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Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs 

Sale number: 739&nbsp; Our 21 June&nbsp;Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps &amp; Photographs&nbsp;sale began in Edinburgh before setting off on a tour around the world and back through time, with stops in the Antarctic with Shackleton and Scott, Mecca and Medina with Burton, and the Mediterranean as envisioned by a 17th-century maker of portolan charts. After a century-long layover in India, bidders relived Howard Carter’s discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamen before glimpsing the rarefied world of Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson in a remarkable collection of effects belonging to their personal bodyguard David Storrier. Returning to Scotland we visit Ian Hamilton Finlay’s Little Sparta before celebrating the Scottish Enlightenment with works by Smith, Hume and their illustrious peers. Browse the collection below.&nbsp;

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Principles of Geology

Illustrations of The Huttonian Theory of the Earth

Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries visited by H. M. S. Beagle

The Palaeontographical Society 

Under the Sea-Wind

Collection of works

The Mammals of Great Britain and Ireland

A Treatise on the Management of Female Complaints

The Practical Kitchen Gardiner

Indian Zoology

Including several ferns

[Views in Scotland, drawn on the spot by I. Clark]

A large collection of prints

Itinerarium Septentrionale

Collection of rare Court of Session rulings, [Edinburgh], 18th century

Collection of views from Harding & Lawson's Scotland Delineated

including North, Charles McIntyre

The Statistical Account of Scotland

Theatrum Scotiae

Five works

 Three works

Seat of War in the East 

Three works, finely bound

Mémoires de Paul Jones

The City of the Saints and across The Rocky Mountains to California

A New Survey of the West-Indies, being a Journal

Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition 1804-1806

The History of Mexico

Official Letters to the Honorable American Congress

The Voyage of the "Scotia"

The Worst Journey in the World

The North Pole

Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage

South

Parkyns, Mansfield

A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome

The River War

Twenty Four Views taken in St. Helena, the Cape, India, Ceylon, Abyssinia and Egypt

An Account of the Native Americans in the Neighbourhood of Sierra Leone

Voyage de Monsier le Vaillant dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique

Two travel albums, early 20th century

Al-juz' al-awwal min kitab Alf laylah wa-laylah

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah

Memoir on the Ruins of Babylon

Group of works

4 volumes

"Hong Kong &c.

View of the Island of Banda-Neira

The Buddhism of Tibet or Lamaism

Souvenirs d'un Aveugle

The Journals of Captain James Cook

Histoire Générale des Voyages

The Balfour album

On mica and paper

Hitopadesa, or Salutary Instruction. In the original Sanscrit

Compendiosa legis explanatio omnibus Christianis scitu necessaria Malabarico idiomate

A New Directory for the East-Indies

Alqabnamah

The Life of Hyder Ally

Report on Successions to Siemships in the Khasi States

A Voyage in the Indian Ocean and to Bengal

A Description of a Singular Aboriginal Race inhabiting the Summit of the Neilgherry Hills

Travels in the Himalayan Provinces of Hindustan and the Panjab

Forbes, Major Jonathan

Tree and Serpent Worship

Collection of Calcutta imprints

Two biographical dictionaries of Persian poets

History of the Delhi Coronation Durbar

Tarikh-i darbar-i taj pushi ['History of the Coronation Durbar']

History of Delhi the Imperial City

Set of Agra imprints, 19th century

Group of official reports, 19th century

Collection of rare Indian imprints on various subjects, 19th-20th century

Group of works on science and medicine

Group of rare Indian imprints, 19th-20th century

Group of rare pamphlets, Indian imprints, British and native presses, 19th century

Group of rare Indian imprints

Volume of treatises on Arabic grammar

Urdu poetry

Collection of works in Persian

Shrimad Bhagwat Gita bi'l-tasawir [Bhagavad Gita, in Urdu, illustrated] 

Raskusumakar, or a Book on Rhetoric

Tahdhib al-niswan wa-tarbiyah al-insan

Two works

Volume of pamphlets

Streifzüge durch Ceylons Wunderwelt

Quantity of works, including Indian imprints

[Theatrum Orbis Terrarum: Volume V] - Scotia, quae est Europae Liber XII [Scotland & Ireland]

Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs

Sale Number: 739