Name: Auction: Silver coins and trade two 18th and 19th century works
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 250 GBP
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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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comprising: [Lowndes, William]. A Report Containing an Essay for the Amendment of the Silver Coins. London: Charles Bill, and executrix of Thomas Newcomb, 1695. 8vo, contemporary inscription to blank leaf before title 'sent me at ye Custome house, Nov. 1695', initials W.Y. in manuscript at foot of title, early ownership inscription at head of title deleted, contemporary calf, stamp to front endpaper and bookplate of the Institute of Banker in Scotland, rubbed, upper cover detached [ESTC R509573 - 4 copies U.K., 1 copy N. America, 2 copies Japan]; Child, Sir Josiah. A New Discourse of Trade, wherein are recommended several weighty points; Glasgow: R. and A. Foulis, 1751. 8vo, contemporary tree calf, black morocco label, bookplate of the Library of the Institute of Bankers in Scotland (2)

Silver coins and trade

two 18th and 19th century works

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