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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

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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
601	ACTON, Harold (1904-94). Peonies and Ponies. A Novel, London, 1951, 8vo, original red cloth, yellow dust-jacket printed in red and black. FIRST EDITION. Ritchie A11a.	£70 - £100	£120	View
602	ALBUM - An album on c.18 card leaves containing numerous mounted embossed crests, many heightened in gold, with very fine painted mount designs, mostly floral but including croquet motifs, Oxford and Cambridge college crests, etc, 4to, 19th-century.	£300 - £500	-	View
603	ALBUM, INDIA - An album of c.250 albumen photographs, many of Indian subjects, various sizes, portraits, etc., folio, c. 1860s. Provenance: E. B. Burnaby.	£300 - £500	£900	View
604	ALBUMS - An album on c.100 leaves, part commonplace book, but containing, inter alia, many original drawings, including a number of women smoking cigarettes (unusual for the period), contained in an album, 4to, late 19th-century. With another. (2)	£300 - £500	-	View
605	ALEXANDER III (1845-94) - Description du Sacre et du Couronnement de leur Majeste's Impériales l' Empereur de Toutes les Russies, St. Petersburg, 1883, folio, coloured lithographed plates, preserving wrappers, with the EXCEPTIONALLY RARE limitation leaf.	£7,000 - £10,000	-	View
606	ANGLING - Charles BOWLKER. The Art of Angling, Containing Directions for Fly-Fishing, Trolling, Bottom Fishing, Making Artificial Flies, Ludlow, 1839, 8vo, hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, illustrations, original boards. RARE. With a related book. (2)	£150 - £250	-	View
607	ARDIZZONE, Edward (1900-79). A one-page autograph letter, with a prominent ORIGINAL DRAWING by Ardizzone incorporating what is probably a self-portrait; and a letter from Elisabeth Frink, referring to Peter Shaffer's 'Equus'. (2)	£300 - £500	£280	View
608	ASTAIRE, Fred (1899-1987). Steps in Time, New York, 1959, 8vo, monochrome illustrations, original black cloth (without the dust-jacket). FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by the author on the half title.	£200 - £300	-	View
609	BINDING - "Lewis CARROLL" (1832-98). Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, London, [1970], 8vo, plates and illustrations, FINELY BOUND in green morocco gilt with figures of Alice and the Mad Hatter in compartments of the spine.	£300 - £500	£380	View
610	BINDING - Ernest Thompson SETON (1860-1946). Animal Heroes, London, 1906, small 4to, 19 plates by Seton Thompson, illustrations, FINELY BOUND in contemporary full crushed magenta morocco gilt by Bumpus.	£300 - £500	£220	View
611	BINDING - Francis BACON (1561-1626). Essays, London, 1903, 8vo, VERY FINELY BOUND in full dark blue crushed morocco elaborately-decorated in gilt by Ramage.	£400 - £600	£1,200	View
612	BINDING - Practical Wisdom, London, 1907, square 8vo, FINELY BOUND in full green crushed morocco elaborately decorated in gilt.	£200 - £300	£450	View
613	BINDING - Soren SORENSEN (dates unknown). Diderich Buxtehudes vokale kirkemusik, Copenhagen, 1958, large 8vo, FINELY BOUND in an abstract modernist design of red, green, black and tan morocco onlays on the upper cover [unsigned], slipcase.	£300 - £500	-	View
614	BINDING - William BEATTIE (1793-1875). Scotland Illustrated, London, 1842, 2 volumes, 4to, additional engraved titles with vignettes, 118 engraved plates, attractively bound in contemporary elaborate red morocco gilt. (2)	£300 - £500	£300	View
615	BINDINGS - Punch's Snapdragons for Christmas, London, 1845, 8vo, 4 wood-engraved plates by John Leech, FINELY BOUND in contemporary red morocco gilt by Riviere. With 2 other books in attractive morocco bindings; and 2 others. (5)	£200 - £300	£280	View
616	"BLAND, Alexander" (d.1982, pseudonym). The Royal Ballet, [London], 1981, 4to, original morocco, ONE OF 250 COPIES SIGNED BY NINETTE DE VALOIS. With 10 other books, all signed, some relating to the ballet, opera, etc. (11)	£200 - £300	£300	View
617	BLIGH, William (1754-1817). A Voyage to the South Sea ... in his Majesty's Ship The Bounty ... Including an Account of the Mutiny, London, 1792, 4to, 7 plates and charts, contemporary or original paper-backed boards. FIRST EDITION.	£2,000 - £3,000	-	View
618	BLISS, Arthur (1891-1975, composer). Conversations, London, 1922, 4to, original wrappers. Provenance: Edward Wadsworth. FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 2 OF 5 COPIES SIGNED BY THE COMPOSER "RESERVED FROM SALE", and further signed by the publisher. VERY RARE.	£200 - £300	£140	View
619	BRADFORD, William (c.1779-1857). Sketches of the Country, Character, and Costume, in Portugal and Spain, London, [1809], 4to, text in English and French, 55 hand-coloured aquatint plates, FINE contemporary plum morocco gilt. FIRST EDITION.	£700 - £1,000	£650	View
620	THE BRONTE SISTERS - Michael FFOLKES (1925-88, illustrator). The original pen, ink and watercolour front cover design for the September 29th, 1962, issue of "Punch" which was dedicated to the Brontë sisters, signed, 274 x 226mm.	£400 - £600	-	View
621	BURNS, Robert (1759-96). The Poetical Works, Glasgow, 1821, 8vo, engraved portrait frontispiece and 3 plates, attractively bound in 19th-century red morocco gilt. Please see provenance note below.	£200 - £300	£110	View
622	CHESS - William WINTER (1897-1955) & R. G. WADE (1921-2008). The World Chess Championship: 1951, London, 1951, 8vo, original cloth. With 13 other books on chess, two of which signed by notable chess players. Please see the full description below. (14)	£400 - £600	-	View
623	The Children's Friend, London, 1786, vols. I - III, V - X, XII - XX, XXII and XXIV only (of 24, i.e. 4 vols. lacking), 16mo, contemporary calf. VERY RARE. (20)	£800 - £1,200	-	View
624	CHORNY, Sasha [i.e. pseudonym of Aleksandr Mikhailovich GLIKBERG (1880-1932)]. An unpublished autograph couplet in pencil, with an original sketch in pencil beneath of a woman wearing a hat, [c.1925], 225 x 175mm., in modern window mount.	£200 - £300	-	View

Total lots: 102

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