Books, Maps & Manuscripts

Date: 9th Apr, 2025 10:30 GMT/BST
Lots: 136

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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Name: Ruari Williams
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Books, Maps and Manuscripts (136)

 

Lot 1 - Antiquarian. [Cicero]. M. Tullii Ciceronis...

Sold for £90
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 2 - Folio Society. A collection of works published...

Sold for £600
Estimated at £300 - £500

Lot 3 - Oldham (J. Basil). Shrewsbury School Library...

Sold for £300
Estimated at £80 - £120

Lot 4 - Smith (Adam). An Inquiry into the Nature and...

Sold for £70
Estimated at £70 - £100

Lot 6 - [Dezallier D'Argenville (Antoine Joseph)] and...

Sold for £280
Estimated at £300 - £500

Lot 7 - Langley (Batty). New Principles of Gardening:...

Sold for £700
Estimated at £300 - £500

Lot 9 - Gillray (James). Twenty-one caricatures,...

Sold for £3,800
Estimated at £400 - £600

Lot 10 - [Hogarth (William)]. [The Works...from the...

Sold for £750
Estimated at £150 - £250

Lot 11 - [Rubens (Peter Paul).] [La Gallerie du Palais...

Sold for £250
Estimated at £60 - £100

Lot 12 - Ackermann (R[udolph], publisher). A History of...

Sold for £1,200
Estimated at £1,000 - £1,500

Lot 13 - Ackermann (R[udolph], publisher). The History...

Sold for £220
Estimated at £250 - £350

Lot 14 - Ackermann (R[udolph], publisher). A History of...

Sold for £1,800
Estimated at £200 - £400

Lot 15 - Ackermann (R[udolph], publisher). The History...

Sold for £120
Estimated at £150 - £250

Lot 16 - Adam (Robert). Ruins of the Palace of the...

Sold for £900
Estimated at £700 - £1,000

Lot 17 - Freart (Roland). A Parallel of the Antient...

Sold for £160
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 19 - Ware (Isaac and William Kent). The Plans,...

Sold for £600
Estimated at £300 - £500

Lot 20 - Bewick (Thomas). The Fables of Aesop, and...

Sold for £250
Estimated at £200 - £300

Lot 21 - Bindings. A collection bindings, mostly...

Sold for £170
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 22 - Hughes (Ted) and Lloyd (R.J., illustrator)....

Sold for £450
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 23 - Illustrated Works. A Collection of Illustrated...

Sold for £130
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 25 - Potter (Beatrix). The Pie and Patty-Pan....

Sold for £420
Estimated at £150 - £250

Lot 26 - Rosetti (Christina). Poems. London, Glasgow &...

Sold for £400
Estimated at £150 - £250

Lot 27 - Tolkien (J. R. R.). [The Lord of the Rings...

Sold for £190
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 28 - Tolkien (J. R. R.). The Adventures of Tom...

Sold for £220
Estimated at £80 - £120

Lot 29 - Botany. Botanical Specimens. Copies from...

Sold for £350
Estimated at £150 - £250

Lot 30 - Boyle (Robert). Tracts: Containing I....

Sold for £1,400
Estimated at £1,000 - £1,500

Lot 31 - Budge (E.A. Wallis, editor and translator)....

Sold for £150
Estimated at £150 - £250

Lot 32 - Gauss (Carl Friedrich). Disquisitiones...

Sold for £16,000
Estimated at £8,000 - £12,000

Lot 34 - Harris (Joseph). The Description and Use of...

Sold for £160
Estimated at £150 - £250

Lot 35 - Heywood (Thomas). The Hierarchie of the...

Sold for £750
Estimated at £500 - £800

Lot 36 - Mandey (Ven[terus]). Mechanic Powers; or, the...

Sold for £600
Estimated at £200 - £400

Lot 38 - [Le Marchant (John Gaspard)]. By His Majesty's...

Sold for £300
Estimated at £300 - £500

Lot 39 - Atkinson (George Francklin). The Campaign in...

Sold for £2,800
Estimated at £300 - £500

Lot 41 - Geographical Handbook Series. Naval...

Sold for £220
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 42 - Military. [Booth (John)]. The Battle of...

Sold for £110
Estimated at £70 - £100

Lot 43 - Nelson (Horatio, Viscount). The Letters of...

Sold for £300
Estimated at £300 - £500

Lot 45 - Sutherland (William). Britain's Glory: Or,...

Sold for £380
Estimated at £200 - £300

Lot 46 - Plot (Robert). The Natural History of...

Sold for £100
Estimated at £80 - £120

Lot 47 - Skelton (Joseph). Oxonia Antiqua Restaurata,...

Sold for £500
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 48 - Surtees (Robert). The History and Antiquities...

Sold for £280
Estimated at £150 - £250

Lot 49 - Surtees Society. The Publications of the...

Sold for £450
Estimated at £300 - £500

Lot 50 - [Jefferys (Thomas).] [A Description of the...

