Lapidarium Septentrionale… sold for £5500 at Bonhams.
A most unusual book binding brought a bid of £5500 in a Bonhams (27.5/25/20/13.9% buyer’s premium) sale of March 27.
It was made for an 1875 first of Lapidarium Septentrionale: or a Description of the Monuments of Roman Rule in Northern England, a work edited by John Collingwood Bruce for the Society of Antiquities of Newcastle and published by Bernard Quaritch.