Wednesday 16th July
301- 428 Printed Books, Maps & Manuscripts | 1 pm
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Collections - Sussex Saleroom
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| Lot | Title | Estimate | Hammer price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 301 | ALBUM, MAINLY OF IRISH INTEREST - A collection of autograph letters, clipped signatures etc. by Daniel O'Connell, John O'Connell, William O'Brien, Thomas Henry Huxley, Disraeli, Tennyson, Ruskin, etc. Please see the full description below. | £1,500 - £2,500 | £1,000 | View |
| 302 | AMEDEO, Luigi (1873-1933). On the "Polar Star" in the Arctic Sea, London, 1903, 2 volumes, 4to, 16 photogravure plates, maps and illustrations, original pictorial buckram gilt. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. (2) | £200 - £300 | £100 | View |
| 303 | ARIAS MONTANUS, Benedictus (1527-98). Sacra geographiae tabulam, Antwerp: [Plantin], 1571 [but 1572], engraved twin-hemisphere world map, galleons and sea-monsters, 315 x 530mm. AN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE COPY OF THE VERY RARE FIRST STATE. Shirley 125. RARE. | £2,000 - £3,000 | £3,200 | View |
| 304 | ASTRONOMY, AMERICAN - John VOSE (1766-1840). A System of Astronomy, Concord [New Hampshire], 1827, 8vo, contemporary calf-backed boards. FIRST EDITION. RARE. With 3 other books of related interest. (4) | £300 - £500 | - | View |
| 305 | BAKER, Ezekiel (1758-1836). Remarks on Rifle Guns, London, 1835, 8vo, hand-coloured engraved frontispiece and 9 plates, including 7 hand-coloured, tables, contemporary half black morocco (heavily restored). Eleventh edition. | £200 - £300 | £100 | View |
| 306 | BAKER, Samuel White (1821-93). The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon, London, 1854, 8vo, 6 coloured lithographed plates, attractively bound in modern green half morocco. FIRST EDITION. | £70 - £100 | £400 | View |
| 307 | BARRIE, J. M. (1860-1937). Peter Pan or The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up [in: The Uniform Edition of the Plays of J. M. Barrie]. London, 1928, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION of Barrie's play. With 2 other volumes from the same set. (3) | £80 - £120 | £200 | View |
| 308 | BARTHOLOMAEUS ANGLICUS (c.1203-72). De proprietatibus rerum, Cologne, 1481, folio, 456 leaves, contemporary pen flourishes in red and grey ink to initials on two pages incorporating drawings of hares, old calf. Provenance: John Yudkin (bookplate). RARE. | £3,000 - £5,000 | £14,000 | View |
| 309 | THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR - Plan of the Attack of Lord Nelson, on the Combined Fleet, October 21st, 1805. [London:] November 1805, broadside, with a hand-coloured illustration of the Battle of Trafalgar (browned), 620 x 390mm., framed and glazed. RARE. | £400 - £600 | £550 | View |
| 310 | [?BEAUFOY, Henry Benjamin Hanbury (1786-1851, attributed)]. Scloppetaria: or Considerations on the Nature and Use of Rifled Barrel Guns, London, 1808, 8vo, 13 engraved plates (stained), contemporary calf. FIRST EDITION. With another related work. (2) | £400 - £600 | £300 | View |
| 311 | BERENGER, Charles Random de (1772-1845). Helps and Hints How to Protect Life and Property. With Instructions in Rifle and Pistol Shooting, London, 1835, 8vo, 10 plates, 2 of which folding, original green publisher's pebbled cloth. FIRST EDITION. | £200 - £300 | £100 | View |
| 312 | BIBLE, in English - The Bible, London, 1599 [but later], [with:] Psalms of David, in Scots Meter, Edinburgh, 1632. 3 parts in one vol., square 8vo, titles with woodcut borders, contemporary calf (rubbed). Geneva Bible, with "breeches" reading in Genesis. | £200 - £300 | £750 | View |
| 312a | BIBLE, in English - The Holy Bible, London, "Printed by John Field, Printer to the Parliament", 1653, tall 24mo, engraved title, contemporary calf with a design of tendrils and flowerheads and initials "F. P." stamped on each cover (rubbed, lacks clasps). | £100 - £150 | £600 | View |
| 313 | BINDING - E. B. CHANCELLOR (1868-1937). Memorials of St James’s Street, London, 1922, large 8vo, 16 plates, FINELY BOUND in red crushed morocco gilt by Bayntun. FIRST EDITION, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with 74 engraved or aquatint plates, some hand-coloured. | £300 - £500 | £500 | View |
| 314 | BINDING - "Lewis CARROLL" (1832-98). Alice in Wonderland, London, 1940, square 8vo, coloured plates after John Tenniel, FINELY BOUND in red half morocco gilt by Bayntun (Rivière), the spine gilt in compartments with white rabbit and playing card motifs. | £200 - £300 | £320 | View |
| 315 | BINDING - The Book of Common Prayer, London, 1864, large 8vo, interleaved with 27 FINE FULL-PAGE ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS ON VELLUM, IN A FINE HIGHLY ELABORATE 19TH-CENTURY EMBROIDERED BINDING. | £2,000 - £3,000 | £3,500 | View |
| 316 | BINDING - William SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616). Complete Works and Life, London, 1904, 4 volumes, large 8vo, plates, attractively bound in contemporary burgundy half calf gilt (covers stained, spines lightly rubbed). "The Hampstead Edition." (4) | £200 - £300 | £120 | View |
| 317 | BIZOT, Pierre (1630-96). Histoire Metallique de la Republique de Hollande, Paris, 1686, folio, additional engraved title, initials and illustrations, 12 engraved plates, contemporary vellum. FIRST EDITION of this work on Dutch coins, medals and emblems. | £200 - £300 | £190 | View |
| 318 | BLUNT, Charles F. (fl.1811-45). The Beauty of the Heavens, London, 1845, 4to, 104 FINE coloured aquatint and chromolithographed plates by Charles Blunt, contemporary burgundy half morocco gilt. | £300 - £500 | £1,300 | View |
| 319 | BONNYCASTLE, John (1751-1821). An Introduction to Astronomy, London, 1786, large 8vo, engraved allegorical frontispiece and 20 plates, most folding, contemporary half calf (very worn). FIRST EDITION. | £100 - £150 | £20 | View |
| 320 | BUCHAN, John (1875-1940). The Gap in the Curtain, London, 1932, 8vo, original green buckram, dust-jacket. A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION of the author's only novel which incorporates supernatural and science fiction elements. | £80 - £120 | £90 | View |
| 321 | "CARROLL, Lewis" (1832-98). Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, London, 1872, 8vo, illustrations by John Tenniel, original red buckram, "Twenty-Ninth Thousand". With the same author's Through the Looking-Glass (London, 1872, "Thirty-Second Thousand"). (2) | £300 - £500 | £300 | View |
| 322 | CASAL, Gaspar (1680-1759). Historia Natural, y Medica de el Principado de Asturias. Obra. Posthuma. Madrid, 1762, 4to, engraved frontispiece (some staining), contemporary vellum. Provenance: From the Collection of John Yudkin (bookplate). FIRST EDITION. | £500 - £800 | £400 | View |
| 323 | CASSINI DE THURY, César-François (1714-84). La Meridienne de l' Observatoire Royal de Paris, Paris, 1744, 4to, 14 folding engraved plates and maps, contemporary mottled calf gilt (rubbed). FIRST EDITION. | £300 - £500 | £200 | View |