Gorringes: Weekly Featuring Books, 22425, Lewes

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Auction Date
February 24, 2025 - February 24, 2025
Page Size: 258 items in 11 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1364

The Amateur Photographer, An Illustrated Popular Journal

1892 and 1893 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
1365 Berry, William

Encyclopaedia Heraldica

GBP 40.00 - 70.00 GBP 52.50
1366 Jones, Owen (1809-1874)

The Psalms of David. ("Twenty Six Psalms of David," cover title.) .

London 1861] GBP 120.00 - 160.00 GBP 78.75
1367 Greenaway (Kate).- Ruskin (John)

Dame Wiggins of Lee, and Her Seven Wonderful Cats

Orpington 1885 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
1369 Dulac, Edmund

A Fairy Garland: Being Fairy Tales from the Old French

London etc., New York 1928 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 656.25
1371 Lawrence, D.H.

The Paintings of D.H. Lawrence. Limited Edition (of 500 numbered copies). 26 coloured plates; contemp. maroon gilt ruled half morocco and cloth

1929 GBP 120.00 - 160.00 GBP 111.56
1372 Burnett, Francis Hodgson

Two Little Pilgrims' Progress. 10th thousand. plates and other illus.; original gilt pictorial cloth

1895 GBP 80.00 - 100.00 GBP 170.63
1373 Calmour, Alfred C.

Rumbo-Rhymes

1911 GBP 100.00 - 140.00 GBP 288.75
1374 Crane, Walter

Beatrice Crane Her Book (the 2nd)

1983 GBP 80.00 - 100.00 GBP 65.63
1375 Milne, A.A.

When We Were Very Young. illus. (by Ernest H. Shepard)

1924 GBP 60.00 - 100.00 GBP 111.56
1376 Starink, Gertrude

A St. Ives Alphabet. Limited Edition (of 350 numbered copies

St. Ives (Cornwall): 1987 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 105.00
1377 Rackham, Arthur

The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm

London 1932 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 721.88
1378 Rackham, Bernard

The Ancient Glass of Canterbury Cathedral.

1949 GBP 100.00 - 140.00 GBP 91.88
1379 Twisden, Sir John Ramskill

The Family of Twysden and Twisden: their history and archives

1939 GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 39.38
1380 Brent-Dyer, Elinor M.-

Trials for the Chalet School

Edinburgh & London 1959 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 105.00
1381 Carroll, Lewis --

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

1937 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 236.25
1382 Surtees, Robert Smith

Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities

1843 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 131.25
1383 Dante, Alighieri

La Divina Commedia or the Divine Vision

1928 GBP 140.00 - 180.00 GBP 210.00
1384 Homer

The Iliad / The Odyssey. (Translated by Alexander) Pope. Limited Edition

1931 GBP 140.00 - 180.00 GBP 787.50
1385 Wagner, Richard

The Ring of the Niblung. 2 vols. (The Rhinegold and The Valkyrie; Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods). With illustrations by Arthur Rackham.

1928 and 1930 GBP 100.00 - 140.00 GBP 210.00
1386 Ordnance Survey

Very Large Scale Plans of the suburbs / environs of Bury (Lancs)

1849 GBP 120.00 - 160.00 GBP 105.00
1387 Detaille, Edouard

Types et Uniformes L'Armee Francaise. 2 vols.

Paris 1885-89 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 196.88
1388 Stevenson, Robert Louis

Treasure Island

London 1883 GBP 1,200.00 - 1,600.00 GBP 2,493.75
1389 Fowles, John

8 works: The French Lieutenant's Woman

London 1969 GBP 120.00 - 160.00 Not Sold
1391 Betjeman John

The Illustrated Summoned By Bells.

