Single-Owner Collections

T. Nakayama - Japanese Figure in a Snowy Landscape, watercolour, signed, approx 33cm x 16.5cm, together with four further watercolours and a group of Japanese woodblock prints. Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.

A 19th Century monochrome watercolour, Trade Card for Grieve and Oliver Hat Manufacturers, approx 11cm x 8.5cm, together with sixteen further works on paper. Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.

A collection of bookplates, 19th and 20th Century, many with armorials and including a number of duplicates, together with a single volume of 'The Bookplate Journal' (a quantity). Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.

A morocco-bound album containing 11 cabinet-size and 89 cartes-de-visite photographs, all portraits, including children and 1 of Señorita Lucia Zarate and 1 of General Mite. Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.

HUNTING. - E.R.F. BRUNSKILL (compiler). A manuscript hunting diary, illustrated with photographs. [N.p.: n.d. but circa 1897-1934]. Oblong 4to (173 x 250mm), approx. 200pp., with approx. 115 photographs (150 x 205mm and smaller). Original red morocco gilt, a fox's mask in black onlaid to the upper cover, a crouching fox to the lower, g.e. (rebacked, rubbed). Note: Brunskill hunted widely: the VWH, the Heythrop, the Beaufort, Devon and Somerset Stag Hounds, Bucks Otter Hounds, etc. Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.

"SUSSEX, PETWORTH. - Mary WYNDHAM (compiler). An album of 20 photographs of Petworth and elsewhere the first page with manuscript 'title' ""Photographs / Mary Wyndham"". [N.p.: n.d. but circa 1890?]. Small 4to (240 x 180mm). 18 mounted photographs (155 x 110mm. and smaller: 6 of Petworth; 1 of Drove House; 1 of Battle Abbey; 2 of Wiston Park; 1 of Luffness; 2 of Hill's Green; 1 of Madresfield Court; 2 of Coates Castle; 2 of Cowdray), and 2 loosely inserted images of unidentified anglers with salmon. (Some spotting and fading.) Original half-morocco (worn). Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA."

MAP, SOUTH COAST OF ENGLAND. - [ORDNANCE SURVEY. Five sheets from the survey, covering the South Coast from Hinton and the Isle of Wight to Folkestone. One sheet dated '1 June 1810', the others with the imprint excised]. Engraved folding maps (four sheets 645 x 935mm, one sheet 645 x 760mm), all folded and backed onto linen. (Some splits and browning.) All folding within a single contemporary slipcase (slipcase worn). Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.

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., 1825. Hand-coloured engraved map, (1255 x 2055mm), in seventy-two sections and backed onto linen. (Some browning and slightly affected by damp.) Framed and glazed within a limed oak section. Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.

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 x 690mm), in sixteen sections backed onto card or paper. (Some browning and spotting.) Framed and glazed. Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.

MAP, SUSSEX. - John NORDEN & William KIP. Sussexia, Sive Southsex dim pars regnorum. [N.p.: n.d.] Engraved map with near period colour (image size 215 x 385mm). (Adhesive stains to two edges, cropped within plate mark). Framed and glazed. Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.

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 Printed Maps published between the years 1575 and 1825. Lympne Castle, Kent & Chichester: 1970. Large folio (635 x 430mm). Mounted on guards throughout, double-page title, 2 double-page leaves of text printed on one side only, 26 double-page sheets printed with facsimile maps. (Scribbling with coloured felt-tip pens to one map.) Original cloth, paper title label to upper cover (scuffed and rubbed). - And a late 19th Century folding 'Geological Map of Sussex', and three other modern folding maps (5). Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.

HUNTING MAPS, SUSSEX. - J. & C. WALKER (publishers). Fox Hunting Map of Sussex. London: [n.d. but circa 1850]. Folding hand-coloured engraved map (350 x 440mm), in 15 sections and backed onto cloth, with 'Places of the Meeting of Foxhounds' marked. Folded within original red cloth covers, titled in gilt on upper cover, retailer's label on inside upper cover 'Ackermann / 191 / Regent Street'. - And three other similar maps (4). Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.

HUNTING. - Margaret A. COLLYER. Incidents with the Warnham Stag Hounds Illustrated by M. Collyer. London: published by Day & Son and Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Limited, [n.d. but 1894]. Oblong folio (296 x 396mm), 18 leaves printed in brown, all but one printed recto only, lithographic title and 16 illustrations (4 with contemporary hand-colouring). (The verso of the dedication leaf with an extensive inscription in ink, one illustration with an ink inscription beneath it, in the same hand, initialled 'F.L.W.'). Original decorated cloth (worn). Provenance: F.L.W. (inscriptions); The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.

