Name: Auction: Sowerby, James English Botany
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 1200 GBP
Availability: InStock

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.&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 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, coloured figures of British Plants… London: printed for the Author, by J. Davis, and sold at No.2 Mead Place, near the Asylum; by Messrs. White…, 1790-1814 [and 1881-1849: 4 supplementary volumes]. 39 volumes in 20, coloured plates, modern green half morocco, some foxing and darkening in places, occasional offsetting (20)

Sowerby, James

English Botany

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