Gorringes Weekly Auction Including a Fine Selection of Books - Monday 10th December 2018

London Record Society - Monographs, gilt cloth, 20 various vols (no's 2-32, 1966-95)' Calendar of Letter Books ... of the City of London, edited b...

London - A miscellany of (mostly) older books; with a few interesting others added (71 books)Mostly reasonably good, including Parsons - The Histo...

Bayley, John - The History and Antiquities of the Tower of London, with biographical anecdotes ... deduced from records, state-papers, and manuscr...

Thomas, A.H. & Thornley, I.D. - editors, The Great Chronicle of London, limited edition (of 500 numbered copies), 10 facsimile plates: publishers ...

Wheatley, Henry B. - London Past and Present; It's history, associations, and traditions ... First Edition, 3 vols, earlier 20th century, maroon h...

Defoe, Daniel - A Tour Thro' London About The Year 1725, being letter V and parts of letter VI of 'A Tour Thro' The Whole Island of Great Britain ...

Stow, John - The Survey of London: containing the original, increase, moderne estate, and government of that City, methodically set downe ... (4th...

Mayhew, Henry and Binny, J - The Criminal Prisons of London, First edition, folded frontis and approx. 50 other wood engraved plates, advertisemen...

Mayhew, Henry - London Labour and The London Poor; the condition and earnings of those that will work, cannot work, and will not work, (?2nd editi...

Fitzgerald, Percy - Chronicles of Bow Street Police Office. With an account of the magistrates, "runners", and police ... First edition, 2 vols, 2...

Maitland, William - The History of London, from its Foundation by the Romans to the Present Time ... with several accounts of Westminster, Middles...

Hind, Arthur M - Wenceslaus Hollar and His Views of London and Windsor in the Seventeenth Century, numerous plates, gilt buckram, 4to, 1992; Welch...

(Douce, Francis, editior) - The Custom of London, otherwise called Arnold's Chronicle ..., reprinted from the first edition, with the additions in...

Bray, William, editor - Memoirs Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn ... Comprising His Diary ... and a selection of His Familiar ...

Macaulay (Lord) - The History of England ... 8 vols, gilt ruled polished calf, gilt decorated and panelled spines with red and green labels, marbl...

Gibbon, Edward - The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, new edition, 8 vols, portrait and folded maps; contemporary gilt ruled d...

Daudet, Alphones - Tartarin sur les Alpes; nouveaux exploits du heros tarasconnais. Edition du Figaro, coloured plates and other illus.; contempor...

Bindings - including Evelyn's Diary (edited Wm.Bray), 4 vols, green half levant morocco and marbled boards, panelled spines, marbled endpapers and...

Bindings - including Whiston's Josephus, 4 vols, blind and gilt decorated black / brown calf, Glasgow, 1818-1820; Clerk's Works of William Hogarth...

Leatherbound - some 19 various titles (46 books) Mostly reasonably good and mostly 19th century, cr.8vo. or smaller sizes

Leatherbound - 13 various titles (in 38 vols) (42 books) Mostly reasonably good (a step up from 'old leather'), mostly 19th century and larger 8vo...

Leatherbound - Continental Editions, mostly 18th and 19th centuries (55 books) Mostly reasonably good condition, mostly 8vo. sizes approx.  

Trollope, Anthony - Orley Farm, 2 vols, 40 plates, by J.E Millais, no title page in vol 2, half calf and cloth, gilt decorated and panelled spines...

M'Leod, John - Voyage of His Majesty's Ship Alceste, to China, Corea and the Island of Lewchew, with an account of her shipwreck. 3rd edition, por...

Shoberl, Frederic, editor - The World in Miniature: Persia, containing a brief description of the country ... 3 vols, 30 coloured plates, contempo...

Austen, Jane - Sense and Sensibility, Clarke's Cabinet Edition, 2 vols, 239 & 244pp, contemporary green half calf and marbled boards, gilt and bli...

Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice, A Novel, Clarke's Cabinet Edition, 2 vols (3), 229 (3) & 247pp (lacking half titles), contemporary green half ...

The Studio - An Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art, vols I - LXVII (lacking only 52, 63, 65 and 66) 1893 - 1916, with also vols LXXII - ...

Colling, James R - Gothic Ornaments, being a series of examples enriched details and accessories of the architecture of Great Britain. First editi...

Shaw, Henry - Illuminated Ornaments Selected from Manuscripts and Early Printed Books from the Sixth to the Seventeenth Centuries. With descriptio...

