Gorringes: Weekly House & Gardens Sale featuring Militaria & Medals, 102025, Lewes

Auction Details

Auction Date: October 20, 2025 - October 20, 2025

Page Size: 74 items in 3 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1296		A group of sixteen Zulu War related magic lantern slides,			GBP 60.00 - 80.00	GBP 39.00
1302		Four early 20th century photograph albums of military, naval and aviation interest,			GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 97.50
1303		An archive of medals, papers and photographs, mainly relating to Captain Edwin Herbert 'Teddy' Bath, of the Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's),			GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 84.50
1358	Attributed to G F Watts (1817-1904)	a pencil sketch design for the Elcho Shield, National Rifle Association prize for Long Range Shooting, sketch, framed together with two clippings from a related article		c.1861	GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 208.00
1361		A framed WWI German Service Certificate awarded to Unteroffizier Mullback			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 39.00
1366		A WRAC military interest poster,			GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 45.50
1425		Mozart interest, four leather bound vols, Publ by Mannheim to include Mozart Sonatas			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 39.00
1438		Two Victorian Stevengraphs comprising The Good Old Days and The Present Time			GBP 40.00 - 60.00	GBP 71.50
1487	Joppien, Rudiger & Smith, Bernard	The Art of Captain Cook's Voyages ... 3 vols (in 4).		1985-88.	GBP 80.00 - 100.00	GBP 156.00
1489	[Hawkes, John]	The Meynellian Science; or, Fox-Hunting upon the System. (2nd edition).		1848	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	GBP 78.00
1490	Septuagenarian	Fox Hunting Sixty Years Ago. Described in the account of two celebrated runs in Leicestershire & Warwickshire from Billesdon Coplow and Epwell Gorse ...			GBP 50.00 - 70.00	GBP 123.50
1491	Britton, John	Cathedral Antiquities of Great Britain, 6 vols.,		variously dated: 1814-35	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 91.00
1493	Britton, John	The Fine Arts of the English School ... from paintings, sculpture, and architecture ... with ample biographical, critical, and descriptive essays ...		1812	GBP 50.00 - 70.00	Not Sold
1494	David, Andrew (editor)	The Charts & Coastal Views of Captain Cook's Voyages ... 3 vols.		1988-97.	GBP 80.00 - 100.00	GBP 208.00
1520		An unusual sampler by Nicholas Scott,		1801	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 110.50
1523		A King James Bible	Edinburgh	1795	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 65.00
1533	Whymper, Frederick	Travel and Adventure in the Territory of Alaska ... and in other parts of the North Pacific.		1868	GBP 50.00 - 70.00	Not Sold
1534	Bestall, Alfred	Five Rupert Annuals, for 1946; 1948; 1949; 1952; 1954		for 1946; 1948; 1949; 1952; 1954	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	GBP 45.50
1535	[Surtees, John	Sporting Novels], subscriber's edition, 6 vols.		?ca.1900	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	GBP 123.50
1536	[Markham, Gervase	A Way to Get Wealth ... the eighth time corrected ...		1653	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 442.00
1537	[Beckford, Peter]	Italy; with Sketches of Spain and Portugal ...		1834	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	GBP 39.00
1538	Trollope, T(homas) Adolphus	A Summer in Brittany, edited by Franses Trollope	London,	1840	GBP 50.00 - 70.00	GBP 104.00
1539	Dickens, Charles	The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.		1839	GBP 70.00 - 90.00	GBP 91.00
1540	Greene, Graham	The Third Man and the Fallen Idol.		1950	GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 65.00
1541	Christian, Tina Chad	Baby Love.		1968	GBP 70.00 - 90.00	GBP 45.50

Heritage Auctions
Rare Books Signature Auction
December 15, 2025

Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.

Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.