Name: Auction: Thomson, William Orpheus Caledonius
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 693 GBP
Availability: OutOfStock

Our September 2024 Books &amp; Manuscripts auction brings the best of Scotland with an extremely rare, first ‘Kilmarnock’ edition of <a href="/artists/robert-burns">Robert Burns</a> Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, 1786.This is accompanied in the sale by an original manuscript copy of the Scottish National Covenant, 1638-9, and a beautifully presented collection of books from a Scottish gentleman’s library, collected in the early 20th century and now being offered for sale after around 100 years with the family. &nbsp;Scientific interest features strongly, with John Snow’s seminal epidemiological work, On the Mode of Communication of Cholera, leading the section, followed by an impressive selection of natural history and botanical works.In travel and topography, an extremely rare true first edition of John Webber's spectacular suite of views from Cook's third and final voyage, entitled Views in the South Seas, is expected to draw a great deal of interest, being the only complete copy of the first edition ever offered at auction, depicting scenes in New Zealand, Macao, Krakatoa, Kamchatka, Tahiti, Moorea, and Pulo Condore in what is now Vietnam.Viewing in Broadside, Edinburgh&nbsp;Viewing will begin on Monday 16 September in our rare Books department at Broadside in the Canonmills area of Edinburgh.&nbsp;<a class="ck-btn" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.lyonandturnbull.com/events/books-viewing-edinburgh">Viewing Times &amp; Map&nbsp;</a>Buyer's Guide:&nbsp;

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or, a Collection of Scots Songs. Set to Musick. London: for the author, 1733. 2 volumes, 8vo (20.1 x 12.2cm), [14] 114 [2], [4] 110 [2], contemporary red morocco, spines richly gilt in compartments, broad gilt border to covers built up from three distinct roll-tools, marbled endpapers, title-pages in red and black, imprimatur leaf to front of volume 1, volume 1 with 53 plates of engraved music (numbered 1-50 and 1-6, the latter sequence on each side of 3 leaves), volume 2 with 48 plates of engraved music (numbered 1-50, with 10/11, 23/4, 43/4 and 49/50 each either side of a single leaf, and 1-4, on each side of 2 leaves), engraved armorial bookplates of Michael Hubert Esq. to front pastedowns, volume 1 with engraved armorial bookplate of Henrietta Fermor, Countess of Pomfret (1698-1761) to rear pastedown, each volume with a japon leaf containing gilt-stamped arms of Robert Tyndall Hamilton Bruce (1847-1899) bound in at front, volume 1 plate 19 with old staining

Orpheus Caledonius

Thomson, William

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Thomson, William

Orpheus Caledonius

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