18th May, 2022 10:30 GMT/BST

Books, Maps & Manuscripts

 
  Lot 2055
 

2055

Ephemera
An interesting collection including;
Motives for Making a Navigable Canal from Barnby Bridge, by Barnsley to .... River Calder, near Wakefield [c.1791], broadside incorporating engraved map (worn);
Several books including A Handy Book for Floral Decorators, 1867, four pamphlets by John Galsworthy, Severn Wildfowl Trust booklet signed by Peter Scott, Kipling's Absent Minded Beggar in original printed glassine envelope, etc.;
Broadsides including a proposal for the formation of a club in Florence, signed by Norman Douglas and 'A New Gospel Hymn';
'An Easter Greeting to Every Child Who Loves Alice' from Lewis Carroll (printed);
A small quantity of sketches, two signed by Chesterton;
A Jacobean manuscript indenture relating to the Byron family;
Original artwork and hand-coloured plates;
A quantity of Autograph Letters Signed, including a collection of ALS from Thomas Frost (late 19th/early 20th century) and a small quantity from early 20th century politicians;
Cropped signatures, cartes-de-visite;
A leather-bound 'book safe' and a leather-bound notebook and slipcase (qty)

Sold for £1,300
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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