Name: Auction: Smith, Sydney Goodsir (1915-1975) Backaskail Bay, Sanday, Orkney
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 325 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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Original watercolour, signed lower right ('SGS'), mounted, framed and glazed, mount aperture 34 x 48.5cm, together with an original pen-and-ink sketch by Smith, titled 'Serious Drinking', signed SGS, mounted, framed and glazed, mount aperture 17 x 22cm, inscribed by Smith on a label mounted to backboard ('"Echo de Paris", Summer 1950 ... To Chalmers from Sydney on the occasion of his Bicentenary Dinner, Scottish Arts Club, 15 January 1975 ...'), paper rippled, closed tear upper right, glass soiled (2)

Backaskail Bay, Sanday, Orkney

Smith, Sydney Goodsir (1915-1975)

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Smith, Sydney Goodsir (1915-1975)

Backaskail Bay, Sanday, Orkney

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