23rd Aug, 2024 10:30 GMT/BST
Books, Maps & Manuscripts
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Annual Register.
The Annual Register, or a View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the Year 1758 - 1862.
J. Dodsley et al., various editions, 105 volumes including General Index for 1758-1819 and two part volumes for 1820 (volume 62). Mixed bindings, but volumes 1758 to 1832 uniform except for 1768, functional cloth repair to 1856 volume. Volumes 47 and 48 (1805-6) misnumbered on spine. Ex-public school/monastery library with bookplates, stamps and labels.
[Sold as a periodical]
Sold for £600
Estimated at £200 - £400
Hi Clare, the stamps are large typical library designs. The bindings aren't particularly shiny.
Auction: Books, Maps & Manuscripts, 23rd Aug, 2024
The Summer Book Sale includes a wide range of interesting books, maps, photographs and manuscripts. In the modern books there are first editions by J.R.R. Tolkien and Mervyn Peake, signed works by Evelyn Waugh, Siegfried Sassoon, John le Carre and others as well as a good collection of deluxe Folio Society works. Earlier books include a small collection of finely bound works published by Didot of Paris, early Law books, a seventeeth century cookery book, a sixteenth century book on Crucifixion by Lipsius, and a very early sixteenth century book using italics which caused controvery at the time.
A good collection of early travel books is complemented by an interesting album of photographs of British Central Africa as well as a small selection of early maps, including a scarce folding map of Tasmania. A typescript personal account of the British Economic Mission to the Far East in 1930 provides a surprisingly interesting read.
For the Royalists, there are signed photographs of Queen Victoria and Albert, Prince of Wales and three Christmas cards signed by H.M. the Queen Mother. The sale concludes with a section of books on Natural History, Science and Theology which includes three early editions of Darwin's Origin of Species and a ground breaking work on the human brain by Marie Antionette's physician Vicq D'Azyr, illustrated with hand-coloured aquatints.
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