18th May, 2022 10:30 GMT/BST
Books, Maps & Manuscripts
2024
Cervantes Saavedra (Miguel de). Don Quixote de la Mancha, 1819, with hand-coloured aquatints
Cervantes Saavedra (Miguel de). Don Quixote de la Mancha. Translated from the Original Spanish by Charles Jarvis, London: T. McLean, 1819. 4 volumes, 8vo (206 x 128 mm), 20th-century crushed blue half morocco gilt by Birdsall, 24 hand-coloured aquatint plates, no half-titles, together with 9 others, fine bindings, including 5 modern editions of works by Trollope in fine blue half morocco gilt by Bayntun for Asprey (qty: 13)
Sold for £900
Estimated at £150 - £250
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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