Books, Maps & Manuscripts

Date: 23rd Aug, 2024 10:30 GMT/BST
Lots: 143


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. 

Name: Paul Hughes
Email: books@tennants-ltd.co.uk

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Books, Maps and Manuscripts (143)

 

Lot 99 - Hall (Sydney). Black's General Atlas: A Series...

Sold for £350
Estimated at £150 - £250

Lot 100 - Bradshaw (George). Map and Sections of The...

Sold for £150
Estimated at £150 - £250

Lot 101 - Iceland Flandro (Georgio Carolo), Tabula...

Sold for £320
Estimated at £200 - £300

Lot 102 - Australia - Tasmania. Frankland (George), This...

Sold for £1,900
Estimated at £600 - £1,000

Lot 103 - The British Economic Mission to the Far East,...

Sold for £650
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 104 - Coxe (William). Travels into Poland, Russia,...

Sold for £170
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 105 - Mason (George Henry). The Costume of China,...

Sold for £280
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 106 - White (Herbert C.). Peking the Beautiful,...

Sold for £400
Estimated at £150 - £250

Lot 107 - Holderness (Mary). New Russia. Journey from...

Sold for £250
Estimated at £150 - £250

Lot 110 - Schomburgk (Sir Robert H.) & Taylor (John...

Sold for £120
Estimated at £150 - £250

Lot 111 - Geological Survey of Egypt. Views of Typical...

Sold for £350
Estimated at £150 - £250

Lot 112 - [Dale (Robert) and O’Gorman (George) for...

Sold for £170
Estimated at £150 - £250

Lot 113 - Ross (Sir John). Narrative of a Second Voyage...

Sold for £250
Estimated at £150 - £250

Lot 115 - Salt (Henry). A Voyage To Abyssinia, and...

Sold for £220
Estimated at £200 - £400

Lot 116 - Bell (John). Travels from St. Petersburg in...

Sold for £400
Estimated at £200 - £400

Lot 118 - Buenos Aires. An Authentic Narrative of the...

Sold for £300
Estimated at £200 - £400

Lot 120 - Burnes (Sir Alexander). Cabool: being a...

Sold for £550
Estimated at £200 - £400

Lot 121 - Photographs - Africa A very interesting...

Sold for £1,400
Estimated at £200 - £400

Lot 122 - [Acuna (Christobal de) et al.]. Voyages and...

Sold for £1,000
Estimated at £800 - £1,200

Lot 123 - Polar Exploration. Murray (George). The...

Sold for £1,700
Estimated at £1,500 - £2,000

Lot 125 - [Surtees (Robert Smith)]. [Hunting Novels]...

Sold for £200
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 128 - Wright (Lewis). The Illustrated Book of...

Sold for £320
Estimated at £150 - £250

Lot 130 - Butler (Arthur G.). Foreign Finches in...

Sold for £380
Estimated at £400 - £600

Lot 131 - Bolton (James). Harmonia Ruralis; or, An Essay...

Sold for £900
Estimated at £800 - £1,200

Lot 132 - Darwin (Charles). The Origin of Species by...

Sold for £150
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 133 - Darwin (Charles). The Origin of Species by...

Sold for £250
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Lot 134 - Darwin (Charles). The Origin of Species by...

Sold for £600
Estimated at £200 - £400

Lot 135 - Dawkins (Richard). The Selfish Gene. Oxford...

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Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 136 - Nostradamus (Michel) - Manuscript. Les Vrayes...

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Estimated at £150 - £250

Lot 137 - Bell (Charles). An Essay on The Forces Which...

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Estimated at £150 - £250

Lot 138 - Phillips (John). Illustrations of the Geology...

Sold for £6,000
Estimated at £150 - £250

Lot 140 - Aikin (C.R.). A Concise View Of All The Most...

Sold for £130
Estimated at £150 - £250

Lot 141 - Lloyd (Elizabeth Maria). Exercises in the...

Sold for £120
Estimated at £60 - £100

Lot 142 - Agricola (Georgius). De Re Metallica,...

Sold for £180
Estimated at £200 - £300

Lot 143 - Holy Bible (Latin). Bibliorum Sacrorum...

Sold for £420
Estimated at £200 - £400

Lot 144 - Newton (Sir Isaac). Opticks: or, A Treatise of...

Sold for £1,800
Estimated at £800 - £1,200

Lot 145 - D'Azyr (Vicq). Traite D'Anatomie et De...

Sold for £2,000
Estimated at £800 - £1,200