Books, Maps & Manuscripts
A diverse range of antiquarian and collectable books will come under the hammer in the Books, Maps and Manuscripts Sale on 11th December, including a scarce copy of Beatrix Potter’s The Fairy Caravan, the story she felt was too personal and autobiographical for her to feel comfortable publishing it in this country. Further highlights include a relatively rare first edition of The Road to Serfdom by the Austrian-born British economist and philosopher Friedrich August von Hayek and a 19th Century Manuscript Maritime Exercise Book filled with handwritten and hand drawn diagrams, maps, illustrations, calculations, charts and notes relating to sailing.
Of more local interest is a copy of the first printed map of Yorkshire, published in Christopher Saxon’s Atlas of England and Wales in 1579 and a large collection of Teesdale Photographs by Elijah Yeoman (1849-1930) of Barnard Castle, which include pictures of Barnard Castle, Streatlam Castle, Raby Castle, Ronaldskirk and Rokeby.
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