Wednesday
17 July – Sussex Saleroom
Lot 1 – 225 Printed Books, Maps & Manuscripts 1pm
Viewing- Sussex Saleroom
Monday 15 July 10am – 4.00pm
Tuesday 16 July 10am – 4.00pm
Wednesday 17 July 10am – 1.00pm
Payment
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July
Collections - Sussex Saleroom
We will be open for collections on sale days 9am -4.30pm and additionally
Thursday 18 July 9am – 4.30pm
Friday 19 July 9am – 4.30pm
Monday 22 July 9am – 4.30pm
Tuesday 23 July 9am – 4.30pm
Wednesday 24 July 9am – 4.30pm
Buyers Premium 25% + (vat) except bound books and unframed maps, as these are zero VAT rated and therefore the premium will not attract VAT.
| Lot | Title | Estimate | Hammer price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 145 | LONDON, GENERAL - Warwick DRAPER (1873-1926). Chiswick, London, 1923, small folio, plates, original buckram-backed paper boards. FIRST EDITION. With 23 works of related interest in 24 volumes, bound in cloth or buckram. (25) | £300 - £500 | £200 | View |
| 146 | LONDON, KENSINGTON - Leigh HUNT (1784-1859). The Old Court Suburb, London, 1902, 2 volumes, 4to, plates and illustrations by H. Railton, C. Shepperson and Edmund J. Sullivan, vellum gilt. ONE OF 150 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTISTS. With 2 related books. (4) | £200 - £300 | - | View |
| 147 | LONDON, PLANNED AND UNBUILT - Arthur CAWSTON (1857-94). A Comprehensive Scheme for Street Improvements in London, London, 1893, 4to, plates and maps, 4 folding maps in a pocket at the end, modern buckram. With 6 other books of related interest. (7) | £200 - £300 | £190 | View |
| 148 | LONDON, POVERTY - Henry MAYHEW (1812-87). London Labour and the London Poor, London, [n.d. but vol. IV: 1862]. 4 volumes, 8vo, plates, original pictorial cloth gilt. With 2 other books of related interest. (6) | £300 - £500 | £200 | View |
| 149 | LONDON, REGENT'S PARK - Thomas H. SHEPHERD (1793-1864, artist). [Metropolitan Improvements], London, 1927-29, 4to, 37 hand-coloured engraved plates of Regent's Park extracted from the work, plan, FINELY BOUND in modern scarlet morocco by Henry Sotheran. | £300 - £500 | £400 | View |
| 150 | LONDON, ST. JAMES'S - Edgar SHEPPARD (1845-1921). Memorials of St. James's Palace, London, 1894, 2 volumes, large 8vo, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED, FINELY BOUND by Bayntun (Rivière) in blue morocco gilt. With 2 other related works, both EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED. (4) | £400 - £600 | £400 | View |
| 151 | LONDON, THE CITY AND THE EAST END - William HERBERT (1772-1851). The History of the Twelve Great Livery Companies, London, 1837, 2 volumes, large 8vo, 19th-century half morocco. With 7 other works of related interest in 9 vols., some leather-bound. (11) | £300 - £500 | £240 | View |
| 152 | LONDON, THE THAMES - Walter G. BELL (1867-1942). The Thames from Chelsea to the Nore, London, 1907, 4to, mounted coloured frontispiece, 30 lithographed plates, morocco gilt. ONE OF 310 COPIES. With 8 other books of related interest, leather-bound. (9) | £200 - £300 | £280 | View |
| 153 | LONDON, UXBRIDGE - George REDFORD (1785-1860) & Thomas Hurry RICHES (dates unknown). The History of the Ancient Town and Borough of Uxbridge, London, 1818, 8vo, 12 plates, illustrations, contemporary roan-backed boards. FIRST EDITION. RARE. | £50 - £80 | £25 | View |
| 154 | LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth (1807-82). Autograph manuscript, signed ("Henry W. Longfellow"), of his poem, "A Psalm of Life", 25 October 1864. A fair copy of the complete poem on three-and-a-half-pages. With a letter by Harriet Martineau. | £2,000 - £3,000 | £1,150 | View |
| 155 | MALORY, Thomas (1416-71) & Aubrey BEARDSLEY (1872-98, illustrator). The Birth, Life and Acts of King Arthur, New York, 1927, 4to, illustrations, buckram, DUST-JACKET, third edition, ONE OF 1,600 COPIES. With 3 works in 4 vols., and another jacket. (6) | £700 - £1,000 | £1,700 | View |
| 156 | MANDELA, Nelson (1918-2013), and others. Reflections in Prison, Cape Town, 2001, 4to, 9 portraits, leatherette, slipcase. COLLECTOR'S EDITION. NUMBER 88 OF 100 COPIES SIGNED BY NELSON MANDELA, DESMOND TUTU AND 7 OTHERS, further inscribed by the editor. | £700 - £1,000 | £1,700 | View |
| 157 | MANNING, Olivia (1908-80). A collection of fifteen autograph letters and postcards, signed, and seven typed letters, signed, to Count Giacomo Antonini, dated between 1967-77. A correspondence which starts formally but grows in warmth and candour. | £400 - £600 | £1,400 | View |