Sold for £600
Estimated at £200 - £400

Lot 51 - Atlas. The Edinburgh Geographical and...

Sold for £1,700
Estimated at £200 - £300

Lot 52 - Blome (Richard). [Britannia: or a Geographical...

Sold for £480
Estimated at £500 - £800

Lot 53 - Bryant (A.). Map of the County of Lincoln,...

Sold for £110
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 54 - Camden (William). Britannia: or, a...

Sold for £220
Estimated at £200 - £300

Lot 55 - Cary (John). Cary's New and Correct English...

Sold for £250
Estimated at £200 - £300

Lot 56 - Ogilby (John). Britannia: or the Kingdom of...

Sold for £1,400
Estimated at £1,500 - £2,500

Lot 58 - Speed (John). The Countie Pallatine of...

Sold for £250
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 59 - Speed (John). Wales. Sudbury and Humble, 1610...

Sold for £220
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 60 - Speed (John). The West Ridinge of Yorkshyre....

Sold for £150
Estimated at £100 - £150

Lot 61 - Speed (John) York Shire. Sudbury and Humble,...

Sold for £280
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 62 - Yorkshire. Teesdale (Henry & Stocking C.). To...

Sold for £250
Estimated at £200 - £300

Lot 63 - Allom (Thomas, illustrator, and G.N. Wright)....

Sold for £500
Estimated at £300 - £500

Lot 64 - Anson (George). A Voyage Round The World, In...

Sold for £300
Estimated at £100 - £150

Lot 65 - Burckhardt (John Lewis). Travels in Syria, and...

Sold for £550
Estimated at £150 - £250

Lot 66 - Cook (James). A Voyage towards the South Pole,...

Sold for £420
Estimated at £300 - £500

Lot 67 - Dampier (William). A New Voyage Around The...

Sold for £900
Estimated at £150 - £250

Lot 69 - Raffles (Thomas Stamford). The History of Java....

Sold for £2,300
Estimated at £700 - £1,000

Lot 70 - Sandby (Paul). A Collection of One Hundred and...

Sold for £480
Estimated at £500 - £700

Lot 71 - Spratt (Lt. Thomas Abel Bremage and Prof....

Sold for £180
Estimated at £200 - £400

Lot 72 - Swinburne (Henry). Picturesque Tour Through...

Sold for £170
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 73 - Swinburne (Henry). Travels Through Spain, in...

Sold for £150
Estimated at £150 - £250

Lot 74 - [Ray (John)]. Catalogus plantarum circa...

Not Sold
Estimated at £800 - £1,200

Lot 75 - Angling. Jackson (John). The Practical...

Sold for £70
Estimated at £60 - £90

Lot 76 - Birds. del Hoyo (Josep et al., editors)....

Sold for £150
Estimated at £200 - £400

Lot 77 - De Gray (Thomas). The Compleat Horseman and...

Sold for £600
Estimated at £150 - £250

Lot 78 - Freeman (Gage Earle and Francis Henry Salvin)....

Sold for £180
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 79 - Hills (Robert). Cattle in Groups for the...

Sold for £180
Estimated at £70 - £100

Lot 80 - La Quintinie (Jean de). The Compleat Gard'ner;...

Sold for £280
Estimated at £300 - £500

Lot 81 - Ray (John). Synopsis Methodica Stirpium...

Sold for £90
Estimated at £100 - £150

Lot 82 - Ray (John). A Collection of English Proverbs...

Sold for £380
Estimated at £400 - £600

Lot 83 - Ray (John). A Collection of English Words Not...

Sold for £220
Estimated at £200 - £400

Lot 84 - Ray (John). Miscellaneous Discourses...

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

Lot 85 - Ray (John). Observations Topographical, Moral,...

Sold for £190
Estimated at £200 - £300

Lot 86 - Salvin (Francis Henry and William Brodrick)....

Sold for £500
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 87 - Sowerby (James). English Botany; or, Coloured...

Sold for £190
Estimated at £200 - £300

Lot 88 - The New Naturalist Series. A broken run of...

Sold for £180
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 89 - [Evans (Mary Ann)], George Eliot. Adam Bede....

Sold for £70
Estimated at £150 - £250

Lot 90 - [Street (Cecil)], Burton (Miles). To Catch a...

Sold for £800
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 91 - Austen (Jane). Pride and Prejudice. London:...

Sold for £850
Estimated at £200 - £300

Lot 92 - Brooke (Rupert). Four Poems. London: Scolar...

Sold for £120
Estimated at £150 - £250

Lot 93 - Clemoes (Peter, et al., editors). Anglo-Saxon...

Sold for £160
Estimated at £60 - £100

Lot 94 - Crowne [(John)]. Darius, King of Persia. A...

Sold for £1,000
Estimated at £60 - £100

Lot 95 - Dickens (Charles and Arthur Rackham,...

Sold for £190
Estimated at £60 - £90

Lot 96 - Dugdale (William) Monasticon Anglicanum: A...

Sold for £420
Estimated at £80 - £120