Name: Auction: Bourne, John C. Drawings of the London and Birmingham Railway
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 945 GBP
Availability: OutOfStock

Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs

Sale number: 773&nbsp;February 2024's auction features a fine range of modern literature (lots 275-298) including first editions of <a href="/auctions/rare-books-manuscripts-maps-and-photographs-773/lot/297" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">J.R.R. Tolkien's 'Lord of the Rings</a>' and <a href="/auctions/rare-books-manuscripts-maps-and-photographs-773/lot/279" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">George Orwell’s 'Animal Farm</a>', important manuscripts (lots 179-195), atlases &amp; maps (lots 112-151), photographs (lots 196-208) and The Collection of the Stevenson Lighthouse Engineers (lots 61-111), including <a href="/auctions/rare-books-manuscripts-maps-and-photographs-773/lot/85" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Sebastian Münster's 'Cosmographiae Universalis Lib. VI'</a>, and much more. The sale also features The Library of Dr Andrew Fraser MD FSA Scot (1937 - 2020) (lots 152 - 178).

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With Historical and Descriptive Account. By John Britton. London: published by the proprietor J. C . Bourne, Ackermann and Co., 1839. First edition, folio (53.5 x 37.4cm), 20th-century black crushed half morocco, repeated horizontal gilt fillets across spine and backstrip, 26 pp., tinted lithographic title-page, 29 tinted lithographic plates, engraved map, rubbing to joints and extremities, a little cracking to joint-ends, all plates and text-leaves mounted on linen stubs, plates variably spotted, tide-mark to head of title-page and first plate [Abbey Life 398, with coloured plates]

Bourne, John C.

Drawings of the London and Birmingham Railway

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