27th Nov, 2024 10:30 GMT/BST
[Hutton (John)].
A Tour to the Caves, in the Environs of Ingleborough and Settle, in the West-Riding of Yorkshire. With some Philosophical Conjectures on the Deluge, and the Alterations on the Surface and Interior Parts of the Earth Occasioned by this Great Revolution of Nature.
London: printed for Richardson and Urquhart, and J. Robson; and W. Pennington, Kendal, 1780, first edition, small octavo, 49 pp., ink inscription on title page identifying author, later paper covered boards, together with:
idem. A Tour to the Caves, in the Environs of Ingleborough and Settle, in the West-Riding of Yorkshire. With some Philosophical Conjectures on the Deluge, Remarks on the Origin of Fountains, and Observations on the Ascent and Descent of Vapours, Occasioned by Facts Peculiar to the Places Visited...
London: printed for Richardson and Urquhart, and J. Robson; and W. Pennington, Kendal, 1781, second edition with additions, small octavo, [2], ii, 100 pp., modern half leather gilt.
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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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