27th Nov, 2024 10:30 GMT/BST
Books, Maps & Manuscripts
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Brewster (David).
A Treatise on the Kaleidoscope.
Edinburgh: Archibald Constable & Co., 1819, octavo, [2], vii, 166, [1], pp., seven engraved plates, foxing to preliminaries and plates, offsetting and ink ownership stamp to title, library bookplate and pencil shelfmarks on front free endpaper, bookplate of Henry Constable Maxwell on pastedown, half calf, marbled boards, a little rubbed and scuffed.
Sold for £190
Estimated at £60 - £100
Auction: Books, Maps & Manuscripts, 27th Nov, 2024
Highlights include a first edition of an important work on the English colonies in America and the West Indies published in 1687, a collection of watercolours depicting landscapes and ancient sites of Egypt and the Middle East, and a selection of mid-19th century albumen print photographs of Rome. Further notable lots include plates from a mid-18th century plan of Paris by Michael Etienne Turgot, a Victorian autograph album and a copy of Eugene Grasset's 'Plants and the Application to Ornament'.
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