Books and Maps - Timed Auction - Fri 14 Apr to Sun 23 Apr

Books and Maps - Timed Auction - Fri 14 Apr to Sun 23 Apr

starts: 14th Apr, 2023 12:45
Ends: 23rd Apr, 2023 18:00
Sale number: A1077
Lots: 287

 

The sale features some outstanding highlights, including; eight photographs taken by Charles Dodgson – aka Lewis Carroll – of one of his ‘child friends’, an album of 127 ornithological watercolours by a 19th century German artist and naturalist, a collection of letters relating to the American War of Independence of which two were written to British general Charles Cornwallis (1738-1805) by Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Stewart following the action known as the Battle of Eutaw Springs on September 8, 1781. Also featured is a first edition copy of the first volume of Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations has an interesting provenance with the Duke of Sutherland and the economist Edwin Walter Kemmerer among its former owners.

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Lot 26
MAP: BLAEU

Sold for £120

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Lot 30
51 TOWN PLANS

Sold for £520

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Lot 50
Peck, W

Sold for £190

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Lot 56
JUNGMAN, Nico

Sold for £600

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Lot 65
PAGET, Walter

Sold for £190

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Lot 107
FINE BINDING

Sold for £180

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Lot 108
FINE BINDING

Sold for £170

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Lot 109
BINDING

Sold for £180

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Lot 123
MILNE, AA

Sold for £160

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Lot 126
Enid BLYTON

Sold for £90

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Lot 127
CHILDREN, ETC

Sold for £160

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Lot 130
FLEMING, Ian

Sold for £120

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Lot 131
FLEMING, Ian

Sold for £90

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Lot 132
IAN FLEMING

Sold for £1,650

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Lot 134
MANUSCRIPT

Sold for £480