| 158 | MANUSCRIPT, ACCOUNTS BOOK - A manuscript accounts book on paper relating to the Clan Rose of Kilravok, [mid-18th-century], c.170-pages, folio, contemporary full vellum. | £70 - £100 | £500 | View |
| 159 | MANUSCRIPT, LEGAL - A substantial legal manuscript on paper recording numerous copies of chancery affidavits, conveyances, petitions, legal precedents, etc., in a fine italic hand, [mid-late 18th-century], 536-pages, folio, contemporary full vellum. | £200 - £300 | £950 | View |
| 160 | MANUSCRIPT, NATURAL HISTORY - Five manuscript works in one volume, [?later 18th-century], 8vo, contemporary boards. FIVE APPARENTLY UNPUBLISHED WORKS, of unknown authorship, on gardening, husbandry, forestry, etc. Please see the full description below. | £400 - £600 | £3,200 | View |
| 161 | MANUSCRIPT, RECIPES & REMEDIES - A manuscript on paper of recipes and remedies, [late 18th-century/early 19th-century], 2 volumes, c.250-pages, small 4to, contemporary full vellum (rather worn). (2) | £70 - £100 | £1,500 | View |
| 162 | MAR, José de la (1776-1830). A series of 8 letters signed ("Jose de la Mar") to Andrés de Santa Cruz, Guayaquil, [Ecuador], 14 January - 15 June 1822. In Spanish. 8-pages in total, chiefly 303 x 212mm. | £1,500 - £2,500 | £700 | View |
| 163 | [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) | £70 - £100 | £220 | View |
| 164 | MEREDITH, George (1828-1909). The Works, London, 1896-1912, 39 volumes, large 8vo, plates, attractively-bound in contemporary green half calf gilt. NUMBER 864 OF 1,025 SETS INITIALLED BY THE AUTHOR. (39) | £300 - £500 | £200 | View |
| 165 | MILLER, Henry (1891-1980). A collection of corrected typescripts and letters, [late 1920s-after 1979]. 6 typed drafts of magazine articles with autograph annotations, together with 16 autograph and 3 typed letters, postcards and memoranda. (qty) | £3,000 - £5,000 | £1,600 | View |
| 166 | MILLER, Henry (1891-1980). A series of 38 autograph and typed letters, all but one signed ("Henry Miller", "Henry" etc.), to Zofia Slaboszowska, Pacific Palisades, 19 May 1965-13 November 1979, c.63 pages in total. | £3,000 - £5,000 | £1,400 | View |
| 167 | MILNE, A. A. (1882-1956). A Gallery of Children, London, [1925]. 4to, 12 coloured plates by H. Willebeek le Mair, original cream pictorial buckram. FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 392 OF 500 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. | £300 - £500 | £320 | View |
| 168 | MILNE, A. A. (1882-1956). The Hums of Pooh, London, 1929, 4to, illustrations by E. H. Shepard, boards. ONE OF 100 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, ARTIST & COMPOSER. With 3 other books in the same series, one of which a SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. (4) | £500 - £800 | £1,100 | View |
| 169 | MIRANDA, Francisco de (1750-1816, President of the First Republic of Venezuela). Correspondence, in English, with the British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval and his Private Secretary, J. C. Herries, on the future of Venezuela and South America. | £400 - £600 | £500 | View |
| 170 | MISCELLANY - LONGUS (2nd-century AD). Daphnis et Chloé, Paris, 1872, 8vo, illustrations, FINELY BOUND in red morocco gilt by W. Pratt. With 13 miscellaneous works in 25 volumes. Please see the full description below. (26) | £300 - £500 | £200 | View |
| 171 | MISCELLANY, 20TH-CENTURY - T. E. LAWRENCE (1888-1935). The Mint, London, 1955, 4to, original pigskin-backed cloth, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 620 OF 2,000 COPIES. With c.50 miscellaneous books. Please see the more detailed listing below. (c.50) | £300 - £500 | £200 | View |
| 172 | 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) | £300 - £500 | £350 | View |
| 173 | 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 and text-block holding. | £300 - £500 | £130 | View |
| 174 | [MOULIN, Peter du (1601-84, attributed)]. Tragicum theatrum actorum, Amsterdam, 1649, small 8vo, 8 engraved portraits, folding plate of the execution of Charles I (lacks all before title [i.e. blanks]), contemporary calf. FIRST EDITION. | £100 - £150 | £70 | View |
| 175 | NONESUCH PRESS - William SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616). The Works, London, The Nonesuch Press, 1929-33, 7 volumes, large 8vo, original full niger morocco gilt. NUMBER 798 OF 1,050 COPIES. (7) | £500 - £800 | £900 | View |
