18th May, 2022 10:30 GMT/BST
Books, Maps & Manuscripts
2015
Caesar (Julius)
C. Ivlii Caesaris quae extant: ex emendatione Ios. Scaligeri, Lvgdvni Batavorvm: Elzeviriana [Elzevier], 1635, engraved title page, portrait, five full page illustrations within preliminary text, two [of three] folding maps, lacking folding genealogical folding plate, armorial bookplate, marbled edges, vellum:
Savile (Henry), H. Savilius In Taciti Histor Agricolae Vitam, et Commentarius de Militia Romana, Amstelodami: Ludovicum Elzevirium [Elzevier] 1649, engraved title page, folding plate, all edges gilt, recent half calf.
[both books contain the bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst] (2)
Sold for £110
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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