Printed Books, Maps & Atlases, The Thornhill Shropshire Collection

Lot 146 - Sowerby (James). English Botany, 37 vols, including supplement, complete set, 1790-1814

Sold for £2,600

Lot 147 - Sowerby (James). English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, vols. 1-22, pub. 1790-1806

Sold for £650

Lot 148 - The New Naturalist. 16 volumes, 1st editions, 1973-94, from the library of Eric J. Hosking OBE [1909-1991]

Sold for £440

Lot 149 - Wilson (Alexander). American Ornithology, 3 vols, 1st UK edition, 1876

Sold for £420

Lot 150 - Americas. Anonymous, America noviter delineata, Paris: circa 1659

Sold for £800

Lot 151 - Armillary Sphere. Olivieri (B.), Circolo per formare la Sfera Armilare, Rome, 1795

Estimated at £100 - £150

Lot 152 - Beaulieu (Sebastian de). Three plans of Italian & French Citadels, 1646

Sold for £240

Lot 153 - Blaeu (Johannes). Five British county maps, [1645 - 60]

Sold for £320

Lot 154 - * Blaeu (Johannes). Two county maps: Berkshire & Westmorland, circa 1648

Sold for £200

Lot 155 - British Isles. Persian manuscript map, mid-19th century

Sold for £200

Lot 156 - British Isles. Speed (John), Britain as it was devided in the tyme of the English Saxons..., 1676

Sold for £500

Lot 157 - * Cartographic curiosity. Wallis (Hugh), Copper & Pewter oval tray with an inlaid map of Hampshire

Estimated at £70 - £100

Lot 158 - Celestial chart. Cellarius (Andreas). Hypothesis Ptolemaica sive communis Planetarum..., circa 1661

Sold for £200

Lot 159 - Cheshire. Speed (John), The Countye Palatine of Chester..., 1st edition [1611]

Sold for £180

Lot 160 - Cheshire. Speed (John), The Countye Palatine of Chester..., published by Henry Overton, circa 1710

Sold for £260

Lot 161 - China. Macao & Hong Kong. Ross (Daniel & Philip Maughan), Chart of the Macao Roads, 1810

Sold for £22,000

Lot 162 - * Cornwall. Greenwood (C & J), Map of the County of Cornwall..., 1829

Sold for £160

Lot 163 - * Cornwall. Speed (John & Norden John). Cornwall, J. Sudbury & G. Humble [1627]

Sold for £520

Lot 164 - Cumberland. Speed (John), Cumberland and the ancient Citie Carlile..., 1st edition, 1611

Sold for £340

Lot 165 - Denmark. Speed (John), The Kingdome of Denmarke, George Humble, [1627]

Sold for £180

Lot 166 - Devon. A collection of 20 maps, 17th - 19th-century

Sold for £320

Lot 167 - East Indies. A collection of 13 maps, 17th - 19th century

Sold for £220

Lot 168 - England & Wales. Ogilby (John), A New Map of the Kingdom of England..., [1676]

Sold for £110

Lot 169 - England & Wales. Smith (William), A New Geological Map of England & Wales..., 1828

Sold for £4,800