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PAST AUCTION
21 June 2023 at 11:00 BST
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Sale Number: 739
Live from Edinburgh & Online
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LOT 1
Lyell, Charles
Principles of Geology
SOLD FOR £1,008
LOT 2
Playfair, John
Illustrations of The Huttonian Theory of the Earth
SOLD FOR £1,512
LOT 3
Darwin, Charles
Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries visited by H. M. S. Beagle
SOLD FOR £5,040
LOT 4
[Charles Darwin - Richard Owen]
The Palaeontographical Society
SOLD FOR £1,512
LOT 5
Carson, Rachel L.
Under the Sea-Wind
SOLD FOR £454
LOT 6
Ornithology and natural history
Collection of works
SOLD FOR £278
LOT 7
Millais, John Guille
The Mammals of Great Britain and Ireland
SOLD FOR £353
LOT 8
Hamilton, Alexander
A Treatise on the Management of Female Complaints
SOLD FOR £630
LOT 9
Switzer, Stephen
The Practical Kitchen Gardiner
SOLD FOR £504
LOT 11
Pennant, Thomas
Indian Zoology
SOLD FOR £504
LOT 12
South American botanical album
Including several ferns
SOLD FOR £353
LOT 13
Clark, John Heaviside
[Views in Scotland, drawn on the spot by I. Clark]
SOLD FOR £2,394
LOT 14
Daniell, William
A large collection of prints
SOLD FOR £1,134
LOT 15
Gordon, Alexander
Itinerarium Septentrionale
SOLD FOR £479
LOT 17
Orkney
Collection of rare Court of Session rulings, [Edinburgh], 18th century
SOLD FOR £530
LOT 18
Roberts, David, and others
Collection of views from Harding & Lawson's Scotland Delineated
SOLD FOR £3,528
LOT 20
Scotland
including North, Charles McIntyre
SOLD FOR £454
LOT 21
Sinclair, John
The Statistical Account of Scotland
SOLD FOR £353
LOT 22
Slezer, John
Theatrum Scotiae
SOLD FOR £1,134
LOT 23
British topography
Collection of works
SOLD FOR £252
LOT 24
Greece
Five works
SOLD FOR £756
LOT 25
Greece
Three works
SOLD FOR £252
LOT 28
Russia - Crimea - Simpson, William
Seat of War in the East
SOLD FOR £504
LOT 29
Spain and Latin America
Three works, finely bound
SOLD FOR £429
LOT 30
[American Revolution]
Mémoires de Paul Jones
SOLD FOR £378
LOT 31
Burton, Sir Richard Francis
The City of the Saints and across The Rocky Mountains to California
SOLD FOR £454
LOT 32
Gage, Thomas
A New Survey of the West-Indies, being a Journal
SOLD FOR £1,890
LOT 34
Lewis, Meriwether and William Clark
Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition 1804-1806
SOLD FOR £555
LOT 35
Mexico - Clavigero, Francesco Saverio
The History of Mexico
SOLD FOR £378
LOT 36
Washington, George
Official Letters to the Honorable American Congress
SOLD FOR £504
LOT 37
[Brown, R. N. Rudmose, Robert Cockburn Mossman and J. H. Harvey Pirie]
The Voyage of the "Scotia"
SOLD FOR £1,197
LOT 38
Cherry-Garrard, Apsley
The Worst Journey in the World
SOLD FOR £4,032
LOT 39
Cherry-Garrard, Apsley
The Worst Journey in the World
SOLD FOR £1,764
LOT 41
Peary, Robert E.
The North Pole
SOLD FOR £756
LOT 42
Ross, John
Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage
SOLD FOR £756
LOT 43
Shackleton, Ernest H.
South
SOLD FOR £1,008
LOT 44
Polar exploration
Collection of works
SOLD FOR £1,008
LOT 45
Polar exploration, first editions
Collection of works
SOLD FOR £630
LOT 46
Abyssinia [Ethiopia]
Parkyns, Mansfield
SOLD FOR £378
LOT 47
Burton, Sir Richard Francis
A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome
SOLD FOR £580
LOT 48
Chapman, Abel
Collection of works
SOLD FOR £630
LOT 49
Churchill, Winston S.
The River War
SOLD FOR £504
LOT 51
Salt, Henry
Twenty Four Views taken in St. Helena, the Cape, India, Ceylon, Abyssinia and Egypt
SOLD FOR £10,710
LOT 52
[Sierra Leone] Winterbottom, Thomas
An Account of the Native Americans in the Neighbourhood of Sierra Leone
SOLD FOR £2,016
LOT 53
[South Africa] Le Vaillant, François
Voyage de Monsier le Vaillant dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique
SOLD FOR £882
LOT 54
South Africa
Two travel albums, early 20th century
SOLD FOR £945
LOT 55
Arabia
Collection of works
SOLD FOR £429
LOT 56
'Arabian Nights'
Al-juz' al-awwal min kitab Alf laylah wa-laylah
SOLD FOR £630
LOT 57
Burton, Sir Richard Francis
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah
SOLD FOR £4,788
LOT 58
Iraq
Memoir on the Ruins of Babylon
SOLD FOR £1,512
LOT 59
Islam, Eastern Christianity and Judaism
Group of works
SOLD FOR £353
LOT 60
Middle East
Collection of works
SOLD FOR £1,890
LOT 62
Ottoman Empire - Penzer, N. M.
