Gorringes Antiques Sale - Monday 21st September 2020

A pair of 17th century Italian armchairs, a.f. ...[more]

A pair of gilt French armchairs ...[more]

A Regency mahogany commode chest, width 70cm, depth 44cm, height 79cm ...[more]

An 18th century oak side table, W.74cm, D.57cm, H.72cm ...[more]

A 17th century large oak court cupboard, W.186cm, D.53cm, H.155cm ...[more]

A Caucasian design geometric carpet, 380 x 263cmCONDITION: Generally faded and needs a thorough clean. Two thirds of the area has minor moth dama...

A Caucasian rug, 260 x 134cm ...[more]

A 19th century butler's tray and stand, W.69cm, D.46cm, H.76cm ...[more]

A Victorian inlaid walnut Davenport, W.54cm, D.52cm, H.81cm ...[more]

A Victorian walnut commode, W.46cm, D.44cm, H.44cm ...[more]

A Regency giltwood and gesso overmantel mirror, W.126cm, H.64cm ...[more]

A 17th century oak coffer, W.122cm, D.57cm, H.63cm ...[more]

A George IV mahogany cellaret, W.67cm, D.54cm, H.66cm ...[more]

A William & Mary walnut canework side chair and a similar oak chair ...[more]

Fleming, Ian - The Man with the Golden Gun, 1st edition, 8vo, cloth with gilt spine and unclipped d.j., (small one inch tear to rear top of d.j.),...

Bell, John - Travels from St Petersburg in Russia to Diverse Parts of Asia, 8vo, calf, with 2 folding maps (one with very small tear), boards scuf...

Reversby, Tamworth - A Miscellany of Ingenious Thoughts and Reflections, qto, calf, rebacked, corners bumped, H. Meere, London 1720 ...[more]

Gibbon, Edward - The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 2 vols, qto, vellum, with portrait frontis, joint split to lower cover, ...

Campbell, Thomas - Gertrude of Wyoming, qto, half calf, boards badly scuffed, Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, London 1809 ...[more]

Watson, John - Memoirs of the Ancient Earls of Warren and Surrey, 1st edition, 2 vols, qto, diced calf, with engraved portrait, a folding table, 5...

Evelyn, John - Sylva .... "Silva", 5th edition, 2 vols, qto, calf, embossed and gilt, with portrait and 45 plates, text and plates spotted through...

Vergilius Maro, Publius - Opera. "Bucolica, Georgica et Aenis", 3 vols, folio, contemporary vellum, Rome 1763-65 ...[more]

Thucydides - Thuaydidis de bello Peloponnesiaco ..., folio, calf, front board and front fly leaf detached, with engraved frontispiece, and 2 engra...

Johnson, Samuel - A Dictionary of the English Language, 6th edition, 2 vols, qto, old calf, torn and scuffed, joints split, with engraved portrait...

Bible in English - Geneva Bible, folio, 17th century calf binding, lacking title page to old testament, with 3 maps, one folding, Geneva 1561 ......

Ashwell, Arthur Rawson - Life of the Right Reverend Samuel Wilberforce, 3 vols, 8vo, half calf, John Murray, London 1880 ...[more]

Ormerod, George - The History of the County Palentine and City of Chester, vols 2 and 3 only (of 3), folio, contemporary diced calf, plates spotte...

Hatsell, John - Precedents of Proceedings in the House of Commons, 4 vols, qto, contemporary calf, spotting to fly leaves and early leaves to each...

Sparrman, Anders - A Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, 2nd edition, vol. one only, with folding map (small tear) and 3 plates, G.G.J. and J. Robins...

Greville, Charles C.F. - The Greville Memoirs, 4th edition, 3 vols, 8vo, half calf, Longmans, Green and Co., London 1875 ...[more]

Franck, Richard Philanthropus - Northern Memoirs, one of 250, 8vo, calf, loss to head of spine, Archibald Constable & Co., Edinburgh 1821 ...[mor...

[Scott, Walter Sir] - Secret History of the Court of James the First, 2 vols, 8vo, half calf, with portrait frontis, Edinburgh 1811 and Goodman, G...

[John Gauden 1605-1622, Bishop of Worcester] - Charles I, King of England - Eikon Basilike, The Pourtraicture of his sacred Majestie, 16mo, double...

Gilbert, William Schwenck, Sir. An autograph letter, dated 17th Jan. 1887, 2pp, 12mo, to an artist Mr [Frank] Hall, advising "I have reserved two ...

