Name: Auction: 18th century France Four documents on vellum
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 126 GBP
Availability: OutOfStock

Head of Sale, Cathy Tait, is delighted to present our first Books &amp; Manuscripts auction of 2025, which took place on Wednesday 05 February in our historic saleroom in Edinburgh and online.Manuscript and archive material lead the way in the sale, with a signed letter by Mary I of England (Mary Tudor), a fascinating English Civil War medical text and an account of a voyage undertaken by the East India Company ship the “Swift”, a journey instrumental in the treatment and prevention of scurvy.Further highlights of the sale include an intriguing collection of detective and adventure novels from the golden age of mystery fiction, a near-complete collection of the output of the T.N. Foulis Press and an extremely rare 1915 copy of the Persian Gulf Pilot.Buyer's Guide:&nbsp;

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Louis IV Era, dated 1660, two documents tied together, both around 13 x 26cm, appointing certain people to higher positions; and three others, dating 1709, 1726 and 1738 (Louis XIV -Louis XV periods), similar (4)

Four documents on vellum

18th century France 

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18th century France

Four documents on vellum

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