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7-December|Printed Books, Manuscripts & Maps

Auction date Thursday 7 December 2023 14:00 GMT

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


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Total lots: 102

Lot Title Estimate Hammer price
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

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