Gorringes Book inc House & Gardens weekly Sale - Monday 16th October 2023

Sir Robert Peel (1788-1850), prime minister, and others 1830-1902i. Sir Robert Peel (1788-1850), prime minister, free frank cover addressed to Mis...

Oswald Mosley, Harold Nicolson, Cyril Joad and The New Party, 1931; six letters to Peter Winckworth, July – September 1931 i.Cyril Joad, 4 East He...

The Cox family of Farningham in Kent, 1726-1865i. Letters of administration (Prerogative Court of Canterbury) of the estate of Mary Cox of Eynsfor...

Music and dance, 1817-1843i. John Sale (1758-1827), secretary of the Catch Club; letter to Terrail, unanimously elected a member of the club; 30 A...

Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834), French general and politician; letter to Madame [name cut from the cover], 22 Rue St Anne, Pa...

Post-revolutionary France, 1827-1854i. Jean Leopold Nicolas Frederic Cuvier (1769-1832), French naturalist and zoologist; letter to [René-Nicolas ...

Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), first consul of France; dictated letter, signed Bonaparte, to Citizen [Jean-François Aimé, Comte] Dejean, Councill...

Revolutionary France, 1794-1814i. Agency of saltpetre and powders of the Republic, Quai Malaquay 13; note of the delivery by Citizens Chartot and ...

Pre-revolutionary France, 1677-1700i. Louis XIV, King of France (1638-1715); order, signed Louis, to [François de Montlézun de] Besmaus, governor ...

Ronald Searle, Hurrah for St Trinians, Fourth Imp. May 1950, signed and dedicated ...[more]

° ° Leybourn, William - Cursus Mathematicus. Mathematical Sciences, in nine books ... With the description, construction, and use of geometrical a...

° ° Dubois - Maisonneuve, Charles - Peintures de Vases: vulgairement appetes Etrusques... vol.2 (only). title within decorated border, 78 engraved...

° ° Planta, Edward - A New Picture of Paris; or, the Stranger's Guide to the French Metropolis ....14th edition, considerably enlarged. folded fro...

° ° Pryor, Karen and Norris, Kenneth S. (editors) Dolphin Societies, num. illus. (some full page); publisher's cloth and d/wrapper. Univ. of Calif...

° ° Chapman, Abel and Buck, Walker J. - Unexplored Spain....num. photo. plates and other illus.; publisher's gilt pictorial cloth. 1910; Every, E....

° ° Norris, Charles - Etchings of Tenby....with a short account of that Town, and of the principal buildings in its neighbourhood. pictorial engra...

° ° Warner, Rev. Richard - A Tour through Cornwall...aquatint frontis. and text sketch maps; newly rebound cloth backed paper boards, printed spin...

° ° Charlton, Lionel - The History of Whitby, and of Whitby Abbey....folded plan and 3 other plates, subcribers' list; old half calf and marbled b...

° ° Whitaker, Rev. John - The History of Manchester....2 vols. 11 plates (mostly folded, incl. plans); contemporary gilt calf, panelled spines wit...

° ° Cervantes, Miguel de - The History of Don Quixote.....illustrated by Gustave Dore. num. engraved plates and other illus.; contemp. half vellum...

° ° Pallas, Peter Simon - Travels through the Southern Provinces of the Russian Empire, in the years 1793 and 1794. Translated from the German .....

° ° Andrews, John and Others - A Topographical Map of the County of Kent, in twenty five sheets, on a scale of two inches to a mile, from an Actua...

° ° Ambler, Eric - The Army of the Shadows and Other Stories. Limited Edition (of 350 numbered copies, signed by the author). publisher's printed...

° ° Hoch, Edward D. - Diagnosis: Impossible The problems of Dr. Sam Hawthorne. Limited Edition (of 300 numbered copies, signed by the author). pub...

° ° Queen, Ellery - The Detective Short Story: a bibliography. Limited Edition (of 150 numbered copies, signed by the author). publisher's cloth ...

° ° The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments....together with the Psalter or Psalms of David...title in red and black, port...

