Sworders Fine Art Auctioneers

Books and Maps
Sale #A1102

With close to 400 lots, auction includes some outstanding highlights such as, the complete copy of John Speed’s Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World, a 17th century pocket atlas, A Tabularum Geographical Contractarum Libri Septem by Dutch cartographer Petrus Berties (1565-1629),  and one of the great English botanical books featured in the sale is Flora Londinensis by William Curtis, a folio-sized book published in parts between 1777-98 that describes the botany found in and around London in the 1700s.

Also featured is a large number of rare London maps, headed by two 1827 first edition copies of the detailed maps surveyed by brother Christopher and John Greenwood and engraved by James and Josiah Neele.

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London Viewings: Tue, Oct 12th - Sat, Oct 16th
London Gallery, 15 Cecil Court
Tue - Fri 11:30am - 5:30pm
Sat 1pm - 5pm
Sun CLOSED

Stansted Viewings: Fri, Oct 6th - Mon, Oct 9
Stansted Auction Rooms, Cambridge Road, Stansted Mountfitchet
Fri, Oct 6th 10am - 4pm
Sun, Oct 8th 10am - 1pm
Mon, Oct 9th 10am - 4pm

Sworders Fine Art Auctioneers - Stansted Mountfitchet
Cambridge Road
Stansted Mountfitchet

Essex, UK