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Printed Books, Manuscripts & Maps including Books from the Library of Anthony and Clarissa Eden

Auction date Thursday, 13 July 2023 14:00 BST

Thursday 13 July   - Sussex Saleroom 

Lots 1 – 89  Books from the Library of Anthony and Clarissa Eden

Lots 90 – 200  Various Properties

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Monday 10 July: 10am – 4pm
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Thursday 20 July                               9am-4.30pm 

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Total lots: 209

Lot Title Estimate Hammer price
47 LOCKHART, Robert Hamilton Bruce (1887-1970). Jan Masaryk. A Personal Memoir, London, The Dropmore Press, 1951, 4to, plate, original buckram gilt. FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 152 OF 500 COPIES, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed to Anthony Eden. £100 - £150 £160 View
48 LOCKHART, Robert Hamilton Bruce (1887-1970). My Rod My Comfort, London, The Dropmore Press, 1949, 4to, plates by J. Gaastra, vellum-backed buckram. FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 63 OF 550 COPIES, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed to Anthony Eden. £70 - £100 £60 View
49 MACKENZIE KING, William Lyon (1874-1950, Prime Minister of Canada from 1935-48, and before). Canada at Britain's Side, Toronto, 1941, 8vo, red buckram. FIRST EDITION, IMPORTANT PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed extensively by the author to Anthony Eden. £500 - £800 £420 View
50 MILTON, John (1608-74). Paradise Lost ... The Eighth Edition [Third vol:] Paradise Regained [etc], London, 1775-77, 3 volumes, 4to, 20 engraved plates, contemporary calf (rebacked). (3) £200 - £300 £300 View
51 Miroir des Vertus et des Arts. Spiegel der Deugden en Konsten, Haarlem, 1706, small 4to, hand-coloured allegorical title and 66 FINE HAND-COLOURED EMBLEMATIC ILLUSTRATIONS, contemporary vellum. RARE. £500 - £800 £800 View
52 MOORE, George (1852-1933). Heloise and Abelard, London, 1921, 2 volumes, 8vo, original vellum-backed boards. NUMBER 127 OF 1,500 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. With 2 other related books. (4) £70 - £100 £20 View
53 MORICE, Charles (1861-1919). Paul Gauguin, Paris, 1919, 4to, plates, later red cloth, FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED by Anthony Eden. With 3 other related books. (4) £200 - £300 £100 View
54 MOUNTBATTEN, Louis (1900-79). Report to the Combined Chiefs of Staff by the Supreme Allied Commander South-East Asia 1943-1945, London, 1951, 4to, buckram, wrappers bound in. A HIGHLY IMPORTANT PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Mountbatten to Eden. £500 - £800 £1,200 View
55 NONESUCH PRESS - Bernard de FONTENELLE (1657-1757). A Plurality of Worlds, London, 1929, 8vo, colour-stencilled astrological illustrations by T. L. Poulton, original vellum gilt. ONE OF 1,600 COPIES. With 9 other books printed by the same press. (10) £500 - £800 £400 View
56 NONESUCH PRESS - HOMER (fl. 9TH- or 8TH-CENTURY B.C.E.). The Iliad, London, 1931, small folio, ornaments, original niger morocco. ONE OF 1,450 COPIES. With Francis Meynell's rare printed note relating to this edition loosely-inserted. £100 - £150 £320 View
57 NONESUCH PRESS - William WYCHERLEY (1641-1716). The Complete Works, London, 1924, 4 vols., 4to, original buckram-backed boards. ONE OF 75 COPIES. With 3 other works by the Nonesuch Press in 8 vols. Provenance: Anthony Eden (old armorial bookplates). (12) £200 - £300 £190 View
58 [PATMORE, Coventry (1823-96)]. The Unknown Eros and Other Odes, London, 1877, 8vo, original buckram (faded), with a one-page autograph letter from the author tipped-in at the front, old bookplate of Anthony Eden. With 5 other books by Patmore. (6) £300 - £500 £280 View
59 PATTERSON, John Henry (1867-1947). The Man-Eaters of Tsavo, London, August 1910, large 8vo, original pictorial buckram gilt. Reprint. INSCRIBED in pencil by Anthony Eden, "This book belonged to my younger brother, Nicholas. A." £70 - £100 £70 View
60 PEPYS, Samuel (1633-1703). Memoirs ... Comprising his Diary from 1659 to 1669, London, 1828, 5 volumes, 8vo, plates, attractively bound in contemporary olive morocco gilt. (5) £70 - £100 £350 View
61 POPE, Alexander (1688-1744). Of the Characters of Women: An Epistle to a Lady, London, 1735, folio, later grey paper boards. FIRST EDITION. With 2 other books. (3) £200 - £300 £480 View
62 ROSEBERY, Lord (1847-1929). Lord Randolph Churchill, London, 1906, 8vo, original green buckram. FIRST EDITION, ANNOTATED TWICE AND HIGHLIGHTED IN PENCIL BY ANTHONY EDEN. £100 - £150 £190 View
63 ROWSE, A. L. (1903-97). The Later Churchills, London, 1958, large 8vo, original buckram. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author to Clarissa and Anthony Eden. With 2 other books by the same author, both PRESENTATION COPIES. (3) £100 - £150 £90 View
64 SASSOON, Siegfried (1886-1967). Counter-Attack and Other Poems, London, August 1918, 8vo, original wrappers, FIRST EDITION, second impression, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author to H. T. Baker in pencil on the half title. £400 - £600 £1,300 View
65 SCHMIDT, Paul-Otto (1899-1970). Hitler's Interpreter, London, 1951, 8vo, half tone illustrations, original buckram. FIRST ENGLISH ABRIDGED EDITION, A HIGHLY IMPORTANT COPY, ANNOTATED AND HIGHLIGHTED IN PENCIL BY ANTHONY EDEN THROUGHOUT. £700 - £1,000 £600 View
66 SETON HUTCHISON, Graham (1890-1946). Kitchener, London, 1944, small 4to, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 52 OF 100 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed extensively by the author to Anthony Eden. RARE. £100 - £150 £100 View
67 SETON-WATSON, Robert (1879-1951). Britain and the Dictators, Cambridge, 1938, 8vo, buckram. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, A HIGHLY IMPORTANT COPY, ANNOTATED AND HIGHLIGHTED IN PENCIL BY ANTHONY EDEN THROUGHOUT. With another by the same author. (2) £700 - £1,000 - View
68 SHERIDAN, R. B. (1751-1816). The School for Scandal, London, [1910], 4to, 25 coloured plates by Hugh Thomson, original elaborate vellum gilt. NUMBER 126 OF 250 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. With 4 other illustrated works in 5 vols. (6) £300 - £500 £150 View
68a SPEARS, E. L. (1886-1974). Prelude to Victory, London, 1940, 8vo, plates and maps, original buckram. FIRST EDITION, second impression. ANNOTATED AND HIGHLIGHTED IN PENCIL BY ANTHONY EDEN THROUGHOUT. £400 - £600 £650 View
69 STEVENSON, Robert Louis (1850-94). Kidnapped, [London], 1886, 8vo, folding map, original red cloth (worn). FIRST EDITION, inscribed by Eden. Please see the footnote below. £200 - £300 £320 View

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