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Department 07

Rare Books & Manuscripts

Printed books, manuscripts, autograph letters and maps. Collation is given in full and defects are listed; this department sells at a reduced premium of 25 per cent, as is customary in the trade.

An antique calf-bound folio open on a padded cradle showing an engraved plate.

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Lots catalogued: 3 lots
Currently open: 3 lots
Next sale: HC-2605 · September 30, 2026

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An antique calf-bound folio open on a padded cradle showing letterpress text and an engraved plate.

Lot 21 Upcoming

A folio natural history, with forty-eight engraved plates

Continental, Printed in the mid 18th century

Folio, contemporary calf, engraved plates

Estimate: $3,000 – 5,000
Starting: $2,200

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A nineteenth-century autograph letter with a marginal pen sketch, photographed flat.

Lot 64 Upcoming

An autograph letter, signed, from a nineteenth-century engineer

Manuscript, Dated 1863

Autograph letter signed, two pages, quarto

Estimate: $600 – 900
Starting: $400

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An engraved double-hemisphere world chart with later hand colour on aged laid paper.

Lot 142 Upcoming

An engraved chart of the northern hemisphere

Cartographic, Engraved circa 1750, later hand colour

Engraving with later hand colour on laid paper

Estimate: $1,500 – 2,500
Starting: $1,000

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