18th May, 2022 10:30 GMT/BST
Dickens (Charles)
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Chapman and Hall, 1838, half green morocco gilt by Riviere (spine tanned);
idem, The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Chapman and Hall, 1937, lacking half title, marbled edges and endpapers, full calf gilt;
idem, Dombey and Son, Bradbury and Evans, 1848, first edition, issue not stated, marbled edges, half calf;
idem, Dombey and Sons, Bradbury & Evans 1848, first edition, issue not stated, half morocco;
idem, The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain, Bradbury & Evans, 1848, first edition, issue not stated, original cloth (5)
Sold for £1,400
Estimated at £200 - £400
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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