Name: Auction: Collie, James Plans, Elevations, Sections, Details and Views of the Cathedral of Glasgow
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 500 GBP
Availability: InStock

Sale number: 819Our 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.&nbsp;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 16th 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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London: J. William 1835. First edition, large folio (55 x 42cm), contemporary green morocco gilt by Carss of Glasgow (with their ticket), inner dentelles gilt, white moiré silk doublures gilt, all edges gilt, 7 pp., 34 lithographic plates including title-page, gift inscription dated 1857 to initial blank, spine rubbed, spotting to blanks and title-page, plate 5 closely trimmed; [Glasgow Cathedral]. Plans and Elevations of the proposed Restorations and Additions to the Cathedral of Glasgow. With an Explanatory Address by the Local Committee. Glasgow: James Hedderick & Son, 1836. First edition, large folio (56 x 43cm), contemporary green morocco gilt by Carss of Glasgow uniform with the preceding work, 11 pp., aquatint frontispiece, lithographic additional vignette-title page, 8 lithographic plates (a few tinted), similar gift inscription, spine rubbed, head of spine pulled, blanks spotted, marginal spotting and finger-soiling elsewhere (2)

Plans, Elevations, Sections, Details and Views of the Cathedral of Glasgow

Collie, James

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Collie, James

Plans, Elevations, Sections, Details and Views of the Cathedral of Glasgow

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