Sale: 110219
Feb 11 2019 10:00 - Lewes North Street
Gorringe's Weekly Sale
- Viewing on:
Lots are available to view as follows:
Fri: 9am-5pm
Sat: 9am-1pm
Mo:8am-10am
Lot 1
A SMALL LIBRARY OF BOOKS AND ANTIQUARIAN MAPS QUILLER-Couch, Arthur, Sir - The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales, illustrated by Ed
Estimate: £80 - 120
Sold for £85
Lot 2
Arabian Knights - Sinbad the Sailor, illustrated by Edmund Dulac, quarto, half cloth, with 23 tipped-in colour
Estimate: £80 - 120
Sold for £150
Lot 3
Dulac, Edmund, illustrator - Edmund Dulacs Fairy-Book; Fairy Tales of the Allied Nations, quarto, with 16 colour
Estimate: £200 - 300
Sold for £170
Lot 4
Eyton, Thomas Campbell - A History of the rarer British Birds, 2 parts in 1 volume, 8vo, original cloth, spine
Estimate: £60 - 80
Sold for £35
Lot 5
Buffon, Georges Louis Marie Leclerc, Comte de - Natural History, General and Particular, 20 vols, 8vo, rebacked
Estimate: £300 - 500
Sold for £650
Lot 6
Yarrell, William - A History of British Birds, 3 vols, 8vo, half calf, London 1843
Estimate: £60 - 100
Sold for £75
Lot 7
Shaw, George - Vivarium Naturae; or The Naturalists Miscellany, 10 vols (of 25), 8vo, rebacked quarter calf
Estimate: £500 - 800
Sold for £2,200
Lot 8
Dawe, George R.A. - The Life of George Morland, 49 of 175, folio, half vellum, London 1904,
Estimate: £40 - 60
Sold for £70
Lot 9
Hume, Frederick Edward - Familiar Wild Flowers, 1st to 7th series, in 7 vols, 8vo, cloth, London 1902-12
Estimate: £50 - 80
Sold for £55
Lot 10
Pratt, Anne - The Flowering Plants, Grasses, Sedges and Ferns of Great Britain, 6 vols, 8vo, original cloth,
Estimate: £150 - 200
Sold for £120
Lot 11
Thiers, Louis Adolphe - The History of the French Revolution, 5 vols, half calf, 8vo, scuffed, joints split, London 1838
Estimate: £50 - 70
Unsold
Lot 12
Tourtell, Mary - Rupert Little Bear Library, numbers 14,21,28,36,38 and 40, 8vo, yellow boards, some split
Estimate: £40 - 60
Unsold
Lot 13
Adams, Richard (Novelist) - Watership Down, one of 250, illustrated by John Lawrence, full morocco by Sangorski
Estimate: £500 - 800
Sold for £1,100
Lot 14
Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir - The Lost World, 1st edition, 2nd issue, brown cloth, with 9 plates, front spine joint
Estimate: £80 - 120
Sold for £130
Lot 15
Prichard, Hesketh - Through The Heart of Patagonia, 1st edition, quarto, cloth, with 3 folded maps, London 1902
Estimate: £100 - 150
Sold for £50
Lot 16
Choisy, Francois-Timoléon de - Histoire de la Comtesse des Barres à Madame la Marquise de Lambert, Bruxelles,
Estimate: £100 - 150
Unsold
Lot 17
Flint, William Russell Sir - Breakfast in Perigord, one of 525, signed, folio, quarter morocco, with slip case, London 1968
Estimate: £100 - 150
Sold for £70
Lot 18
Koestler, Arthur - Spanish Testament, an uncorrected proof, section cut from title page to form a window
Estimate: £80 - 120
Sold for £55
Lot 19
Greene, Graham - The End of The Affair, 1st edition, 8vo, with d.j., [Times Book Club binding], browned and chipped
Estimate: £120 - 160
Sold for £100
Lot 20
Navy List for the Years 1825, 1827, 1829, 1836-37, 1846-47, 1849-50, 1852, 1854-55, 1857-59, 1867,
Estimate: £300 - 400
Sold for £280
Lot 21
Benningfield, Gordon (Illustrator) and Gooden, Robert (text) - Butterflies, one of 250 signed by the illustrator,
Estimate: £50 - 80
Sold for £90
Lot 22
Jones, Owen - The Preacher, chromolithograph title and 34 pages, disbound, with elaborate heat stamped boards
Estimate: £100 - 150
Sold for £160
Lot 23
Manning, Rev. O and Bray, William - The History and Antiquities of the County of Surrey, 3 vols, folio, a
Estimate: £50 - 80
Sold for £65
Lot 24
In August 1974. Miss Sheila MacKellow, late of Beacon Gardens, Crowborough, East Sussex, wrote to Richard Nixon, following his resignat
Estimate: £300 - 500
Sold for £300
Lot 25
Nixon, Richard M - The Real War, 1st edition, 8vo, in clipped d/j, inscribed to Sheila MacKellow 8th January, 1981,
Estimate: £100 - 150
Unsold