18th May, 2022 10:30 GMT/BST
La Rochefoucauld (François, duc de)
The Memoirs of the Duke de la Rochefoucault, 1st edition in English, James Partridge, 1683, (179 x 105 mm), contemporary mottled calf, errata and advertisement leaves to rear (each with chip in fore margin), extremities rubbed, short cracks to joint-ends.
ESTC R12738 (seven copies only in UK libraries).
Sold for £160
Estimated at £70 - £100
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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