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PAST AUCTION
8 February 2023 at 10:00 GMT
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Sale Number: 725
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LOT 1
De Wit, Frederick
Africa
SOLD FOR £404
LOT 2
Greenwood, C. & J.
Map of London made from an Actual Survey in the Years 1824, 1825 & 1826
SOLD FOR £17,640
LOT 4
Kitchin, Thomas
A General Atlas
SOLD FOR £4,536
LOT 5
Langlands, George, & Son
Map of the District of Kantyre in Argyllshire
SOLD FOR £1,512
LOT 6
Manuscript estate plans, Perthshire, Forfarshire, and Fife
Baikie, Brydieston, Cardean, Meigle
SOLD FOR £1,764
LOT 7
Martin, R. Montgomery
Tallis's Illustrated Atlas
SOLD FOR £2,772
LOT 9
African travel
19 volumes
SOLD FOR £819
LOT 12
Australia
3 works
SOLD FOR £1,197
LOT 13
Australia and Solomon Islands
3 volumes
SOLD FOR £252
LOT 14
Australia manuscript - New South Wales - Tasmania
Wentworth, William Charles
SOLD FOR £1,260
LOT 15
Australia Manuscript - Tasmania
Jeffryes, Lt. Charles
SOLD FOR £10,710
LOT 16
Bankes, Thomas, Edward W. Blake and Alexander Cook
A New Royal Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography
SOLD FOR £1,890
LOT 17
Beeverell, James
Les Delices de la Grande Bretagne
SOLD FOR £1,638
LOT 18
Bell, John
Travels from St Petersburg in Russia, to Diverse Parts of Asia
SOLD FOR £819
LOT 19
Blakiston, Thomas W.
Five Months on the Yang-Tsze
SOLD FOR £504
LOT 20
Borneo
3 volumes
SOLD FOR £555
LOT 21
Semedo, Alvaro
The History of that Great and Renowned Monarchy of China
SOLD FOR £756
LOT 22
Fitzroy, [Captain] Robert
Great Circle Sailing
SOLD FOR £404
LOT 24
Graziani, Antonio Maria
Histoire de la guerre de Chypre
SOLD FOR £1,008
LOT 26
Grose, Francis
The Antiquities of England and Wales [...] Scotland [...] Ireland
SOLD FOR £1,260
LOT 27
Guattani, Giuseppe Antoni
Roma descritta ed illustrata
SOLD FOR £630
LOT 28
Hariri, Abu Muhammad al-Qasim al-
Maqamat al-Hariri [Arabic title]
SOLD FOR £2,898
LOT 29
Heath, Leopold (1817-1907)
Hong Kong &c.
SOLD FOR £1,200
LOT 30
Herbert, Sir Thomas
Some Yeares Travels into Divers Parts of Asia and Afrique
SOLD FOR £605
LOT 31
Inwood, Henry William
The Erechtheion at Athens
SOLD FOR £454
LOT 32
Keyssler, Johann Georg
Travels through Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, Switzerland, Italy, and Lorraine
SOLD FOR £1,386
LOT 33
Ladoire, Fr. Marcel, [Vicaire de la Terre Sainte]
Voyage fait a la Terre Sainte en l'année MDCCXIX
SOLD FOR £303
LOT 34
Lamb, A. C.
Dundee, its Quaint and Historic Buildings
SOLD FOR £2,268
LOT 35
Lawrence, T.E.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom, a Triumph
SOLD FOR £52,700
LOT 36
Malaysia - Malaya
Skeat, Walter William
SOLD FOR £404
LOT 37
Marmol y Carvajal, Luis del
L'Afrique
SOLD FOR £693
LOT 38
Mason, George Henry
The Costume of China
SOLD FOR £2,520
LOT 40
Montagu, Edward
Memoirs of the late Edw. W-ly M-tague, Esq.
