Our 02 February 2022 auction of Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs featuring the Classical and Romantic Library of the late William St Clair is led by an autographed letter from Mary, Queen of Scots to the French ambassador to England which sold for £32,500 including buyers premium, and a French first edition of Frans Balthasar Solvyns' Les Hinoûs which sold for £23,750 including buyers premium.
Lot 1 - [Kahlert, Karl Friedrich] The Necromancer: or the Tale of the Black Forest...
Sold for £5,500
(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)
Lot 7 - Ada Lovelace (née Byron) interest Commonplace Book, 1828
Sold for £5,000
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Lot 8 - Byron, George Gordon Noel, Lord Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Sold for £1,500
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Lot 10 - Byron, George Gordon Noel, Lord English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, a Satire
Sold for £1,250
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Lot 11 - Byron, George Gordon Noel, Lord A Selection of Hebrew Melodies
Sold for £550
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Lot 16 - Romantic Poets Including Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley and Byron
Sold for £1,750
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Lot 19 - Shelley, Mary Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus
Sold for £7,500
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Lot 21 - Shelley, Percy Bysshe A large collection, including
Sold for £2,750
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Lot 22 - Shelley, Percy Bysshe A collection, including
Sold for £1,750
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Lot 25 - Unknown Artist, after John Opie Mary Wollstonecraft
Sold for £6,250
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Lot 26 - Wilson, Harriette Harriette Wilson's Memoirs of Herself and Others
Sold for £875
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Lot 29 - [Alexander, William] Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Turks
Sold for £750
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Lot 31 - [Didot, Ambroise Firmin] Notes d'un Voyage fait dans le Levant en 1816 et 1817
Sold for £750
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Lot 32 - [Greg, William Rathbone] Sketches in Greece and Turkey:
Sold for £1,250
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Lot 34 - [Joliffe, Thomas R.] Narrative of an Excursion from Corfu to Smyrna;
Sold for £2,125
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Lot 36 - [ ? Whitcombe, W. G.] Sketches of Modern Greece, illustrative of
Sold for £2,000
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Lot 40 - Bartholdy, Jakob Ludwig Salomon Voyage en Grèce
Sold for £875
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Lot 41 - Beaufort, Francis Karamania, or a Brief Description of the South Coast of Asia-Minor
Sold for £938
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Lot 42 - Bell, John Bell's New Pantheon, or Historical Dictionary
Sold for £350
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Lot 43 - Blaquiere, Edward Report on the Present State of the Greek Confederation
Sold for £938
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Lot 44 - Busbecq, Augier Ghislain de Legationis Turc[icae] Epistolae IV, eiusdem
Sold for £325
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Lot 45 - Clark, William George Peloponnesus: Notes of Study and Travel
Sold for £750
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Lot 48 - Davenport, W. Historical Portraiture of Leading Events in the Life of Ali Pacha...
Sold for £2,500
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Lot 50 - Dodwell, Edward A Classical and Topographical Tour through Greece
Sold for £425
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Lot 51 - Erskine, Thomas, Lord A Letter to the Earl of Liverpool on the Subject of the Greeks
Sold for £475
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Lot 52 - Fabre, Jean Raymond Auguste Histoire du siége de Missolonghi
Sold for £1,250
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Lot 53 - Fiedler, Dr. Karl Gustave Reise durch alle Theile des Königreiches Griechenland
Sold for £750
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Lot 54 - French editions, 10 volumes on Greece comprising
Sold for £1,062
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Lot 57 - Garston, Edgar Greece Revisited and Sketches in Lower Egypt in 1840
Sold for £1,500
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Lot 59 - Gell, Sir William The Itinerary of Greece with commentary on Pausanias and Strabo
Sold for £1,125
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Lot 60 - Gell, Sir William Narrative of a Journey in the Morea
Sold for £325
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Lot 62 - Gordon, Thomas History of the Greek Revolution
Sold for £1,125
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Lot 64 - Greece and Turkey, 6 volumes, comprising [Skene, James Henry] The Danubian Principalities,
Sold for £1,000
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Lot 66 - Greece, 6 volumes, comprising Stanhope, John Spencer
Sold for £550
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Lot 69 - Greek History and Literature including Stanyan, Temple
Sold for £1,125
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Lot 70 - Greek History and Travel including St John, J.A.
Sold for £525
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Lot 71 - Greek Revolution and History, 8 French volumes comprising
Sold for £1,188
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Lot 76 - Guthrie, Maria A Tour, performed in the years 1795-6,
Sold for £575
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Lot 78 - Habesci, Elias The Present State of the Ottoman Empire
Sold for £475
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Lot 79 - Haygarth, William Greece, a Poem, in three parts:
Sold for £450
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Lot 81 - Hervé, Francis A Residence in Greece and Turkey
Sold for £2,000
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Lot 82 - History and Travel, mainly Greek and Turkish Works in German and Nordic languages
Sold for £938
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Lot 84 - Hughes, Thomas Smart Travels in Sicily, Greece and Albania
Sold for £688
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Lot 86 - Jones, George Matthew Travels in Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia and Turkey
Sold for £375
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Lot 88 - Levantine Travel 5 works, including Laurent, Peter Edmund
Sold for £375
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Lot 89 - Linton, William The Scenery of Greece and its Islands
Sold for £750
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Lot 93 - Manutius, Aldus Pius Orthographia et flexus dictionum Graecarum omnium
Sold for £750
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Lot 94 - Martin du Tyrac, Marie Louise, le Vicomte de Marcellus Souvenirs de l'Orient
Sold for £375
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Lot 98 - Mure, William Journal of a Tour in Greece and the Ionian Islands
Sold for £400
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Lot 99 - Neale, Adam Travels through some parts of Germany, Poland, Moldavia and Turkey
Sold for £475
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Lot 101 - Ottoman Empire, 13 volumes relating to, including Patterson, James Laird
Sold for £750
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Lot 102 - Palma di Cesnola, Alerino, Count Greece Vindicated, in two letters...
Sold for £550
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