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

Auction Details

Auction Report
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
1542 Randall Stevens, H.C.

Atlantis to the Latter Days.

1966 GBP 50.00 - 70.00 GBP 45.50
1543

The Sporting Repository ...

1904 GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 45.50
1544 Forester, C.S.

The African Queen.

1935 GBP 50.00 - 70.00 GBP 143.00
1545 Glasse, Hannah

The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy ... facsimile edition.

1983 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 39.00
1546 Doyle, Arthur Conan

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.

1894 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
1547 [Green, Frank]

A Journey through Bosnia, Herzegovina, and Dalmatia.

1928 GBP 50.00 - 70.00 Not Sold
1550 Field, George

Chromatography. A treatise on colours and pigments and of their powers in painting.

(ca.1890) GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 26.00
1553 Delpech, Francois-Seraphin

Iconographie Contemporains ...

Paris, 1832 GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 84.50
1580

Valencia folio of twelve engravings with book

GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 104.00
1582 Society of Dilettanti;

Specimens of Antient Sculpture, Aegyptian, Etruscan, Greek, and Roman: selected from different collections in Great Britain. vol. 1 (only, of 2).

1809 GBP 80.00 - 100.00 GBP 104.00
1601 [Diego Ros de Medrano]

Funeral Illustrado del Excelentissimo, y Venerable Siervo de Dios, el Senor D. Diego Ros de Medrano ... elogios de su fama postuma, y gloriso panegyrico ... portrait,

Granada: 1714 GBP 50.00 - 70.00 GBP 45.50
1602 [Thomas, Dylan]

Wales. No.1, Summer 1937

1937 GBP 50.00 - 70.00 GBP 91.00
1603

An album of Edwardian and later postcards

GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 78.00
1611

An Edwardian decorated photograph album relating to Oriel College, University of Oxford & Westminster School,

GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 260.00
1613

Kent 18th Century Taxation

18th Century GBP 70.00 - 90.00 GBP 117.00
1614 After Birkett Foster,

seventeen folio of engravings.

GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 65.00
1734 After Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677),

'The Cathedral Church of Antwerp',

GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 52.00
1735 After John Frederick Lewis RA (1804-1876),

'La Plaza de San Francisco, Seville',

GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 104.00
1737 After Jane Loudon (1807-1858),

three botanical interest colour lithographs, two published by Day and Haghe

GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 65.00
1738 Robert Modern (1650-1703),

Durham and The West Riding of Yorkshire',

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 52.00
1741 After Jonas Umbach the elder; and after Adriaen van der Cabel

'Italian Landscape with Ruins', and Landscape with woman Walking Along the River

GBP 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
1742 After William Hogarth (1697-1764),

'The Sleeping Congregation',

1736, 1762 GBP 120.00 - 180.00 GBP 78.00
1745 Ogata Gekko (1859-1920),

Wisteria and carp,

GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 221.00
1746 20th century, Chinese School,

Riverscape with figures and pagodas

GBP 40.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
1748 Rose Blake (b.1987),

'Artists Only',

GBP 50.00 - 70.00 Not Sold
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    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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