£2,142
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 792
Auction: 19 June 2024 from 10:00 BST
Leather bound sketchbook [at the rear of a bound copy of Censura Propositionum, Paris, 1631], 17 x 22.5cm, “Randolph Schwabe, University College, London, Gowen St. WC1” to the paste-down endpaper, with over 70 leaves of sketches (architecture, animals, people);
Cloth-bound sketch/notebook, comprising a few lecture notes, sketched copies of statues in Westminster Abbey, and further sketches, mainly people and animals;
Notebook, 13 x 20cm, “R Schwabe Royal College of Art South Kensington” to hand-made book cover, a few notes, with many sketches of animals, people, plants and cars;
Two loose or spiral-bound sketchbooks;
Two earlier commonplace books with later sketches by Schwabe (7)