Gorringes: Weekly House & Gardens Sale featuring Militaria & Medals, 102025, Lewes

Auction Details

Auction Date: October 20, 2025 - October 20, 2025

Page Size: 74 items in 3 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1296		A group of sixteen Zulu War related magic lantern slides,			GBP 60.00 - 80.00	GBP 39.00
1302		Four early 20th century photograph albums of military, naval and aviation interest,			GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 97.50
1303		An archive of medals, papers and photographs, mainly relating to Captain Edwin Herbert 'Teddy' Bath, of the Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's),			GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 84.50
1358	Attributed to G F Watts (1817-1904)	a pencil sketch design for the Elcho Shield, National Rifle Association prize for Long Range Shooting, sketch, framed together with two clippings from a related article		c.1861	GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 208.00
1361		A framed WWI German Service Certificate awarded to Unteroffizier Mullback			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 39.00
1366		A WRAC military interest poster,			GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 45.50
1425		Mozart interest, four leather bound vols, Publ by Mannheim to include Mozart Sonatas			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 39.00
1438		Two Victorian Stevengraphs comprising The Good Old Days and The Present Time			GBP 40.00 - 60.00	GBP 71.50
1487	Joppien, Rudiger & Smith, Bernard	The Art of Captain Cook's Voyages ... 3 vols (in 4).		1985-88.	GBP 80.00 - 100.00	GBP 156.00
1489	[Hawkes, John]	The Meynellian Science; or, Fox-Hunting upon the System. (2nd edition).		1848	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	GBP 78.00
1490	Septuagenarian	Fox Hunting Sixty Years Ago. Described in the account of two celebrated runs in Leicestershire & Warwickshire from Billesdon Coplow and Epwell Gorse ...			GBP 50.00 - 70.00	GBP 123.50
1491	Britton, John	Cathedral Antiquities of Great Britain, 6 vols.,		variously dated: 1814-35	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 91.00
1493	Britton, John	The Fine Arts of the English School ... from paintings, sculpture, and architecture ... with ample biographical, critical, and descriptive essays ...		1812	GBP 50.00 - 70.00	Not Sold
1494	David, Andrew (editor)	The Charts & Coastal Views of Captain Cook's Voyages ... 3 vols.		1988-97.	GBP 80.00 - 100.00	GBP 208.00
1520		An unusual sampler by Nicholas Scott,		1801	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 110.50
1523		A King James Bible	Edinburgh	1795	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 65.00
1533	Whymper, Frederick	Travel and Adventure in the Territory of Alaska ... and in other parts of the North Pacific.		1868	GBP 50.00 - 70.00	Not Sold
1534	Bestall, Alfred	Five Rupert Annuals, for 1946; 1948; 1949; 1952; 1954		for 1946; 1948; 1949; 1952; 1954	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	GBP 45.50
1535	[Surtees, John	Sporting Novels], subscriber's edition, 6 vols.		?ca.1900	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	GBP 123.50
1536	[Markham, Gervase	A Way to Get Wealth ... the eighth time corrected ...		1653	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 442.00
1537	[Beckford, Peter]	Italy; with Sketches of Spain and Portugal ...		1834	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	GBP 39.00
1538	Trollope, T(homas) Adolphus	A Summer in Brittany, edited by Franses Trollope	London,	1840	GBP 50.00 - 70.00	GBP 104.00
1539	Dickens, Charles	The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.		1839	GBP 70.00 - 90.00	GBP 91.00
1540	Greene, Graham	The Third Man and the Fallen Idol.		1950	GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 65.00
1541	Christian, Tina Chad	Baby Love.		1968	GBP 70.00 - 90.00	GBP 45.50

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Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 156: Cornelis de Jode, Americae pars Borealis, double-page engraved map of North America, Antwerp, 1593.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 206: John and Alexander Walker, Map of the United States, London and Liverpool, 1827.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 223: Abraham Ortelius, Typus Orbis Terrarum, hand-colored double-page engraved world map, Antwerp, 1575.

Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 233: Aaron Arrowsmith, Chart of the World, oversize engraved map on 8 sheets, London, 1790 (circa 1800).

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 239: Fielding Lucas, A General Atlas, 81 engraved maps and diagrams, Baltimore, 1823.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 240: Anthony Finley, A New American Atlas, 15 maps engraved by james hamilton young on 14 double-page sheets, Philadelphia, 1826.

Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 263: John Bachmann, Panorama of the Seat of War, portfolio of 4 double-page chromolithographed panoramic maps, New York, 1861.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 265: Sebastian Münster, Cosmographei, Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1558.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 271: Abraham Ortelius, Epitome Theatri Orteliani, Antwerp: Johann Baptist Vrients, 1601.

Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 283: Joris van Spilbergen, Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae, Leiden: Nicolaus van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 285: Levinus Hulsius, Achtzehender Theil der Newen Welt, 14 engraved folding maps, Frankfurt: Johann Frederick Weiss, 1623.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 341: John James Audubon, Carolina Parrot, Plate 26, London, 1827.
SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
The Odfjell Collection
Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
Ending December 4th

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON: «The heart of the Antarctic» + SUPPLEMENT «The Antarctic Book», 1909.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.

SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
The Odfjell Collection
Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
Ending December 4th

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ELEAZAR ALBIN: «A natural History of Birds.» + «A Supplement», 1738-40. Wonderful coloured plates.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: PAUL GAIMARD: «Voyage de la Commision scientific du Nord, en Scandinavie, […]», c. 1842-46. ONLY HAND COLOURED COPY KNOWN WITH TWO ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY BIARD.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: JAMES JOYCE: «Ulysses», 1922. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS.
Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1997, first edition, hardback issue, inscribed by the author pre-publication. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Autograph sketchleaf including a probable draft for the E flat Piano Quartet, K.493, 1786. £150,000 to £200,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Hooke, Robert. Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667. $12,000 to $15,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Chappuzeau, Samuel. The history of jewels, first edition in English. London: T.N. for Hobart Kemp, 1671. $12,000 to $18,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Sowerby, James. Exotic Mineralogy, containing his most realistic mineral depictions, London: Benjamin Meredith, 1811, Arding and Merrett, 1817. $5,000 to $7,000.