Pain, William - The Practical House Carpenter; or, Youth's Instructor; containing a great variety of useful designs in carpentry and architecture ...

Chippendale, Thomas - Chippendale's One Hundred and Thirty Three Designs of Interior Decorations in Old French and Antique Styles ... engraved pic...

(Lethaby, W.R.) Ernest Gimson: his life and work, limited edition (500 numbered copies), pictorial title, 60 collotype plates, text illus., publis...

Jourdain, M. - English Decorative Plasterwork of the Renaissance, numerous plates & other illus.; gilt cloth, 4to, re-issued, 1933; Ramsey, Stanle...

Old Leather & Cloth - A miscellany including Tredgold's Elementary Principles of Carpentry ... 2nd edition, corrected and enlarged, 22 plates (3 f...

Ayling, Stephen - Photographs from Sketches by Augustus Welby N. Pugin. First edition, 2 vols, mounted frontis, 500 numbered small photographs mou...

Antiques and Related Books - A modern miscellany Nearly all good condition, incl. Allix's Carriage Clocks (1974), Goodison's Ormolu: the work of M...

Sowerby, J. and Others. English Botany ... 3rd edition, edited by J.T. Boswell Syme, vols 1-11 (ex.13), several hundred hand coloured plates; publ...

Froger, Francois - A Relation of a Voyage made in the Years 1695, 1696, 1697 on the Coast of Africa, Streights of Magellan ..., 1st edition in Eng...

Wolf, Joseph - Elliot, Daniel Giraud - The Life and Habits of Wild Animals, folio, original green cloth, with 20 plates. London 1874 ...[more]

A mid 19th century album of engravings and aquatints, including a view of Mont-Blanc, Life Guards and Lancer and Battle scenes ...[more]

Brunhoff, Jean de - Babor The King, folio, pictorial boards, London 1936, together with 5 Orlando The Marmalade Cat works by Hale, Kathleen, all f...

Woodward, George Moutard - Eccentric Excursions; or Literary and Pictorial Sketches, quarto, half calf, somewhat disbound with many loose and ragg...

A collection of children's books, including:- Andersen, Hans - Little Thumb, illustrated with 9 chromolithographs by Laura Troubridge; Meggendorfe...

Parker, B - Lays of The Grays, oblong quarto, original pictorial boards, with 12 full page chromolitho's of elephants at home and play, London [19...

Childhood's - Childhood's Golden Tales, folio, original cloth with pictorial front board, with 12 coloured plates, some page edges repaired, Dean ...

[Colour plate] - Picture Gallery of Pets, 18 chromolitho's on stiff boards, large square quarto, Ernest Nister, London and E.P. Dutton & Co., New ...

Parker, B - Cinderella at The Zoo, illustrated by N. Parker, with 16 chromolitho's, quarto, spine chipped, London [c.1916] ...[more]

Bond, Francis - An Introduction to English Church Architecture, 2 vols, quarto, cloth, London 1913, Mempes, Mortimer - Japan, 1903 and India, 1905...

Royal Academy Pictures, quarto, cloth for years 1899-1904, 1906 and 1908 (8) ...[more]

Fulton, Robert - The Illustrated Book of Pigeons, quarto, original cloth, hinges weak, with 50 chromolithograph plates, London [c.1870's], togethe...

Sassoon, Siegfried - Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, illustrated by Barnett Freedman, with 15 coloured plates, London 1931 and 2 others, by Sassoo...

Sackville-West, Victoria - The Garden, 1st edition, original cloth, number 707 of 750, signed by the author, London 1946, The Land 1936, Another W...

Bell, Adrian - 22 novels, sold as seen, comprising: - Corduroy, First illustrated edition, The Bodley Head 1948- Silver Ley, First illustrated edi...

Giles, Carl - Daily Express and Sunday Express Cartoons, 1st - 50th Series, oblong quarto, original wraps, London 1946-1989 ...[more]

Le Carre, John - The Looking Glass War, First edition, in clipped, slightly torn d.j., small hole to half title, William Heinemann, London 1965 ....

Le Carre, John - A Small Town in Germany, first edition, in d.j., William Heinemann, London 1968 ...[more]

Le Carre, John - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, first edition, William Heinemann, London 1974 and 4 others: Call for the Dead 1983; The Spy who came i...

The Book of Common Prayer ... and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church ... together with the Psalter ... contemporary red calf, gilt roll bord...

Hope, Sir William - The Compleat Horseman; Discovering the Surest Marks of the Beauty, Goodness, Faults and Imperfections of Horses ... by Sieur S...