LOT 4172
2nd April 2025

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LOT 4172
HORSFIELD, Thomas Walker. The History, Antiquities, and Topography of the County of Sussex. Lewes and London: Sussex Press, Baxter and Nichols and Son, 1835. 2 vols., first edition, 4to (319 x 247mm.) 2 engraved portrait frontispiece, 2 engraved folding maps, 54 engraved plates, tissue-guards, numerous illustrations in the text, ‘Subscriber’s Copy’ label to front pastedown. (Spotting to plate margins, light marginal spotting to text.) Maroon half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, later black morocco lettering pieces (rebacked). Provenance: Herbert Lawrence (bookplates to front pastdowns). – And a further ten volumes, mostly related to Sussex (including Mark Anthony Lower’s ‘Sussex; Being an Historical, Topographical, and General Description of every Rape, Hundred, River, Town, Borough, Parish, Village, Hamlet, Castle, Monastery, and Gentleman’s Seat in that County’, 1831, 8vo, and Henry Burstow’s ‘Reminiscences of Horsham’, 1911, 8vo, and Robert Phillips’ ‘A Geological, Historical, and Topographical Description of the Borough of Reigate and Surrounding District’, 1885, 8vo, and also W.H. Davenport Adams’ ‘Lighthouses and Lightships’, 1875, 8vo) (12).
Estimate: £70 – £100
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