Dominic Winter Auctioneers’ November 13^th sale presents over 460 lots, giving buyers and collectors the opportunity to acquire a wide variety of rare books, prints and maps.

Highlights of our especially strong early printed book section include the exceedingly scarce 1473 edition of pioneering printer Ulrich Hahn’s Rationale Divinorum Officiorum by Duranti (lot 224). Amongst other ground-breaking achievements, Hahn was the first in Rome to print a book with moveable type in 1467, and the first to print music with movable type anywhere in 1476. 

The rare 1542 second collected edition of Chaucer and the first to contain The Plowman’s Tale (lot 242) will also be going under the hammer, as well as the highly important and much expanded second edition of Hakluyt’s Voyages (1598-1599), the first to include a wealth of new accounts of travels and discoveries in the Americas (lot 265). 

 

Later English literature is represented by a first edition of Wordsworth’s Yarrow Revisited, (lot 341) with manuscript corrections by the author. It also contains a presentation inscription from the author to Wordsworth’s friend and neighbour Sir Thomas Sabine Pasley, of Craig Foot near Windermere

 

Other unique, or near-unique historic items of interest include a charming 19^th-century album of well-preserved pressed seaweed specimens (lot 368), a rare large-scale woodcut and printed broadside concerning the Jacobite Uprising, circa 1745, depicting the Devil with the Pope (lot 311) and a highly collectable ‘Vinegar Bible’ from 1717, named thus for its several misprints including ‘The Parable of the Vinegar’ (for vineyard) in Luke XX (lot 302).   

 

 

Our comprehensive maps and prints section will take you everywhere from De Jode’s South America (lot 208) to Sugi’s Shanghai (lot 205) and include a map of Hong Kong issued by the War office in 1905 (lot 171). A rare and decorative plan of Venice from 1859 (lot 218) and a collection of classic panoramic street maps of London by John Tallis, (lot 185) are also included, as well as everything from allegorical maps to celestial plans, British and foreign views, natural history, botanicals and items of military interest. 

For those drawn to the art of caricature, we offer a vast selection of Gillray satirical prints (lots 96-141), unquestionably the finest satiric caricaturist of British political and social life in the age of Napoleon, renowned for his outrageous and entertaining portraits of the rich, famous and frivolous.

We look forward to opening our doors for viewing on the 11th and 12th and welcoming you at the auction on the 13th of November.