27th Nov, 2024 10:30 GMT/BST
Books, Maps & Manuscripts
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Travel.
A small collection of travel books, including Edwardes (Major Herbert B.), A Year on the Punjab Frontier, in 1848-49. London: Richard Bentley, 1851, two octavo volumes, frontispieces and plates, original red cloth gilt (worn); Egerton (Capt. Francis), Journal of a Winter's Tour in India: with a Visit to the Court of Nepal, London: John Murray, 1852, two volumes, frontispieces, original cloth gilt; Blakesley (Rev. Joseph Williams), Four Months in Algeria: with a visit to Carthage, Cambridge: Macmillan and Co., 1859, frontispiece, plates and folding maps, publisher's catalogue at end, blind-stamped cloth; Erskine (John Elphinstone), Journal of a Cruise Among the Islands of the Western Pacific... London: John Murray, 1853, plates and folding map, original cloth (worn, lacking backstrip), with seventeen others [all ex-library, sold not collated and not subject to return]. (23)
Sold for £700
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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