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Gorringes Book Sale - Tuesday 12th April 2022
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15 North Street
Lewes, East Sussex
BN7 2PD
United Kingdom
Gorringes Book Sale - Tuesday 12th April 2022

Auction dates
12 Apr 2022 12:00 BST
Lots: 1-291
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There are 293 lots within this auction
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° ° Hope, Thomas - Costume of the Ancients, 2nd edition, 2 vols in 1, 4to, later blind stamped
300 GBP
100 - 150 GBP
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° ° Gilpin, William - Observations on the Western Parts of England relative chiefly to Picturesque
0 GBP
120 - 160 GBP
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° ° Socialism. - Utopia - Morris, William - News From Nowhere: or, An Epoch of Rest, being some
0 GBP
80 - 120 GBP
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° ° Swinburne, Algernon Charles - Songs Before Sunrise, 8vo, calf, F.S. Ellis, London, 1871
0 GBP
50 - 80 GBP
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° ° Lamb, Charles & Mary - Tales from Shakespear [sic] designed for the use of Young Persons, 2vols,
130 GBP
150 - 200 GBP
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° ° Melville, James, Sir - Memoires de Jaques Melvil, 12mo, vellum with yapp edges , Adrian
40 GBP
80 - 120 GBP
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° ° Suckling, John, Sir - Works. ‘’Fragmenta Aurea. A Collection of All Incomparable Pieces…..’’,
240 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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° ° Singer, Charles Joseph - The Earliest Chemical Industries, one of 1000 copies, illustrated by
100 GBP
150 - 200 GBP
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° ° Bewick, Thomas - Bewick Gleanings, 2 parts in 1 vol. 4to, large paper copy, one of 200 signed by
40 GBP
80 - 120 GBP
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° ° Bewick, Thomas - Fables of Aesop and Others, 2nd edition, with facsimile thumbprint, numbered
160 GBP
100 - 150 GBP
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° ° Hey, Rebecca - The Moral of Flowers, 1st edition, 8vo, contemporary half morocco gilt, with 24
110 GBP
140 - 180 GBP
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° ° Vergilius Maro, Publius, - The Eclogues of Vergil, an English Version, illustrated by Samuel
200 GBP
300 - 500 GBP
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° ° Maxwell, Herbert Eustace, Sir - British Fresh-Water Fish, 4to, original green cloth, with 12
60 GBP
50 - 100 GBP
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° ° Collins, Maurice - Quest for Sita, one of 500, illustrated by Mervyn Peake, 4to, buckram,
70 GBP
60 - 90 GBP
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° ° Morris, William - 3 works - Architecture and History, and Westminster Abbey, 8vo, original
100 GBP
120 - 160 GBP
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° ° Tallis, John & Co., - History and Description of the Crystal Palace, 3 vols in 2, morocco gilt
130 GBP
150 - 200 GBP
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° ° Lydekker, Richard (editor) - The Royal Natural History, 1st edition, 6 vols, 4to, half green
120 GBP
50 - 80 GBP
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° ° Chiswick Press - 19 Works - Classics, including Cowper, William - Poems, 2 vols, 1821; Butler,
130 GBP
80 - 120 GBP
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° ° Hulme, Frederick Edward - Familiar Wild Flowers. Series 1-5, 5 vols, 8vo, contemporary half
120 GBP
100 - 150 GBP
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° ° Wilde, Oscar - The Ballad of Reading Gaol, 4th edition, 8vo, cloth, Leonard Smithers, London,
45 GBP
50 - 80 GBP
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° ° Gay, John - Fables, 2 parts in 1, 12mo, calf, illustrated with woodcuts by Thomas Bewick, T.
