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
Payment to be received by bank transfer or on collection by 24th
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 | |
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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 |