25th Mar, 2025 10:00
The March Auctions 2025
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[Z] Elwes (Henry John) The Trees of Great Britain & Ireland
Elwes (Henry John) The Trees of Great Britain & Ireland, Edinburgh: Privately Printed, 1906-1912, folio, top edge gilt, quarter green leather and marbled boards, marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate for Sir Henry Beresford-Peirse, Bart of Bedale Yorkshire, bound by Bumpus Ltd, Oxford Street, London, seven volumes and index in five being three text volumes and 2 plate volumes; includes a manuscript autograph letter and a further postcard by the author (5)
Provenance:A Gloucestershire book collector
Chorley's bi-annual auction of Fine Books, Maps and Manuscripts includes a wide variety of works including a page from the Gutenberg bible.
Sold for £650
Elwes (Henry John) The Trees of Great Britain & Ireland, Edinburgh: Privately Printed, 1906-1912, folio, top edge gilt, quarter green leather and marbled boards, marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate for Sir Henry Beresford-Peirse, Bart of Bedale Yorkshire, bound by Bumpus Ltd, Oxford Street, London, seven volumes and index in five being three text volumes and 2 plate volumes; includes a manuscript autograph letter and a further postcard by the author (5)
A Gloucestershire book collector
Fine Books & Manuscripts
Chorley's bi-annual auction of Fine Books, Maps and Manuscripts includes a wide variety of works including a page from the Gutenberg bible.
Lacking frontispiece to vol 1 and IV, marbled endpapers differ in plate volumes. later rebound, three volumes bound in first volume, two volumes bound in second volume, two volumes bound in third volume, all plates present
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