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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145 | LONDON, GENERAL - Warwick DRAPER (1873-1926). Chiswick, London, 1923, small folio, plates, original buckram-backed paper boards. FIRST EDITION. With 23 works of related interest in 24 volumes, bound in cloth or buckram. (25) | £300 - £500 | £200 | View |
146 | LONDON, KENSINGTON - Leigh HUNT (1784-1859). The Old Court Suburb, London, 1902, 2 volumes, 4to, plates and illustrations by H. Railton, C. Shepperson and Edmund J. Sullivan, vellum gilt. ONE OF 150 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTISTS. With 2 related books. (4) | £200 - £300 | - | View |
147 | LONDON, PLANNED AND UNBUILT - Arthur CAWSTON (1857-94). A Comprehensive Scheme for Street Improvements in London, London, 1893, 4to, plates and maps, 4 folding maps in a pocket at the end, modern buckram. With 6 other books of related interest. (7) | £200 - £300 | £190 | View |
148 | LONDON, POVERTY - Henry MAYHEW (1812-87). London Labour and the London Poor, London, [n.d. but vol. IV: 1862]. 4 volumes, 8vo, plates, original pictorial cloth gilt. With 2 other books of related interest. (6) | £300 - £500 | £200 | View |
149 | LONDON, REGENT'S PARK - Thomas H. SHEPHERD (1793-1864, artist). [Metropolitan Improvements], London, 1927-29, 4to, 37 hand-coloured engraved plates of Regent's Park extracted from the work, plan, FINELY BOUND in modern scarlet morocco by Henry Sotheran. | £300 - £500 | £400 | View |
150 | LONDON, ST. JAMES'S - Edgar SHEPPARD (1845-1921). Memorials of St. James's Palace, London, 1894, 2 volumes, large 8vo, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED, FINELY BOUND by Bayntun (Rivière) in blue morocco gilt. With 2 other related works, both EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED. (4) | £400 - £600 | £400 | View |
151 | LONDON, THE CITY AND THE EAST END - William HERBERT (1772-1851). The History of the Twelve Great Livery Companies, London, 1837, 2 volumes, large 8vo, 19th-century half morocco. With 7 other works of related interest in 9 vols., some leather-bound. (11) | £300 - £500 | £240 | View |
152 | LONDON, THE THAMES - Walter G. BELL (1867-1942). The Thames from Chelsea to the Nore, London, 1907, 4to, mounted coloured frontispiece, 30 lithographed plates, morocco gilt. ONE OF 310 COPIES. With 8 other books of related interest, leather-bound. (9) | £200 - £300 | £280 | View |
153 | LONDON, UXBRIDGE - George REDFORD (1785-1860) & Thomas Hurry RICHES (dates unknown). The History of the Ancient Town and Borough of Uxbridge, London, 1818, 8vo, 12 plates, illustrations, contemporary roan-backed boards. FIRST EDITION. RARE. | £50 - £80 | £25 | View |
154 | LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth (1807-82). Autograph manuscript, signed ("Henry W. Longfellow"), of his poem, "A Psalm of Life", 25 October 1864. A fair copy of the complete poem on three-and-a-half-pages. With a letter by Harriet Martineau. | £2,000 - £3,000 | £1,150 | View |
155 | MALORY, Thomas (1416-71) & Aubrey BEARDSLEY (1872-98, illustrator). The Birth, Life and Acts of King Arthur, New York, 1927, 4to, illustrations, buckram, DUST-JACKET, third edition, ONE OF 1,600 COPIES. With 3 works in 4 vols., and another jacket. (6) | £700 - £1,000 | £1,700 | View |
156 | MANDELA, Nelson (1918-2013), and others. Reflections in Prison, Cape Town, 2001, 4to, 9 portraits, leatherette, slipcase. COLLECTOR'S EDITION. NUMBER 88 OF 100 COPIES SIGNED BY NELSON MANDELA, DESMOND TUTU AND 7 OTHERS, further inscribed by the editor. | £700 - £1,000 | £1,700 | View |
157 | MANNING, Olivia (1908-80). A collection of fifteen autograph letters and postcards, signed, and seven typed letters, signed, to Count Giacomo Antonini, dated between 1967-77. A correspondence which starts formally but grows in warmth and candour. | £400 - £600 | £1,400 | View |
158 | MANUSCRIPT, ACCOUNTS BOOK - A manuscript accounts book on paper relating to the Clan Rose of Kilravok, [mid-18th-century], c.170-pages, folio, contemporary full vellum. | £70 - £100 | £500 | View |
159 | MANUSCRIPT, LEGAL - A substantial legal manuscript on paper recording numerous copies of chancery affidavits, conveyances, petitions, legal precedents, etc., in a fine italic hand, [mid-late 18th-century], 536-pages, folio, contemporary full vellum. | £200 - £300 | £950 | View |
160 | MANUSCRIPT, NATURAL HISTORY - Five manuscript works in one volume, [?later 18th-century], 8vo, contemporary boards. FIVE APPARENTLY UNPUBLISHED WORKS, of unknown authorship, on gardening, husbandry, forestry, etc. Please see the full description below. | £400 - £600 | £3,200 | View |
161 | MANUSCRIPT, RECIPES & REMEDIES - A manuscript on paper of recipes and remedies, [late 18th-century/early 19th-century], 2 volumes, c.250-pages, small 4to, contemporary full vellum (rather worn). (2) | £70 - £100 | £1,500 | View |
162 | MAR, José de la (1776-1830). A series of 8 letters signed ("Jose de la Mar") to Andrés de Santa Cruz, Guayaquil, [Ecuador], 14 January - 15 June 1822. In Spanish. 8-pages in total, chiefly 303 x 212mm. | £1,500 - £2,500 | £700 | View |
163 | [MARIJUANA REVIEW, edited by Mike Aldrich and Ed Sanders]. The Pleasantries of the Incredible Cannabis or: How to Grow Grass, Buffalo, 1969, vol. one, no. 2, 8vo, original wrappers. With 3 other books, including 2 by David Hockney. (4) | £70 - £100 | £220 | View |
164 | MEREDITH, George (1828-1909). The Works, London, 1896-1912, 39 volumes, large 8vo, plates, attractively-bound in contemporary green half calf gilt. NUMBER 864 OF 1,025 SETS INITIALLED BY THE AUTHOR. (39) | £300 - £500 | £200 | View |
165 | MILLER, Henry (1891-1980). A collection of corrected typescripts and letters, [late 1920s-after 1979]. 6 typed drafts of magazine articles with autograph annotations, together with 16 autograph and 3 typed letters, postcards and memoranda. (qty) | £3,000 - £5,000 | £1,600 | View |
166 | MILLER, Henry (1891-1980). A series of 38 autograph and typed letters, all but one signed ("Henry Miller", "Henry" etc.), to Zofia Slaboszowska, Pacific Palisades, 19 May 1965-13 November 1979, c.63 pages in total. | £3,000 - £5,000 | £1,400 | View |
167 | MILNE, A. A. (1882-1956). A Gallery of Children, London, [1925]. 4to, 12 coloured plates by H. Willebeek le Mair, original cream pictorial buckram. FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 392 OF 500 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. | £300 - £500 | £320 | View |
168 | MILNE, A. A. (1882-1956). The Hums of Pooh, London, 1929, 4to, illustrations by E. H. Shepard, boards. ONE OF 100 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, ARTIST & COMPOSER. With 3 other books in the same series, one of which a SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. (4) | £500 - £800 | £1,100 | View |