Gorringes: Book and Weekly , 101623, Lewes

Auction Details

Auction Date: October 16, 2023 - October 16, 2023

Page Size: 89 items in 4 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1250	Verne, Jules	Five Weeks in a Balloon: a voyage of exploration and discovery in Central Africa ....		1874	GBP 50.00 - 60.00	GBP 49.20
1251	Bible	The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament, and the New: newly translated out of the original tongues....		1620, 1621	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 393.60
1252	Rouse, James	The Beauties and Antiquities of the County of Sussex....from original drawings taken on the spot....accompanied by historical and explanatory notices.		1825	GBP 100.00 - 140.00	GBP 123.00
1253		The Steam-Boat Companion; and Stranger's Guide to the Western Islands and Highlands of Scotland....with voyages to Liverpool, and Belfast....and the Lakes in Cumberland.	Glasgow	1825	GBP 60.00 - 100.00	GBP 36.90
1254	Park, John James	The Topography and Natural History of Hampstead....		1818	GBP 100.00 - 140.00	GBP 110.70
1255	Shakespeare, William	The Plays of William Shakespeare, from the correct edition of Isaac Reed....12 vols.		1809	GBP 60.00 - 100.00	GBP 147.60
1256	Durrell, Lawrence	3 works [from the Alexandria Quartet] Justine; Mountolive; and Balthazar,	London	1957; 1958; 1958	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
1257	Farley, John	The London Art of Cookery and Housekeeper’s Complete Assistant,	London	1796	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
1258	Glanvil[l], Joseph	Saducismus Triumphatus: or, Full and Plain Evidence concerning Witches and Apparitions,	London	1681	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 2,460.00
1259	[Defoe, Daniel]	The History of the Devil: Ancient and Modern in two parts, [part one only],	London	1793	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 92.25
1260	Shaw, Henry	The Encyclopedia of Ornament.		1842	GBP 100.00 - 140.00	GBP 61.50
1261	Pullman, Philip	His Dark Materials, Northern Lights; The Subtle Knife; the Amber Spyglass.		1995-2000	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 1,045.50
1262	Fallon, Tom	Craftsmen in Crime: a continental casebook; The River Police: the story of Scotland Yard's little ships.		1956	GBP 50.00 - 60.00	Not Sold
1263	Eliot, George	Eliot, George, new / stereotyped edition, 7 vols.		ca.1900	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	GBP 61.50
1264	Chapin, Anna Alice	The Everyday and Now-A-Day Fairy Book; Kingsley, Charles. The Water Babies; The Arabian Nights.		ca.1930, 1935, 1913	GBP 120.00 - 160.00	GBP 86.10
1265	Dickens, Charles	Dickens, Charles (Collected Edition), 15 vols.		1894-96	GBP 100.00 - 140.00	GBP 98.40
1266		The Song of Solomon.	Jerusalem	1930	GBP 60.00 - 100.00	GBP 55.35
1267	Burton, Sir Richard Francis	the Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night. With introduction explanatory notes of the manners and customs of Moslem men and a terminal essay upon the history of The Nights.	Benares:	1885-88 16	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 233.70
1268	Horsfield, Thomas Walker	The History, Antiquities, and Topography of the County of Sussex	Lewes	1835	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 61.50
1269	Blair, Claude (editor)	The Crown Jewels: The History of the Coronation Regalia in the Jewel House of the Tower of London	London	1998	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 369.00
1270	Timlin, William M.	The Ship That Sailed to Mars. A Fantasy	London	[1923]	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 984.00
1271	Irving, John	The Hotel New Hampshire	New York	1981	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 123.00
1272	Dickens, Charles	The Works, 18 vols	London,	nd.	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
1273	Austen, Jane	The Novels of Jane Austen, Winchester edition, 10 vols	Edinburgh	1905	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	GBP 984.00
1274	Thackeray, William Makepeace	The Works, 26 vols	London	1891	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 246.00

Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 12-13: Roberts (David) & Croly (George). The Holy Land, Syria, Idumae, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia. Lond. 1842 - 1843 [-49]. First Edn. €10,000 to €15,000.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 12-13: Incunabula: O'Fihily (Maurice). Duns Scotus Joannes: O'Fihely, Maurice Abp… Venice, 20th November 1497. €8,000 to €12,000.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 12-13: An important file of documents with provenance to G.A. Newsom, manager of the Jacob’s Factory in Dublin, occupied by insurgents during Easter Week 1916. €6,000 to €9,000.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 12-13: WILDE (Oscar), 1854-1900, playwright, aesthete and wit. A lock of Wilde’s Hair, presented by his son to the distinguished Irish actor Mícheál MacLiammóir. €6,000 to €8,000.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 12-13: Heaney (Seamus). Bog Poems, London, 1975. Special Limited Edition, No. 33 of 150 Copies, Signed by Author. Illus. by Barrie Cooke. €4,000 to €6,000.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 12-13: Binding: Burke, Thomas O.P. (de Burgo). Hibernia Dominicana, Sive Historia Provinciae Hiberniae Ordinis Praedicatorum, ... 1762. First Edition. €4,000 to €6,000.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 12-13: COLLINS, Michael. An important TL, 29 July 1922, addressed to GOVERNMENT on ‘suggested Proclamation warning all concerned that troops have orders to shoot prisoners found sniping, ambushing etc.’. €3,000 to €4,000.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 12-13: Scott Fitzgerald (F.) The Great Gatsby, New York (Charles Scribner's Sons) 1925, First Edn. €2,000 to €3,000.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 12-13: Yeats (W.B.) The Poems of W.B. Yeats, 2 vols. Lond. (MacMillan & Co.) 1949. Limited Edition, No. 46 of 375 Copies Only, Signed by W.B. Yeats. €1,500 to €2,000.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 12-13: Miller (William) Publisher. The Costume of the Russian Empire, Description in English and French, Lg. folio London (S. Gosnell) 1803. First Edn. €1,000 to €1,500.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 12-13: Miller (William) Publisher. The Costume of Turkey, Illustrated by a Series of Engravings. Lg. folio Lond.(T. Bensley) 1802. First Edn. €800 to €1,200.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 12-13: Mason (Geo. Henry). The Costume of China, Illustrated with Sixty Engravings. Lg. folio London (for W. Miller) 1800. First Edn. €1,400 to €1,800
Sotheby’s
Fine Books and Manuscripts
8 December 2023

