Lot 333
British Rivers and the Thames, including Tombleson, William
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 28 January 2015 at 11:00 GMT
Description
Eighty picturesque views on the Thames and Medway. Black and Armstrong, [n.d., c.1840?] 4to, 77 (of 79) plates, lacking panoramic map and pp.67-68, embossed cloth gilt; Cassell... Rivers of Great Britain: rivers of the south and west coasts; the Thames from source to sea; rivers of the east coast; Cassell and Company, 1901-02. 3 volumes, 4to, plates, pictorial green cloth gilt; Leslie, George Dunlop Our river. Bradbury, Agnew & Co., 1881. First edition[?], 4to, frontispiece and 12 India-proof plates, original cloth gilt; Way, T.R. - Wheatley, H.B. Reliques of old London upon the banks of the Thames... George Bell and Sons, 1899. 4to, 107 of 280 copies signed by the illustrator, original boards; and 2 others, all with Cruising Association bookplates, library stamps and gilt stamps to upper covers and spines, sold not subject to return (8)
Footnote
Provenance: From the library of the Cruising Association