Name: Auction: Ortelius, Abraham Islandia [Iceland]
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 8500 GBP
Availability: OutOfStock

Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs

Sale number: 694 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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[Antwerp, c.1590 or later]. Hand-coloured engraved map (platemark 33.5 x 48.5cm, sheet size 43.5 x 55.5cm), incorporating sea-monsters, polar bears and Hekla volcano, title, dedication and scale each within separate strapwork cartouche, Latin text on verso, slightly toned overall, sometime tipped to old card mount at one corner only (now detached), faint central crease as usual, another faint crease across lower left-hand corner, damp-staining to lower margins, small stain within image near left-hand edge of platemark

Ortelius, Abraham

Islandia [Iceland]

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