55 GBP
60 - 90 GBP
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° ° Sugden, Alan Victor and Edmondson, John Ludlam - A History of English Wallpaper, 4to, original
50 GBP
150 - 200 GBP
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° ° Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet de, - Le Siecle de Louis XIV, 1st edition, 2vols, 12mo, calf,
260 GBP
300 - 500 GBP
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° ° Buswell, John - An Historical Account of the Knights of The Most Noble Order of the Garter, 8vo,
200 GBP
100 - 150 GBP
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° ° Hafiz of Shiraz: Selections from his Poems, translated by Herman Bicknell, 4to, cloth gilt, with
120 GBP
100 - 150 GBP
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° ° Wagner, Richard - The Ring of the Niblung, first 2 vol. set, Siegfried and the Twilight of the
220 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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° ° The Bible in English, 4to, calf, lacking first page of The Communion, bound with The Psalmes,
550 GBP
150 - 200 GBP
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° ° Counsell, George - The London New Art of Midwiry: or, the Midwife’s Sure Guide, 12mo, calf, with
320 GBP
80 - 120 GBP
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° ° Bronte, Charlotte, Emily and Anne - Works. - ‘’Novels of the Sisters Bronte.’’ - 12 vols, the
170 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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° ° Bell, Adrian - Corduroy. Silver Ley. The Cherry Tree, 1st edition, 8vo, cloth with unclipped d/
50 GBP
100 - 150 GBP
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° ° Sackville-West, Vita - The Edwardians, 1st edition, with authors presentation inscription,
240 GBP
120 - 160 GBP
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° ° Lee, Laurie - Cider with Rosie, 1st edition, with reference to the fire at the piano works at
180 GBP
250 - 350 GBP
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° ° Tolkien, J.R.R - Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring, 11th impression, 1961, The
600 GBP
250 - 350 GBP
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° ° Dickens, Charles - The Personal History of David Copperfield, illustrated with 20 tipped-in
0 GBP
50 - 80 GBP
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° ° Surtees, Robert Smith - Mr Jorrocks’ Lectors, one of 350, signed and illustrated with 25
0 GBP
60 - 90 GBP
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° ° Wilcox, Ella Wheeler - Poems of Passion and Pleasure, de luxe issue, one of 500, signed by the
0 GBP
150 - 200 GBP
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° ° Early Eighteenth Century Manuscript Cookery. 'Eliz. Wood Her Booke. 1708'. 96pp. used (of
4,200 GBP
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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° ° Christie, Agatha - Towards Zero, 1st edition, 8vo, cloth, in torn, unclipped d/j, ownership
360 GBP
100 - 150 GBP
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° ° Christie, Agatha - 12 works - Partners in Crime, with torn d/j, with loss to spine and lower
700 GBP
80 - 120 GBP
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° ° Walpole, Horace - The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, edited by Peter Cunningham, 9
0 GBP
80 - 120 GBP
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° ° Sheridan, Richard Brinsley - The School for Scandal,de luxe edition, one of 350, signed and
70 GBP
80 - 120 GBP
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° ° Sales prospectus for 3a, Palace Green, Kensington Palace Gardens, London, 2 vols, text by
0 GBP
80 - 120 GBP
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° ° Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice... with a preface by George Sainsbury and illustrations by
1,000 GBP
150 - 250 GBP
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° ° Austen, Jane - Macmillan's Illustrated Standard Novels, comprising: Sense and Sensibility; Emma;
650 GBP
150 - 250 GBP
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° ° Hardy, Thomas - Macmillan's Pocket Hardy. 24 vols. (? ex26). the novels/short stories with the
200 GBP
120 - 180 GBP
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° ° Potter, Beatrix - The Roly-Poly Pudding. First Edition (1st issue), coloured pictorial title, 18
220 GBP
100 - 140 GBP
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° ° Daniel, William Barker - Rural Sports, 3 vols, 8vo, calf gilt line ruled, spotted throughout,
50 GBP
100 - 150 GBP
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° ° Lewis, George. Artist - A Series of Groups Illustrating….the People of France and Germany,
100 GBP
150 - 200 GBP
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° ° Defoe, Daniel - Robinson Crusoe, illustrated by Medland after Stothard, parts 1 & 2 only in 2
180 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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° ° Ireland, John - Hogarth Illustrated, 1st edition, 3 vols, 8vo, calf, with 3 portraits, 3
60 GBP
80 - 120 GBP
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Kipling, Rudyard - Sea and Sussex, one of 500 signed by the author, illustrated with 24 mounted
260 GBP
80 - 120 GBP
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° ° Modern signed 1st editions: Oliver, Jamie, - The Naked Chef, with d/j, 1999; Cartland, Barbara -
40 GBP
40 - 60 GBP
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° ° Modern signed 1st edition - Lyn, Dame Vera - Some Sunny Day, with d/j, 2009
0 GBP
40 - 60 GBP
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