Name: Auction: Chater, Catchick P., Sir and Orange, James (Ed.) The Chater Collection
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 1000 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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Pictures relating to China, Hong Kong, Macao, 1655-1860, with Historical and Descriptive Letterpress by James Orange. London: Thornton Butterworth, [1924], 4to, number 78 of 750 copies, frontispiece and plates, some coloured, 3 folding maps, original cloth, gilt, occasional light soiling, gilt library stamp to upper board, very small blindstamp at head of title, some wear to spine, upper hinge split, some soiling

Chater, Catchick P., Sir and Orange, James (Ed.)

The Chater Collection

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