The Leslie Weller Library Collection

An early 20th Century George III style wingback armchair, upholstered in brass studded tan leather, the scroll arms and bowed seat above mahogany ...

An early 20th Century French walnut twin pedestal desk, the top inset with red gilt tooled leather above an arrangement of drawers and a cupboard,...

A late 20th Century mahogany coffee table, with brass bound corners, the glazed top revealing a `Geological Model of the South East of England and...

Lot withdrawn. ...[more]

A late Victorian oak cased barograph with lacquered brass mechanism, recording drum and applied ivorine plaque inscribed `J. Hicks maker London`, ...

A late 19th/early 20th Century French Terrestrial Globe by `J. Lebegue & Cie… Paris`, raised on a turned ebonized stand, diameter of globe approx ...

A pair of early 20th Century grey alabaster bookends, each mounted with a black painted spelter figure of a standing horse, height approx 13.5cm, ...

An Art Deco marble and brass mounted ink standish fitted with two glass inkwells, on brass ball feet, width approx 26cm (minor faults). Provenance...

An Art Deco silver mounted spherical glass match strike and holder, Birmingham 1933 by J.G. & S., height approx 7cm. Provenance: The Library Colle...

A Victorian turned rosewood gavel, length approx 21cm. Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA. ...[more]

A Victorian turned rosewood gavel, length approx 15.5cm. Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA. ...[more]

A group of collectors` items including a Tunbridge Ware obelisk thermometer stand (lacking thermometer), a Victorian brass chamber stick with nips...

An early 20th Century copper and nickel-plated hunting horn by Swaine & Adeney, London, length approx 22cm, together with a small group of other h...

A manuscript facsimile of a letter from Horatio Nelson addressed to `My Dear [Thomas] Lloyd` (browned), approx 22.5cm x 37cm, within an oak frame....

Ernest Howard Shepard (1879-1976) - `From Everybodys Pepys`, pen and ink, circa 1926, signed, approx 28cm x 18.5cm, within a silvered frame. Note:...

Claude Hulk - Red Deer walking through Gates past a Dog and Kennel, watercolour and ink, signed, approx 11.5cm x 20.5cm, within an oak frame. Note...

W.L., British School - Three-quarter Length Portrait of a Lady at a Window, watercolour with touches of gouache, signed with initials and dated 18...

William E. Powell - Two Ducks in Flight, watercolour with touches of gouache, signed and dated `26, approx 17.5cm x 28cm, together with two furthe...

Circle of Kate Greenaway - Woman gazing out to Sea, watercolour over pencil, bears initials, approx 14cm x 10cm, together with ten further works o...

19th Century Neapolitan School - `Eruzione del 1806`, gouache, titled, approx 7cm x 11cm, together with two similar watercolours and four hand-col...

Circle of Clarkson Stanfield - `Cologne`, watercolour, titled and inscribed verso, approx 16.5cm x 23.5cm, together with a collection of watercolo...

An early 20th Century cut-paper silhouette, Procession of Farm Workers, approx 5.5cm x 14.5cm, together with a folio of prints and works on paper....

T. Nakayama - Japanese Figure in a Snowy Landscape, watercolour, signed, approx 33cm x 16.5cm, together with four further watercolours and a group...

A 19th Century monochrome watercolour, Trade Card for Grieve and Oliver Hat Manufacturers, approx 11cm x 8.5cm, together with sixteen further work...

A collection of bookplates, 19th and 20th Century, many with armorials and including a number of duplicates, together with a single volume of `The...

A morocco-bound album containing 11 cabinet-size and 89 cartes-de-visite photographs, all portraits, including children and 1 of Señorita Lucia Za...

HUNTING. - E.R.F. BRUNSKILL (compiler). A manuscript hunting diary, illustrated with photographs. [N.p.: n.d. but circa 1897-1934]. Oblong 4to (17...

SUSSEX, PETWORTH. - Mary WYNDHAM (compiler). An album of 20 photographs of Petworth and elsewhere the first page with manuscript `title` "Photogra...

MAP, SOUTH COAST OF ENGLAND. - [ORDNANCE SURVEY. Five sheets from the survey, covering the South Coast from Hinton and the Isle of Wight to Folkes...

MAP, SUSSEX. - C. & J. GREENWOOD. Map of the County of Sussex from an Actual Survey made in the Years 1823 & 1824. London: Greenwood Pringle & Co....

MAP, SUSSEX. - Emanuel BOWEN. An Accurate Map of the County of Sussex. [N.p.: n.d.] Engraved map with later hand-colouring (overall image size 510...

MAP, SUSSEX. - John NORDEN & William KIP. Sussexia, Sive Southsex dim pars regnorum. [N.p.: n.d.] Engraved map with near period colour (image size...

MAPS, SUSSEX. - R.A. SKELTON & Harry MARGARY. Two Hundred and Fifty Years of Map-Making in the County of Sussex, A Collection of Reproductions of ...