1989 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 249.38
  • Heritage Auctions, May 8-9: The New-England Primer Improved. For the more easy attaining the true reading of English. Boston: Printed and Sold by John Boyles, 1770. EXTREMELY RARE AMERICAN PRIMER.
    Heritage Auctions, May 8-9: Lansford W. Hastings. The Emigrants’ Guide to Oregon and California. Cincinnati. George Conclin, 1845. THE VERY RARE FIRST EDITION IN THE SCARCE ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPPERS.
    Heritage Auctions, May 8-9: J. D. Salinger. The Catcher in the Rye. Boston, 1951. first edition, a fine copy, in an unrestored first issue dust jacket.
    Heritage Auctions, May 8-9: Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. London: Chapman & Hall, 1843. THE VERY FINE A.E NEWTON COPY.
    Heritage Auctions, May 8-9: J. K. Rowling. Only known complete set of full unbound imposed sheets for the First Edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. London: Bloomsbury, 1997.
    Heritage Auctions, May 8-9: Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility: A Novel in Three Volumes. By a Lady. London: for the author by C. Roworth and published by T. Egerton, 1811. FIRST EDITION IN A CONTEMPORARY BINDING.
    Heritage Auctions, May 8-9: J. R. R. Tolkien. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. First Editions, First Impressions. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1954-1955. A VERY FINE SET.
    Heritage Auctions, May 8-9: Declaration of Independence. In: The Pennsylvania Ledger: Or the Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New-Jersey Weekly Advertiser. Philadelphia: James Humphreys, No. LXXVII, 13 July 1776.
    Heritage Auctions, May 8-9: William Shakespeare. Mr. William Shakespear's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. London, 1685. THE FOURTH FOLIO.
    Heritage Auctions, May 8-9: Frank Herbert. Dune. Philadelphia and New York: Chilton Books, 1965. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
  • Sotheby's
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    Sotheby’s: William Blake | Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Sold: 4,320,000 USD
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    Sotheby’s: Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sold: 1,920,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Machiavelli | Il Principe, a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began. Sold: 576,000 GBP
    Sotheby’s: Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura, ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBP
    Sotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR
  • Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Books & Collectors’ Sale
    April 30th & May 1st
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Taylor (Geo.) & Skinner (A.) Maps of the Roads of Ireland, Surveyed 1777. Lond. & Dublin 1778. €500 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Messingham (Thos.) Florilegium Insulae Sanctorum seu Vitae et Acta Sanctorum Hibernia, Paris 1624. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Heaney (Seamus). The Haw Lantern, L. (Faber & Faber) 1987, First Edn., Signed and dated. €225 to €350.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Valencey (Lt. Col. Chas.) Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis, Vols. I-IV, 4 vols. Dublin 1786. €400 to €600.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Powerscourt (Viscount). A Description and History of Powerscourt, Lond. 1903. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Moryson (Fynes). An Itinerary ... Containing His Ten Yeeres Travel Through the Twelve Dominions of Germany, Bohermerland, Sweitzerland…, Lond. (John Beale) 1617. €700 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: After Buffon, Birds of Europe, c. 1820. Approx. 120 fine hd. cold. plts., mor. backed boards. €125 to €250.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Dunlevy (Andrew). An Teagasg Criosduidhe De Reir Ceasda agus Freagartha... The Catechism or Christian Doctrine by Way of Question and Answer, Paris (James Guerin) 1742. €400 to €700.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: The Georgian Society Records of Eighteen-Century Domestic Architecture in Dublin, 5 vols. Complete, Dublin 1909-1913. €500 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Scale (Bernard). An Hibernian Atlas or General Description of the Kingdom of Ireland, L. (Robert Sayer & John Bennet) 1776. €625 to €850.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: [Johnson (Rev. Samuel)]. Julian the Apostate Being a Short Account of his Life, together with a Comparison of Popery and Paganism,L. (Langley Curtis) 1682. €300 to €400.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Nichlson (Wm.) Illustrator. An Almanac of Twelve Sports, Lond. 1898. €300 to €400.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Heaney (Seamus) trans. The Light of the Leaves, 2 vols., Mexico (Imprenta de los Tropicos/Bunholt) 1999. €1,500 to €2,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Fleming (Ian). Moonraker, L. (Jonathan Cape) 1955. €1,500 to €2,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Heaney (Seamus) & Egan (Felim) artist. Squarings, Twelve Poems, D. (Hieroglyph Editions Ltd.) 1991. €1,750 to €2,250.
  • Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: ANDERSEN'S EXTREMELY RARE FIRST APPEARANCE IN PRINT. "Scene af: Røverne i Vissenberg i Fyen." in Harpen, 1822.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: FIRST ISSUE OF THE FIRST THREE FAIRY TALE PAMPHLETS, WITH ALL INDICES AND TITLE PAGES. Eventyr, fortalte for Børn. 1835-1837.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: THE FIRST FAIRY TALES WITH A SIGNED CARTE DE VISITE OF ANDERSEN AS FRONTIS. Eventyr, fortalte for Børn. 1835-1837.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: KARL LAGERFELD. Original pastel and ink drawing in gold, red and black for Andersen's The Emperor's New Clothes (1992), "La cassette de l'Empereur."
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: PRESENTATION COPY OF THE SIXTH PAMPHLET FOR PETER KOCH. Eventyr, Fortalte For Børn, Second Series, Third Pamphlet. 1841. Publisher's wrappers, complete with all pre- and post-matter.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN RARE AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED IN ENGLISH from "The Ugly Duckling," c.1860s.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: HEINRICH LEFLER, ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR FOR ANDERSEN'S SNOW QUEEN, "Die Schneekönigin," 1910.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: FIRST EDITION OF ANDERSEN'S FAIRY TALES IN ENGLISH. Wonderful Stories for Children. London, 1846.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: ANDERSEN ON MEETING CHARLES DICKENS. Autograph Letter Signed ("H.C. Andersen") in English to William Jerdan, July 20, 1847.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: PRESENTATION COPY FOR EDGAR COLLIN. Nye Eventyr og Historier. Anden Raekke. 1861.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: DOLL HOUSE FURNITURE BY HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSON, DECORATED WITH FANTASTICAL CUT-OUTS, for the children of Jonna Stampe (née Drewsen), his godchildren.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: PRESENTATION COPY FOR GEORG BRANDES. Dryaden. Et Eventyr fra Udstillingstiden i Paris 1867. 1868.
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