23rd Nov, 2022 10:30 GMT/BST

Books, Maps & Manuscripts

 
  Lot 2166
 

2166

Millais (J.G.).
The Natural History of British Surface-Feeding Ducks, Longmans Green, 1902, numbered limited edition of 600 large paper copies,large quarto, six photogravure plates, forty-one colour plates and twenty-five uncoloured plates (on eighteen sheets) as called for, top edge gilt, original cloth gilt.

Not Sold

 

Bookplate to front pastedown, some light foxing to endpapers and closed edges, a little damp marking to corner of plate 34, a musty odour present, otherwise a VG copy. Slight wear to tail of spine. No inscriptions found.

 


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Auction: Books, Maps & Manuscripts, 23rd Nov, 2022

Highlights include a collection of Opera scores and books from the Library of the late 7th Earl of Harewood, and two first edition Harry Potter books. Also included are early antiquarian books, modern first editions, illustrations, manuscripts, maps, early photographs, autographed letters and historic documents.

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