Name: Auction: [Fore-edge painting] - Hooker, William Jackson Journal of a Tour in Iceland…
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 500 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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London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1813. 2 volumes, second edition, hand-coloured frontispiece and 8 other plates and maps (some folding), each volume with a fore-edge painting of a neo-Classical country house and estate, modern red quarter morocco gilt, stamps of the American Museum of Natural History, some browning

[Fore-edge painting] - Hooker, William Jackson

Journal of a Tour in Iceland…

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