10th Apr, 2024 10:30 GMT/BST
Books, Maps & Manuscripts
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Bell (Currer) [Charlotte Bronte].
Villette.
Smith Elder, 1853, first edition, three volumes, [iv], 324; [iv], 319, [1]; [iv], 350, [2] pages, last page blank, bound without catalogue, armorial bookplates, contemporary half calf. Later calf-edged slipcase. Smith 6.
[From the library of John Gilbert Winant, US Ambassador to England, then to Gilbert Verney].
Sold for £900
Estimated at £600 - £1,000
Contents clean and free of inscriptions, minor stain to vol. 1 B4-5, slight gaping to gutter before contents page of vol. 1, very minor spotting/foxing to fore-edges, spines darkened, spines, joints and marbled boards rubbed.
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Auction: Books, Maps & Manuscripts, 10th Apr, 2024
The sale includes a sketchbook of drawings of Southern China attributed to George Chinnery. English artist George Chinnery (1774-1852) left an extraordinary record of everyday life in Southern China in the early to mid-19th century, which has become an important source of historical information on the region.
Further highlights include an interesting archive of letters and ephemera relating to the composer and bandmaster Charles Coote (1809-1880), personal pianist to William Cavendish, the 6th Duke of Devonshire, and bandmaster and composer for stage productions put on by Charles Dickens. There is also several collections of 19th century photographs including an outstanding album with many views of Eton College and the River Thames at Windsor, Trinity College Cambridge, Switzerland, Gibraltar and Malta as well as an important photographic record of the Challenger Expedition, generally considered to be the foundation of oceanography.
Single owner collections include a large quantity of books on Polar Exploration and early Whaling. We are also pleased to offer a selection of books from the library of Fred Gettings, prolific author and expert on astrology, symbolism and arcane lore. The library includes many early editions of Nostradamus with several manuscript works on the famous French astrologer.
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