18th May, 2022 10:30 GMT/BST
Emerson (P. H.). Wild Life on a Tidal Water. The Adventures of a House-Boat and her Crew, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, Limited, 1890. 4to, original quarter morocco, blue pictorial cloth sides, 30 photogravures plates with tissue-guards, folding chart of Breydon, bookplate, spine worn, section detached at foot (now laid in), a few marks to sides, spotting to outer leaves and occasionally to margins of plates.
First edition, number 255 of 500 copies, though it is believed that only 300 were ever issued.
Sold for £650
Estimated at £200 - £300
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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