Gorringes: Coins & Commemorative Medals | House & Garden Sales, 290626, Lewes

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
June 29, 2026 - June 29, 2026
Page Size: 27 items in 2 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1271 Sturm Christopher Christian

Reflections for Every Day in the Year on the Works of God in Nature and Providence

Bungay 1807 GBP 30.00 - 40.00 Not Sold
1273 Gatke Heinrich; Sowerby John E; Lestiboudois Thom; Hayter-James Jane

8 Books, including: Heligoland as an Ornithological Observatory

Edinburgh; Paris; Lille 1895; 1855; 1840; 1991; 1894-1936 GBP 70.00 - 90.00 GBP 52.00
1283

Challenge Globe

N/A GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 78.00
1291 Greene Graham

5 Books, including: Travels with my Aunt

London 1969; 1961; 1966; 1985; 1982 GBP 40.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
1292 Hughson D; Hunter A

The New Family Receipt-Book; Receipts in Modern Cookery

1817; 1820 GBP 80.00 - 100.00 GBP 78.00
1293 Farley John; Hunter A

The London Art of Cookery, and Housekeeper's Complete Assistant; Receipts in Modern Cookery

1792; 1820 GBP 70.00 - 90.00 GBP 195.00
1294 Pryor William

Virginia Woolf and the Raverats: a different sort of friendship

Bath 2003 GBP 60.00 - 90.00 GBP 78.00
1295 Munnings Alfred

The Autobiography

1951-52 GBP 50.00 - 70.00 GBP 32.50
1296 Boswell James

The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson

1785 GBP 50.00 - 70.00 GBP 104.00
1297 Hoole Samuel

Aurelia; or, the Contest: an heroi-comic poem, in four cantos

1783 GBP 40.00 - 50.00 GBP 26.00
1298 Forshaw Joseph M

Parrots of the World

1978; 1981 GBP 40.00 - 50.00 GBP 58.50
1300 Heylyn Peter

Cosmography in Four Books

1677 GBP 80.00 - 100.00 GBP 71.50
1301

The Historical Record of the Imperial Visit to India, 1911

1914 GBP 40.00 - 50.00 GBP 130.00
1313 Collins H.G.

4 Maps, including: England and Wales

c. 1850; 1922; 1956 GBP 40.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
1333

Mogg’s Excursionist Map of 15 Miles Round London

N/A GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 52.00
1354 Walker Andre

Tiwimuta Vol. 1

2002 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
1409 Bacon George

Plan of Edinburgh; Plan of Glasgow

c.1890 GBP 30.00 - 40.00 Not Sold
1410

Dominion of Canada

1882 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 52.00
1675 Philipson Robin; Redpath Anne

Compote of fruit; Corsican Village

N/A GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 130.00
1700 Kneller Godfrey 1646-1723

4 Portrait Engravings

1739-1747 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
1719 Gentleman David 1930-

Ravine

N/A GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 19.50
1728 Le Brun Charles 1619-1690

The Battle of Arbela

N/A GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 65.00
1743

Pair of Victorian ornithological hand coloured prints

N/A GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 130.00
1746 Edwards Lionel 1878-1966

