18th May, 2022 10:30 GMT/BST
Churchill (Winston S.)
My African Journey, 1st edition, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1908. 8vo, original red pictorial cloth, all plates and maps as called for, spine rolled and defective, bumping to extremities, occasional light spotting to text-block, rear inner hinge cracked.
Sold for £130
Estimated at £100 - £150
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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