18th May, 2022 10:30 GMT/BST
Bewick (T.)
A History of British Birds, Newcastle, Volumes 1, ... Land Birds, and Volume 2, ... Water Birds, Newcastle, 1821, seventh and fifth editions with first editions of the Supplements, two volumes, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, full calf gilt [Roscoe 24-25c and 26-27c];
Bewick (Thomas and John), Select Fables, with Cuts, Designed and Engraved by ...., Newcastle: Charnley, 1820, portrait frontis, original cloth with leather spine label (wear to joints) (3)
Sold for £300
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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