18th May, 2022 10:30 GMT/BST
Walton (Izaak)
The Complete Angler ... with Original Memoirs and Notes by Sir Harris Nicolas, London: William Pickering, 1836. 2 volumes, 4to (270 x 180 mm), contemporary green crushed morocco gilt by Wright, all edges gilt, half-titles, title-pages in red and black, [16] clxiv [4] clxvi-ccxii [2] 129, [5] 132-436 [32] pp., 61 engraved plates, vignettes and headpieces, spotting to margins of text-leaves.
Sold for £220
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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