10th Apr, 2024 10:30 GMT/BST
Books, Maps & Manuscripts
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Milton (John).
Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books.
Printed by Miles Flesher for Richard Bently and Jacob Tonson, 1688, fourth edition, folio in fours, [4], 250, 151-197, 298-343, [7] pages, irregular pagination but text and register complete, engraved portrait frontis, twelve engraved plates, manuscript notes on Milton to reverse of plate I, armorial bookplate, attractive full morocco gilt binding.
Sold for £1,400
Estimated at £500 - £800
Some foxing, occasional light staining to inner margins, ink and pencil lines to several margins, minor tear in 2R1, small hole on 2R3 with smudged ink inscription in head margin verso, offset title to 2K4v, repaired tear to plate IV, some plates trimmed quite close to head and fore-edge margins, couple of pencil inscriptions to page margins, bookplate of Ethel Mary Portal, no ownership inscriptions found.
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Auction: Books, Maps & Manuscripts, 10th Apr, 2024
The sale includes a sketchbook of drawings of Southern China attributed to George Chinnery. English artist George Chinnery (1774-1852) left an extraordinary record of everyday life in Southern China in the early to mid-19th century, which has become an important source of historical information on the region.
Further highlights include an interesting archive of letters and ephemera relating to the composer and bandmaster Charles Coote (1809-1880), personal pianist to William Cavendish, the 6th Duke of Devonshire, and bandmaster and composer for stage productions put on by Charles Dickens. There is also several collections of 19th century photographs including an outstanding album with many views of Eton College and the River Thames at Windsor, Trinity College Cambridge, Switzerland, Gibraltar and Malta as well as an important photographic record of the Challenger Expedition, generally considered to be the foundation of oceanography.
Single owner collections include a large quantity of books on Polar Exploration and early Whaling. We are also pleased to offer a selection of books from the library of Fred Gettings, prolific author and expert on astrology, symbolism and arcane lore. The library includes many early editions of Nostradamus with several manuscript works on the famous French astrologer.
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