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Auction date Tuesday, 11 October 2022 13:00 - 13:59 BST

Tuesday 11 October- Sussex Saleroom

Lot 201-225 Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts 1pm

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Lot	Title	Estimate	Hammer price
201	ALDROVANDI, Ulisse (1522-1605). Monstrorum historia. Cum paralipomensis historiae omnium animalium, Bologna, 1642, 2 parts, including supplement, bound in one volume, [colophon to second part dated 1658], folio, woodcut illustrations, later half calf	£1,000 - £1,500	£4,000	View
202	BERTHOUD, Ferdinand (1727-1807). Essai sur l'Horlogerie, Paris, 1763, 2 volumes, 4to, 38 folding plates, tables, contemporary calf. FIRST EDITION. (2)	£400 - £600	£300	View
203	BIBLE, in English - The Bible, Amsterdam, Thomas Stafford, 1644, folio, general title and title to the New Testament, woodcut maps and illustrations including 2 full-page, contemporary calf (worn). THE LAST EDITION OF THE GENEVA BIBLE.	£400 - £600	£700	View
204	CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer (1874-1965), Clementine CHURCHILL (1885-1977), Clement ATTLEE (1883-1967), Peter Geoffrey OATES (1919-2007), and others. An archive of manuscript and printed material. Please see the full description. (qty)	£4,000 - £6,000	£6,500	View
205	FONTANA, Domenico (1543-1607). Della Transportatione dell' Obelisco Vaticano, Rome, 1590, folio, engraved title, portrait and 38 plates, contemporary vellum. FIRST EDITION.	£3,000 - £5,000	-	View
206	[HOWITT, Samuel ([?]1765-1822, artist)]. Foreign Field Sports ... With a Supplement of New South Wales, London, 1819, folio, 110 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates by Howitt and others, FINELY BOUND in contemporary scarlet morocco gilt. Second edition.	£700 - £1,000	£800	View
207	KENNEDY, John F. (1917-63, 35th President of the United States of America). A monochrome photograph of the President, SIGNED "John Kennedy", in window mount, dated 4.6.1961 on the verso.	£400 - £600	£320	View
208	KIRCHER, Athanasius (1602-80). Ars magna lucis et umbrae, Rome, 1646, folio, 38 engraved plates, diagrams and illustrations (lacks one leaf), modern half vellum. FIRST EDITION.	£700 - £1,000	£1,700	View
209	LANA DE TERZI, Francesco (1631-87). Prodromo, Brescia, 1670, folio, 20 engraved plates including one of a flying machine, [?]later full vellum. FIRST EDITION.	£700 - £1,000	£1,600	View
210	REGIOMONTANUS, Johaness Müller (1436-76), and others. Scripta ... de torqueto, astrolabio armillari, Nuremberg, 1544, 4to, woodcut illustrations and diagrams, FINELY BOUND in modern morocco. FIRST EDITION of this astronomical work by various authors.	£1,000 - £1,500	£2,400	View
211	RONDELET, Guillaume (1507-66). Libri de piscibus marinis, Lyon, 1554, [?]volume one only (of 2), folio, woodcut illustrations, initials and ornaments, modern old-style vellum gilt. FIRST EDITION. Sold not subject to return.	£300 - £500	£450	View
212	SENDAK, Maurice (1929-2012, illustrator) - William BLAKE (1757-1827). Poems from William Blake's Songs of Innocence, London, 1967, tall 12mo, 8 illustrations by Maurice Sendak, printed in sepia. Original wrappers. FIRST EDITION. ONE OF 275 COPIES. RARE.	£400 - £600	£300	View
213	STELLUTI, Francesco (1577-1653, editor and translator). Persio Tradotto in verso, Rome, 1630, 4to, engraved title, portrait and 5 illustrations, contemporary vellum. FIRST EDITION of the first book to include illustrations as seen through a microscope.	£700 - £1,000	£800	View
214	VEEN, Otto van (1556-1629). Le Theatre Moral de la Vie Humaine, Brussels, 1672, folio, folding engraved plate and 103 engraved emblematic illustrations after Otto van Veen, contemporary calf (heavily rubbed, joints split). FIRST EDITION thus.	£400 - £600	£190	View
215	BIBLE, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, probably Paris or northern France, 13th-century, 4to (216 x 155mm), c.480 leaves with 86 FINE HISTORIATED INITIALS painted in colours and gold [see note], 19th-century brown morocco, clasps.	£20,000 - £30,000	£86,000	View
216	[BYRON, George Gordon Noel, 6th Baron, i.e. "Lord BYRON" (1788-1824)]. Don Juan, London, 1819, Cantos I - II (only, of 16) bound in one volume, 4to, VERY FINELY BOUND in 19th-century dark green crushed morocco gilt by F. Bedford. FIRST EDITION.	£500 - £800	£850	View
217	[DE QUINCEY, Thomas (1785-1859)]. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, London, 1822, 12mo, half title, original publisher's boards, later book box by Riviere. FIRST EDITION.	£700 - £1,000	£2,800	View
218	DOUGLAS, Gawin (1474-1522). The xiii. Bukes of Eneados of the famose Poete Virgili Translated ... into Scottish metir, London, 1553, 4to, FINELY BOUND in later morocco. FIRST EDITION of the first translation of a poem from antiquity into English. RARE.	£3,000 - £5,000	£24,000	View
219	IBBETSON, John Thomas, later Sir John Thomas SELWIN [or SELWYN], 6th Baronet (1789-1869, artist). "Scotch Scenery" [c. 1824], 2 volumes, 4to, 162 FINE ORIGINAL WATERCOLOURS by John Thomas Ibbetson, mostly of Scottish scenery, contemporary calf gilt. (2)	£3,000 - £5,000	£2,400	View
220	JONSON, Ben (1572-1637). The Workes, London, 1616-40. 3 volumes, folio, contemporary calf. FIRST EDITION of the most important collection of dramatic works printed in the 17th-century after the first folio of Shakespeare. Sold not subject to return. (3)	£3,000 - £5,000	£9,500	View
221	"NUREMBERG CHRONICLE" - Hartmann SCHEDEL (1440-1514). Liber chronicarum, Nuremberg, 1493, large folio, woodcut illustrations, 19th-century morocco. FIRST EDITION OF THE MOST LAVISHLY ILLUSTRATED OF ALL INCUNABLES.	£20,000 - £30,000	£50,000	View
222	SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822). The Cenci, "Italy" [i.e. Livorno], 1819, 4to, FINELY BOUND in late 19th-century full red crushed morocco gilt. FIRST EDITION.	£700 - £1,000	£1,200	View
223	SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822). Posthumous Poems, London, 1824, large 8vo, preface by Mary Shelley, FINELY BOUND in late 19th-century full red crushed morocco gilt. FIRST EDITION. RARE. With The Shelley Papers (London, 1833, uniformly bound). (2)	£500 - £800	£850	View
224	SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822). Rosalind and Helen, a Modern Eclogue; with Other Poems, London, 1819, large 8vo, FINELY BOUND in late 19th-century full red crushed morocco gilt. FIRST EDITION.	£700 - £1,000	£900	View

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