Name: Auction: Burns, Robert Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 478 GBP
Availability: OutOfStock

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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Edinburgh: printed for author, and sold by William Creech, 1787. 8vo (21 x 12.5cm), contemporary calf, rebacked with original spine laid down, half-title, without the portrait, bookplate of H. M. Brower and printed catalogue description mounted to front pastedown, craquelure and score-marks to bindings, general light soiling to contents, A2-3 chipped along edges and therefore slightly shorter, closed tear in lower margins of quires F-G and Y, similar tear in Q2 extending into text, T1 signature-mark punched through, 2S4 with repaired closed tear to head, housed in a custom brown linen slipcase and chemise [ESTC T91547; cf. Rothschild 556]

Burns, Robert

Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect

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