27th Nov, 2024 10:30 GMT/BST
Books, Maps & Manuscripts
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The Durham Gospels.
Verey (Christopher D., editor) and Others, The Durham Gospels: Together with Fragments of a Gospel Book in Uncial. Durham, Cathedral Library, MS A. II. 17.
Copenhagen: Rosenkilde and Bagger, 1980, folio, facsimile of the Durham Gospels with plates as called for, quarter leather, patterned boards, a few spots to leather and extremities a little rubbed.
Sold for £140
Estimated at £80 - £120
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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