23rd Aug, 2024 10:30 GMT/BST
Books, Maps & Manuscripts
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Grose (Francis).
The Antiquities of England and Wales
Hooper & Wigstead, no date [1787 or later], 'New Edition', eight volumes, engraved plates and half page maps throughout with slight variation to contents list and some plates out of sequence, folding index map in volume VII;
idem, The Antiquities of Scotland.
Hooper & Wigstead, 1797, two volumes, engraved plates as called for;
idem, The Antiquities of Ireland.
S. Hooper & Wigstead, 1791, two volumes, engraved plates as called for;
idem, Military Antiquities respecting A History of The English Army from The Conquest to the Present Time.
I. Stockdale, 1812, two volumes, engraved plates as called for, impression of scissors in latter pages of volume I;
All fourteen volumes in uniform contemporary calf bindings with marbled edges to textblock. Armorial bookplates. Several joints cracking.
[Sold with text not collated] (14)
Sold for £300
Estimated at £500 - £800
England & Wales: Plates and Maps as called for except: Vol I - Bucks map not found; Vol II - Huntingdonshire map present but not called for in Index; Vol IV - plate of Porchester Priory Gate present but not called for in index; Vol VI - Marsh Castle plate not found; Vol VIII - Stanstead Place plate not found, map of Rutlandshire present but not called for in index, additional plate of Druids Temple present but not called for in index.
Some foxing present but contents generally clean, slight solvent odour, several volumes with partial cracking of joints, closed edges dusty. Sold with text pages not collated.
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Auction: Books, Maps & Manuscripts, 23rd Aug, 2024
The Summer Book Sale includes a wide range of interesting books, maps, photographs and manuscripts. In the modern books there are first editions by J.R.R. Tolkien and Mervyn Peake, signed works by Evelyn Waugh, Siegfried Sassoon, John le Carre and others as well as a good collection of deluxe Folio Society works. Earlier books include a small collection of finely bound works published by Didot of Paris, early Law books, a seventeeth century cookery book, a sixteenth century book on Crucifixion by Lipsius, and a very early sixteenth century book using italics which caused controvery at the time.
A good collection of early travel books is complemented by an interesting album of photographs of British Central Africa as well as a small selection of early maps, including a scarce folding map of Tasmania. A typescript personal account of the British Economic Mission to the Far East in 1930 provides a surprisingly interesting read.
For the Royalists, there are signed photographs of Queen Victoria and Albert, Prince of Wales and three Christmas cards signed by H.M. the Queen Mother. The sale concludes with a section of books on Natural History, Science and Theology which includes three early editions of Darwin's Origin of Species and a ground breaking work on the human brain by Marie Antionette's physician Vicq D'Azyr, illustrated with hand-coloured aquatints.
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