23rd Nov, 2022 10:30 GMT/BST
Books, Maps & Manuscripts
2102
Life-Boats.
Report of the Committee appointed to examine the Life-Boat Models submitted to Compete for the Premium offered by His Grace the Duke of Northumberland ....
W. Clowes, 1851, folio, coloured frontis map, [6], 78 pages, thirteen folding colour plates of life-boat designs and folding colour chart of wreck sites, some foxing to preliminaries and plate margins, several plates misfolded with creased, dust marked and frayed fore-edges, original cloth gilt (stained with a little wear to extremities).
Sold for £180
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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