18th May, 2022 10:30 GMT/BST
Scott (Robert F.). The Voyage of the Discovery, 1st edition, 1st impression, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1905. 2 volumes, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, top edges gilt, all plates and maps as called for, publisher's slip tipped to front pastedown, manuscript call-numbers in white ink to spines, old paper labels to upper inner corners of front covers, ink-stamps of the Manchester Guardian library to title-pages (cancelled verso), together with:
Taylor (Griffith). With Scott: The Silver Lining, 1st edition, 1st state, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1916. 8vo, original green cloth, penguin vignette to front cover, all plates and maps as called for, head of spine nicked, spotting to prelims and to folding map at rear,
Priestley (Raymond E.). Antarctic Adventure. Scott's Northern Party, 1st edition, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1914. 8vo, original blue cloth lettered and decorated in silver, all plates and maps as called for, spine faded and nicked, rear inner hinge cracked,
and 2 others (another copy of The Voyage of the Discover, 1st edition, 1st impression, volume 1 shaken, and Scott's Last Expedition, 1st edition, 1916, these not collated) (qty: 8)
Rosove 286.A1 a (Scott, Voyage), 324.A1 (Taylor), 256.A1 a (Priestley).
Sold for £450
Estimated at £300 - £500
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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