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Printed Books, Maps & Manuscripts

Auction date Wednesday 17 July 2024 13:00 - 17:00 BST

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

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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
217	WASSERMANN, Jakob (1873-1934). A substantial collection of letters and papers including a twenty-page typewritten script for the 1924 film "Gelbmantelchen", with autograph corrections by Wassermann.	£400 - £600	£450	View
218	WASSERMANN, Jakob (1873-1934). Autograph letter, signed ("Jakob Wassermann"), dated 27 November 1921, two-pages, in German, to "Hedwig". Wasserman gives a detailed account of his visit to Hermann Hesse at Montagnola.	£100 - £150	£30	View
219	WATHEN, James ([?]1751-1828). Journal of a Voyage in 1811 and 1812, to Madras and China; Returning by the Cape of Good Hope and St. Helena, London, 1814, 4to, 24 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates, modern half morocco gilt. FIRST EDITION.	£300 - £500	£500	View
220	WIDNALL, Samuel Page (1827-94). A Mystery of Sixty Centuries. Or A Modern St. George and the Dragon, Grantchester, 1889, 8vo, frontispiece and plates, original cloth-backed boards. FIRST EDITION. RARE.	£100 - £150	-	View
221	WILKINSON, Robert (c.1768-1825). Atlas Classica, London, 1808, 51 hand-coloured maps and charts only (of 53), contemporary half calf (worn, covers detached).	£50 - £80	£40	View
222	WILSON, Charles William (1836-1905, editor). Picturesque Palestine, Sinai and Egypt. London: J. S. Virtue and Co., [1881-84]. 4 volumes, 4to, engraved titles with vignettes, 39 engraved plates, illustrations, contemporary half roan. FIRST EDITION. (4)	£200 - £300	£220	View
223	WITTGENSTEIN, Ludwig (1889-1951). Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, London, 1947, 8vo, original buckram. Provenance: "Kim" Philby (label). With two inscriptions ([?]to Philby) signed "B."	£300 - £500	£900	View
224	WOODVILLE, Richard Caton (1856-1927, illustrator). Army & Navy Album, [No place], "Made in Germany", [c.1900]. 4to, Chromolithographed title and pictorial borders by Richard Caton Woodville, with contemporary photographed portraits, original album.	£70 - £100	£160	View
225	YEATS, W. B. (1865-1939). The Tower, London, 1928, 8vo, original green pictorial cloth gilt after a design by Thomas Sturge Moore. A FINE BRIGHT COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. Wade 158: "2,000 copies."	£300 - £500	£240	View

Total lots: 225

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