Gorringes: Books & Manuscripts | House & Garden Sales, 61526, Lewes

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
June 15, 2026 - June 15, 2026
Page Size: 73 items in 3 pages
Auction Lot Books
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
  • Sotheby’s Geek Week
    14-15 July
    Sotheby’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.
  • Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, 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. £12,000-18,000
    Forum, 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]. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, 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-£30,000
    Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000
    Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, 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. £50,000-70,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, 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