23rd Aug, 2024 10:30 GMT/BST
Books, Maps & Manuscripts
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Northumberland.
Hutchinson (W.). A View of Northumberland with an Excursion to the Abbey of Mailross in Scotland.
Newcastle: Charnley, Vesey & Whitfield, 1778, two quarto volumes, engraved title page to each and engraved dedication leaf, 23 engraved plates as called for plus extra folding plate, includes Thomas Randal's 'A State of the Churches ... of Northumberland' and 'Ancient Customs .. in .. Northumberland', each with separate pagination, contemporary tree calf boards (re-backed);
Brand (John). The History and Antiquities of the Town and County of the Town of Newcastle upon Tyne, including an Account of the Coal Trade of that place and embellished with Engraved Views of the Publick Buildings, &c.
B. White and T. & I. Egerton, 1789, two quarto volumes, engraved title and frontis to each, folding engraved map, 30 plates (29 called for, plus one extra), second volume heavily tanned with marginal repairs, including to frontis and engraved title which has some letters and decoration obscured, marbled endpapers, half calf;
Dodd (William). An Index to the History of Newcastle upon Tyne by the Rev. John Brand.
Newcastle: Society of Antiquaries, 1881, quarto, [2], 28 pages, cloth covers;
Richardson (T. M.). Memorials of Old Newcastle upon Tyne from Original Drawings.
Thomas Gray & James Garland, 1880, folio, forty-two etched plates on mounted India paper, all edges gilt, half morocco binding (perished). (6)
Sold for £180
Estimated at £150 - £250
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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