Our July Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs sale was led by an important document signed by Sir Walter Raleigh, a very early edition of John Cleland's Memoirs of A Woman of Pleasure (c.1755), a work better known to posterity as Fanny Hill, and a rare first edition of John Law’s Money and Trade Considered (1705). Additional highlights featuring in the sale included a first edition, first impression, paperback issue of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997), a set of James Sowerby's The Mineral Conchology of Great Britain (1812-29) from the library of Andrew Carnegie, and an imposing 18th century atlas by Thomas Kitchin.
Lot 3 - Bowen, Emanuel Collection of engraved maps, c.1750-65
Sold for £550
(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)
Lot 4 - Evans, Lewis A General Map of the Middle British Colonies in America
Sold for £1,500
(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)
Lot 5 - Gall & Inglis (publishers) The Edinburgh Imperial Atlas
Sold for £525
(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)
Lot 8 - Mortier, Pierre [Chart of the Indian Ocean on two sheets], Amsterdam, c.1700
Sold for £500
(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)
![Lot 9 - [Ottoman Empire] - Speed, John](https://lyonturnbull.blob.core.windows.net/stock/290840-1-small.jpg?v=63789510984007)
Lot 9 - [Ottoman Empire] - Speed, John The Turkish Empire
Sold for £1,012
(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)
Lot 12 - Speed, John - Keere, Pieter van den A Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World
Sold for £3,250
(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)
Lot 18 - Annan, Thomas Memorials of the Old College of Glasgow
Sold for £875
(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)
Lot 19 - Arabic printing Kitab zabur Dawud al-malik wa'l-nabi
Sold for £1,000
(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)
Lot 22 - British photographic incunabula Collection of 19 works
Sold for £1,125
(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)
Lot 23 - Broughton, Thomas Duer Letters written in a Mahratta Camp during the Year 1809
Sold for £1,188
(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)
Lot 25 - Clutterbuck, Robert The History and Antiquities of the County of Hertford
Sold for £250
(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)
Lot 27 - Davidson, Allan A. South Australia. Journal of Explorations in Central Australia...
Sold for £250
(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)
Lot 28 - Denon, Vivant Planches du voyage dans la basse et la haute Egypte
Sold for £450
(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)
Lot 29 - East India Company 'Vellore Garrison Orderly Book', 1785-9
Sold for £3,500
(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)
Lot 33 - Edinburgh Town Council 10 printed 18th century works
Sold for £1,375
(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)
Lot 34 - Edinburgh Town Council and other rare Edinburgh items
Sold for £375
(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)
Lot 35 - Ellicott, Andrew The Journal of Andrew Ellicott
Sold for £1,000
(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)
Lot 37 - European Travel 3 volumes, 2 in fine morocco bindings
Sold for £325
(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)
Lot 40 - Good, Frank Mason Selected Photographs of the Nile and its Scenery
Sold for £1,750
(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)
Lot 43 - Harrison & Co. Picturesque Views of the Principal Seats of the Nobility and Gentry
Sold for £475
(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)
Lot 44 - Hooker, William Jackson Journal of a Tour in Iceland, in the Summer of 1809
Sold for £875
(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)
Lot 51 - Monro, Donald Description of the Western Isles of Scotland, called Hybrides...
Sold for £1,188
(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)
Lot 53 - North-West Passage Collection of travel narratives
Sold for £2,375
(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)
Lot 55 - Palafox y Mendoza, Juan de The History of the Conquest of China by the Tartars
Sold for £688
(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)
Lot 57 - Park, Mungo Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa
Sold for £1,062
(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)
Lot 58 - Pinelli, Bartolomeo Costumi diversi in no. 25 tavole
Sold for £812
(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)
Lot 59 - Richardson, Sir John Arctic Searching Expedition
Sold for £1,188
(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)
Lot 61 - Scotland Collection of pamphlets and proclamations, 17th-18th century
Sold for £2,125
(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)
Lot 62 - Scotland Collection of archaeological monographs
Sold for £625
(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)
![Lot 65 - [Scotland]. Evans, Revd Thomas](https://lyonturnbull.blob.core.windows.net/stock/287659-1-small.jpg?v=63789679179680)
Lot 65 - [Scotland]. Evans, Revd Thomas Account of a Tour from Dunham [Massey] to Scotland and back
Sold for £3,500
(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)
Lot 67 - Shackleton, Ernest H. The Heart of the Antarctic
Sold for £812
(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)
Lot 68 - Sibbald, Sir Robert The History, Ancient and Modern, of the Sheriffdoms of Fife and Kinross
Sold for £475
(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)
Lot 70 - South-East Asia Five personal photograph albums, c.1937-8
Sold for £1,000
(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)
Lot 71 - Laborde, Alexandre Louis Joseph Voyage Pittoresque et Historique de l'Espagne [Catalonia]
Sold for £400
(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)
Lot 73 - Stein, Sir Aurel On Alexander's Track to the Indus
Sold for £1,188
(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)
![Lot 76 - [The Hague & Views of Holland]](https://lyonturnbull.blob.core.windows.net/stock/291431-1-small.jpg?v=63789153715830)
Lot 78 - Travel Collection of works on various regions, 18th-20th century
Sold for £1,000
(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)
Lot 79 - Vertot, René-Aubert The History of the Knights of Malta
Sold for £875
(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)
Lot 80 - Watts, William The Seats of the Nobility and Gentry
Sold for £350
(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)
Lot 81 - Women in World War I Photograph album, c.1911-20
Sold for £2,750
(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)
Lot 87 - Darwin, Charles On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
Sold for £550
(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)
Lot 88 - Folio Society Group of deluxe limited editions, natural history
Sold for £2,250
(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)
Lot 89 - Geology, botany, palaeontology Collection of works from the library of Richard G. West
Sold for £688
(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)
![Lot 90 - [Hill, John]](https://lyonturnbull.blob.core.windows.net/stock/291715-1-small.jpg?v=63789153615370)
Lot 90 - [Hill, John] Eden: or, a Compleat Body of Gardening
Sold for £525
(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)
Lot 91 - Houghton, William British Fresh-Water Fishes
Sold for £1,000
(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)
![Lot 92 - Mattioli, Pietro Andrea [Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun]](https://lyonturnbull.blob.core.windows.net/stock/291744-5-small.jpg?v=63789679196800)
Lot 92 - Mattioli, Pietro Andrea [Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun] Commentarii in sex libros
Sold for £10,000
(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)
Lot 96 - New Naturalists Richard G. West's personal set of the 'Golden Fourteen'
Sold for £2,375
(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)
Lot 97 - New Naturalists Richard G. West's personal set of signed limited editions
Sold for £1,062
(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)
Lot 98 - New Naturalists Extensive run of volumes from the library of Richard G. West
Sold for £1,125
(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)
Lot 99 - New Naturalists Run of volumes from the library of Richard G. West
Sold for £350
(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)
Lot 100 - Perry, George Conchology, or the Natural History of Shells
Sold for £2,250
(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)
Lot 101 - Prichard, James Cowles The Natural History of Man
Sold for £250
(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)
Lot 103 - Sowerby, James The Mineral Conchology of Great Britain
Sold for £7,250
(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)
![Lot 82 - World travel - [Numerous engraved plates]](https://lyonturnbull.blob.core.windows.net/stock/291572-2-small.jpg?v=63789153616137)
