Name: Auction: Emerson, Ralph Waldo The Complete Works. Cambridge, MA: Riverside Press, 1903-4
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 1250 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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Autograph Centenary Edition, number 20 of 600 sets with a leaf of Emerson's autograph manuscript tipped into the first volume. 12 volumes, 8vo (22 x 14cm), original green crushed half morocco gilt, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, 56 photogravure plates, the set partly unopened, spines sunned (12)

The Complete Works. Cambridge, MA: Riverside Press, 1903-4

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The Complete Works. Cambridge, MA: Riverside Press, 1903-4

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