9th Apr, 2025 10:30 GMT/BST
Books, Maps & Manuscripts
9
Gillray (James).
Twenty-one caricatures, including 'Taking Physick' [BM 9584], 'Breathing a Vein' [BM 10306], 'Gentle Emetic' [BM 10304], 'Charming well again' [BM 10307], 'Windy Weather' [BM 11099], 'Delicious Weather' [BM 11094], 'Dreadful-Hot-Weather' [BM 11095], 'Raw Weather' [BM 11097], 'Sad Sloppy Weather' [BM 11096], 'Very Slippy-Weather' [BM 11100] (short closed tear to outer margin touching inner border), 'Fine Bracing Weather' [BM 11098], 'Fast-Asleep' [BM 10644], 'Wide-Awake' [BM 10645], 'Comfort to the Corns' [BM 9585], 'Hope' [BM 9854], 'Despair' [BM 9855], 'How to break in my own Horse!' [BM 10162], 'a Scotch Poney - commonly call'd a Galloway' [BM 10161], 'an Old Encore at the Opera' [BM 10159], 'Maecenas in pursuit of the Fine Arts' [BM 11076], 'Equestrian Elegance! or a Noble Scot, metamorphosed' [BM 10160], etchings with bright hand-colouring, each with margins, tipped-in to worn album, some light surface dirt and very occasional spotting, together with four other prints/caricatures, worn calf-backed album, boards detached.
Provenance: The Property of Sir Brooke Boothby, ex Fonmon Castle.
Sold for £3,800
Estimated at £400 - £600
'Very Slippy Weather' - closed tear right-hand margin into second border, fore-edge a little frayed, three adhesion spots verso, very light age-toning (see extra images)
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Auction: Books, Maps & Manuscripts, 9th Apr, 2025
The Books, Maps and Manuscripts sales encompass a broad range of collecting areas from early antiquarian books to modern first editions, which are sold alongside illustrations, private press, manuscripts, maps and atlases, early photographs, autographed letters and historic documents. Held four times a year, the specialist Book sales incorporate both private collections and libraries, and single lots from vendors across the United Kingdom.
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