Folio of twelve prints

N/A GBP 70.00 - 90.00 GBP 65.00
2049

Bank of England banknotes

1945 GBP 50.00 - 70.00 GBP 117.00
  • Sotheby’s
    Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone
    25 June – July 7
    Sotheby’s, July 7: Ludwig van Beethoven. Autograph sketches for the overture "Die Weihe des Hauses", op.124, [1822], UNPUBLISHED. £150,000 to £200,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 7: Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice, 1813, first edition, 3 volumes, contemporary half calf. £50,000 to £70,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 7: Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass, Brooklyn, 1855, first edition, first issue, original green cloth, the Doheny copy. £50,000 to £70,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 7: Binding—Sangorski & Sutcliffe—Omar Khayyam. Rubaiyat, London, 1872, third edition, in a magnificent jewelled Peacock binding. £15,000 to £20,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 7: George Eliot. Middlemarch, Edinburgh and London, 1871, first edition in the original parts. £20,000 to £30,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: Hassall (Joan) A large collection of over 300 original woodblocks of engravings for various books, v.d., with Hassall's engraver's glass water-globe (Qty) - Est. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 9: Eragny Press.- [Bradley (Katherine Harris) & Edith Emma Cooper], "Michael Field." Whym Chow, Flame of Love, one of only 27 copies, inscribed by Bradley, the rarest book from the press, 1914. - Est. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, July 9: [Moore (Thomas Sturge)] [Wood Engravings], 71 wood-engravings printed by David Chambers from the original blocks, the only set on Japanese Hosho paper, from an edition of 5 sets, [1970]. - Est. £3,000-4,000
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: La Fontaine (Jean de) Contes et Nouvelles en vers, 2 vol., engraved plates after Eisen, fine early 19th century blue morocco, gilt, by Bradel l'ainé, Amsterdam [Paris], 1762. - Est. £2,000-3,000
    Forum, July 9: Erotica.- Prostitution.- Pretty Women of Paris (The); Their Names and Addresses, Qualities and Faults..., [Paris], privately printed at the Press of the Prefecture de Police, 1883. - Est. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, July 9: Vale Press.- Ricketts (Charles) & Lucien Pissarro. De la Typographie et de l'Harmonie de la Page Imprimée…, [one of 216 copies], bound in dark blue morocco tooled in gilt, by Sarah T.Prideaux, 1898. - Est. £1,000-1,500
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: Martin (John) Illustrations of the Bible, complete set of 20 mezzotints, good impressions, rarely found in early states, [c.1831-1835]. - Est. £1,000-1,500
    Forum, July 9: Golden Cockerel Press.- Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ (The), one of 500 copies, Mary Gill's copy, Waltham St. Lawrence, 1931 with a signed proof of engraving on japon numbered 10/10 (2) - Est. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, July 9: Boccaccio (Giovanni) The Decameron, 3 vol., vol.1 extra-illustrated by John Buckland Wright with c.150 erotic original drawings in pen & ink and pencil, 1886 [extra-illustrated c.1940]. - Est. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: Cox (Morris) Collection of Gogmagog Press Books, 35 vol., rare complete collection of printed books issued by the press, limited editions, most signed by Cox, 1957-83. - Est. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 9: Wynkyn de Worde.- [Terentius Afer (Publius)] [Comedie...], [Paris, Josse Badius: sold in London by Wynkyn de Worde, & others], [15 July 1504]. - Est. £4,000-6,000
    Forum, July 9: Mosley (James) Ornamented Types. Twenty-Three Alphabets from the Foundry of Louis John Pouchée, 2 vol., one of 10 copies for presentation, from an edition of 210, 1992-93. - Est. £1,000-2,000
  • Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Inundation papyrus. P.Michael 4, the ‘Inundation papyrus’, a geographical account of the Nile near Canopus, in Greek, remains of two columns from a manuscript scroll on papyrus, Egypt, second century CE. £12,000-18,000
    Forum, July 16: Book of Hours, use of Sarum, manuscript on vellum, 6 full-page miniatures, with famous Middle English inscriptions, Southern Netherlands for the English market, [c.1430]. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Turner (William). A New boke of the natures and properties of all wines that are commonly vsed here in England, rare first edition of the first English book on wine, By William Seres, 1568. £20,000-£30,000
    Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000
    Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 16: Martial Arts.- Lee (Bruce). 'Praying Mantis style' Kung Fu book, containing numerous annotations, diagrams and graphs in Bruce Lee's hand, c. 1960. £50,000-70,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Mao Tse-tung.- Kim Il-sung.-[Note book for visitors from China to Korea], signed by Mao and Kim, [Beijing, 1954]. £10,000-15,000