18th May, 2022 10:30 GMT/BST
Bewick (T.)
A History of British Birds, Volumes 1, ... Land Birds, and Volume 2, ... Water Birds, Newcastle, 1805, third and second editions, two volumes, Royal Paper copies (23.6cm x 13.5cm), re-backed half-calf, [Roscoe 18b and 19b]
Sold for £200
Estimated at £100 - £200
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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