Sotheby’s, Dec. 8: [Austen, Jane] — Isaac D'Israeli. Jane Austen's copy of Curiosities of Literature. 100,000 - 150,000 USD

Sotheby’s, Dec. 8: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition in boards of the author's debut novel. 70,000 - 100,000 USD

Sotheby’s, Dec. 8: Brontë, Charlotte. "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me..." 100,000 - 150,000 USD

Sotheby’s, Dec. 8: Eliot, George. The author's magnum opus. 25,000 - 35,000 USD

Sotheby’s, Dec. 8: Whitman, Walt. Manuscript written upon the Death of Lincoln, 1865. 60,000 - 80,000 USD
Sotheby’s
Important Modern Literature from the Library of an American Filmmaker
8 December 2023

Sotheby’s, Dec. 8: Kerouac, Jack. Typescript scroll of The Dharma Bums. Typed by Kerouac in Orlando, Florida, 1957, published by Viking in 1958. 300,000 - 500,000 USD

Sotheby’s, Dec. 8: Hemingway, Ernest. The autograph manuscript of "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber." [Key West, finished April 1936]. 300,000 - 500,000 USD

Sotheby’s, Dec. 8: Miller, Henry. Typescript of The Last Book, a working title for Tropic of Cancer, written circa 1931–1932. 100,000 - 150,000 USD

Sotheby’s, Dec. 8: Ruscha, Ed. Twentysix Gasoline Stations, with a lengthy inscription to Joe Goode. 40,000 - 60,000 USD

Sotheby’s, Dec. 8: Hemingway, Ernest. in our time, first edition of Hemingway’s second book. 30,000 - 50,000 USD
Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 7, 2023

Swann, Dec. 7: Samuel Augustus Mitchell, A New Map of Texas, Oregon and California with the Regions Adjoining, Philadelphia, 1846. $3,500 to $5,000.

Swann, Dec. 7: 17th–19th-century case maps of various locations. $1,500 to $2,000.

Swann, Dec. 7: Andreas Cellarius, Haemisphaerium Stellatum Boreale Cum Subiecto Haemisphaerio Terrestri, celestial chart, Amsterdam, 1708. $2,500 to $3,500.

Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 7, 2023

Swann, Dec. 7: Vincenzo Coronelli, Set of engraved gores for Coronelli’s monumental 42-inch terrestrial globe, Venice, circa 1688–97. $18,000 to $22,000.

Swann, Dec. 7: Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer, group of four navigational charts, Antwerp, 1580s. $2,000 to $3,000.

Swann, Dec. 7: Thomas Bros, Block Book of Berkeley, Oakland, 1920s. $800 to $1,200.

Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 7, 2023

Swann, Dec. 7: John Nieuhoff & John Ogilby, An Embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, map of China, plan of Canton, London, 1673. $1,200 to $1,800.

Swann, Dec. 7: Frederick Sander, Reichenbachia, St. Albans, 1888-1894. $5,000 to $7,000.

Swann, Dec. 7: Two early illustrated works on horsemanship and breeding, Nuremberg, early 18th century. $700 to $800.

Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 7, 2023

Swann, Dec. 7: John Gould, A Monograph of the Ramphastidae, or Family of Toucans. Supplement to the First Edition, London, 1834; 1855. $40,000 to $60,000.

Swann, Dec. 7: John Pinkerton, A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in All Parts of the World, London, 1808–14. $1,500 to $2,500.

Swann, Dec. 7: Oakley Hoopes Bailey, Hackensack, New Jersey, Boston, 1896. $800 to $1,200.
CHRISTIE’S
Valuable Books and Manuscripts
London auction
13 December
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TREW, Christoph Jacob (1695–1769). Plantae Selectae quarum imagines ad exemplaria naturalia Londini in hortus curiosorum. [Nuremberg: 1750–1773]. £30,000–40,000

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VERBIEST, Ferdinand (1623–88). Liber Organicus Astronomiae Europaeae apud Sinas restituate. [Beijing: Board of Astronomy, 1674]. £250,000–350,000

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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF ALICE & NIKOLAUS HARNONCOURT. Master of Jean Rolin (active 1445–65). Book of Hours, use of Paris, in Latin and French, [Paris, c.1450–1460]. £120,000–180,000

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A SILVER MICROSCOPE. Probably by Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723), c.1700. £150,000–250,000

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AN ENGLISH HORARY QUADRANT
C.1311. £100,000–150,000

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