18th May, 2022 10:30 GMT/BST
Books, Maps & Manuscripts
2025
Higgins (Bryan). Experiments ... applying Calcareous Elements, 1780, & others
Higgins (Bryan). Experiments and Observations made with the View of Improving the Art of Composing and Applying Calcareous Cements and of Preparing Quick-lime, 1st edition, London: T. Cadell, 1780. 8vo (212 x 125 mm), modern boards, half-title, together with 6 others, mainly science (not collated), including William Ramsay, The Gases of the Atmosphere, 1st edition, 1896 (original cloth), J. J. Thomson, Rays of Positive Electricity and their Application to Chemical Analyses, 1st edition, 1913 (original cloth), F. W. Aston, Isotopes, 1923 (original cloth), Memoirs of the Rev. Dr. Joseph Priestley, 1809, and similar (qty: 7)
ESTC T53600 (Higgins).
Sold for £110
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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