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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 371a | MERLIN, Romain (1793-1876). Origine des Cartes a Jouer. Recherches Nouvelles sur les Naïbis, les Tarots et sur les Autres Espèces de Cartes, Paris, 1869, 4to, 73 plates, a few printed in colours, original wrappers (detached, very worn). FIRST EDITION. | £200 - £300 | - | View |
| 372 | MEXICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE - Miguel de Lardizábal y URIBE (1739-1820). 2 printed proclamations in Spanish, each 3-pages in a single bifolium, [n.p. but Madrid and/or Mexico City], 1814, 1815. (2) | £300 - £500 | £120 | View |
| 373 | MILNE, A. A. (1882-1956). Now We Are Six, London, 1927, 8vo, illustrations by E. H. Shepard, original buckram (without the jacket). A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. With A. A. Milne's Two People (London, 1931, 8vo, buckram, jacket, FIRST EDITION). (2) | £100 - £150 | £100 | View |
| 374 | MILNE, A. A. (1882-1956). Winnie-the-Pooh, London, 1926, 8vo, illustrations by E. H. Shepard, original buckram. With The House at Pooh Corner (London, 1928, 8vo, original buckram), without dust-jackets. EXCEPTIONALLY FINE COPIES OF THE FIRST EDITIONS. (2) | £300 - £500 | £1,300 | View |
| 375 | MILNE, A. A. (1882-1956). Winnie-the-Pooh, London, 1926, 8vo, illustrations by E. H. Shepard, original cloth (without the dust-jacket). FIRST EDITION. With Henry Williamson's Tarka the Otter (London, 1927, 8vo, original cloth, FIRST TRADE EDITION). (2) | £200 - £300 | £150 | View |
| 376 | MISCELLANY - comprising a highly varied collection of printed and manuscript material, including drawings and watercolours, dating from the 17th- to the 20th-centuries. Please see the detailed listing below. (qty) | £700 - £1,000 | £3,800 | View |
| 377 | MISCELLANY - Rudyard KIPLING (1865-1936). Land and Sea Tales for Scouts and Guides, London, 1923, 8vo, original red buckram, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION. With 18 other miscellaneous books. Please see the detailed listing below. (19) | £100 - £150 | £220 | View |
| 378 | MISCELLANY, 20TH-CENTURY - Humbert WOLFE (1885-1940). The Silver Cat and Other Poems, London, 1928, 8vo, original boards, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 780 COPIES. With 34 other miscellaneous books. Please see the detailed listing below. (35) | £200 - £300 | £190 | View |
| 379 | MISCELLANY, SHOOTING AND FIREARMS - Claude BLAIR (1922-2010). Pistols of the World, London, 1968, 4to, attractively bound in red half morocco, PRESENTATION COPY. With 22 related books, almost all attractively bound in near-uniform red morocco gilt. (23) | £700 - £1,000 | £600 | View |
| 380 | MISCELLANY, SHOOTING AND FIREARMS - Herbert J. JACKSON (dates unknown). European Hand Firearms of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth & Eighteenth Centuries, London, 1923, 4to, plates, buckram. ONE OF 550 COPIES. With 21 other related works in 25 volumes. (26) | £500 - £800 | £400 | View |
| 381 | MOELLENBROCK, Valentin Andreas (d.1675). Cochlearia curiosa: or the Curiosities of Scurvygrass, London, 1676, 8vo, 4 folding plates, contemporary calf. Provenance: From the Collection of John Yudkin (bookplate). The only English edition. Wing M2381. RARE. | £600 - £800 | £1,000 | View |
| 382 | MOUNTBATTEN, Louis (1900-79). A one-page typed letter, with greeting and signature in autograph, to Vice-Consul W. H. A. Snook, relating to a visit to Corsic; with another letter by Mountbatten; and 3 by other correspondents, addressed to Snook. (5) | £200 - £300 | - | View |
