29th Sep, 2023 10:30 GMT/BST
Books, Maps & Manuscripts
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Ephemera.
A varied collection in five albums, compring:
Historical Interest - extensive collection of press cuttings, engravings including maps, livestock, Hogarth's street scenes, a Newcastle Spirit Establishment's promissory note, adverts, broadsides, adverts and business cards, coloured illustrations, etc. 19th century, pasted in large folio album, worn with detached board;
Original Artwork - A collection of artwork and verse, including French scenes (one of a roadside gibbet), 'The Caravan from Mecca ..', a portrait of an 'American Stone Indian', an early steam engine, etc. Various mediums (pencil, pen & ink, crayon and gouache), embossed album (well worn);
Free Fronts - Approx. 138 items, including signed free fronts with free franks, signed fronts without franks and several cropped signatures. Mainly 1830s, mounted in half roan album;
Poetry - A commonplace book of Poetry. 19th century, manuscript, ornate ebossed leather binding with inset colour peacock to each board. Bookseller's stamp of Taylor of Liverpool;
Commonplace Book - Manuscript entries including Ballads, Letters, historical events, etc. Early 19th century, worn sheep bings, spine weak. (5)
Sold for £450
Estimated at £150 - £250
Auction: Books, Maps & Manuscripts, 29th Sep, 2023
Highlights include a Late Medieval Prayer Book; a Monograph of the Trogonidae, or Family of Trogons, by John Gould, (1875), with forty-seven superb hand-coloured lithographic plates; an outstanding early album of Austrian topographical woodcuts and watercolours; a fascinating album of late 19th century photographs of Brisbane, Queensland and surrounding areas; the first part of the York library of Hugh Murray, author and historian; a collection of vintage playing cards and a large folding map of India.
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