28th Jul, 2021 10:30 GMT/BST

Books, Maps & Manuscripts

 
  Lot 41
 

41

Whitaker (Thomas Dunham). The History and Antiquities of the Deanery of Craven, in the County...

Whitaker (Thomas Dunham). The History and Antiquities of the Deanery of Craven, in the County of York. The Second Edition, with many Additions, Corrections, Map, and View of Gentlemen's Seats, Antiquities, etc., London: J. Nichols and Son, 1812. Folio (385 x 265 mm), contemporary calf, gilt palmette roll to covers, all edges gilt, vii 530 pp., engraved folding map, 18 letterpress pedigrees (a few also folding), 72 engraved or aquatint plates in total, many hand-coloured, and including 2 unlisted plates (facing pp. 32 and 415), 17 hand-coloured duplicates of uncoloured plates (mainly of country seats), and one plate (Eshton Hall) in two states (aquatint and engraved; both uncoloured), the duplicates all unlisted, front cover detached, offsetting, a few repairs to folding pedigrees (qty: 1) Deluxe large-paper copy; the coloured duplicate plates are not present in other copies we have traced, and many of the remaining plates which are coloured in our copy are uncoloured in others.

Sold for £220
Estimated at £70 - £100


 

Auction: Books, Maps & Manuscripts, 28th Jul, 2021

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