29th Sep, 2023 10:30 GMT/BST
Books, Maps & Manuscripts
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Needham (J.P.).
Facts and Observations relative to the Disease commonly called Cholera, as it has recently prevailed in the City of York.
Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Co., 1833, first edition, [7], x-xvi, 17-138 pages (the pagination of the preliminaries is identical to the Glasgow University copy), half title present, original boards (re-backed);
Allen (Oswald), History of the York Dispensary: containing an Account of its Origin and Progress to the Present Time.
York, 1845, author's presentaion inscription to title page, frontis, viii, 115 pages, worn half calf.
Wintringham (Clifton), Commentarium Nosologicum, Morbos Epidemicos et Aeris Variationes in Urbe Eboracensi Locisque Vicinis ..
William Bowyer, 1733, 168 pages, modern cloth-backed boards. (3)
[Hugh Murray Collection]
Sold for £280
Estimated at £200 - £400
Auction: Books, Maps & Manuscripts, 29th Sep, 2023
Highlights include a Late Medieval Prayer Book; a Monograph of the Trogonidae, or Family of Trogons, by John Gould, (1875), with forty-seven superb hand-coloured lithographic plates; an outstanding early album of Austrian topographical woodcuts and watercolours; a fascinating album of late 19th century photographs of Brisbane, Queensland and surrounding areas; the first part of the York library of Hugh Murray, author and historian; a collection of vintage playing cards and a large folding map of India.
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