Name: Auction: Sri Lanka [Ceylon] Forbes, Major Jonathan
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 504 GBP
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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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Eleven Years in Ceylon. Comprising Sketches of the Field Sports and Natural History of that Colony, and an Account of its History and Antiquities. London: Richard Bentley, 1840. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, 6 engraved plates, some text illustrations, half-title in volume 1, maroon straight-grained morocco gilt by Riviere &amp; Sons, spines gilt, gilt edges

Forbes, Major Jonathan

Sri Lanka [Ceylon]

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Sri Lanka [Ceylon]

Forbes, Major Jonathan

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