SOLD FOR £504
LOT 41
Netherlands - [Gribius, Johann]
The Netherland-Historian
SOLD FOR £240
LOT 43
Petre, Hon. Henry William
An Account of the Settlements of the New Zealand Company
SOLD FOR £555
LOT 44
Polar exploration
Collection of travel narratives
SOLD FOR £580
LOT 45
[Rickman, John]
Journal of Captain Cook's Last Voyage to the Pacific Ocean on Discovery
SOLD FOR £2,268
LOT 46
Robson, George Fennell
Scenery of the Grampian Mountains
SOLD FOR £1,260
LOT 47
Rycaut, Sir Paul
The Present State of the Ottoman Empire
SOLD FOR £530
LOT 48
St John, Sir Spenser Buckingham
Life in the Forests of the Far East
SOLD FOR £945
LOT 49
Stein, Sir Marc Aurel
Ancient Khotan
SOLD FOR £1,260
LOT 50
Waring, Edward Scott
A Tour to Sheeraz, by the Route of Kazroon and Feerozabad
SOLD FOR £1,197
LOT 51
Wilson, Samuel Sheridan
A Narrative of the Greek Mission, or Sixteen Years
SOLD FOR £756
LOT 52
Wise, Henry
An Analysis of One Hundred Voyages to and from China
SOLD FOR £378
LOT 53
Young, William
The History of Athens
SOLD FOR £882
LOT 55
2 volumes including Conway, Sir Martin
With Ski and Sledge over Arctic Glaciers
SOLD FOR £200
LOT 56
Annan, Thomas
University of Glasgow, Old and New
SOLD FOR £504
LOT 57
Carte-de-visites
Collection of portraits
SOLD FOR £819
LOT 58
[China]
Mennie, Donald
SOLD FOR £1,386
LOT 59
Hong Kong and Canton
Acetate paper negatives
SOLD FOR £945
LOT 60
Hong Kong, China, Japan, Algiers, Suez Canal, Singapore, India
Album of 25 albumen print photographs, c. 1870
SOLD FOR £1,512
LOT 61
[Hong Kong]
Sixty Diamond Jubilee Pictures of Hongkong
SOLD FOR £5,040
LOT 62
Maclean, Harry Aubrey de Vere
Early 20th Century photograph album, military manoeuvres, Morocco
SOLD FOR £693
LOT 63
Middle East
Collection of RAF aerial reconnaissance photographs of Iraq and Iran, 1920s-30s
SOLD FOR £1,071
LOT 64
Panorama of Constantinople
View from Beyazit Tower, c. 1900
SOLD FOR £404
LOT 65
Carte-de-visites and cabinet photographs
Mainly Scottish
SOLD FOR £378
LOT 66
Seaforth Highlanders; India (North-West Frontier) and Egypt
Photograph album, c.1879-1908
SOLD FOR £1,260
LOT 67
Stereoviews
Large collection of stereoview photographs, c.1890-1900
SOLD FOR £693
LOT 68
Baikie, Robert
Observations on the Neilgherries
SOLD FOR £693
LOT 69
Burrard, S. G., and H. H. Hayden
A Sketch of the Geography and Geology of the Himalaya Mountains and Tibet
SOLD FOR £756
LOT 70
Edwardes, Herbert B.
A Year on the Punjab Frontier, in 1848-49
SOLD FOR £693
LOT 71
Elliot, Robert
Views in the East
SOLD FOR £630
LOT 72
Francklin, William
Observations made on a Tour from Bengal to Persia in the Years 1786-7
SOLD FOR £315
LOT 72A
Godwin-Austin, Henry Haversham
Description of a Mystic Play, as performed in Ladak, Zaskar, etc.
