Lone Star attractions and the Silver Riders
UK: TWO LOTS in this Norfolk sale stood head and shoulders above all others, at least in financial terms. One was a group of original illustrations by Charles Kerr for a Rider Haggard adventure story that made £3200 (see caption story below); the other a copy of John Arrowsmith’s London Atlas in modern half calf that reached £6600 (Heald).
This copy of Arrowsmith’s atlas, first issued in 1841-42, contained 65 outline coloured, double-page…