23rd Nov, 2022 10:30 GMT/BST

Books, Maps & Manuscripts

 
  Lot 2101
 

2101

Shipping.
Cunard
, Official Guide and Album of the Cunard Steamship Company.
Sutton Sharpe, 1876, quarto, ten plates (six folding), one plate torn without loss, another slightly smaller format with creasing to edges, all edges gilt, original cloth gilt;
India, Abstracts of the Logs of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Steamers on the Calcutta and Suez Line from 1845 to 1858.
[c.1858], [4], 224 pages, original cloth (worn);
Shipwrecks, The Seaman's Recorder; or, Authentic and Interesting Narratives of Popular Shipwrecks and Other Calamities Incident to a Life of Maratime (sic) Enterprise.
J. Eedes, 1824, xxiii, [1], 410 pages, folding frontis (creased), twenty plates (one possibly supplied) and seven woodcuts within pagination, margin of K1 torn, small hole in plate opposite p.285, foxing and light staining, manuscript numbers to some plates, several leaves bound out of sequence but present, half calf (re-backed retaining remnant backstrip);
Coates (W.H.), The Good Old Days of Shipping.
Bombay: Times of India, 1900, [6], vi, 140 pages, frontis, plate, stationer's stamp to title page, original cloth (wear to head and tail of spine);
with eight others. (12)

Sold for £350
Estimated at £200 - £300


 

Auction: Books, Maps & Manuscripts, 23rd Nov, 2022

Highlights include a collection of Opera scores and books from the Library of the late 7th Earl of Harewood, and two first edition Harry Potter books. Also included are early antiquarian books, modern first editions, illustrations, manuscripts, maps, early photographs, autographed letters and historic documents.

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