| 383 | MOYLE, John (d.1714). Abstractum chirurgiæ marinæ. Or, An Abstract of Sea Chirurgery, London, 1686, 12mo, contemporary calf (copious old annotation). Provenance: From the Collection of John Yudkin (bookplate). FIRST EDITION. Wing M3028. RARE. | £700 - £1,000 | £2,000 | View |
| 384 | NEAL, W. K. (1906-90) & D. H. L. BACK. Great British Gunmakers 1540-1740, Norwich, 1984, 4to, illustrations, FINELY BOUND in morocco. ONE OF 750 COPIES. With 6 books by the same authors, including 2 PRESENTATION COPIES, all FINELY BOUND in morocco. (7) | £500 - £800 | £900 | View |
| 384a | NEVINSON, C. R. W. (1889-1946, artist) - Modern War, London, 1917, 4to, coloured frontispiece SIGNED BY NEVINSON in pencil, plates, boards. FIRST EDITION. With the same artist's The Great War (London, 1918, coloured frontispiece SIGNED BY NEVINSON). (2) | £500 - £800 | £400 | View |
| 385 | NIELSEN, Kay (1886-1957, illustrator) - Hans ANDERSEN (1805-75). Fairy Tales, London, [1924], 4to, 12 mounted coloured plates, illustrations, original vellum gilt. FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 21 OF 500 "EDITION DE LUXE" COPIES SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR. | £700 - £1,000 | £1,200 | View |
| 386 | OGILVIE-GRANT, W. R. (1863-1924), and others. British Game Birds and Wildfowl, London, 1912, 4to, portrait and 26 coloured plates by George E. Lodge, original morocco. FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 564 OF 950 COPIES. With 4 other books of related interest. (5) | £200 - £300 | £100 | View |
| 387 | PALMER, Samuel (1805-81, illustrator) - John MILTON (1608-74). The Shorter Poems of John Milton, London, 1889, folio, 12 etched plates by Samuel Palmer, original pictorial vellum gilt. NUMBER 52 OF 135 "LARGE-PAPER" COPIES. | £200 - £300 | £100 | View |
| 388 | PAOLOZZI, Eduardo (1924-2005, artist). Underground Design, London, 1986, 4to, 18 "thermographic" plates, ORIGINAL COLOURED LITHOGRAPH BY PAOLOZZI SIGNED BY THE ARTIST IN PENCIL, original black cloth box. FIRST EDITION. | £200 - £300 | £170 | View |
| 389 | [?PHILLIPS, Richard (1767-1840)]. The Wonders of the Telescope; or, a Display of the Starry Heavens and of the System of the Universe, London, 1809, 8vo, 14 engraved plates, contemporary boards. "New Edition." With 9 other works in 12 vols. (13) | £400 - £600 | - | View |
| 390 | PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM - An album containing photographs chiefly of Indian interest, including the Calcutta Light Horse Regiment (2), views in Agra, Benares, Lucknow, Darjeeling, etc. [1900s]. With 7 other albums. Provenance: the Robertson/Eustace families. (8) | £300 - £500 | £500 | View |
| 391 | PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM, INCLUDING VIEWS OF SYDNEY, HONG KONG, SINGAPORE, MANILA AND JAPAN - An album of c.176 mounted albumen silver print photographed views, [c.1880]. Please see the full description below. | £700 - £1,000 | £3,200 | View |
| 392 | PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM, MONGOLIA - An album of 20 mounted albumen silver print photographed views of the Russian colony in Urga [now Ulaanbaatar], Mongolia, the photographs of varying sizes, some mounted two to a page, [late 19th-century]. | £300 - £500 | £1,600 | View |
| 393 | PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM, THE SECOND ANGLO-AFGHAN WAR - An album of 25 FINE mounted albumen silver print photographed views, with a few other unrelated photographs, in a morocco gilt 4to album, [c.1879-80]. With a related printed work in 2 vols. (3) | £500 - £800 | £1,700 | View |