Books, Maps, Manuscripts and Historical Photographs

Session: Books, Maps, Manuscripts and Historical Photographs

London, New Bond Street
7 Jun 2011, session starting at 14:00 BST

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GREAT EXHIBITION and W.H. FOX TALBOT Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, 1851. Reports by the Juries on The Subjects in the Thirty Classes into which the Exhibition was Divided, 4. vol., ONE OF FIFTEEN COPIES GIVEN BY THE COMMISSIONERS TO WILLIAM FOX TALBOT
Sold for £216,000 inc. premium
GREAT EXHIBITION and W.H. FOX TALBOT Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, 1851. Reports by the ...
COLONIAL MASSACHUSETTS An untitled map of the river and lake system from Penobscot and Passamaquoddy bays in the south and east, to the Chaudiere River (partly still unsurveyed), the St. Lawrence and Quebec in the north-west, MANUSCRIPT MAP ON VELLUM
Sold for £84,000 inc. premium
COLONIAL MASSACHUSETTS An untitled map of the river and lake system from Penobscot and Passamaquoddy bays in the south and ...
COLONIAL MASSACHUSETTS MOUNT DESERT ISLAND. A Coppy of a Plan of the Six Townships Laid out on ye East Side of Mt. Desaert now calld Union River...as also a Plan of the land Laid out Six miles Latitude above The North Line of the Aforesaid Six Townships Togather with a Small Township Lying on the North Side of No.3...Laid by a Scale of one mile to an Inch Taken Novr. 12th 1764 ...Joseph Frie, MANUSCRIPT MAP ON PAPER
Sold for £60,000 inc. premium
COLONIAL MASSACHUSETTS MOUNT DESERT ISLAND. A Coppy of a Plan of the Six Townships Laid out on ye East Side ...
COLONIAL MASSACHUSETTS Plan of ye Town of Pownall, MANUSCRIPT MAP ON PAPER showing the plots laid out for Pownallborough lying between the Kennebec River and Wiscasset Bay
Sold for £57,600 inc. premium
COLONIAL MASSACHUSETTS Plan of ye Town of Pownall, MANUSCRIPT MAP ON PAPER showing the plots laid out for Pownallborough lying ...

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CAMDEN (WILLIAM) Britannia sive florentissimorum regnorum Angliae, Scotiae, Hiberniae, insularumque adiacentium ex intima antiquitate descriptio
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€580 - 930
US$ 760 - 1,200
CANADA LE ROUGE (GEORGES LOUIS) L'Isthme de l'Acadie, Baye du Beaubassin, en Anglois Shegnekto. Environs du Fort Beausejour
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CANADA LE ROUGE (GEORGES LOUIS) L'Isthme de l'Acadie, Baye du Beaubassin, en Anglois Shegnekto. Environs du Fort Beausejour
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CASSINI (GIOVANNI MARIA) Nuovo atlante geografico universale, vol. one only
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CASSINI (GIOVANNI MARIA) Nuovo atlante geografico universale, vol. one only
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CERVANTES SAAVEDRA (MIQUEL DE) The History of the Most Renowned Don Quixote of Mancha: and His Trusty Squire Sancho Pancha, Now Made English According to the Humour of our Modern Language
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CERVANTES SAAVEDRA (MIGUEL DE) The History of the Most Renowned Don Quixote of Mancha: and His Trusty Squire Sancho Pancha, Now Made English According to ...
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CHANDLER (ALFRED) and WILLIAM BEATTIE BOOTH Illustrations and Descriptions of the Plants Which Compose the Natural Order Camellieae, and of the Varieties of Camellia Japonica, Cultivated in the Gardens of Great Britain, vol. one (all published)
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CHANDLER (ALFRED) and WILLIAM BEATTIE BOOTH Illustrations and Descriptions of the Plants Which Compose the Natural Order Camellieae, and of the Varieties of Camellia Japonica, ...
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CHARLES I
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CHAUCER (GEOFFREY) Canterbury Tales
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CHAUCER (GEOFFREY) Canterbury Tales
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CHAUCER (GEOFFREY) Canterbury Tales
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CHAUCER (GEOFFREY) Canterbury Tales
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CHINA The Cause of the Riots in the Yangtse Valley. A "Complete Picture Gallery"
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CHINA The Cause of the Riots in the Yangtse Valley. A "Complete Picture Gallery"
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CLARK (SAMUEL) Reuben Ramble's. Travels Through the Counties of England
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CLARK (SAMUEL) Reuben Ramble's. Travels Through the Counties of England
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