Gorringes: Toys & Transport | House & Garden Sales, 22326, Lewes

Auction Details

Auction Date: February 23, 2026 - February 23, 2026

Page Size: 55 items in 3 pages

Lot Number	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
138	Three small enamel motoring signs; a Champion Spark Plug service advertising disc	N/A	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	GBP 58.50
139	A circular enamel Chevrolet Super Service advertising sign	N/A	GBP 50.00 - 70.00	GBP 45.50
140	A circular enamel Wakefield Castrol Motor Oil advertising sign	N/A	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 123.50
141	A collection of approximately 238 mid-20th century Ordnance Survey maps	N/A	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	GBP 65.00
151	A South Eastern Railway porter's cast arm badge	N/A	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	Not Sold
154	A Stanford's Road and Railway Map of England and Wales	N/A	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	GBP 45.50
155	A mid 19th century map of the London and Birmingham Railway	N/A	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 286.00
156	A set of three Ordnance Survey maps mounted on linen of part of East Anglia	N/A	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	GBP 39.00
157	A mid-19th century Bradshaw's Railways of Great Britain	N/A	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 494.00
158	A 1920s archive of motorcycle speed trails relating to Leonard Frederick Peaty	N/A	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 286.00
159	A 1930s Australia Orient Line lithograph travel poster	N/A	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 468.00
160	A 1930s Orient Line Australia lithograph travel poster	N/A	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 364.00
161	A London Transport lithograph advertising poster	N/A	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 520.00
162	London Transport Green Line lithograph poster	N/A	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 286.00
163	A late 19th century framed W. & A.K. Johnston's Railway Map of England & Wales (eighth edition)	N/A	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	GBP 234.00
164	A British Railways original advertising poster	N/A	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 494.00
167	A BR(S) enamel railway sign; BRITISH RAILWAYS ADISHAM STATION	N/A	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 416.00
168	A Southern Railway enamel railway sign; WAITING ROOM	N/A	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 221.00
169	A BR(S) enamel railway sign; TUNBRIDGE WELLS TRAINS LEAVE THIS STATION	N/A	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 364.00
170	A South Eastern & Chatham Railway enamel sign	N/A	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 208.00
171	A part section of a South Eastern & Chatham Railway enamel sign; CHATHAM RAILWAY	N/A	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	GBP 84.50
172	A SE&CR quad royal enamel station poster board heading; SOUTH EASTERN & CHATHAM RAILWAY	N/A	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 195.00
173	A Southern Railway enamel station sign; SOUTHERN	N/A	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	GBP 123.50
174	A Southern Railway enamel sign; TRAIN SERVICE	N/A	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 312.00
175	A BR(S) enamel railway sign; LADIES ROOM	N/A	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 260.00

ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000.
Sotheby’s
Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
Open for Bidding 2-17 April

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.