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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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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

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Total lots: 225

Lot Title Estimate Hammer price
25 BINDING - J. H. JESSE (1809-74). London: Its Celebrated Characters & Remarkable Places, London, 1871, 6 volumes, 8vo, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with c.480 engraved plates, VERY FINELY BOUND by Bayntun (Rivière) in morocco. Provenance: W. A. FOYLE (bookplate). (6) £400 - £600 £1,300 View
26 BINDING - Jane AUSTEN (1775-1817). Pride and Prejudice, London, 1894, 8vo, illustrations by Hugh Thomson, FINELY BOUND in original elaborate cloth gilt, the upper cover with a peacock's tail design in gilt. FIRST EDITION IN THE "PEACOCK BINDING". £700 - £1,000 £2,000 View
27 BINDING - "Lewis CARROLL" (1832-98). Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, London, 1974, 4to, 13 coloured plates by Arthur Rackham, FINELY BOUND in burgundy calf with the White Rabbit stamped in gilt on the upper cover. With another illustrated book. (2) £300 - £500 £320 View
28 BINDING - London Interiors, London, [c.1841-44], 2 volumes bound in one, 4to, engraved frontispiece, title and 74 plates, attractively bound in contemporary elaborately decorated green morocco gilt (crudely rebacked). FIRST EDITION. £200 - £300 £100 View
29 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. £200 - £300 - View
30 BINDING - William Bond CAVENDISH [?but William Bengo COLLYER] (1782-1854). Lectures on Scripture Comparison, London, 1826, 8vo, FINELY BOUND BY THOMAS GOSDEN in contemporary red morocco gilt. A ROYAL BINDING FOR QUEEN ADELAIDE. £300 - £500 £240 View
31 BINDING WITH FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS - E. V. LUCAS (1868-1938). A Wanderer in London, London, 1926, 2 volumes, 8vo, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED, FINELY BOUND by Bayntun in blue morocco, EACH VOLUME WITH A FORE-EDGE PAINTING. Provenance: W. A. FOYLE (bookplate). (2) £300 - £500 £550 View
32 BINDING, ETON - Christopher STONE (1882-1965). Eton, London, 1909, large 8vo, 20 coloured plates by E. D. Brinton, FINELY BOUND in dark blue half morocco gilt by Riviere & Son. FIRST EDITION. £250 - £350 - View
33 BINDING, THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS' COPY - The Royal Kalendar, London, 1848, large 12mo, FINELY BOUND in contemporary straight-grained armorial morocco gilt with "The Speaker" stamped in gilt on the covers. £400 - £600 £480 View
34 BINDING, WITH A DOUBLE FORE-EDGE PAINTING - William SOMERVILLE (1675-1742). The Chace, London,1796, 8vo, 6 plates, contemporary scarlet straight-grained morocco, with a DOUBLE FORE-EDGE PAINTING OF HUNTING SCENES. £200 - £300 £170 View
35 BLAKE, William (1757-1827). The Inferno from La Divina Commedia, New York, "Presented by Richard W. Ellis for Cheshire House," 1931, folio, 7 plates by William Blake, original calf, slipcase. With 19 other works in 21 vols. by William Blake. (22) £400 - £600 £480 View
36 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 (lacks portrait of Bligh), contemporary paper-backed boards. FIRST EDITION. £500 - £800 £1,200 View
37 BLOCH, Ernest (1880-1959). An important correspondence comprising c.120 autograph and typed letters, signed ("Ernest Bloch"), to Ernest Chapman, many with his replies, 1933-58. £4,000 - £6,000 - View
38 [BOLTON, Edmund ([?]1575-[?]1633)]. Nero Cæsar, or Monarchie Depraved, London, 1624, small folio, additional engraved allegorical title, engraved numismatic illustrations, contemporary calf (repaired). FIRST EDITION. £200 - £300 £380 View
39 BOSWELL, James (1740-95). The Life of Samuel Johnson, London, 1885, 5 vols., large 8vo, 23 engraved portraits on 20 plates by Joshua Reynolds, contemporary black calf (rubbed). NUMBER 173 OF 500 COPIES. "The Sir Joshua Reynolds Edition." (5) £100 - £150 £70 View
40 BOURKE-WHITE, Margaret (1904-71, photographer) & Erskine CALDWELL (1903-87). Say, is this the U.S.A., New York, 1941, 4to, monochrome photographed illustrations, original pictorial boards, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER AND AUTHOR. £200 - £300 £220 View
41 BOYLE, Robert (1627-91). A Disquisition about the Final Causes of Natural Things ... To which are Subjoyn'd ... some Uncommon Observations about Vitiated Sight, London, 1688, 8vo, contemporary calf. FIRST EDITION, second issue. £400 - £600 - View
42 BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94) - Michael MONTFORT (1940-2008, photographer). 24 Photographs 1977-1987, Santa Barbara, 1987, 4to, boards. FIRST EDITION. LIMITED TO 496 COPIES, THIS ONE OF 26 SIGNED BY BUKOWSKI WITH AN ORIGINAL SELF-PORTRAIT. RARE. £600 - £800 - View
43 BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94) - Sanford DORBIN (1932-2014). A Bibliography of Charles Bukowski, Los Angeles, 1969, 8vo, the title with an original portrait of the author [?by the author], boards. NUMBER 28 OF 350 COPIES SIGNED BY BUKOWSKI AND DORBIN. RARE. £250 - £350 £200 View
44 BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94), and others - Seamus COONEY (b.1933). A Checklist of the First One Hundred Publications of the Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1971, 8vo, boards. FIRST EDITION. ONE OF 50 COPIES SIGNED BY 28 CONTRIBUTORS TO THE PRESS. RARE. £400 - £600 - View
45 BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). A visitor complains of my disenfranchise ... Los Angeles, Illuminati, 1987, tall 8vo, 20-pages, stitched into original stiff black wrappers. FIRST EDITION. ONE OF 225 COPIES. RARE. £200 - £300 £200 View
46 BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). All the Assholes in the World and Mine, Bensenville, Illinois, Open Skull Press, 1966, 8vo, original tan pictorial wrappers. FIRST EDITION. ONE OF "NO MORE THAN" 400 COPIES. RARE. £400 - £600 £400 View
47 BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). Bring Me Your Love, Santa Barbara, 1983, 4to, illustrations by R. Crumb, original cloth-backed pictorial boards. FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 346 OF 376 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR. Krumhansl 79b. £400 - £600 - View
48 BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). Cold Dogs in the Courtyard, Chicago, "Published Jointly by the Literary Times and Cyfoeth Publications," 1965, 8vo, original pictorial wrappers. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. ONE OF 500 COPIES. £400 - £600 £350 View

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