November’s Fine Books and Manuscripts auction is formed around a large single owner collection from a gentlemen of varied and interesting taste.
From early Western Illuminated Manuscript leaves to private press books and modern first editions and all manner of subjects between. This sale will have something for all collectors at every price point.
Lot 104 - America-. Cator (Joseph) Manuscript account of a journey through North America, 1764
Sold for £30,000
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 106 - Bradford: Sketches of the country, character, and costume in Portugal and Spain 1812
Estimated at £800 - £1,200
Lot 109 - Gerning (Johann Isaak von) A Picturesque Tour along the Rhine
Sold for £938
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 110 - § Gill (MacDonald) Canada and Newfoundland. Their Natural and Industrial Resources
Estimated at £400 - £600
Lot 112 - Ross.Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage, 1835
Sold for £125
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 115 - Laplace.Voyage Autour du Monde Exécuté, pendant les annees 1830, 1831 et 1832...1833-35
Estimated at £6,000 - £8,000
Lot 116 - [Mercier (Louis-Sébastien)] Tableau de Paris, 1782-1788
Sold for £238
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 125 - Wilkins (Henry) Suite de Vues Pittoresques des Ruines de Pompeii
Sold for £400
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 130 - Marie de Launay L'architecture Ottomane Constantinople, 1873
Sold for £1,250
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 132 - Palestine. Simpson. Report on Immigration, Land Settlement and Development. 1930
Sold for £750
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 135 - Roberts (David, after) Six studies after views in David Roberts’ ‘The Holy Land’
Estimated at £200 - £300
Lot 136 - Spencer. Travels in Circassia, Krim-Tartary, &c. 1839
Sold for £212
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 138 - Torrens (Lt.-Col. Henry d'Oyley) Travels in Ladak, Tartary, and Kashmir
Sold for £112
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 139 - Wallins. Första Resa fran Cairo till Arabiska Öknen i April 1845. Fragment, first ed. 1853
Estimated at £1,000 - £1,500
Lot 144 - German (Ralph Lionel) Handbook to British Malaya. 1927.
Sold for £112
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 148 - Mennie (Donald) The Pageant of Peking, signed by the author
Sold for £200
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 149 - Morton-Cameron (W.H.) MD & Feldwick (W., editor) Present-day impressions of the Far East
Sold for £150
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 151 - Symes. An Account of an Embassy to the Kingdom of Ava. 1800
Sold for £188
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 153 - Keill (Johannes) Introductiones ad veram physicam et veram astronomiam
Estimated at £150 - £250
Lot 154 - Ptoloemy Halma (Nicholas, trans.) Composition Mathématique De Claude Ptolémée, 1813/16
Estimated at £100 - £150
Lot 156 - Bacon. The Expression of the Emotions in Man, and Animal, first ed. 1872
Sold for £475
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 160 - Dodoens. A Nievve Herball, or Historie of Plantes: translated by Henry Lyte, 1578
Sold for £6,875
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 170 - Henderson. The seasons, or flower-garden:, Ackermann, 1806
Sold for £750
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 174 - Johnston. A Description Of the Nature Of Four-Footed Beasts, 1678
Estimated at £1,500 - £1,800
Lot 178 - Tookey (James) & Ibbetson (Julius Caesar, illustrator) Selections from Animated Nature
Sold for £125
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 179 - Turner. [The First and Seconde Partes of the Herbal..... 1568
Sold for £938
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 181 - White. Experiences of a Young Naturalist in the Argentine Republic. 1st ed. 1881
Sold for £225
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 186 - Fore-edge Paintings. Minor British Poets, 2 vols. 1819
Sold for £325
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 188 - Alchemy. Testament of Nicholas Flamel. 1806 together with a Mss. 1810-11
Sold for £812
Includes Buyer's Premium