29th Sep, 2023 10:30 GMT/BST
Books, Maps & Manuscripts
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Masham - West Tanfield - Kirkby Malzeard.
‘Views Taken 1810 in Yorkshire’, twenty-seven pencil sketches of North Yorkshire scenes, including Tanfield Church, Cottages at Mickley, Mowbray Tower, Richmond Bridge, Tanfield Mill, Hackfall Woods, Sir J. W. White’s Smelting Mills, etc.,
Page size 128mm x 208mm, first image with some hand-colouring, manuscript contents list to pastedowns, original worn morocco boards with brass clasp;
Gowland Tom S., ’Early References to Places in the Manor and Parish of Kirkby Mallard and Masham’.
Manuscript records compiled by Tom S. Gowland with tipped-in hand drawn folding maps, notes etc. and mounted hand-coloured armorials, dated 1931, nearly 200 pages, worn hardback album;
With an exercise book containing manuscript entries relating to North Yorkshire and Cumbria (nine pages) (3).
Sold for £480
Estimated at £150 - £250
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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