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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

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Monday 15 July          10am – 4.00pm
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Lot	Title	Estimate	Hammer price
121	JOHNSON, Samuel (1709-84) - Johnsoniana, London, John Murray, 1836, 8vo, engraved plates, FINELY BOUND in half tan morocco by Zaehnsdorf. With a one-page autograph letter from John Murray IV loosely-inserted. FIRST EDITION.	£200 - £300	£110	View
122	JOHNSTON, Alexander Keith (1804-71). The Royal Atlas of Modern Geography, London, 1869, folio, 48 double-page engraved maps, hand-coloured in outline, modern buckram.	£70 - £100	£110	View
123	JONES, Paul (1921-97, illustrator). Flora Superba, London, 1971, folio, 16 coloured lithographed plates by Paul Jones, original half vellum by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 48 of 506 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST.	£100 - £150	£90	View
124	JOYCE, James (1882-1941). Ulysses, Paris, "Published for the Egoist Press, London, by John Rodker, Paris," 1922, 4to, original blue wrappers. FIRST EDITION, second printing [see note]. NO. 1,125 OF 2,000 COPIES "ON HANDMADE PAPER." Slocum & Cahoon A18.	£500 - £800	£1,600	View
125	KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936). Just So Stories, London, 1902, 4to, illustrations by the author, original cloth. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. With c.50 other books, a few inscribed by Kipling to Stanley Baldwin. (c.50)	£300 - £500	£850	View
126	KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936). 23 autograph letters and cards, signed, and 5 typed letters, signed ("Rudyard Kipling", "Ruddy"), to Edward ("Teddy" or "Ted") Price or to Teddy's mother, Sarah (six letters), Bateman's, and elsewhere, 1900-35.	£5,000 - £8,000	£2,000	View
127	KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936). Collected Verse, London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1912, 4to, original full limp vellum, ties, slipcase. NUMBER 368 OF 500 COPIES SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER AND PRINTER.	£100 - £150	£100	View
128	KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936). The Jungle Book, London, 1894, 8vo, illustrations, original pictorial cloth. "Reprinted June 1894." The first edition appeared in the previous month. With The Second Jungle Book (London, 1885, cloth, FIRST EDITION). (2)	£200 - £300	£120	View
129	LA FONTAINE, Jean de (1621-95). Fables Choisies, Bouillon, 1776, 4 volumes, 8vo, frontispiece and 248 engraved plates, contemporary calf. With 2 early 19th-century editions of French works in 7 vols. (11)	£400 - £600	£280	View
130	LAW - Lord DENNING (1899-1999). The Discipline of Law, London, 1979, 8vo, original cloth, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY inscribed to Desmond Ackner. With 9 other books. Please see the full listing below. (10)	£300 - £500	£200	View
131	LAW - The Book of the Bench, London, 1909, large 4to, 39 mounted coloured portraits of judges by "Spy" and others, original pictorial vellum gilt. FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 76 OF 175 COPIES.	£200 - £300	-	View
132	[LAWRENCE, D. H. (1885-1930)] – Robert BROWNING (1812-89). Love Poems, London, 1908, 16mo, original cloth, INSCRIBED by D. H. Lawrence to "Peg" Brinton.	£1,500 - £2,500	£1,400	View
133	LEAR, Edward (1812-88). Illustrated autograph letter, signed ("Edward Lear"), to Emily, Lady Tennyson, address given phonetically as "Oatlands Parcotel, Waltnontems, Surry", 14 January 1861, four-pages, 180 x 225mm, illustrated with two self-caricatures.	£1,500 - £2,500	£1,700	View
134	LEAR, Edward (1812-88). Illustrated autograph letter, signed ("Edward Lear"), to Hallam Tennyson, Varese and Monte Generoso, 16 and 21 September 1880. Four-pages, 210 x 130mm and 262 x 205mm, illustrated with a self-caricature of Lear as a bird.	£1,500 - £2,500	£1,500	View
135	LEAR, Edward (1812-88). Illustrated autograph letter, signed ("Edward Lear"), to Mrs Digby Wyatt, Nice, 14 March 1865. Four-pages, 133 x 207mm, illustrated with three caricature drawings.	£1,500 - £2,500	£1,700	View
136	LEAR, Edward (1812-88). Illustrated autograph letter, signed ("Edward Lear"), to Mrs Digby Wyatt, San Remo, 6 February 1871. Two-pages, 210 x 265mm, illustrated with three self-caricature drawings.	£1,500 - £2,500	£2,200	View
137	LEIBOVITZ, Annie (b.1949). Annie Leibovitz, New York, Taschen, 2014, "SUMO" size, i.e. very large 4to (690 x 500mm), 240 photographed plates by Leibovitz, boards, Whoopi Goldberg dust-jacket. ONE OF 10,300 COPIES, SIGNED. With the stand by Marc Newson.	£700 - £1,000	£800	View
138	LISZT, Franz (1811-86). Autograph letter, signed ("F. Liszt"), to Hector Berlioz, Eiken, 20 August 1851. In French. Three-pages, 209 x 134mm, on blue paper, bifolium, on staging Berlioz's opera "Benvenuto Cellini" at Weimar.	£2,000 - £3,000	-	View
139	LONDON - [David HENRY (1710-92)]. An Historical Account of the Curiosities of London and Westminster, in Three Parts, London, 1759-61, 12mo, contemporary calf. With 9 works of related interest in 10 vols. (11)	£400 - £600	£300	View
140	LONDON - George CLINCH (1860-1921). Mayfair and Belgravia, London, 1892, 4to, plates, attractively bound by Henry Sotheran in burgundy crushed morocco gilt. FIRST EDITION. With another related work by the same author, uniformly bound. (2)	£100 - £150	£160	View
141	LONDON - London (Illustrated). A Complete Guide to the Places of Amusement, Objects of Interest, Parks, Clubs, Markets, Docks, Principal Railway Routes, Leading Hotels [etc], London, 1876, small folio, plans, illustrations, original buckram gilt.	£70 - £100	£130	View
142	LONDON, CHIEFLY THE WEST END - Arthur Irwin DASENT (1859-1939). Piccadilly in Three Centuries, London, 1920, large 8vo, plates, attractively bound in green half morocco gilt. With 12 other books of related interest, all leather-bound. (13)	£300 - £500	£380	View
143	LONDON, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED - John NELSON (dates unknown). The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Islington, London, 1823, 8vo, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with c.175 plates, FINELY BOUND in half morocco. With 8 works in 12 vols., all EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED. (13)	£500 - £800	£400	View
144	LONDON, GENERAL - E. B. CHANCELLOR (1868-1937). "Original Views of London as it is, by Thomas Shotter Boys, 1842". A Re-Issue, London, 1926, 2 works in one vol., 4to, plates, FINELY BOUND in morocco. With 16 other works in 20 vols, all leather-bound. (21)	£400 - £600	£400	View

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