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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
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Wednesday 17 July   10am – 1.00pm

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Collections - Sussex Saleroom
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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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Lot	Title	Estimate	Hammer price
97	FLEMING, Ian (1908-64). You Only Live Twice, London, 1964, 8vo, original black cloth with Chinese characters stamped in gilt on the cover, dust-jacket by Richard Chopping with price unclipped. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Gilbert A12.	£200 - £300	£300	View
98	FLEMING, Ian (1908-64). Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The Magical Car. Adventure Number One [Number Two, Number Three], London, 1964-65, 3 volumes, 4to, illustrations by John Burningham, original pictorial boards, vol. II with dust-jacket. FIRST EDITIONS. (3)	£100 - £150	£140	View
99	FLOYER, John (1649-1734). A Treatise of the Asthma, London, 1698, small 8vo, some leaves mis-bound [see full description], but all present, later calf. FIRST EDITION. RARE.	£200 - £300	£320	View
100	FRANCE, Anatole (1844-1924). Le Puits de Sainte Claire, Paris, 1895, 8vo, later morocco gilt. FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 27 OF 55 COPIES. With Paul Bourget's Le Disciple (Paris, 1889, 8vo, later morocco gilt, FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 150 COPIES). (2)	£200 - £300	£180	View
101	FRAZER, James George (1854-1941). An important autograph letter, signed ("J. G. Frazer"), four-pages, dated "Trinity College [Cambridge], 15 October 1902", to the classical scholar and archaeologist A. B. Cook.	£400 - £600	£850	View
102	FYFE, Andrew (1754-1824). A System of the Anatomy of the Human Body ... Fourth Edition, Edinburgh, 1820, Volume One only (of 3), 4to, 63 engraved plates, some hand-coloured (stained), half roan (worn). Sold not subject to return.	£70 - £100	£80	View
103	GALSWORTHY, John (1867-1933). The Dark Flower, London, 1913, 8vo, original cloth. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed "Conrad Ackner, Cordially, John Galsworthy." With 4 other books by Galsworthy, all PRESENTATION COPIES to Conrad Ackner. (5)	£300 - £500	£200	View
104	"GILES" - Giles Annuals, [London], 1945-89, First Series - Forty-third Series (a few duplicates, a few lacking), small oblong 4to, original coloured pictorial wrappers. Sold as a periodical, not subject to return. (qty)	£200 - £300	£200	View
105	GILL, Eric (1882-1940) & David JONES (1895-1974, illustrator). Christianity and Art, Abergavenny, Francis Walterson, 1927, 8vo, woodcut frontispiece by David Jones, original blue buckram. NUMBER 21 OF 200 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND ARTIST.	£100 - £150	£220	View
106	GILL, Eric (1882-1940). A Collection of c.23 autograph letters and postcards, signed ("Eric Gill" or "Eric G."), most to Desmond Flower, some with envelopes, dated variously 1928-35. (c.23)	£300 - £500	£280	View
107	[GILLRAY, James (1757-1815)]. A collection of 45 "suppressed" plates on 23 sheets, engraved by Hannah Humphrey after James Gillray, variously dated in the plates 1779-1804 [but re-issued by Henry G. Bohn c.1851], folio, red morocco portfolio, with catch.	£500 - £800	£850	View
108	GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS - A. E. COPPARD (1878-1957). Rummy, Waltham Saint Lawrence, [1932], large 8vo, illustrations by Robert Gibbings, original morocco-backed cloth. FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 26 OF 250 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR & ARTIST. With 3 others. (4)	£150 - £250	£120	View
109	GRAHAME, Kenneth (1859-1932). The Wind in the Willows, London, 1931, 4to, illustrations by E. H. Shepard, boards. 200 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR & ARTIST, ARTIST'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed to the publisher, and further inscribed by the publisher.	£3,000 - £5,000	£2,000	View
110	GREEN, William (dates unknown). The Spirit of Information, a Compilation Replete with Correct and Useful Tables, and with a Fund of Curious and Original Intelligence, London, 1823, 8vo, 4 engraved plans, marbled boards (rebacked). [?]FIRST EDITION. RARE.	£200 - £300	-	View
111	GREGYNOG PRESS - John Milton (1608-74). Four Poems. L' Allegro. Il Penseroso. Arcades. Lycidas, Newtown, 1933, large 8vo, wood-engraved illustrations by Blair Hughes-Stanton, printed on Japanese vellum, original calf. NUMBER 137 OF 250 COPIES. Harrop 26.	£200 - £300	£160	View
112	HOBAN, Russell (1925-2011) & Quentin BLAKE (b.1932, illustrator). Woman with a Book, London, 1999, oblong 4to, 20 plates by Blake, boards. Provenance: FROM THE ESTATE OF RUSSELL HOBAN. FIRST EDITION. NO. 82 OF 300 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND ARTIST.	£300 - £500	£200	View
113	HOSPINIAN, Rudolf (1547-1626). De origine, progressu, usu et abusu templorum, Zurich, 1587 [bound with 2 other works by the same author, dated 1592 and 1593], folio, full contemporary vellum gilt. FIRST EDITIONS.	£400 - £600	£1,200	View
114	HOWELL, James ([?]1594-1666). Londinopolis, London, 1657, folio, engraved portrait and double-page view of London, contemporary calf (with flaking and surface abrasion). FIRST EDITION, [?]PRESENTATION COPY.	£400 - £600	£1,400	View
115	HUGHES, Philip (b.1936, illustrator). Elysian Garden, Monterrey, 1997, 4to, 6 coloured lithographed plates SIGNED AND DATED by the artist, original wrappers, box. ONE OF 80 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST AND 2 OTHERS. With 9 other miscellaneous books. (10)	£300 - £500	£180	View
116	HUMPHRIES, Barry (1934-2023). Shades of Sandy Stone, Edinburgh, "Privately Printed at The Tragara Press," 1989, large 8vo, original wrappers. ONE OF 130 COPIES, THIS NUMBER 20 OF 30 FOR PRESENTATION, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper.	£100 - £150	£100	View
117	IRELAND, Samuel (1744-1800). Picturesque Views on the River Medway, London, 1793, large 8vo, map, 29 sepia aquatint plates, contemporary tree calf. FIRST EDITION. With Picturesque Views on the River Thames (London, 1792, 2 vols., contemporary calf). (3)	£300 - £500	-	View
118	JAMES, Henry (1843-1916). Typed letter, signed ("Henry James"), to Joseph Conrad, 21 Carlyle Mansions, London, 19 June 1913. Two-and-a-half-pages, 229 x 175mm; with a printed pamphlet, "Three letters from Henry James to Joseph Conrad" (London, 1926).	£2,000 - £3,000	£3,500	View
119	JAMES, Sydney Price (1870-1946) & William Glen LISTON (1872-1950). A Monograph of the Anopheline Mosquitoes of India ... Second Edition, Re-written and enlarged, Calcutta, 1911, 4to, 39 plates, modern cloth preserving part of the original green cloth.	£70 - £100	£70	View
120	JANSSON, Jan (1588-1664). Comitatus Dorcestria, vulgo Anglice, Dorset Shire, Amsterdam, [n.d. but c.1650, or a later, possibly a 19th-century, reprint], hand-coloured engraved map of Dorset, 370 x 490mm., framed and glazed. With 2 other maps. (3)	£50 - £80	£30	View

Total lots: 225

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