Name: Auction: [Canada] - Rutherford, John Mr John Rutherford's journal in a letter to Sir John Nisbet
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 302 GBP
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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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19th-century account of Rutherford’s narrative [an episode in the Pontiac War, 1763 – manuscript by Lieut. Rutherford of the ‘Black Watch,’” printed in Canadian Institute Trans. (Toronto), III (1891–92), 229–52], 84 pages, 12mo, calf-backed cloth, binding soiled, inscribed on front endpaper: "James Hopkirk, painter, Jedburgh, 1839"

Mr John Rutherford's journal in a letter to Sir John Nisbet 

[Canada] - Rutherford, John

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[Canada] - Rutherford, John

Mr John Rutherford's journal in a letter to Sir John Nisbet

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