Name: Auction: A small collection of letters and covers Including several legal items
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 300 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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A collection of letters and covers, the letters dealing with every day, mostly Scottish, business and life, including: William Dawson to James McDonald of Inverary, dated Tarbert 12th June 1840, discussing local sales of assets; a letter from John Somerville of Leith to Mr George Darrie of Anstruther, dated 1850, discussing payments; a cover addressed to W Monteith Esq of George Street, Edinburgh, dared 1852?, bearing a red one penny stamp; and a quantity of others (23)

Including several legal items

A small collection of letters and covers 

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A small collection of letters and covers

Including several legal items

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