29th Sep, 2023 10:30 GMT/BST
Books, Maps & Manuscripts
88
Ordnance Survey of Yorkshire.
The County of Yorkshire on forty-five numbered sheets.
Each sheet 303mm x 455mm, card backed, no scales, titles or borders present to allow larger maps to be composed. Complete with large folding index map titled ‘…Combined Index shewing Civil Parishes and the Ordnance Survey Maps of the North Riding of Yorkshire, 1 inch, 3 inch and 25 inch scales, resurveyed 1888-93 … published 1897’. This linen-backed index map has been neatly extended to cover the whole of Yorkshire and all 45 maps are shown. Clean maps preserved in metal case.
Sold for £350
Estimated at £100 - £200
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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