Name: Auction: Children's and Illustrated books 24, including Dulac and Florence Harrison
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 756 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;

Cathy Marsden | Head of Books & Manuscripts | Lyon & Turnbull Auctioneers

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Harrison, Florence, illustrator. Poems by Christina Rossetti. London: Blackie and Son Limited, [n.d.] 4to, original cream cloth gilt; Dulac, Edmund, illustrator - Sir Arthur Quiller Couch. The Sleeping Beauty and other fairy tales. London: Hodder & Stoughton, [n.d.] 4to, original brown cloth gilt; Idem . - Hans Christian Andersen. Stories from Hans Andersen. London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1911]. 4to, original green cloth gilt; Idem. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [n.d.] 4to, original cream cloth gilt; Thomson, Hugh, illustrator - Oliver Goldsmith. She Stoops to Conquer, or The Mistakes of a Night. London: Hodder & Stoughton, [n.d.] 4to, original blue cloth gilt; Idem. - J.M. Barrie. Quality Street, a Comedy in Four Acts. London: Hodder & Stoughton, [n.d.] 4to, original blue cloth gilt, covers and spine a little faded and soiled; Baumer, Lewis, illustrator - William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair. London: Hodder & Stoughton, [n.d.] 4to, original green cloth gilt; Greenaway, Kate. Under the Window. London: George Routledge & Sons, [n.d.] 8vo, original cloth, some leaves loose; and 16 others, sold not subject to return (24)

24, including Dulac and Florence Harrison

Children's and Illustrated books

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Children's and Illustrated books

24, including Dulac and Florence Harrison

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