18th May, 2022 10:30 GMT/BST
Books, Maps & Manuscripts
2014
Bunyan (John)
The Pilgrim's Progress from this World to that which is to Come ..., A. Wilde, 1722, twentieth edition, commences with title A2 so may lack a portrait, woodcuts in text [with] The Pilgrim's Progress ... Second Part, M. Beddington, 1719, eleventh edition, frontis [A1], woodcuts in text, edges cropped close with slight loss to margin notes, [with] [Anon.], The Pilgrim's Progress ...Third Part, A. Bettesworth, 1722, tenth edition, frontis [A1], top edge trimmed with loss to parts of header and page numbers.
lacks at least one advert leaf at end, duodecimo, A2-I12, A1-H12, A1-G12,H6, A1, recent half calf.
Sold for £320
Estimated at £100 - £200
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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Tuesday 17 May 10am-5pm and morning of sale from 8am. Viewing is open to the public, there is no need to make an appointment.
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