Name: Auction: World travel - [Numerous engraved plates] L'Univers. Histoire et description de tous les peuples
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 325 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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24 volumes, all Paris: Firmin Didot, publishers, c.1828-55, 8vo, including Grèce; États-Unis d'Amérique; Histoire des Antilles - Suite des Etats-Unis - Possession Anglaises dans l'Amérique du Nord; La Suisse et du Tyrol; Allemagne, 2 volumes; Provinces Danubiennes et Roumaines; Mexique et Guatemala; Italie, Sicile; Villes Anseatiques; Iles de la Grèce; La Perse; Belgique et Hollande; Egypte; Brésil, Colombie et Guyanes; Turquie; L'Espagne; Portugal; Chili, Paraguay, Uruguay, Buenos-Ayres; Pologne; Algérie, Etats Tripolitains, Tunis; États de la Confédération Germanique; and 2 volumes entirely of engraved plates, all with engraved plates, mixture of bindings - original boards, original wrappers, half or quarter morocco and vellum (24)

World travel - [Numerous engraved plates]

L'Univers. Histoire et description de tous les peuples

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