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Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs

<b>Sale number:</b> 694 <br> <br> Our July Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps &amp; Photographs sale was led by an important document signed by Sir Walter Raleigh, a very early edition of John Cleland's Memoirs of A Woman of Pleasure (c.1755), a work better known to posterity as Fanny Hill, and a rare first edition of John Law’s Money and Trade Considered (1705). Additional highlights featuring in the sale included a first edition, first impression, paperback issue of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997), a set of James Sowerby's The Mineral Conchology of Great Britain (1812-29) from the library of Andrew Carnegie, and an imposing 18th century atlas by Thomas Kitchin.

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Labour and Life of the People

Relationi universali

Collection of engraved maps, c.1750-65

A General Map of the Middle British Colonies in America

The Edinburgh Imperial Atlas

Read, Lieut. R. P.

[Chart of the Indian Ocean on two sheets], Amsterdam, c.1700

The Turkish Empire

Islandia [Iceland]

A collection

A Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World

The Atlas of Scotland

19th century

Antiquities of Rome

Photograph album relating to the Four Power Commission on ex-Italian colonies, 1946-7

Memorials of the Old College of Glasgow

Kitab zabur Dawud al-malik wa'l-nabi

21 volumes

 Ismailia

Collection of 19 works

Letters written in a Mahratta Camp during the Year 1809

4 volumes

The History and Antiquities of the County of Hertford

Rare Panorama

South Australia. Journal of Explorations in Central Australia...

Planches du voyage dans la basse et la haute Egypte

'Vellore Garrison Orderly Book', 1785-9

2 volumes

3 rare broadsides

10 printed 18th century works

and other rare Edinburgh items

The Journal of Andrew Ellicott

8 volumes

3 volumes, 2 in fine morocco bindings

5 volumes

39 volumes

Selected Photographs of the Nile and its Scenery

Picturesque Views of the Principal Seats of the Nobility and Gentry

Journal of a Tour in Iceland, in the Summer of 1809

Archive relating to surveying work conducted by A. L. Holt for the Cairo-Baghdad air route, 1921

10 volumes

Voyage d'exploration à la mer Morte, à Petra, et sur la rive gauche du Jourdain

Travels in the Island of Iceland, during the Summer of the Year MDCCCX

Voyage of His Majesty's Ship Alceste, along the oast of Corea, to the Island of Lewchew

Description of the Western Isles of Scotland, called Hybrides...

26 volumes

Collection of travel narratives

[The Voyages and Travels of the Ambassadors sent by Frederick Duke of Holstein]

The History of the Conquest of China by the Tartars

Paris moderne

Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa

Costumi diversi in no. 25 tavole

Arctic Searching Expedition

Collection of pamphlets and proclamations, 17th-18th century

Collection of archaeological monographs

Two sammelbands of laws and acts

Collection of antiquarian and topographical books, mainly Scotland-related, 17th-19th century

Account of a Tour from Dunham [Massey] to Scotland and back

South

The Heart of the Antarctic

The History, Ancient and Modern, of the Sheriffdoms of Fife and Kinross

Photograph album, c.1875

Five personal photograph albums, c.1937-8

Voyage Pittoresque et Historique de l'Espagne [Catalonia]

Mornay

On Alexander's Track to the Indus

Through Five Turkish Provinces

3 volumes in 2

20 volumes

Collection of works on various regions, 18th-20th century

The History of the Knights of Malta

The Seats of the Nobility and Gentry

Photograph album, c.1911-20

L'Univers. Histoire et description de tous les peuples

Two works

British Entomology

On the Various Contrivances by which British and Foreign Orchids are fertilised by Insects, and the Good Effects of Intercrossing

Group of early editions

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection

Group of deluxe limited editions, natural history

Collection of works from the library of Richard G. West

Eden: or, a Compleat Body of Gardening

British Fresh-Water Fishes

Commentarii in sex libros

British Diving Ducks

Recherches Zoologiques pour servir a l'histoire de la Faune de l'Amérique Centrale...Troisième Partie

7 volumes

Richard G. West's personal set of the 'Golden Fourteen'

Richard G. West's personal set of signed limited editions

Extensive run of volumes from the library of Richard G. West

Run of volumes from the library of Richard G. West

Conchology, or the Natural History of Shells

The Natural History of Man

The Mineral Conchology of Great Britain

De re medica

the author's own copies

De arte gymnastica libri sex

Diaries of John Thomas Quekett (1815-1861), and related effects

Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs

Sale Number: 694