18th May, 2022 10:30 GMT/BST
Paterson (Daniel). Paterson's British Itinerary ... Second Edition Improved, London: Bowles & Carver, c.1800. 2 volumes, 8vo (187 x 101 mm), contemporary marbled calf (rebacked and recornered), xxxv 341-403, 450-633 pp., engraved title-pages, dedication leaf and double-page general map, 386 engraved strip road-maps on 97 leaves (rectos and versos; counted in pagination), text-leaves browned (qty: 2)
ESTC T93578, tracing two copies only for this imprint (undated), British Library and Cambridge.
Sold for £200
Estimated at £150 - £250
Auction: Books, Maps & Manuscripts, 18th May, 2022
Over 180 lots to include a broad selection, from early antiquarian books to modern first editions, alongside illustrations, private press, manuscripts, maps and atlases, early photographs, and historic documents. Amongst the highlights is a group of Victorian ephemera including a Paper Peepshow of the Thames Tunnel, and a very unusual leaf-cut picture of workers around a derelict tower and trees. Of North-East interest is a collection of approximately 240 19th and early 20th century photographs, and an outstanding archive of early drawings and plans relating to Radcliffe and Broomhill Collieries.
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