Name: Auction: [China] Mennie, Donald
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 1386 GBP
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Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs 

Sale number: 725 Our Wednesday 08 February 2023 auction of Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps &amp; Photographs include a superb copy of the Kelmscott Chaucer, the masterpiece of the private press movement, a unique association copy of the Cranwell edition of T. E. Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom, a first-edition set of The Lord of the Rings complete with the dust jackets, a remarkable naval document signed by Lord Nelson and Lady Emma Hamilton, a dedicated section of books and manuscripts relating to India and South Asia including autograph letters by Mahatma Gandhi, and more.

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The Grandeur of the Gorges. Fifty Photographic Studies, with Descriptive Notes, of China's Great Waterway, the Yangtze Kiang, including Twelve-Hand-Coloured Prints. From Photographs by Donald Mennie. Shanghai: A. S. Watson & Company, 1926. First edition, one of 1,000 copies only, 4to, original embroidered silk, 50 tipped-in photographic plates (12 hand-coloured; several printed in a blue or sepia tint), rear cover partially mottled and faded

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Mennie, Donald

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