22nd Aug, 2025 10:30 GMT/BST
Books, Maps & Manuscripts
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Brent-Dyer (Elinor M.).
The Rivals of the Chalet School. London: W. & R. Chambers, 1929, first edition, frontispiece and three plates, two ink ownership inscriptions on front free endpaper, scattered light spotting, original cloth, spine a little faded and rolled, dust jacket, creased, spine ends chipped, few tape repairs;
Eustacia Goes to the Chalet School. London: W. & R. Chambers, 1930, first edition, frontispiece and three plates, very faint spotting, mainly to first and final few leaves, original red cloth, gilt, spine faded, extremities rubbed, dust jacket, lower panel creased, torn, with a small portion of loss and a little dust-soiled;
The Chalet School in Oberland. London: W. & R. Chambers, 1952, first edition, frontispiece, some spotting to page margins, original blue cloth, dust jacket, price-clipped, creasing a few chips to extremities;
Twelve others by Brent-Dyer, first editions, all but one with dust jackets and one with upper panel only.
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Sold for £400
Estimated at £150 - £250
Auction: Books, Maps & Manuscripts, 22nd Aug, 2025
A first edition copy of the landmark 19th century ornithological publication The Birds of Great Britain by John Gould is coming up for sale with an estimate of £25,000-35,000. Celebrated for its scientific accuracy, artistic excellence and detailed life-like depictions, the five-volume work was published between 1862 and 1873 and features 367 hand-coloured lithographs depicting all the bird species in Britain that were known at the time.
Also of note is a very good copy of the fine botanical work Illustratio Systematis Sexualis Linnaei…. An Illustration of the Sexual System of Linnaeus by John Miller will be offered in the same sale with an estimate of £8,000-12,000. Miller, born Johann Sebastian Mueller in Nuremberg, published the work in parts between 1770 and 1777, and the volume is filled with accurate and beautiful illustrations of the landmark system of Carl Linnaeus.
The sale will also include interesting 17th century Stafford Gaol Calendars of Prisoners, and a good variety of books, maps and manuscripts encompassing a broad range of collecting areas from early antiquarian books to modern first editions, alongside illustrations, private press, manuscripts, maps and atlases, early photographs, autographed letters and historic documents.
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