29th Sep, 2023 10:30 GMT/BST
Books, Maps & Manuscripts
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Dante Alighieri.
The New Life - La Vita Nuova, Translated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
George G. Harrap (printed at the Cheylesmore Press in Coventry), no date, numbered limited edition of 150 copies, signed by the illustrator Evelyn Paul. Small quarto, [1], 168 pages, colour illustrations with gilt, several mounted, top edge gilt, full decorative vellum binding;
Kayyam (Omar), The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Translated into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald.
George G. Harrap, no date, twenty-eight mounted colour illustrations after Adelaide Hanscom and Blanche Cumming, each with tissue guard (one tissue torn without loss), top edge gilt, decorative full morocco gilt binding (joints worn, upper board almost detached) (2)
Sold for £320
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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