18th May, 2022 10:30 GMT/BST
Books, Maps & Manuscripts
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2042
[Jones William]
A Treatise on the Art of Music, Colchester; published by the author, 1784, folio, signed by the author at end of dedication and numbered in manuscript on title page, forty plates on twenty leaves, (first plate torn with crude repair), gift inscription at head of title page commemorating John Henry Robson, department orgnanist of Kings College, Cambridge, quarter roan binding (worn).
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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