SOLD FOR £555
LOT 73
Hughes, Albert William
The Country of Balochistan
SOLD FOR £454
LOT 74
Tagore, Sourindro Mohun
Mani-Mala, or a Treatise on Gems
SOLD FOR £1,197
LOT 75
India
Collection of works on Indian archaeology, architecture and similar
SOLD FOR £404
LOT 76
India
Collection of works on various subjects
SOLD FOR £945
LOT 77
India
Collection of travel narratives including Indian imprints
SOLD FOR £882
LOT 78
India
Collection of works
SOLD FOR £882
LOT 79
India
Collection of works on cricket
SOLD FOR £1,260
LOT 80
India
Journal of Indian Art
SOLD FOR £404
LOT 81
Urdu lithographic printing
Darbari 'Ilm al-Nisa [The Science of Women]
SOLD FOR £2,772
LOT 82
Urdu lithographic printing
Ru-numa'i futagrafi ma'ruf bi Usul-i musawwiri
SOLD FOR £1,638
LOT 83
Urdu lithographic printing
Tarikh-i Rajastan [History of Rajasthan]
SOLD FOR £1,071
LOT 84
Urdu lithographic printing
Anwar al-nujum [The Lights of the Stars]
SOLD FOR £3,528
LOT 85
Urdu lithographic printing
Group of literary works
SOLD FOR £4,536
LOT 86
Urdu lithographic printing
Tughray nastaliq [Monograms in nasta'liq script]
SOLD FOR £693
LOT 87
Urdu lithographic printing
Two veterinary treatises
SOLD FOR £2,520
LOT 88
[Scottish antiquarianism] Bannatyne Club
Numbers 1-7 and 9-10 in the Bannatyne Club series
SOLD FOR £605
LOT 89
[Scottish antiquarianism] Bannatyne Club
Numbers 11-25 in the Bannatyne Club series
SOLD FOR £819
LOT 90
[Scottish antiquarianism] Bannatyne Club
Numbers 26-40 in the Bannatyne Club series
SOLD FOR £819
LOT 91
[Scottish antiquarianism] Bannatyne Club
Numbers 41-55 in the Bannatyne Club series
SOLD FOR £819
LOT 92
[Scottish antiquarianism] Bannatyne Club
Numbers 56-70
SOLD FOR £819
LOT 93
[Scottish antiquarianism] Bannatyne Club
Numbers 71 to 89 in the Bannatyne Club series
SOLD FOR £819
LOT 94
[Scottish antiquarianism] Bannatyne Club
Numbers 90-115 in the Bannatyne Club series
SOLD FOR £1,638
LOT 95
[Scottish antiquarianism] Bannatyne Club
Etchings Chiefly of Views in Scotland. By John Clerk, Esq. of Elgin, MDCCLXXIII-MDCCLXXIX
SOLD FOR £2,016
LOT 96
[Scottish antiquarianism] Bannatyne Club
The Ancient Sculptured Monuments of the County of Angus
SOLD FOR £819
LOT 97
[Scottish antiquarianism] Bannatyne Club
A Series of Etchings chiefly of Views in Scotland. By John Clerk of Eldin, Esq.
SOLD FOR £1,260
LOT 98
[Scottish antiquarianism] Bannatyne Club
Collection of Bannatyne Club Garlands and related publications
SOLD FOR £2,268
LOT 99
[Scottish antiquarianism] New Club
Set of large-paper copies
SOLD FOR £278
LOT 100
Burn-Murdoch, William Gordon (1862-1939)
A Procession of Scottish History
SOLD FOR £819
LOT 101
Burns, Robert
The Poetry of Robert Burns
SOLD FOR £530
LOT 102
[Burns, Robert] Thomson, George, editor and publisher
A Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs
SOLD FOR £378
LOT 103
Hume, David [Baron Hume of Ninewells (1757–1838)]
Volume of manuscript notes from Hume's lectures on Scots law at Edinburgh, 1811
SOLD FOR £202
LOT 104
Hume, David [Baron Hume of Ninewells (1757–1838)]
Commentaries on the Law of Scotland, respecting the Description and Punishment of Crimes
SOLD FOR £429
LOT 105
MacLellan, Bill, publisher (1919-1996)
Hugh MacDiarmid and others
SOLD FOR £1,512
LOT 106
McGonagall, Sir William Topaz
The Tragic Death of the Rev. A. H. Mackonochie
SOLD FOR £1,197
LOT 107
McGonagall, Sir William Topaz
The Storming of Dargai Heights
SOLD FOR £1,197
LOT 108
McGonagall, Sir William Topaz
The Ancient Town of Leith. A New Poem
SOLD FOR £1,071