4 volumes
SOLD FOR £303
LOT 65
Heath, Leopold (1817-1907)
"Hong Kong &c.
SOLD FOR £63
LOT 66
Indonesia
View of the Island of Banda-Neira
SOLD FOR £756
LOT 68
Waddell, L. A.
The Buddhism of Tibet or Lamaism
SOLD FOR £303
LOT 69
Arago, Jacques
Souvenirs d'un Aveugle
SOLD FOR £756
LOT 70
Cook, Capt. James
The Journals of Captain James Cook
SOLD FOR £693
LOT 71
Prévost, l'abbé Anton François
Histoire Générale des Voyages
SOLD FOR £2,772
LOT 75
Shaykh Muhammad Amir of Karraya or studio (fl. c. 1830-50)
The Balfour album
SOLD FOR £112,700
LOT 76
Indian Company School paintings
On mica and paper
SOLD FOR £1,512
LOT 77
India - Sanskrit printing
Hitopadesa, or Salutary Instruction. In the original Sanscrit
SOLD FOR £3,780
LOT 78
India - Malayalam printing
Compendiosa legis explanatio omnibus Christianis scitu necessaria Malabarico idiomate
SOLD FOR £882
LOT 79
[East Indies Sailing Directory]
A New Directory for the East-Indies
SOLD FOR £1,071
LOT 80
Government of India
Alqabnamah
SOLD FOR £10,080
LOT 81
Robson, Francis
The Life of Hyder Ally
SOLD FOR £580
LOT 82
India - Meghalaya
Report on Successions to Siemships in the Khasi States
SOLD FOR £1,512
LOT 83
Grandpré, Louis Maria Joseph, Comte de
A Voyage in the Indian Ocean and to Bengal
SOLD FOR £1,071
LOT 84
Harkness, Henry
A Description of a Singular Aboriginal Race inhabiting the Summit of the Neilgherry Hills
SOLD FOR £479
LOT 85
Moorcroft, William and George Trebeck
Travels in the Himalayan Provinces of Hindustan and the Panjab
SOLD FOR £404
LOT 86
Sri Lanka [Ceylon]
Forbes, Major Jonathan
SOLD FOR £504
LOT 87
Fergusson, James
Tree and Serpent Worship
SOLD FOR £630
LOT 88
India - Bengal Presidency
Collection of Calcutta imprints
SOLD FOR £328
LOT 89
India - Bhopal
Two biographical dictionaries of Persian poets
SOLD FOR £504
LOT 90
Wheeler, Stephen
History of the Delhi Coronation Durbar
SOLD FOR £756
LOT 91
Indian lithographic printing
Tarikh-i darbar-i taj pushi ['History of the Coronation Durbar']
SOLD FOR £252
LOT 92
Delhi
History of Delhi the Imperial City
SOLD FOR £378
LOT 93
India - North-Western Province
Set of Agra imprints, 19th century
SOLD FOR £252
LOT 94
India - Punjab, Oudh (Awadh) & other regions
Group of official reports, 19th century
SOLD FOR £1,890
LOT 95
India
Collection of rare Indian imprints on various subjects, 19th-20th century
SOLD FOR £504
LOT 96
Indian lithographic printing
Group of works on science and medicine
SOLD FOR £353
LOT 97
India
Group of rare Indian imprints, 19th-20th century
SOLD FOR £378
LOT 98
India
Group of rare pamphlets, Indian imprints, British and native presses, 19th century
SOLD FOR £278
LOT 99
India
Group of rare Indian imprints
SOLD FOR £378
LOT 100
Indian lithographic printing
Volume of treatises on Arabic grammar
SOLD FOR £252
LOT 101
Indian lithographic printing
Urdu poetry
SOLD FOR £252
LOT 102
Indian lithographic printing
Collection of works in Persian
SOLD FOR £378
LOT 103
Indian lithographic printing
Shrimad Bhagwat Gita bi'l-tasawir [Bhagavad Gita, in Urdu, illustrated]
SOLD FOR £252
LOT 104
Pratap Narayan Singh, Maharaja of Ayodhya (1855-1906)
Raskusumakar, or a Book on Rhetoric
SOLD FOR £479
LOT 105
Shah Jahan Begum, Nawab Begum of Bhopal (1838-1901)
Tahdhib al-niswan wa-tarbiyah al-insan
SOLD FOR £1,638
LOT 108
Stein, Sir Aurel
Two works
SOLD FOR £1,071
LOT 109
Indian National Congress
Volume of pamphlets
SOLD FOR £1,386
LOT 110
Wrede, Konrad (1865-1947)
Streifzüge durch Ceylons Wunderwelt
SOLD FOR £278
LOT 111
India
Quantity of works, including Indian imprints
SOLD FOR £1,008
LOT 112
Blaeu, Joannes
[Theatrum Orbis Terrarum: Volume V] - Scotia, quae est Europae Liber XII [Scotland & Ireland]
SOLD FOR £8,820
LOT 113
Jamieson, Alexander
A Celestial Atlas
SOLD FOR £2,772
LOT 114
Homann, Johann Baptiste - Ottoman Empire
Turkey and Arabia
SOLD FOR £378
LOT 116
Fife and St Andrews
Two maps
SOLD FOR £429
LOT 117
Speed, John
Britain, as it was divided in the tyme of the Englishe Saxons...
SOLD FOR £2,268
LOT 118
Speed, John
Cambridgshire
SOLD FOR £693
