29th Sep, 2023 10:30 GMT/BST
Books, Maps & Manuscripts
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Dean's Moveable Book.
The Royal Punch & Judy as Played Before the Queen at Windsor Castle & the Crystal Palace.
Dean & Son, no date (c.1860), eight colour plates with tab-operated hand-coloured moveables, advert pastedowns, original cloth-backed colour boards.
[One of Dean's earliest tab-operated moveables]
Sold for £280
Estimated at £200 - £400
Auction: Books, Maps & Manuscripts, 29th Sep, 2023
Highlights include a Late Medieval Prayer Book; a Monograph of the Trogonidae, or Family of Trogons, by John Gould, (1875), with forty-seven superb hand-coloured lithographic plates; an outstanding early album of Austrian topographical woodcuts and watercolours; a fascinating album of late 19th century photographs of Brisbane, Queensland and surrounding areas; the first part of the York library of Hugh Murray, author and historian; a collection of vintage playing cards and a large folding map of India.
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