| 176 | NORWICH, John Julius (1919-2018). A Christmas Cracker, [Shrewsbury], 1991-2018, 26 numbers (lacking 1994 & 2013), 8vo, wrappers, all but the last INSCRIBED, "Charles and Jane [Williams], With Christmas love, John." Please see the note on provenance. (26) | £70 - £100 | £110 | View |
| 177 | NOWELL, P. H. ([dates unknown], artist). A collection of c.55 original pen-and-ink satirical drawings, four with watercolour, most signed "P. H. Nowell" or with his initials or monogram, a few dated between 1881 and 1895, various sizes. (c.55) | £300 - £500 | £300 | View |
| 178 | OMMANNEY, Edward Lacon, Colonel (1834-1914). Autograph letter, signed ("E. L. Ommaney"), to "Graham" [an unknown recipient], with the blindstamp of the "Colonial Office", 10th April 1902, three-pages, 180 x 115mm, 13 February [1897]. On Zionism. | £200 - £300 | - | View |
| 179 | ORTEGA Y GASSET, José (1883-1955). An extensive typescript on c.55 pages, in Spanish, with autograph revisions, of an article by Gasset on the birth of philosophy written for a tribute publication for the 70th birthday of Karl Jaspers, [c.1952]. | £200 - £300 | £260 | View |
| 180 | [ORTELIUS, Abraham (1527-98]. Ducatus Mediolanensis, [Antwerp: c.1592], hand-coloured engraved map of northern Italy including Milan and the lakes (some staining), 350 x 470mm., unframed. | £70 - £100 | £20 | View |
| 181 | OSBORNE, Francis (1593-1659). Advice to a Son. Or Directions for your better Conduct, Oxford & London, 1658, 2 parts in one volume, 12mo, 19th-century limp calf (rubbed, upper inner hinges broken). | £70 - £100 | £20 | View |
| 182 | PATON, George, Colonel (1841-1922, editor), and others. Historical Records of the 24th Regiment, London, 1892, 8vo, plates, half morocco. FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE DUKE & DUCHESS OF WINDSOR. With another regimental history with the same provenance. (2) | £200 - £300 | - | View |
| 183 | [PEPLER, H. D. C. (1878-1951)]. The Law the Lawyers Know About ... Witanbel Watloo, Ditchling, St. Dominic's Press, 1929, 16mo, 3 woodcut illustrations by Eric Gill and one by David Jones, contemporary morocco-backed boards by ROGER POWELL (see note). | £50 - £80 | £50 | View |
| 184 | PHOTOGRAPHY, IRAQ - [Title stamped in gilt on the upper cover:] Camera Studies in Iraq, Baghdad, A. Kerim & Hasso Bros., [c.1925], oblong 4to, 50 photographed plates, original padded album. RARE. | £200 - £300 | £260 | View |
| 185 | PHOTOGRAPHY, REFERENCE - A collection of 9 modern reference books on photography. Please see the full listing below. (9) | £70 - £100 | £20 | View |
| 186 | PHOTOGRAPHY, STEREOSCOPIC SLIDES - A collection of 47 stereoscopic slides of various subjects including Norwich, Great Yarmouth, Sandringham, etc., one taken inside Crystal Palace, portraits, and one of the full moon, various makers, [c.1860s-80s]. (47) | £200 - £300 | £100 | View |
| 187 | PLUTARCH (AD 46-120). Chaeronei, philosophi, historiici'que clarissimi, opuscula (quæ quidem extant) omnia, undequaque collecta, & diligentissime iampridem recognita, Basel, 1530, folio, contemporary speckled calf. | £600 - £800 | - | View |
| 188 | POWELL, Anthony (1905-2000). A Dance to the Music of Time, London, 1951-75, 12 volumes, 8vo, uniformly bound in attractive later half burgundy morocco gilt. A COMPLETE SET, ALL FIRST EDITIONS. (12) | £700 - £1,000 | £1,000 | View |
| 189 | Private Eye, London, 1961-2024, numbers 1-1,620, 4to, original wrappers. A COMPLETE RUN OF THE WORLD'S MOST CELEBRATED AND LONG-RUNNING SATIRICAL PERIODICAL, INCLUDING THE EXCEPTIONALLY SCARCE FIRST THREE NUMBERS, PRINTED ON YELLOW PAPER. | £5,000 - £8,000 | £5,000 | View |
| 190 | Private Eye. London: "Published by Andrew Osmond, 28 Scarsdale Villas ... and printed by Huprint Ltd.", Tuesday November 7th [1961], number 2, 4to, 6-pages, printed on yellow paper, stapled. VERY RARE. With number 4, dated 7th February 1962. (2) | £500 - £800 | £450 | View |
| 191 | [PYNE, James Baker (1800-70). The English Lake District, London, 1853]. Folio, 24 lithographed plates by Pyne, one coloured by hand, disbound in contemporary half morocco (very worn). Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return. | £500 - £800 | - | View |
| 192 | RACKHAM, Arthur (1867-1939, illustrator) - Peter Pan ... A New Edition, London, [1912], 4to, 50 mounted coloured plates ([?]lacks half title), original pictorial cloth gilt. With 2 other books illustrated by Arthur Rackham, both FIRST TRADE EDITIONS. (3) | £70 - £100 | £240 | View |