Gorringes: Books & Manuscripts | House & Garden Sales, 61526, Lewes
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- June 15, 2026 - June 15, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1147 | Couchman H.G | India Showing the Railways |
1935 | GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 52.00 | |
| 1147A | N Books, including: Engraved maps of Greece |
N/A | GBP 50.00 - 70.00 | GBP 39.00 | ||
| 1148 | Collins Greenvile | The Islands of Scilly |
N/A | GBP 120.00 - 180.00 | GBP 182.00 | |
| 1149 | Visscher Nicholas | Map of Russia |
18th century | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | GBP 312.00 | |
| 1150 | Bowen Thomas (1733?-1790) | 8 Books, including: Maps of countries and continents |
N/A | GBP 40.00 - 70.00 | GBP 78.00 | |
| 1352 | French postcard album |
1920s | GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | GBP 195.00 | ||
| 1369 | Album of postcards |
early 20th century; 1937 | GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | GBP 130.00 | ||
| 1381 | Mr Hicks as Will Steady; Mr O. Smith as Mammon |
N/A | GBP 50.00 - 70.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 1412 | Acton Eliza | Modern Cookery, for Private Families |
1877 | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | GBP 52.00 | |
| 1443 | Lubback Basil | Sail: the Romance of the Clipper Ships |
1972; 1927-36 | GBP 1,927.00 - 36.00 | GBP 26.00 | |
| 1444 | Mallalieu H.L.; Wood Christopher; Holmes; Littlejohn | 5 Books, including: The Dictionary of British Watercolour Artisits up to 1920 |
1976-79; 1978; 1906; 1931 | GBP 1,976.00 - 79.00 | GBP 26.00 | |
| 1456 | Dante; Pepys; Myrone; Concannon; Blake William; Dali | 7 Books, including: Dante's Divine Comedy |
1660–1669 | GBP 1,660.00 - 1,669.00 | GBP 260.00 | |
| 1529 | The Common Wax Seal of the Mayoralty of London |
London | mid 16th century | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 364.00 | |
| 1549 | Cavedaschi Ron | Portfolio of gelatin silver prints |
1974 | GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold | |
| 1562 | Collection of books relating to cartography and scientific instruments |
N/A | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 123.50 | ||
| 1564 | Yokohama Earthquake 1923 |
1923 | GBP 50.00 - 100.00 | GBP 416.00 | ||
| 1574 | Kings Head Free House enamel sign |
N/A | GBP 180.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 1578 | Collection of photographs and postcards of views and everyday life |
N/A | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 1,430.00 | ||
| 1579 | Collection of postcards |
c. 1900-1940 | GBP 1,900.00 - 1,940.00 | GBP 975.00 | ||
| 1707 | Clarke Graham (b.1941) | Morning; Noon; Evening; Night |
N/A | GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 182.00 | |
| 1709 | Lawrence John (b.1933) | John Clare's England |
N/A | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | GBP 19.50 | |
| 1711 | Wyllie William Lionel (1851-1931) | The Masted Barque and Boats |
N/A | GBP 1,851.00 - 1,931.00 | GBP 71.50 | |
| 1719 | Palmer Simon (b.1956) | The Town Boys |
N/A | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | GBP 26.00 | |
| 1727 | Jackson Raymond (1927-1997) | It doesn't bother me dear - I'm Danish! |
N/A | GBP 1,927.00 - 1,997.00 | Not Sold | |
| 1730 | Kasamatsu Shiro (1898-1991) | Gathering of Sea Cormorants |
N/A | GBP 1,898.00 - 1,991.00 | GBP 208.00 |
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Sotheby’s Geek Week
14-15 JulySotheby’s, July 14: Henry De La Beche. "Awful Changes," 1830. $6,000 to $9,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: [Apollo 11]. Flight Plan, Complete Original Printing Signed by Buzz Aldrin. $5,000 to $8,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: Thomas Alva Edison. Documents Establishing and Ending the Edison Electric Railway Company. $20,000 to $30,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: Richard P. Feynman. Feynman's Lectures on Gravitation 1-16, Including the Original Transcriptions of Lectures 12-16 by Morinigo and Wagner, With Richard Feynman's Manuscript Notations, 1971. $12,000 to $18,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: [Apollo 9]. A Group of Manuals and Mission Documents used by Stuart Roosa as a member of the Astronaut Support Crew. $5,000 to $8,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: [BYTE: The Small Systems Journal]. A collection of early foundational issues of Byte: The Small Systems Journal, with rare hardcover editions. $5,000 to $8,000. -
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July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Inundation papyrus. P.Michael 4, the ‘Inundation papyrus’, a geographical account of the Nile near Canopus, in Greek, remains of two columns from a manuscript scroll on papyrus, Egypt, second century CE. £12,000-18,000Forum, July 16: Book of Hours, use of Sarum, manuscript on vellum, 6 full-page miniatures, with famous Middle English inscriptions, Southern Netherlands for the English market, [c.1430]. £30,000-50,000Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
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July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Turner (William). A New boke of the natures and properties of all wines that are commonly vsed here in England, rare first edition of the first English book on wine, By William Seres, 1568. £20,000-£30,000Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
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July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 16: Martial Arts.- Lee (Bruce). 'Praying Mantis style' Kung Fu book, containing numerous annotations, diagrams and graphs in Bruce Lee's hand, c. 1960. £50,000-70,000Forum Auctions
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July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000Forum, July 16: Mao Tse-tung.- Kim Il-sung.-[Note book for visitors from China to Korea], signed by Mao and Kim, [Beijing, 1954]. £10,000-15,000