Tracts and pamphlets make a whole £23,500

A bound volume of early works on a famous automaton chess player, featured in ATG No 2387, was not the only lot in a recent Cumbrian sale to produce a handsome return.

Bid to £23,500 in a Thomson Roddick (17.5% buyer’s premium) sale of March 27 was a calf bound, sma…

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