Name: Auction: [Sir Walter Scott interest] Regiam majestatem. The Auld Lawes and Constitutions of Scotland
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 300 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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Faithfullie collected furth of the Register, and Other Auld Authentick Bukes ... be [sic] Sr John Skene. Edinburgh: Thomas Finlason, 1609. Folio (27.4 x 17.2cm), contemporary sprinkled calf, P2 [f. 84] misnumbered 85, P3 [f.85] missigned P, retaining medial blank 2D6 and final blank 2H4, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials, author's name added to title-page in a contemporary hand, spine worn, damp-staining towards front and rear [ESTC S117424; STC 22626]

[Sir Walter Scott interest]

Regiam majestatem. The Auld Lawes and Constitutions of Scotland

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