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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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Monday 17 July                                 9am – 4.30pm
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Wednesday 19 July                          9am - 4.30pm
Thursday 20 July                               9am-4.30pm 

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Total lots: 209

Lot Title Estimate Hammer price
70 STIMSON, Henry Lewis (1867-1950). The Far Eastern Crisis, New York, 1936, large 8vo, half tone frontispiece portrait and plates, original buckram. Second edition. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author to Anthony Eden. £300 - £500 £800 View
71 TAYLOR, Myron C. (1874-1959, editor). Wartime Correspondence between President Roosevelt and Pope Pius XII, New York, 1947, large 8vo, original cream parchment, slipcase. FIRST EDITION, EDITOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed to Anthony Eden. £70 - £100 £100 View
72 THE FLORENCE PRESS - John KEATS (1795-1821). The Poems, London, 1915, 2 volumes, square 8vo, original vellum boards. NUMBER 183 OF 250 COPIES. With Shelley's The Lyrical Poems (London, The Florence Press,1918, vellum, ONE OF 250 COPIES), and another. (4) £300 - £500 £450 View
73 TOURNEFORT, Joseph Pitton de (1656-1708), and others. The Compleat Herbal ... With large Additions from Ray, Gerarde, Parkinson, and others, London, 1719, vol. one only (of 2), 4to, engraved plates, contemporary calf. Sold not subject to return. £70 - £100 £140 View
74 TROLLOPE, Anthony (1815-82). [Selected Novels], London, [c.1880], 43 volumes, 8vo, very attractively bound in contemporary polished tan half calf, the spines with red and green morocco lettering-pieces. (43) £400 - £600 £1,700 View
75 VALERY, Paul (1871-1945). Regards sur le Monde Actuel, Paris, 1931, 8vo, wrappers, "44e édition" (in very small letters on the backstrip). PRESENTATION COPY, the front endpaper inscribed, "à Monsieur A. Eden, hommage sincère de l' auteur, Paul Valéry." £70 - £100 £80 View
76 VIETNAM - Victor BATOR (1891-1967). Vietnam, New York, 1965, 8vo, morocco. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author to Anthony Eden. With 6 other books related, one inscribed by Eden, the others ANNOTATED by him. (7) £300 - £500 £320 View
77 VOLTAIRE (1694-1778). Memoires, "Londres", 1784, 8vo, FINELY BOUND in contemporary blue calf elaborately decorated in gilt and blind, the covers with central crowned initial "P" stamped in gilt. With another work by the same author in 2 vols. (3) £200 - £300 £100 View
78 WHEELER-BENNETT, John (1902-75). Munich. Prologue to Tragedy, London, 1948, 8vo, original cloth. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, A HIGHLY IMPORTANT COPY, ANNOTATED AND HIGHLIGHTED IN INK BY ANTHONY EDEN. £700 - £1,000 £750 View
79 WHEELER-BENNETT, John (1902-75). The Nemesis of Power, London, 1956, large 8vo, original plum cloth. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed to Anthony Eden. With 4 other books by the same author, all PRESENTATION COPIES inscribed to Eden. (5) £300 - £500 £380 View
80 WHISTLER, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903). Eden versus Whistler, Paris, 1899, large 8vo, original boards. FIRST EDITION, ASSOCIATION COPY, with the old armorial bookplate of Anthony Eden. With another book by Whistler, and a related album. (3) £100 - £150 £160 View
81 WILDE, Oscar (1854-1900). Essays, Criticisms and Reviews, London, "Privately Printed," 1901, 4to, original blue printed paper boards (covers detached, rather worn). FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 221 OF 300 COPIES. RARE. With 4 other books of related interest. (5) £300 - £500 £1,200 View
82 WILLOUGHBY DE BROKE, Richard, Baron (1869-1923). The Sport of our Ancestors, London, 1921, 4to, 20 plates by G. D. Armour, boards. NO. 4 OF 150 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR, PRESENTATION COPY inscribed by the author to Anthony Eden. £70 - £100 £120 View
83 WINE - Charles Walter BERRY. In Search of Wine, London, 1935, original red buckram. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed to Anthony Eden. With 6 other books of related interest including 3 PRESENTATION COPIES inscribed to Anthony Eden. (7) £200 - £300 £550 View
84 YOSHIDA, Shigeru (1878-1967). The Yoshida Memoirs, Boston, 1962, large 8vo, original black buckram. FIRST EDITION, IMPORTANT PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author to Anthony Eden. £300 - £500 £200 View
85 BOOKS ANNOTATED BY, OR OTHERWISE ASSOCIATED WITH, ANTHONY EDEN. Please see the full listing below. (c.60) £3,000 - £5,000 - View
86 BOOKS PRESENTED TO ANTHONY EDEN. Please see the full listing below. (c.90) £3,000 - £5,000 £2,400 View
87 ACHESON, Alice (1895-1996, artist). Two Views of the Villa Nova, Barbados, signed "Alice Acheson" lower right, one watercolour on paper (355 x 490mm), the other pen on paper (210 x 290mm), framed and glazed. (2) £400 - £600 - View
88 ROUSSEAU, Michel (b.1927, artist). Six Views of Fyfield Manor, Wiltshire, all signed and dated "M. Rousseau 62", one inscribed to Anthony and Clarissa Eden, another to Clarissa Eden, pen and ink on paper, each c.360 x 260mm., framed and glazed. (6) £300 - £500 £200 View
89 SEGONZAC, André Dunoyer de (1884-1974) - A Collection of 13 works by André Dunoyer de Segonzac in 15 volumes, all except one PRESENTATION COPIES inscribed by the artist to Anthony or to Anthony and Clarissa Eden. Please see the full listing below. (15) £700 - £1,000 £350 View
90 ACCADEMIA DEL CIMENTO - [Lorenzo MAGALOTTI (1637-1712), editor] & others. Saggi di Naturali Esperienze, Florence, 1691, folio, 75 full-page engraved illustrations, contemporary vellum-backed boards. Second edition. £400 - £600 £420 View
91 ACKERMANN, Rudolph (1764-1834, publisher). The History of the Abbey Church of St. Peter's Westminster, London, 1812, 2 vols., folio, portrait, plan, 82 hand-coloured aquatint plates, contemporary morocco (rubbed). FIRST EDITION. With another book. (3) £300 - £500 £280 View
92 ALBUM - A 4to album (225 x 185mm), on c.80 leaves, mid-19th-century, containing original watercolours of flowers and butterflies, portraits, topographical scenes, poetical quotations, bound in contemporary morocco gilt stamped "Marianne". £70 - £100 £220 View
93 ARNOLD, Matthew (1822-88). Empedocles on Etna, London, [The Vale Press at] The Ballantyne Press, 1896, 8vo, printed in red and black, decorations by Charles Ricketts, original boards. With 8 other illustrated works in 9 vols. (10) £300 - £500 £240 View

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