Glasse, Hannah - The Art of Cookery, 20th edition, 12mo, half calf, 2cm loss to spine top, boards scuffed, ownership ink stamp to front fly leaf, ...

Cobbett, William - The English Gardener, 1st edition, 8vo, half calf, spine re-stuck, loss at front, corners bumped, London 1829 ...[more]

Dickens, Charles - American Notes for General Circulation, 8vo, half calf, front fly leaf and first four leaves trimmed by 5mm, ink writing to fro...

Cobbett, William - Cottage Economy, 12mo, half calf, London 1823 and The Woodlands, 8vo, half calf with two engraved plates, title page browned an...

The Costume of the Inhabitants of Peru, qto, quarter cloth with paper covered boards, with 16 (of 19) aquatints, most plates loose, front board de...

Crane, Walter - Queen Summer; or, The Journey of Lilly and the Rose, large qto, quarter vellum (loss of 8cms at spine foot), with 40 colour plates...

Allers, Christian Wilhelm - La Bella Napoli, folio, red cloth with pictorial front board, with 11 collotype illustrations, Stuttgart, Berlin and L...

Ornithology: Blackburn, Mrs [Jemima] Hugh - Birds Drawn from Nature, folio, half calf, with 40 only lithograph plates, Glasgow 1868; Ticehurst, No...

Cobbett, William - A History of the Protestant Reformation in England and Ireland, 2 vols in 1, 8vo, calf, modern writings in ink to front free fl...

Anon - A late 19th century Irish manuscript "Hunting Diary" in 2 parts for the years 1886-7, folio, 22 and 9 pages in black ink, recounting events...

Warner, Pelham Francis, Sir - Imperial Cricket, number 39 of 100, signed by author, qto, original vellum, tears and some loss to fore-edges of lea...

Samuel Pepys. A collection of 21 works relating to Samuel Pepys, originally in the library of Frederick Cleary (1905-1984), former treasurer of th...

Nansen, Fridtjof, Dr - Farthest North, 2 vols, 8vo, half calf, with folding map, leather stained, boards scuffed, tear and joint split at foot of ...

Architecture and Design: Langley, Batty - The City and Country Builder's and Workman's Treasury of Designs, qto, rebound calf, lacking title page,...

Nicholson, Peter - An Architectural Dictionary..., the Terms Employed, 3 vols, qto, burr calf, spines torn, London 1819 and a further edition, vol...

Dellassaux, Victor and Elliott, John - Street Architecture, folio, later half cloth over pictorial boards, with engraved title and 21 plates by Ph...

Gell, William Sir and Gandy, John P - Pomeiana; The Topography, Edifices, and Ornaments of Pompeii, vol 1 only (of 2), qto, large paper copy, blue...

Shakleton, Ernest Henry, Sir - The Heart of the Antartic, 1st edition, 2 vols, qto, original pictorial cloth, with 214 plates, 3 folding maps and ...

Nansen, Fridtjof - Farthest North, 1st edition, 2 vols, 8vo, halfcalf, 16 chromolithograph plates and 4 folding colour maps, Archibald Constable &...

Scott, Robert Falcon, Capt. - Scott's Last Expedition, 1st edition, 2 vols, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, with photo frontises, with 9 folding ma...

Scott, Robert Falcon, Capt. - The Voyage of the "Discovery", new edition, 2 vols, cloth, John Murray, London, together with a collection of polar ...

Bean, C.E.W. (Ed.], H.S. Gullett, F.M. Cutlack, A.W. Jose. S.S. Mackenzie - The Official History of Australia in the War 1914-1918, 12 vols, 8vo, ...

Scott, Robert Falcon, Capt. - Le Pôle Meurtrier Journal de Capitaine Scott, 8 qto, pictorial green cloth gilt, Hachette et Cie, Paris 1914 ...[mo...

Taylor, Griffith - With Scott: The Silver Lining, 1st edition, 1st issue, 8vo, original buckram with 7 maps, 2 folding, one in colour and folding ...

Burton, Sir Richard Francis - Mission to Gelele King of Dahome, 2 vols, 8vo, half calf, spine bases titled "Royal Artillery Library Shoeburyness",...

Cook, Theodore Andrea - The Cruise of the Branwen: Being a Short History of the Revival of the Olympic Games, 8vo, red cloth gilt, sunned with spl...