23rd Aug, 2024 10:30 GMT/BST
Books, Maps & Manuscripts
144
Newton (Sir Isaac).
Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light.
W. And J. Innys, 1718, second edition with additions, [viii], 382, [2] pages including catalogue leaf, twelve folding plates, ink corrections in accordance with Corrigenda, armorial bookplate, booksellers inscription to front free endpaper, worn panelled calf binding.
[Wallis 176 - reissue of the 1717 second edition]
Sold for £1,800
Estimated at £800 - £1,200
Age toning to pages, light foxing to title page, small bump to fore-edges of preliminary leaves, closed edges tanned. Bookseller's inscription to front free endpaper - 'Odd & very scarce, 10/6'. Binder's label on bookplate (Thornley of Ulverston). Endpapers worn at hinge, staining to edges of endpapers (from leather underneath), binding worn, particularly at edges, joints cracking in places.
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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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