John Evelyn’s copy of Hungers Prevention comes back for £3400

UK: THE general and specialist art sales held in Swindon in December are getting fairly short shrift here – 1350 lots were offered over two days – but before this report appeared, the Wiltshire firm had already held their first sales of the new year and the last of the old must necessarily be tidied away.

A dozen or so lots are described in accompanying caption stories below, and from the many more that …

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