18th May, 2022 10:30 GMT/BST
Wolf (Joseph)
Feathered Favourites, Twelve Coloured Pictures of British Birds, Thomas Bosworth, 1854, twelve circular chromolithographs, each mounted on a plate with decorative gilt border, understood to be the second book to use chromolithography for bird illustration, all edges gilt, original cloth gilt (neatly re-backed retaining original backstrip, repair to rear top corner).
Sold for £250
Estimated at £150 - £250
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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Tuesday 17 May 10am-5pm and morning of sale from 8am. Viewing is open to the public, there is no need to make an appointment.
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