18th May, 2022 10:30 GMT/BST
Books, Maps & Manuscripts
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Dixon (Clive, Capt. 16th Lancers), The Leaguers of Ladysmith, Nov 2nd, 1899 to Feb 28th, 1900, Eyre & Spottiswoode, no date [1900], landscape quarto, eighteen colour plates, twelve signatures of participants in the siege on four of the plates, several adjacent to their depictions, including Maj-General Blewitt and Generals Hamilton, Howard and White, original cloth-backed pictorial boards (signature to upper board);
Hendry (Hamish), Majuba, Bronkerspruit, Ingogo, Lang's Nek, Krugersdorp, Grant Richards, 1900, frontis, plates as called for, original pictorial cloth;
Greenwall (Ryno), Artists and Illustrators of the Anglo-Boer War, Vlaeberg: Fernwood Press, 1992, first edition, quarto, signed by the author, dust wrapper (3)
Sold for £220
Estimated at £150 - £250
Dixon - a little age tanning but contents generally VG, endpapers tanned, binding weak with gaping gutter in places, cover scuffed and rubbed with wear to edges.
Hendry - light foxing to half title, frontis, tissue guard and title, occasional marks but contents generally VG, endpapers tanned, gutter gaping in places, cloth tired, spine faded, corners bumped.
Greenwall - light foxing to closed edges, otherwise Fine.
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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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