Skip To Content
Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood



Your privacy is important. Our Cookies Statement explains how we use cookies on this site. You can change their use at any time. You accept them by continuing to use this site. Our Privacy Statement explains how we use and protect your data.
  • Home
  • About Us
  • Sales & Catalogues
  • Specialists
  • News
  • Articles
  • Consignments
  • Blogs
  • Press Kit
  • Valuation Days
  • Sales Calendar
  • Events
  • Payments
  • Departments
  • Books & Manuscripts
  • Ceramics & Glass
  • Collectables & Toys
  • Furniture
  • Jewellery & Watches
  • Maritime & Sporting
  • Pictures
  • Silver
  • Works of Art & Clocks
  • Valuations
  • Client Services
  • Advice
  • Research
  • Marketing
  • Photography
  • Contacting Us
  • T: +44 (0)1392 413100
  • E: info@bhandl.co.uk
  • Visiting Our Salerooms
  • Our Sales and Auctions
  • The Salerooms
  • Administration
  • Payment Methods
  • Online Forms
  • The Lot Magazine
  • How to Buy
  • How to Sell
  • Common Questions
  • Premium & Commission
  • Bidding in Person
  • Internet Bidding
  • Telephone Bidding
  • Commission Bids
  • Terms and Conditions
  • Information for Buyers
  • Information for Sellers
  • Conditions of Sale
  • Legal Notices

BK19: Antiquarian Book Sale

GILPIN, William - Three Essays

Auction Lot BK19/403

GILPIN, William - Three Essays on Picturesque Beauty; on Picturesque Travel; and on Sketching Landscape : 7 tinted aquatint plates, half morocco, tall 8vo, 1794. Remarks on Forest Scenery : 2 vols, map, 31 aquatint plates, half morocco, tall 8vo, 1791. Observations, on Several Parts of England, Particularly the Mountains and Lakes of Cumberland and Westmoreland : 3 maps, 27 plates, half morocco, tall 8vo, 1808. Observations on Several Parts of the Counties of Cambridge, Norfolk, Suffolk, and Essex : 20 plates, half morocco, tall 8vo, 1809. * uniformly bound ( 6).
❮ ❯
photo_camera 1 image

GILPIN, William - Three Essays (BK19/403) offered in our Books, Maps and Prints Auction starting on 14th March 2018 at our salerooms in Exeter, Devon.

Lot Description

GILPIN, William - Three Essays on Picturesque Beauty; on Picturesque Travel; and on Sketching Landscape : 7 tinted aquatint plates, half morocco, tall 8vo, 1794. Remarks on Forest Scenery : 2 vols, map, 31 aquatint plates, half morocco, tall 8vo, 1791. Observations, on Several Parts of England, Particularly the Mountains and Lakes of Cumberland and Westmoreland : 3 maps, 27 plates, half morocco, tall 8vo, 1808. Observations on Several Parts of the Counties of Cambridge, Norfolk, Suffolk, and Essex : 20 plates, half morocco, tall 8vo, 1809. * uniformly bound ( 6).

Price Realised

£450

VAT

No VAT Applicable

Department

Books, Maps and Manuscripts

Fine Art Category

Travel, Topographical and Local History Books

Sale Information

BK19: Antiquarian Book Sale
Wednesday, 14th March 2018
Okehampton Street, Exeter

Contact

For more information about this particular auction lot, please contact:-

Okehampton Street, Exeter

Telephone: +44 (01392) 413100

Important Notes

Weights and measurements are approximate guidelines only, unless otherwise stated to the contrary.

Social Bookmarks

Please click the following links to flag this auction lot to others on the Internet.

×

GILPIN, William - Three Essays

Auction Lot: BK19/403

GILPIN, William - Three Essays on Picturesque Beauty; on Picturesque Travel; and on Sketching Landscape : 7 tinted aquatint plates, half morocco, tall 8vo, 1794. Remarks on Forest Scenery : 2 vols, map, 31 aquatint plates, half morocco, tall 8vo, 1791. Observations, on Several Parts of England, Particularly the Mountains and Lakes of Cumberland and Westmoreland : 3 maps, 27 plates, half morocco, tall 8vo, 1808. Observations on Several Parts of the Counties of Cambridge, Norfolk, Suffolk, and Essex : 20 plates, half morocco, tall 8vo, 1809. * uniformly bound ( 6).

❮ ❯
 
Explore Pictures

Explore

Pictures

Meet Martin Scadgell

Meet

Martin Scadgell

Explore Maritime and Sporting

Explore

Maritime and Sporting

Explore Works of Art & Clocks

Explore

Works of Art & Clocks

Explore Furniture

Explore

Furniture

About Rowland Hill (1919-2015)

About

Rowland Hill (1919-2015)

Sale BK19; Lot: 0445: COOPER, TS - Thirty Four Subjects of Cattle &c Frontis, title-page, 32 tinted lithograph plates, cont half morocco rubbed, folio, foxing throughout, Tho. McLean, 1837.

COOPER, TS - Thirty Four Subjects of Cattle &c (BK19/445)

Sold for £520

Sale FS32; Lot: 0467: Albert Goodwin [1845-1932] - Clovelly - signed and inscribed watercolour, pen, ink and pencil drawing heightened with white 25 x 35cm.

Albert Goodwin [1845-1932] - Clovelly (FS32/467)

Sold for £3,200

Sale FS39; Lot: 0626: A collection of nine Japanese carved and stained ivory okimonos figural subjects, including Budai, mothers and children and a boy with an octopus, late Meiji/Taisho, 3-5cm high.

A Collection of Nine Japanese Carved and Stained Ivory Okimonos (FS39/626)

Sold for £750

Sale FS37; Lot: 0346: A set of three George II tea caddies, maker Pierre Gillois, London 1754/55/56 of bombe outline, each with shallow domed lift-off lid and strawberry finial, the waisted bodies with chased scroll decoration raised on curved shell feet,(the larger caddy missing one foot), contained in a Victorian rosewood fitted box, 29cm wide, total weight of silver 23.38ozs.

A Set of Three George II Tea Caddies, Maker Pierre Gillois, London ... (FS37/346)

Sold for £2,500

Sale BK20; Lot: 0023: THE REPERTORY OF ARTS & MANUFACTURES consisting of original communications, specifications of patent inventions ... (etc) - THIRTY-FIVE VOLUMES, a continuous run, First series volume 1 to 16 [ being a complete set of the first series ]. Second series volume 1 to 19, 684 ex 686 copper engraved plates, attractive cont calf, 8vo, 1794-1811.

THE REPERTORY of ARTS & MANUFACTURES (BK20/23)

Sold for £3,500

Sale BK19; Lot: 0528A: SUFFRAGETTE Archive ... including a four page 'In Memoriam' for Emily Wilding Davison (1913) Seven suffragette broadsides and leaflets, including two on forcible feeding, and one of twelve pages about police brutality (1911) with a ten page typescript for the memorial service for Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1929)and other ephemera relating to the service; with broadsides and leaflets for the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship, including their 'Manifesto to the Women Voters of Great Britain'. Seven copies of 'The Woman's Leader' newspaper (1928/9); with a series of correspondence mainly from Ray Strachey (wife of Oliver Strachey) to Miss IK Hancock, regarding parliamentary elections, and the NUSEC.

SUFFRAGETTE (BK19/528A)

Sold for £3,400

  • Content © 2022 Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood Ltd
  • About the Site
  • Terms of Use
  • Privacy
  • Cookies
  • Accessibility

Software Developed in Exeter by Revell Research Systems