Estimated at just £4000-6000, the set instead took £46,000.
Other highlights at the September 22 sale included an 1856, seven-volume, second octavo edition of Audubon’s Birds of America that sold for £15,000.
Top lot in a sale held by Mallams (25% buyer’s premium) of Oxford was a 1719-20, first edition set of 'The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe…', 'The Farther Adventures…' and 'The Serious Reflections…' in later but very smart bindings of red morocco gilt by Francis Bedford of London.
Estimated at just £4000-6000, the set instead took £46,000.
Other highlights at the September 22 sale included an 1856, seven-volume, second octavo edition of Audubon’s Birds of America that sold for £15,000.