate allegorical title cartouche, coats-of-arms, 525 x 606mm., unframed. | £500 - £800 | £400 | View |
655 | KEULEN, Johannes van (1654-1715) & Gerard van KEULEN (1678-1726). Nine hand-coloured charts from the Zee-Fakkel showing the coasts of Ireland, Scotland, English Channel and the Bay of Biscay. Please see the full listing below. (9) | £500 - £800 | £400 | View |
656 | KING, Jessie Marion (1875-1949, illustrator) - The High History of the Holy Graal, London, 1903, large 8vo, 23 plates, original blue pictorial cloth gilt. With Christina Rossetti's Poems (London, [1910], 4to, 36 plates by Florence Harrison, buckram). (2) | £200 - £300 | £1,100 | View |
657 | KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936) & William NICHOLSON (1872-1949, illustrator). An Almanac of Twelve Sports, London, 1898 [but 1897], 4to, 12 full-page coloured woodblock illustrations by Nicholson, original pictorial boards. FIRST EDITION. | £200 - £300 | £130 | View |
658 | KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936). Sea and Sussex, London, 1926, 4to, 24 mounted coloured plates by Donald Maxwell, original vellum-backed paper boards. FIRST EDITION. ONE OF 500 "LARGE PAPER COPIES" SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. | £70 - £100 | £100 | View |
660 | LEWIS, C. S. (1898-1963). The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, London, 1950, 8vo, coloured frontispiece and illustrations by Pauline Baynes, original cloth, grey dust-jacket (torn with some loss). THE FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST "NARNIA" NOVEL. RARE. | £700 - £1,000 | £3,000 | View |
661 | LEWIS, C. S. (1898-1963). The Silver Chair, London, 1950, 8vo, frontispiece and illustrations by Pauline Baynes, original cloth, green dust-jacket (torn without significant loss). THE FIRST EDITION OF THE FOURTH "NARNIA" NOVEL. RARE. | £500 - £800 | £2,600 | View |
662 | LEWIS, C. S. (1898-1963). The Horse and His Boy, London, 1954, 8vo, frontispiece and illustrations by Pauline Baynes, original grey cloth, red dust-jacket (a few short tears). THE FIRST EDITION OF THE FIFTH "NARNIA" NOVEL. RARE. | £500 - £800 | £1,200 | View |
662a | LOBB, John (1840-1921, editor). Talks with the Dead. Luminous Rays from the Unseen World. Illustrated with Spirit Photographs, London, 1907, 8vo, "photographed" illustrations, original red pictorial cloth gilt. "New Edition, Revised and Enlarged." | £100 - £150 | £60 | View |
663 | LONDON - John BOWLES (c.1701-79). The East [West] Prospect of London, Southwark and the Bridge, London, "Printed and Sold by John Bowles," [c.1733], fine large engraved bird's-eye-view of London in two parts on one sheet, 960 x 580mm., framed and glazed. | £700 - £1,000 | £600 | View |
664 | LOUDON, Jane Webb (1807-58). The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Annuals, London, [1849], 4to, 50 fine hand-coloured lithographed botanical plates by Loudon (some spotting and staining), contemporary green half morocco (worn). Second edition. | £200 - £300 | £240 | View |
665 | LYSONS, Daniel (1762-1834) & Samuel (1763-1819). Magna Britannia ... Berkshire. London, 1806], 4to, plates, copious contemporary annotation, original drawings, calf (worn). A GRANGERISED COPY, POSSIBLY THE AUTHORS' OWN. With a related work in 2 vols. (3) | £300 - £500 | - | View |
666 | MACKAY, Robert William (1803-82). The Progress of the Intellect, as Exemplified in the Religious Development of the Greeks and the Hebrews, London, 1850, 8vo, contemporary half vellum gilt. FIRST EDITION. Please see provenance notes below. (2) | £400 - £600 | £380 | View |
667 | [MARIJUANA REVIEW, edited by Mike Aldrich and Ed Sanders]. The Pleasantries of the Incredible Cannabis or: How to Grow Grass, Buffalo, 1969, vol. one, no. 2, 8vo, original wrappers. With 3 other books, including 2 by David Hockney. (4) | £200 - £300 | - | View |
668 | MAVOR, William (1758-1837). Historical Accounts of the most Celebrated Voyages, Travels and Discoveries, London, 1796-1801, 25 vols., 12mo, 75 engraved plates, contemporary morocco-backed boards. With a work in 4 vols. only (of 6), uniformly bound. (29) | £400 - £600 | £200 | View |
669 | MIDDLETON, Charles Theodore (1726-1813). A New and Complete System of Geography, London, [1777], vol. one only (of 2), folio, 5 engraved maps, 55 engraved plates, contemporary black morocco (worn). Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return. | £70 - £100 | £130 | View |
670 | MISCELLANY, ILLUSTRATED BOOKS - Willy POGANY (1882-1955, illustrator). Forty-Four Turkish Fairy Tales, London, [1913], 4to, coloured plates, cloth gilt. With c.45 other mostly 20th-century illustrated books. The lot sold not subject to return. (c.45) | £500 - £800 | - | View |
671 | MONTFERRAND, Auguste Ricard de (1786-1858). Plans et Détails du Monument Consacré a la Mémoire de l' Empereur Alexandre, Paris, large folio, fine lithographed plates and vignettes (variable spotting throughout). Unbound but joints holding. | £500 - £800 | - | View |
672 | MORLAND, Thomas Hornby (fl.1810). The Genealogy of the English Race Horse, London, 1810, 8vo, engraved frontispiece, contmporary or original paper-backed boards. Provenance: "GLOUCESTER" (armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION. | £200 - £300 | £100 | View |