27th Nov, 2024 10:30 GMT/BST
Books, Maps & Manuscripts
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Egypt and the Middle East Watercolours.
A good collection of twenty-seven watercolour views of the Nile produced during a winter cruise in 1864-65. Depicting ancient sites and landscapes of Upper Egypt, Nubia, and the Second Cataract.
1864-65, twenty-seven original watercolours on paper, comprising one three-part panorama (13 x 108.5cm), three two-part panoramas (13 x 72.5cm), seven panoramas (13 x 36cm), ten large watercolours (26 x 36cm), and six other watercolours (ranging between 20 x 30cm and 16 x 23cm). All with original manuscript paper labels recording the date and scene depicted. All mounted on new card mounts and housed in a custom green cloth box with morocco title label lettered in gilt.
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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