One of the eight engraved plates, five of them folding, that illustrate a 1694 first of Martin Lister’s Exercitatio Anatomica in qua de Cochleis…, the first book devoted to the study of snails. In 18th century panelled calf and one of the Gaddesden Library lots, it sold at £1800.
Bid to £6500, around 10 times the estimate, was this worn, split and incomplete sheet featuring pages, some of them woodcut illustrated, intended for a copy of Henry Low’s New Almanacke and Prognostication that is thought to date from c.1560.