18th May, 2022 10:30 GMT/BST
Hogg (Alexander, publisher). The New and Complete English Traveller ... written and compiled from the Best Authorities by a Society of Gentlemen ... revised, corrected, and improved by William Hugh Dalton, London: for Alex. Hogg, [1794]. Folio (394 x 228 mm), modern quarter leather, pp. vi 7-520 [8], 74 engraved plates including frontispiece, 17 maps (of which 2 folding), marginal repair to frontispiece, light worming to margins of pp. i-vi and folding general map, small tear to head of pp. 239/40, hole in pp. 473/4,
Nicolson (Joseph, & Richard Burn). The History and Antiquities of the Counties of Westmorland and Cumberland, London: W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1777. 2 volumes, 4to (282 x 215 mm), 20th-century red-brown sheep, 2 engraved folding maps (that in volume 2 with short closed handling tear), volume 1 foot of front joint cracked,
West (Thomas). The Antiquities of Furness, 1st edition, London: for the author, 1774. 4to (266 x 200 mm), contemporary calf, rebacked, engraved frontispiece, map and plan (all folding; various repairs), engraved seal plate, binding worn (4)
ESTC T110453 (Hogg), T56128 (Nicolson & Burn), T144672 (West).
For the English Traveller ESTC calls for a total of 70 plates and maps only, and the list of plates names just 60 plates and the folding general map. This copy lacks several plates listed but contains many which are not; auction records indicate that 18 maps are often present.
Sold for £280
Estimated at £100 - £150
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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