27th Nov, 2024 10:30 GMT/BST
Books, Maps & Manuscripts
75
Martin (Robert Montgomery).
The British Colonies; their history, extent, condition and resources.
J. & F. Tallis and Company (vol. 9 published by The London Printing and Publishing Company), no date [c. 1850], nine volumes, additional engraved title-page to vol.1, thirty-one engraved maps by J. Rapkin, twenty-three engraved portraits, portraits heavily foxed, maps with lighter foxing and a little dust-staining, bookplates, library shelfmark label and pencil notation, original red cloth gilt, spines sunned, head and tail of spines bumped and some with partial loss of backstrips, library shelfmark labels [text not collated].
Sold for £800
Estimated at £100 - £200
Auction: Books, Maps & Manuscripts, 27th Nov, 2024
Highlights include a first edition of an important work on the English colonies in America and the West Indies published in 1687, a collection of watercolours depicting landscapes and ancient sites of Egypt and the Middle East, and a selection of mid-19th century albumen print photographs of Rome. Further notable lots include plates from a mid-18th century plan of Paris by Michael Etienne Turgot, a Victorian autograph album and a copy of Eugene Grasset's 'Plants and the Application to Ornament'.
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