18th May, 2022 10:30 GMT/BST
Books, Maps & Manuscripts
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[Bird, William Wilberforce]
State of the Cape of Good Hope, in 1822, 1st edition, London: John Murray, 1823. 8vo (227 x 140 mm), 20th-century red half morocco, 2 engraved folding maps, 4 pp. advertisements, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, pp. 345/6 neatly repaired, together with 3 others, including Denham & Clapperton, Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Nothern and Central Africa, 2nd edition, 1826 (2 volumes) and Le Vaillant, Travels into the Interior parts of Africa, 2nd edition, 1796 (2 volumes), these not collated (qty: 6)
Sold for £480
Estimated at £100 - £200
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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