Bellmans Auctioneers and Valuers: Printed Books, Maps and Manuscripts, 120325, Billinghurst, West Sussex

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
December 03, 2025 - December 03, 2025
Page Size: 116 items in 5 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
401 ANGLING - [Edward MARSTON (1825-1914)].

Days in Clover by the Amateur Angler,

London 1892 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
402 ANGLING - Frederic M. HALFORD (1844-1914).

Floating Flies and How to Dress Them. A Treatise on the Most Modern Methods of Dressing Artificial Flies for Trout and Grayling,

London 1886 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
403 ANGLING - H. V. DYKE (1852-1933).

Fisherman's Luck and Some other Uncertain Things,

New York 1911 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
404

ANGLING - The Diary of A. J. Lane ... A Hitherto Unpublished Manuscript by A. J. Lane, Gentleman (1843),

Ellesmere 1995 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 250.00
405 ANGLING - Thomas Tod STODDART (1810-80).

The Art of Angling as Practised in Scotland ... Second Edition

1836 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
406 ANGLING, DRY-FLY FISHING - F. M. HALFORD (1844-1914).

Modern Development of the Dry Fly,

London 1910 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
407 ALDINGTON, Richard (1892-1962).

Images, London, [n.d. but ?1919], 8vo, original paper boards. With 11 other books by the same author, all FIRST EDITIONS. (12)

ALDINGTON, Richard (1892-1962). Images.

London [n.d. but ?1919] GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
408 ASHBEE, C. R. (1863-1942).

The Trinity Hospital in Mile End ... Being the First Monograph of the Committee for the Survey of the Memorials of Greater London,

London 1896 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
409 ASTRONOMY, AMERICAN - John VOSE (1766-1840).

A System of Astronomy, Concord

New Hampshire 1827 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 43.75
410 BARROW, Katherine (1849-1915).

Three Years in Tristan da Cunha,

London 1910 GBP 70.00 - 100.00 GBP 50.00
411 BETJEMAN, John (1906-84).

Continual Dew,

London 1937 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 137.50
412 BINDING - A. F. POLLARD (1869-1948).

Henry VIII,

London 1902 GBP 70.00 - 100.00 GBP 200.00
413 BINDING - John MILTON (1608-74).

Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes, Comus, Arcades, Lycidas, Etc. Etc.

Chiswick 1823 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 212.50
414 BINDING - Julia FRANKAU (1859-1916).

An Eighteenth Century Artist and Engraver. John Raphael Smith. His Life and Works,

London 1902 GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 750.00
415 BINDING - JUVENAL (b.55 A.D.).

Satyrae ... Editio nova,

Amsterdam 1684 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
416 BLAEU, Johannes (1596-1673).

Oxonium comitatus, Vulgo Oxford Shire,

Amsterdam c.1645] GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
417 BLAEU, Johannes (1596-1673)].

AEthiopia superior vel interior,

Amsterdam c. 1645] GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
418 BLUNDEN, Edmund (1896-1974) & Wilfred OWEN (1893-1918).

A one-page autograph letter from Edmund Blunden, and his PROOF COPY of an edition of Wilfred Owen's poems from 1931, and another later edition. (3)

BLUNDEN, Edmund (1896-1974) & Wilfred OWEN (1893-1918).

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,125.00
419 BONNEFOY, Yves (1923-2016).

Pierre Ecrite,

Paris 1969 GBP 70.00 - 100.00 GBP 25.00
420 CANTERBURY - Georg BRAUN (1541-1622) & Franz HOGENBERG (1536-88).

Cantuarbury. Cantuaria urbs fertilissimae Angliae celebris,

Cologne c.1588] GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 475.00
421 CATS, Jacob (1577-1660).

Alle de Wercken,

Amsterdam 1712 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 250.00
422

CHELSEA, LONDON - A Map of Chelsea, Surveyed in the Year 1664 by James Hamilton. Continued to 1717,

London 1810 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 225.00
423 [CHURCHILL, Lady Gwendoline 'Goonie' (1885-1941)].

The Seventh of July 1941,

No place 1941] GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 625.00
424 CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924).

The Rescue,

London 1920 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 56.25
425 COOKERY & HUSBANDRY - [G. MARKHAM (c.1568-1637)].

The English House-Wife,

London 1668 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 600.00
  • 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.
  • 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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