HUNTING MAPS, SUSSEX. - J. & C. WALKER (publishers). Fox Hunting Map of Sussex. London: [n.d. but circa 1850]. Folding hand-coloured engraved map ...

HUNTING. - Margaret A. COLLYER. Incidents with the Warnham Stag Hounds Illustrated by M. Collyer. London: published by Day & Son and Simpkin, Mars...

SPARROW, Geoffrey. The Crawley and Horsham Hunt. London: 1930. Limited edition of 500 copies signed by the author, this copy number 1 with an addi...

SUSSEX. - David KINGSLEY. Printed Maps of Sussex 1575-1900. Lewes: Sussex Record Society, 1982. 8vo (250 x 172mm). Illustrations. Original cloth, ...

[CAMDEN, William. Britannia… Enlarged by the latest discoveries by Richard Gough … Sussex. N. p. but London: n. d. but 1806.] Folio (417 x 253mm)....

FITZWILLIAM, J.W. Parham in Sussex. A Historical and Descriptive Survey based upon the researches of a number of authorities accompanied by an arc...

HORSFIELD, Thomas Walker (1792-1837). The History, Antiquities, and Topography of the County of Sussex. Lewes: Sussex Press, Baxter 1835. 2 vols. ...

HORSFIELD, T.W. The History and Antiquities of Lewes. Lewes: 1824. 2 vols., first edition, 4to (275 x 205mm). 6pp. list of subscribers, 42 plates,...

DALLAWAY, James, and Edmund CARTWRIGHT. A History of the Western Division of the County of Sussex. London: 1815-1830-1832. 2 vols. in four parts b...

SHOBERL, Frederic. A Topographical and Historical Description of the County of Sussex. Containing an Account of Its Towns, Cathedral, Castles, Ant...

MANTELL, Gideon. The Geology of the South-East of England. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman. 1833. First edition, 8vo (214 x 13...

MANTELL, Gideon (1790-1852). The Fossils of the South Downs. London: Lupton Relfe, 1822. First edition, 4to (305 x 240mm). Uncut, 4pp. list of sub...

[CROMWELL, Thomas.] Excursions in the County of Sussex. London: 1822. First edition, 8vo (224 x 140mm). Engraved frontispiece, additional title, 1...

LEE, William. Ancient and Modern History of Lewes and Brighthelmston. Lewes: printed for W. Lee, the editor and proprietor, and may be had of Mess...

KNIGHT, Charles (printer). - F.G. BENNETT, and others (editors & compilers). Statutes and Constitutions of the Cathedral Church of Chichester. Chi...

[ROUSE, James & Elizabeth. Rouse`s Scraps of Sussex. `Fulham`: n.d. but circa 1820]. Oblong folio (255 x 360mm). Engraved throughout, 20 sheets wi...

HERON-ALLEN, Edward. Selsey Bill: Historic and Prehistoric. London: Duckworth & Co., 1911. First edition, 4to (310 x 250mm). Half-title, 6pp. list...

GREAT BRITAIN, PARLIAMENT. An Act for Dividing, Allotting, and Inclosing the Open and Common Fields, Meadows, Pastures Commons, and Waste Lands, w...

BERRY, William. County Genealogies. Pedigrees of the Families in the County of Sussex. London: printed by W. Marchant, published by Sherwood, Gilb...

VICTORIA HISTORY OF THE COUNTIES OF ENGLAND, SUSSEX. - William PAGE and others (editors). The Victoria History of the County of Sussex. London, et...

PUTRON, Rev. Pierre de. Nooks and Corners of Old Sussex. Choice examples in Sussex Archaeology. Lewes: Farncombe & Co., 1875. Large 4to (314 x 252...

SUSSEX. - Rupert CROFT-COOKE. Songs of a Sussex Tramp. Steyning: The Vine Press, 1922. Limited edition of 620 copies, this copy one of 600 from th...

PRIVATE PRESSES. - James GUTHRIE. From a Sussex Village. Bognor Regis: The Pear Tree Press, 1951. 8vo (218 x 142mm). Frontispiece by Guthrie. Orig...

SUSSEX. - Charles DAWSON. History of Hastings Castle. [London:] Constable & Co. Ltd., 1909. First edition, 2 vols., 4to (285 x 190mm). Plates (som...

SALE PARTICULARS, SUSSEX. - Messrs. NEWLAND TOMPKINS & TAYLOR (auctioneers). By Order of Sir Walter B. Barttelot… Particulars and conditions of sa...

SUSSEX. - R.F. HUNNISETT. East Sussex Coroners` Records 1688-1838. [Lewes:] Sussex Record Society, 2005. 8vo (247 x 170mm). Original cloth, dust-j...

WALPOLE-BOND, John. A History of Sussex Birds. London: Witherby, 1938. First edition, 3 vols., large 8vo (248 x 182mm). 53 colour plates by Philip...