This manuscript map by Lt. Col. Sir Edward Baker entitled Plan of the Province of Upper Canada showing the route of the Simcoe Expedition is bound into his copy of Hearne’s A Journey from Prince of Wales’s Fort in Hudson’s Bay…1795. Estimate £6000-8000 at Forum Auctions’ May 31 sale of Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper sale at the Westbury Hotel, Mayfair.
Reginald Scot’s A Perfite Platforme of a Hoppe Garden, 1576, an excellent copy of the second edition of the first English work on hops, estimate £4000-6000 as part of the Rothamsted Collection: Rarities from the Lawes Agricultural Library to be sold by Forum Auctions at the Westbury Hotel, Mayfair on July 10.