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Gorringes Weekly Auction Including a Fine Selection of Books - Monday 10th December 2018
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Gorringes Weekly Auction Including a Fine Selection of Books - Monday 10th December 2018

Auction dates
10 Dec 2018 10:00 GMT
Lots: 700
Viewing dates
07 Dec 2018 09:00 - 17:00 GMT
08 Dec 2018 09:00 - 13:00 GMT
10 Dec 2018 08:00 - 10:00 GMT
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There are 735 lots within this auction
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London Record Society - Monographs, gilt cloth, 20 various vols (no's 2-32, 1966-95)' Calendar of
40 GBP
80 - 100 GBP
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London - A miscellany of (mostly) older books; with a few interesting others added (71 books)
80 GBP
50 - 60 GBP
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Bayley, John - The History and Antiquities of the Tower of London, with biographical anecdotes ...
220 GBP
120 - 160 GBP
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Thomas, A.H. & Thornley, I.D. - editors, The Great Chronicle of London, limited edition (of 500
100 GBP
100 - 140 GBP
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Wheatley, Henry B. - London Past and Present; It's history, associations, and traditions ... First
100 GBP
100 - 140 GBP
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Defoe, Daniel - A Tour Thro' London About The Year 1725, being letter V and parts of letter VI of 'A
0 GBP
100 - 140 GBP
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Stow, John - The Survey of London: containing the original, increase, moderne estate, and government
320 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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Mayhew, Henry and Binny, J - The Criminal Prisons of London, First edition, folded frontis and
80 GBP
100 - 140 GBP
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Mayhew, Henry - London Labour and The London Poor; the condition and earnings of those that will
110 GBP
120 - 160 GBP
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Fitzgerald, Percy - Chronicles of Bow Street Police Office. With an account of the magistrates,
80 GBP
80 - 100 GBP
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Maitland, William - The History of London, from its Foundation by the Romans to the Present Time ...
700 GBP
600 - 800 GBP
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Hind, Arthur M - Wenceslaus Hollar and His Views of London and Windsor in the Seventeenth Century,
55 GBP
80 - 100 GBP
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(Douce, Francis, editior) - The Custom of London, otherwise called Arnold's Chronicle ..., reprinted
130 GBP
100 - 140 GBP
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Bray, William, editor - Memoirs Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn ...
75 GBP
100 - 140 GBP
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Macaulay (Lord) - The History of England ... 8 vols, gilt ruled polished calf, gilt decorated and
190 GBP
100 - 140 GBP
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Gibbon, Edward - The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, new edition, 8 vols,
140 GBP
80 - 100 GBP
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Daudet, Alphones - Tartarin sur les Alpes; nouveaux exploits du heros tarasconnais. Edition du
110 GBP
120 - 160 GBP
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Bindings - including Evelyn's Diary (edited Wm.Bray), 4 vols, green half levant morocco and
240 GBP
120 - 160 GBP
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Bindings - including Whiston's Josephus, 4 vols, blind and gilt decorated black / brown calf,
220 GBP
120 - 160 GBP
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Leatherbound - some 19 various titles (46 books)
200 GBP
80 - 120 GBP
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Leatherbound - 13 various titles (in 38 vols) (42 books)
190 GBP
60 - 100 GBP
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Leatherbound - Continental Editions, mostly 18th and 19th centuries (55 books)
320 GBP
120 - 160 GBP
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Trollope, Anthony - Orley Farm, 2 vols, 40 plates, by J.E Millais, no title page in vol 2, half calf
55 GBP
60 - 100 GBP
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M'Leod, John - Voyage of His Majesty's Ship Alceste, to China, Corea and the Island of Lewchew, with
110 GBP
100 - 140 GBP
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Shoberl, Frederic, editor - The World in Miniature: Persia, containing a brief description of the
180 GBP
140 - 180 GBP
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Austen, Jane - Sense and Sensibility, Clarke's Cabinet Edition, 2 vols, 239 & 244pp, contemporary
380 GBP
400 - 600 GBP
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Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice, A Novel, Clarke's Cabinet Edition, 2 vols (3), 229 (3) &
300 GBP
400 - 600 GBP
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The Studio - An Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art, vols I - LXVII (lacking only 52, 63,
1,200 GBP
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Colling, James R - Gothic Ornaments, being a series of examples enriched details and accessories
180 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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Shaw, Henry - Illuminated Ornaments Selected from Manuscripts and Early Printed Books from the Sixth
220 GBP
140 - 180 GBP
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Pain, William - The Practical House Carpenter; or, Youth's Instructor; containing a great variety of
320 GBP
140 - 180 GBP
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Chippendale, Thomas - Chippendale's One Hundred and Thirty Three Designs of Interior Decorations
170 GBP
160 - 200 GBP
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(Lethaby, W.R.) Ernest Gimson: his life and work, limited edition (500 numbered copies), pictorial
300 GBP
120 - 150 GBP
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Jourdain, M. - English Decorative Plasterwork of the Renaissance, numerous plates & other illus.;
140 GBP
80 - 120 GBP
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Old Leather & Cloth - A miscellany including Tredgold's Elementary Principles of Carpentry ... 2nd
110 GBP
100 - 140 GBP
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Ayling, Stephen - Photographs from Sketches by Augustus Welby N. Pugin. First edition, 2 vols,
400 GBP
400 - 600 GBP
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Antiques and Related Books - A modern miscellany
95 GBP
50 - 60 GBP
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Sowerby, J. and Others. English Botany ... 3rd edition, edited by J.T. Boswell Syme, vols 1-11 (ex.
