Name: Auction: 17th century Scottish documents A collection
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 352 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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Inventory of the ? of Balerno and Orchard Field, c.1635, long rolled document (30 x 139cm) on paper; Contract of Marriage betwixt Robert Balgone or Balfour[?] and Marie Gribe[?], 1697, long rolled document on paper, repairs, split into three parts; Document relating to property owned by John Viscount of Stair, 1698, long rolled document on paper; 20pp. mss. document, appearing to be a copy of a charter in English and possibly addressed to Queen Mary; Document relating to Earl Home, 1648, long rolled document on paper; Copy contract bestowed to George Ramsay, 1658, long rolled document on paper; 8pp. mss on vellum, dated 1712, signed by Robert Campbell and relating to lands in Eccles and North Berwick (7) &nbsp;

17th century Scottish documents

A collection

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