23rd Aug, 2024 10:30 GMT/BST
Books, Maps & Manuscripts
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Phillips (John).
Illustrations of the Geology of Yorkshire; or A Description of the Strata and Organic Remains of the Yorkshire Coast …
York: Printed for the Author, 1829, first edition, quarto (page dimensions 275mm x 215mm), xvi, 192 pages, hand-coloured geological map, nine geological sections (eight hand-coloured), fourteen foxed lithographic plates. [bound with]
idem, Illustrations of the Geology of Yorkshire …, Part II, The Mountain Limestone District.
John Murray, 1836, first edition, quarto, xx, 195, 198-254 pages (irregular pagination but text continuous), twenty-five plates including folding map and folding sections (with foxing and staining, latter plates bound incorrectly after first volume), torn and stained title page with monastery stamp, further blind stamps, abbey bookplate, modern cloth binding;
Buckland (Rev. William), Reliquiae Diluvianae; or Observations on the Organic Remains Contained in Caves, Fissures and Diluvial Gravel, and on Other Geological Phenomena, Attesting the Action of an Universal Deluge.
John Murray, 1824, second edition, quarto (page dimensions 275mm x 217mm), viii, 304 pages. Two folding plates at the beginning which appear to be extra illustrations (one of a prehistoric scene ‘Duria Antiquior’, the other ‘The Hyena’s Den at Kirkdale, near Kirby Moorside in Yorkshire …’), plus folding table and the twenty-seven numbered plates called for, including a folding hand-coloured geological section and two hand-coloured geological maps. [bound with]
idem, XII - On the Discover of Coprolites, or Fossil Faeces …
Read Feb 6th, 1829, pages 223-238, [4], three plates (stained), modern cloth with leather spine label. (2)
Sold for £6,000
Estimated at £150 - £250
Auction: Books, Maps & Manuscripts, 23rd Aug, 2024
The Summer Book Sale includes a wide range of interesting books, maps, photographs and manuscripts. In the modern books there are first editions by J.R.R. Tolkien and Mervyn Peake, signed works by Evelyn Waugh, Siegfried Sassoon, John le Carre and others as well as a good collection of deluxe Folio Society works. Earlier books include a small collection of finely bound works published by Didot of Paris, early Law books, a seventeeth century cookery book, a sixteenth century book on Crucifixion by Lipsius, and a very early sixteenth century book using italics which caused controvery at the time.
A good collection of early travel books is complemented by an interesting album of photographs of British Central Africa as well as a small selection of early maps, including a scarce folding map of Tasmania. A typescript personal account of the British Economic Mission to the Far East in 1930 provides a surprisingly interesting read.
For the Royalists, there are signed photographs of Queen Victoria and Albert, Prince of Wales and three Christmas cards signed by H.M. the Queen Mother. The sale concludes with a section of books on Natural History, Science and Theology which includes three early editions of Darwin's Origin of Species and a ground breaking work on the human brain by Marie Antionette's physician Vicq D'Azyr, illustrated with hand-coloured aquatints.
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