Tooveys: Antiquarian and Collectors' Books, 112625, West Sussex

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
November 26, 2025 - November 26, 2025
Page Size: 216 items in 9 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
4051 H.C. WYLLY (compiler)

SIGNED BOOK. -- The 1st and 2nd Battalions The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) In the Great War

London, Portsmouth and Aldershot [1926] GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 37.50
4052 Henry F. NORBURY

SIGNED BOOK. -- The Naval Brigade in South Africa

London GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 450.00
4053 KEARSLEY, George (publisher)

The Copper Plate Magazine; or, Monthly Treasure, for the Admirers of the Imitative Arts

London 1778 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 150.00
4054 A.H. THOMAS and I.D. THORNLEY (editors)

LONDON. -- The Great Chronicle of London

London and Aylesbury 1938 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
4055 MACKINNON, J.P. and Sydney SHADBOLT

The South African Campaign

London 1879 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
4056 W.B. YEATS and Edward John ELLIS (editors)

BLAKE, William. -- The Works of William Blake, Poetic, Symbolic, and Critical

London 1893 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 687.50
4057 J.M. BARRIE

THOMSON, Hugh (illustrator). -- Quality Street. A Comedy in Four Acts

[London] [circa 1913] GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 75.00
4058 Laurence BINYON

BLAKE, William. -- Illustrations of the Book of Job

London 1906 GBP 50.00 - 70.00 GBP 93.75
4059 TUER, Andrew W

History of the Horn-Book

London 1897 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
4060 Charles HOLME and Geoffrey Charles HOLME (editors)

THE STUDIO. -- The Studio, an Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art

London April 1893-May 1919 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 137.50
4061 SHAKESPEARE, William

The Works of Shakespear

Oxford 1771-1770 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 GBP 1,625.00
4062 ALIGHIERI, Dante

La Vita Nuova. The New Life...

Coventry [1915] GBP 50.00 - 70.00 GBP 125.00
4063 Richard WAGNER

RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator). -- [The Ring of the Niblung]

London 1910-1911 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 212.50
4064 DONALDSON, Julia

The Gruffalo

London 2007 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 312.50
4065 ASHBEE, C.R.

The Conradin: A Philosophical Ballad

Gloucestershire, Broad Campden 1908 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 312.50
4066 ASHBEE, C.R.

'Grannie', a Victorian Cameo

Oxford 1939 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 106.25
4067 ASHBEE, C.R.

Craftsmanship in Competitive Industry

[London] [1908] GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 175.00
4068 NASH, Paul (illustrator)

Genesis

[London] 1924 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,062.50
4069 MORRIS, Ethel Jackson

The White Butterfly and Other Fairy Tales

Melbourne 1921 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 150.00
4070 Jeff ROVIN (editor)

COMICS. -- Devilina

New York Jan-May 1975 GBP 50.00 - 70.00 GBP 37.50
4071 HUTTON, William

An History of Brimingham to the End of the Year 1780

Birmingham 1781 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 106.25
4072 MORRIS, Francis Orpen

A Natural History of British Moths

London 1872 GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 162.50
4073 HUMPHREYS, Henry Noel and John Obadiah WESTWOOD

British Moths and Their Transformations

London 1849 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 300.00
4074 George Henry ROBERTSON

MANUSCRIPT. -- [A hand-written diary of a tour around Europe by Brigadier General George H. Robertson]

[N.p.] [January-October 1845] GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 1,875.00
4075 P.G. WODEHOUSE and Owen B. HOWELL

TYPESCRIPT. -- Money in the Bank

[New York and Middlesex, N.p.] [1955] GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 250.00
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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