Name: Auction: Curtis, John British Entomology
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 5000 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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Being Illustrations and Descriptions of the Genera of Insects found in Great Britain and Ireland. London: printed for the author and sold by E. Ellis and Co., 1823-40. 8 volumes, 8vo (24.2 x 14.5cm), 770 hand-coloured engraved plates, later crushed green half morocco gilt, top edges gilt, some fading to spines, some light offsetting from plates, some very occasional light foxing and spotting, neat corner repair to one plate in volume 7 not affecting image [Nissen ZBI 1000] (8)

Curtis, John

British Entomology

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