340 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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Froger, Francois - A Relation of a Voyage made in the Years 1695, 1696, 1697 on the Coast of Africa,
300 GBP
400 - 600 GBP
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Wolf, Joseph - Elliot, Daniel Giraud - The Life and Habits of Wild Animals, folio, original green
40 GBP
80 - 120 GBP
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A mid 19th century album of engravings and aquatints, including a view of Mont-Blanc, Life Guards
170 GBP
60 - 90 GBP
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Brunhoff, Jean de - Babor The King, folio, pictorial boards, London 1936, together with 5 Orlando
85 GBP
80 - 120 GBP
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Woodward, George Moutard - Eccentric Excursions; or Literary and Pictorial Sketches, quarto, half
120 GBP
80 - 120 GBP
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A collection of children's books, including:- Andersen, Hans - Little Thumb, illustrated with 9
220 GBP
250 - 350 GBP
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Parker, B - Lays of The Grays, oblong quarto, original pictorial boards, with 12 full page
130 GBP
150 - 200 GBP
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Childhood's - Childhood's Golden Tales, folio, original cloth with pictorial front board, with 12
120 GBP
80 - 120 GBP
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[Colour plate] - Picture Gallery of Pets, 18 chromolitho's on stiff boards, large square quarto,
180 GBP
80 - 120 GBP
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Parker, B - Cinderella at The Zoo, illustrated by N. Parker, with 16 chromolitho's, quarto, spine
90 GBP
120 - 160 GBP
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Bond, Francis - An Introduction to English Church Architecture, 2 vols, quarto, cloth, London
55 GBP
80 - 120 GBP
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Royal Academy Pictures, quarto, cloth for years 1899-1904, 1906 and 1908 (8)
30 GBP
50 - 100 GBP
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Fulton, Robert - The Illustrated Book of Pigeons, quarto, original cloth, hinges weak, with 50
400 GBP
140 - 180 GBP
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Sassoon, Siegfried - Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, illustrated by Barnett Freedman, with 15
50 GBP
40 - 60 GBP
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Sackville-West, Victoria - The Garden, 1st edition, original cloth, number 707 of 750, signed by the
80 GBP
80 - 120 GBP
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Bell, Adrian - 22 novels, sold as seen, comprising: - Corduroy, First illustrated edition, The
100 GBP
150 - 200 GBP
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Giles, Carl - Daily Express and Sunday Express Cartoons, 1st - 50th Series, oblong quarto,
400 GBP
600 - 900 GBP
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Le Carre, John - The Looking Glass War, First edition, in clipped, slightly torn d.j., small hole to
100 GBP
150 - 200 GBP
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Le Carre, John - A Small Town in Germany, first edition, in d.j., William Heinemann, London 1968
60 GBP
80 - 120 GBP
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Le Carre, John - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, first edition, William Heinemann, London 1974 and 4
50 GBP
100 - 150 GBP
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The Book of Common Prayer ... and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church ... together with the
110 GBP
100 - 150 GBP
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Hope, Sir William - The Compleat Horseman; Discovering the Surest Marks of the Beauty, Goodness,
360 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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