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125 - Hawksmoor (Nicholas) A Short Historical Account of the London Bridge, with 9 pages of manuscript by C.Labelye bound in, pages and plates window mounted on folio pages by later 18th owner, previous owners notation on endpapers, bookplate, toning and foxing, some staining, front hinge reinforced with tape, half calf-backed marbled paper covered boards, leather scuffed, torn at crown, corners knocked and abraded, Folio., London, J. Wilcox, 1736.

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£600 (€717)

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Estimation

£800 - 1,200 (€950 - 1,500)

Sale fees

32.4%

Hawksmoor (Nicholas) A Short Historical Account of the London Bridge, with 9 pages of manuscript by C.Labelye bound in, pages and plates window mounted on folio pages by later 18th owner, previous owners notation on endpapers, bookplate, toning and foxing, some staining, front hinge reinforced with tape, half calf-backed marbled paper covered boards, leather scuffed, torn at crown, corners knocked and abraded, Folio., London, J. Wilcox, 1736. *** Nicholas Hawksmoor's feasibility study for a new stone bridge at Westminster bound together with a manuscript "Dissertation on Arches" attributed to C. Labelye, the eventual architect of old Westminster bridge after Hawksmoor's death later in 1736. Provenance: Notes at the end of the manuscript reading thus "This M.S, sent me by Earl of Pembroke 1747, G." "Brought by R. Mylne off G. Virtue's widow. Believed to be Mr Wodler to be wrote by C. Labelye with the first scheme of Westminster bridge. Mr Wodler was well acquainted friend to Mr Labelye" Charles Labelye, who made calculations for Hawksmoor and is mentioned by him on page 18, designed Westminster bridge in 1750 and was sponsored by the Earl of Pembroke, who opened the bridge on its completion.

Auction details

Fine Books, Manuscripts & Works on Paper
Thursday, November 19
11:30 AM
4 Ingate Pl, Nine Elms
SW8 3NS London, United Kingdom

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Forum Auctions +44 2 07 87 12 640 books@forumauctions.co.uk
On Drouot for 5 years avec More than 10,000 lots published

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