° ° Jones, Theophilus - A History of the County of Brecknock.... 2 vols. pictorial engraved titles, a folded pictorial map (outline colour), a pla...

° ° Lizars, John - A System of Anatomical Plates on the Human Body, accompanied with descriptions, and physiological, pathological, and surgical o...

° ° The Thousand and One Nights; or Arabian Nights' Entertainments. Translated by Edward William Lane....and illustrated by Frank Brangwyn. 6 vol...

° ° Collins, William - Memoirs of that Celebrated, Original and Eccentric Genius the late George Morland.... (lacks portrait frontis.); later 19th...

° ° Le Nain de Tillemont, Louis-Sebastien - An Account of the Life of Apollonius Tyaneus. Translated out of the French. To which are added, Some...

° ° (The Homilies) Certain Sermons or Homilies appointed to be read in Churches, in the time of the late Queen Elizabeth....And now thought fit to...

° ° Elmes, James - Metropolitan Improvements; or London in the Nineteenth Century....displayed in a series of engravings...by Mr. Thos. H. Shepher...

° ° (Berens, Rev. Edward) The Seven Churches on the River Cray. pictorial engraved title and 7 lithographed plates (by the author), half title; or...

° ° Grose, F - The Antiquities of England and Wales. New edition, 8 vols, 4to, contemporary diced calf, with engraved vignette title to each volum...

° ° Symonds, R.W – Furniture Making in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century England, original cloth, 1955 and Turner, L – Decorative Plasterwork, o...

° ° LEWES AND SUSSEX - Mayhew, Graham - The Monks of St. Pancras, 4to, signed, cloth in unclipped d/j, Lewes History Press, 2014; Mantell, Gideon ...

Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer, (1874-1965) - A typed letter, addressed and signed in black ink, to Lt. Col. G.E.W. Lane: ‘’My dear Colonel La...

° ° Fleming, Ian - Diamonds Are Forever, 1st edition, remainder copy, outside bound by others in yellow cloth (spine and boards spotted, front boa...

An early 20th century Swiss inlaid rosewood music box, requires restoration,61cm wide x 19cm high ...[more]

A pair of 19th century bronze urns on slate pedestals, 21.5cm high ...[more]

A Palais Royale circular gilt metal cut glass box with an inset portrait miniature of Napoleon on ivorine, 12cm diameter, a Bohemian enamelled gla...

Two Royal Doulton figures, 'The Judge' and 'Past Glory', highest 20cm ...[more]

A 19th century ormolu clock, Richard & Cie stamped movement, case formed as a log cabin with child and sheep figural group, 30cm high ...[more]

Three Chinese Yixing terracotta teapots, tallest 9cm ...[more]

A 19th century French red japanned chinoiserie tea caddy, 11cm high ...[more]

Three Large cut glass stoppers mounted on brass bases, highest 32.5cm ...[more]

A Worcester scale blue tureen and cover on stand, c.1765-70, 21cm wide ...[more]

A bronze model of a recumbent greyhound on a rough-hewn limestone base, 27cm long ...[more]

A Chinese iron red enamelled globular teapot, 11.5cm ...[more]

Two modern copies of Clarice Cliff Sunray vases; Caravan and Orange Roof Cottage, 21cm ...[more]

A late 19th century patinated metal inkwell, modelled with three cranes on an ebonised pine base, 18cm ...[more]

A large Victorian cut glass ovoid pedestal dish, 26.5cm ...[more]

Amalric Walter (1870-1959) and Henri Berge, a pate de verre tray in the form of a long boat with double seahorse figurehead, signed A Walter, 27cm...

A Japanese Seto blue and white vase, 29cm high ...[more]

A Chinese blue glazed dish, Yongzheng mark but later, 22.5cm diameter ...[more]

A bottle of Marquis de Riberpre V.S.O.P. Armagnac, boxed ...[more]

A Carltonware hexagonal vase and a similar boat shaped bowl, vase 28cm high ...[more]

A Victorian papier mache tea caddy, stamped Jennens and Bettridge, in the form of a sarcophagus with inset mother of pearl banding, with two inter...

A pair of cast metal plaques of retrievers, 21 x 37cm ...[more]