SPARROW, Geoffrey. The Crawley and Horsham Hunt. London: 1930. Limited edition of 500 copies signed by the author, this copy number 1 with an additional signed and dated presentation inscription from the author to his wife, large 4to (305 x 248mm). Title in red and black with hand-coloured vignette, uncoloured frontispiece after Gilbert Holiday, numerous illustrations (some full-page, 10 of the smaller illustrations hand-coloured, 16 of the vignette portraits with the subject's name added in pencil beneath the image). Original vellum-backed paper-covered boards (somewhat soiled and rubbed). Provenance: Margaret Sparrow (presentation inscription, dated 'Xmas 1930' from the author); Leslie Weller (bookplate); The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.

SUSSEX. - David KINGSLEY. Printed Maps of Sussex 1575-1900. Lewes: Sussex Record Society, 1982. 8vo (250 x 172mm). Illustrations. Original cloth, dust-jacket. - And thirty-two others, all on Sussex, mostly relating to the history of the county (33). Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.

FITZWILLIAM, J.W. Parham in Sussex. A Historical and Descriptive Survey based upon the researches of a number of authorities accompanied by an architectural description. London: B.T. Batsford Ltd., 1947. Limited edition of 250 copies printed for private circulation on hand-made paper, this copy number 200, folio (337 x 245mm). Plates. Original half-vellum over blue/grey cloth-covered boards, cartographical endpapers printed in green and black, t.e.g. (Slight discolouration to the cloth). Provenance: Leslie Weller (presentation inscription, dated 1989, from Veronica Tritton, owner of Parham at the time); The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.

HORSFIELD, Thomas Walker (1792-1837). The History, Antiquities, and Topography of the County of Sussex. Lewes: Sussex Press, Baxter 1835. 2 vols. extended to seven, large 4to (320 x 255mm). 2 copper-engraved frontispieces, 2 large folding county maps, 54 copper-engraved plates, 80 woodcut illustrations, extra illustrated in 1892 with about 1500 additional illustrations (including over 200 portraits, over 900 views, about 20 original autograph items and circa 200 more miscellaneous plates.) The printed illustrations (a number of which are folded) include copper-engravings, steel-engravings, lithographs and woodcuts, with a significant number being hand-coloured. Late 19th Century deep purple morocco by Zaehnsdorf, covers ruled in gilt, spines in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second, third and fourth compartments, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. Provenance: Myers & Co (book sellers); The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.

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, plans and maps (including 1 folding lithographic plate, 1 folding engraved map, 29 lithographic plates, plans and maps, 10 engraved plates, 1 wood-engraved plate), extra-illustrated with related newspaper cuttings and other extracts. (Volume II with text browned throughout, the leaves on either side of the inserted cuttings also browned, the plate facing p.123 in vol. II shaved into the image area.) Modern half-calf, spines gilt with early lettering-pieces. Provenance: B. Winstone (inscription); Sidney Spokes (Castle Place, Lewes, inscription, bookplates); The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.

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 bound in three vols., folio (vol. I, parts 1 and 2: 342 x 262mm; vol. II, parts 1 and 2: 380 x 270mm). Vol. I (bound in 1 vol.): general title and dedication printed in red and black, 3 folding letterpress genealogical tables, 27 plates, plans and maps (comprising: 1 double-page hand-coloured map, 2 hand-coloured plans [1 double-page], 24 uncoloured plates and plans [1 double-page]). (Some light spotting, heavier to a few plates.); Vol. II (bound in 2 vols.): uncut, titles in red and black, 2pp. list of subscribers, 2 letterpress genealogical tables, 51 only (of 54) plates, plans and maps (including 1 double-page map, 2 folding hand-coloured map, 1 single-page hand-coloured map, 2 double-page uncoloured plans, 1 double-page hand-coloured plate, 1 single-page hand-coloured plate), numerous illustrations, many hand-coloured, extra-illustrated with a duplicate of the plate bound between pp.360 and 361 in part 1, 2 copies of a mounted lithographic portrait of Cartwright, a rare aquatint image of the Sydney Oak at Penshurst and 5 further plates. (Part 1: tear to outer margin of title page, large clean tear to plate facing p.253, some spotting; part 2: lacking the frontispiece portrait, the plate facing p.194, and the plate facing p.304, some light spotting, heavier to a few plates). Contemporary calf (vol. I: rebacked with original spine laid down), or recent green half-morocco (vol. II, parts 1 & 2). Note: first edition of vol. I, and vol. II, part 2, second edition of vol. II, part 1. Vol. I and vol. II, part 1 were published in 1815 and 1819 respectively by James Dallaway, but are scarce due to a fire at the printer's premises which destroyed the majority of the copies (3). Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.