Gorringes: Weekly House & Gardens Sale featuring Music, Science & Natural History, 120825, Lewes

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
December 08, 2025 - December 08, 2025
Page Size: 31 items in 2 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
31

A rectangular 'Rinso' enamelled advertising sign and a cast iron sign 'Beware of Trains'

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
414 Peter Baldwin.

Five card toy theatres and a book The World of Toy Theatres, by Peter Baldwin.

GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 156.00
416

A collection of antique reference books on furniture, treen, Charles Horner, Lowestoft

GBP 50.00 - 70.00 GBP 123.50
418

Five 19th century reverse glass painted prints to include after Amiconi, 'See Europe Here!',

19th century GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 624.00
462 Quiller-Couch, Sir Artur; Dulac, Edmund.

Sleeping beauty and Other Fairy Tales...; Picture Book for the French Red Cross.

GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 104.00
463 Chadwyck Healey, Charles E.H.

The History of the Part of West Somerset Comprising the Parishes of Luccombe, Selworthy, Stoke Pero, Porlock (etc).

1901 GBP 40.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
465

The Vanity Fair Album... with biographical and critical notices. (first series), vol.1

GBP 80.00 - 100.00 GBP 78.00
468 Webster, Sir Charles. Frankland, Noble.

Strategic Air Offensive Against Germany, 1939-1945.

1961 GBP 50.00 - 60.00 GBP 32.50
469 Stoker, Bram.

Dracula

1913 GBP 50.00 - 60.00 GBP 65.00
470 [Beeton, Isabella].

Mrs Beeton's Household Management.

(c. 1925) GBP 40.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
471 Kinglake, Alexander William -

The Invasion of the Crimea... down to the death of Lord Raglan.

1863-87. GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 84.50
508

Two early 20th century stamped leather books with illuminated pages, calligraphy and floral designs

early 20th century GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 110.50
512

Juvenile Drama: five boxes of toy theatre printed and coloured reproduction character printed back grounds

GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 975.00
516

Sun Fire Office Insurance policy dated 1797, for Thomas Burges of Banbury

1797 GBP 20.00 - 30.00 GBP 26.00
517

A framed botanical print, circular mirror, floral wood block and a set of 6 metal place mats

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 26.00
520 Thackeray, William Makepeace

Thackeray, William Makepeace - The Works of ....

1878-79 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 546.00
523

A collection of Ordnance Survey maps, including; Pathfinder 1:25,000 second series,

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 39.00
525

A case and a half of Noval, LB Port (seventeen bottles, boxed)

GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 234.00
531 Treves, Toby.

Peter Lanyon: Catalogue Raisonne of Oil Paintings and Three Dimensional Works.

GBP 100.00 - 140.00 GBP 65.00
533

Masayuki Miyata Kirie (paper cut) Art Collection. (Limited portfolio edition).

GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 71.50
740 After John Speed (1552-1629),

hand coloured engraved map of Yorkshire

GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 84.50
753

Vanity Fair Twelve caricatures, To include nine by SPY (Leslie Matthew Ward)

GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 104.00
754

Four Vanity Fair lithographs to include 'Rufus', 'Tony' and 'Coqueline Aine'

GBP 60.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
758

Four hunting interest prints after Snaffles, Munnings and Aldin to include 'The Finest View in Europe' and 'The Huntsman',

GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 65.00
771 Robert Ryan (b.1962),

'We are all part of each other...' signed and numbered 3/200 to the margin,

GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 52.00
  • Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary pair of books from George Washington’s field library, marking the conjunction of Robert Rogers, George Washington, and Henry Knox. $1,200,000 to $1,800,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary letter marking the conjunction of George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette, and Benjamin Franklin. $1,000,000 to $1,500,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: Virginia House of Delegates. The genesis of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. $350,000 to $500,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: (Gettysburg). “Genl. Doubleday has taken charge of the battle”: Autograph witness to the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, illustrated by fourteen maps and plans. $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: President Lincoln thanks a schoolboy on behalf of "all the children of the nation for his efforts to ensure "that this war shall be successful, and the Union be maintained and perpetuated." $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: [World War II]. An archive of maps and files documenting the allied campaign in Europe, from the early stages of planning for D-Day and Operation Overlord, to Germany’s surrender. $200,000 to $300,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Plato. [Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera], 2 parts in 2 vol., editio princeps of Plato's works in the original Greek, Venice, House of Aldus, 1513. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Book of Hours, Use of Rome, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges), c.1460]. £6,000-8,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Correspondence and documents by or addressed to the first four Viscounts Molesworth and members of their families, letters and manuscripts, 1690-1783. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Shakespeare (William). The Dramatic Works, 9 vol., John and Josiah Boydell, 1802. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Joyce (James). Ulysses, first edition, one of 750 copies on handmade paper, Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1922 £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Powell (Anthony). [A Dance to the Music of Time], 12 vol., first editions, each with a signed presentation inscription from the author to Osbert Lancaster, 1951-75. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Chaucer (Geoffrey). Troilus and Criseyde, one of 225 copies on handmade paper, wood-engravings by Eric Gill, Waltham St.Lawrence, 1927. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Borges (Jorge Luis). Luna de Enfrente, first edition, one of 300 copies, presentation copy signed by the author to Leopoldo Marechal, Buenos Aires, Editorial Proa, 1925. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Nolli (Giovanni Battista). Nuova Pianta di Roma, Rome, 1748. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Roberts (David). The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia, 3 vol., first edition, 1842-49. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Blacker (William). Catechism of Fly Making, Angling and Dyeing, Published by the author, 1843. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Herschel (Sir John F. W.) Collection of 69 offprints, extracts and separate publications by Herschel, bound for his son, William James Herschel, 3 vol., [1813-50]. £15,000-20,000
  • Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 26. Company School. An album of 85 Indian mica paintings, Madras, c. 1852. £700-1,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 28. Ross & Hooker. Notes on the Botany of the Antarctic Voyage, 1st edition, 1843. £4,000-6,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 44. Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 volumes, 1st edition, 1862-73. £30,000-40,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 72. Edwards (George). A Natural History of Uncommon Birds… [and] Gleanings of Natural History, 7 volumes, 1st edition, 1743-64. £7,000-10,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 87. Walcott (Charles D. et al.). Geologic Atlas of the United States, 227-volume set, U.S. Geological Survey, 1894-1945. £500-800
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 236. A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew…, By B. E. Gent., 1st edition, [1699]. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 245. Frost Fair Broadside. Upon the Frost in the Year 1739-40, Printed on the Ice upon the Thames at Queen-Hithe, 1739/40. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 270. Micheli (Antonino di). La Nuova Chitarra di Regole…, 1st edition, Palermo, 1680. £10,000-15,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 280. Elgar (Edward). Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, [1910], signed presentation copy. £500-800
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 282 - Griffes (Charles). Autograph Manuscript Score for Overture to Hänsel und Gretel, c. 1910. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 304. Churchill (Winston). A terracotta maquette of Churchill by Oscar Nemon, c. 1955. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 364 - Russian Imperial Archaeological Commission. Mecheti Samarkanda..., Fascicule I Gour-Emir, St. Petersburg, 1905. £2,000-3,000