18th May, 2022 10:30 GMT/BST
Books, Maps & Manuscripts
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Bunbury (Henry W). An Academy for Grown Horsemen ... Annals of Horsemanship, 1808
[Bunbury, Henry W.]. An Academy for Grown Horsemen ... By Geoffrey Gambado, The Third Edition [bound with:] Annals of Horsemanship: containing Accounts of Accidental Experiments, and Experimental Accidents ... communicated ... to Geoffrey Gambado, London: by W. Nicholson for W. Baynes, 1808. 2 works in 1 volume, 4to (335 x 255 mm), later maroon half morocco, 11 and 17 stippled-engraved plates printed in sepia, bookplates, browning and damp-staining, repaired tears to plates facing pp. 28 and 29.
Podeschi (Mellon collection) 90 refers.
Sold for £70
Estimated at £70 - £100
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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