18th May, 2022 10:30 GMT/BST
St Dominic's Press. Old English Clocks. Being a Collector's Observations on some Seventeenth Century Clocks by F. H. Green, 1st edition, one of 300 copies only, Ditchling Common: St Dominics Press, 1931. 4to, later quarter calf, 49 halftone photographic plates (complete: the first 4 unnumbered, remaining plates numbered 1-51, but numbers 40-51 in fact on either side of 6 plates only; most plates tipped in as issued), errata slip, together with 3 other works on horology including James Ferguson, Select Mechnical Exercises: shewing how to construct different Clocks, Orreries, and Sun-Dials, 1st edition, 1773 (8vo, contemporary sheep, incomplete, lacking plate 4 and part of plate 5) (4)
Sold for £160
Estimated at £100 - £150
Auction: Books, Maps & Manuscripts, 18th May, 2022
Over 180 lots to include a broad selection, from early antiquarian books to modern first editions, alongside illustrations, private press, manuscripts, maps and atlases, early photographs, and historic documents. Amongst the highlights is a group of Victorian ephemera including a Paper Peepshow of the Thames Tunnel, and a very unusual leaf-cut picture of workers around a derelict tower and trees. Of North-East interest is a collection of approximately 240 19th and early 20th century photographs, and an outstanding archive of early drawings and plans relating to Radcliffe and Broomhill Collieries.
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