Books & Works on Paper
Location: 6 Roslin Square
Lots: 251
Featuring several notable collections, including: costume and theatre set designs by Oliver Messel; a trove of early Folio Society publications and limited editions; an archive of detective publications featuring the famous Sexton Blake. An individual gem is the 1828 edition of "The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century" by Jane Webb (later Jane Loudon). Considered an early feminist novel, her story takes place in a futuristic world of advanced technology and has the distinction of being the first in the English language to feature a reanimated mummy. The sale also features the classic historical nursing text: Florence Nightingale’s ‘Notes on Nursing: What it is, and What is not’. A first edition published in 1860, the work intended to give hints on nursing to those entrusted with the health of others. Last but not least, a manuscript map of Bermondsey drawn by James Atkinson in 1696. Atkinson had his shop at Cherry Garden Stairs in Rotherhithe.
Lot 49 - Wallins. Första Resa fran Cairo till Arabiska Öknen i April 1845. Fragment, first ed. 1853
Estimated at £400 - £600
Lot 51 - Indian Natural History: Frederic Drew & Hugh Cleghorn
Sold for £812
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Lot 52 - Collection of Chinese Cultural Revolution propaganda posters, featuring Mao Zedong
Sold for £88
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Lot 56 - Ulrich von Schroeder, Indo-Tibetan Bronzes, limited edition, 1981
Sold for £625
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Lot 58 - Constantine John Phipps, A Voyage Towards the North Pole, Dublin, 1775
Estimated at £150 - £200
Lot 59 - § Gill (MacDonald) Canada and Newfoundland. Their Natural and Industrial Resources
Sold for £625
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Lot 65 - Early maps: Martin Waldseemüller & Sebastian Munster
Sold for £625
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Lot 66 - Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, Cantuarbury (Canterbury)
Sold for £475
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Lot 67 - James Atkinson: Manuscript wall map of Bermondsey, 1696
Sold for £5,250
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 70 - Moscow and neighbouring cities: An Archive of Metro Memorabilia, maps, and travel guides
Estimated at £400 - £600
Lot 73 - Christian Van Adrichom, Theatrum Terrae Sanctae: Maps
Sold for £1,500
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Lot 78 - Charles Darwin, Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, first issue, 1868
Sold for £350
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Lot 80 - Emanuel Mendes da Costa, A Natural History of Fossils, first edition, 1757
Sold for £300
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Lot 81 - F. M. Halford, Floating Flies and How to Dress Them, First Edition, 1886
Sold for £125
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Lot 82 - Gardening. Abercrombie. The Complete Forcing-Gardener, ist ed. 1781
Sold for £250
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![Lot 87 - Husbandry, [Barker]. The Country-mans Recreation, 1654](https://chiswick.blob.core.windows.net/stock/209821-0-small.jpg?v=63837979933487)
Lot 87 - Husbandry, [Barker]. The Country-mans Recreation, 1654
Sold for £375
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Lot 88 - Johnston. A Description Of the Nature Of Four-Footed Beasts, 1678
Sold for £625
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![Lot 92 - Nightingale. Notes on Nursing: What it is, and What is not, first ed. [1860]](https://chiswick.blob.core.windows.net/stock/217208-0-small.jpg?v=63843610213750)
Lot 92 - Nightingale. Notes on Nursing: What it is, and What is not, first ed. [1860]
Sold for £575
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![Lot 94 - Rösslin (Eucharius), De Partu Hominis, [1551]](https://chiswick.blob.core.windows.net/stock/218026-0-small.jpg?v=63843609304433)
