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Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs

Our September 2023 auction of&nbsp;Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps &amp; Photographs&nbsp;features an array of important autograph letters by figures including Charles Babbage, Oliver Cromwell and Leibniz, a copy of Shakespeare’s Fourth Folio and a newly discovered first edition of&nbsp;The Hobbit.It also includes a single-owner collection of books on gunnery and field sports, an extensive collection of original prints from John Gould’s&nbsp;Birds of Great Britain, and a book from the library of Adam Smith.

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Manuscript atlas – “England Delineated”

comprising Bartholomew & Co.

Le Theatre du Monde, ou Nouvel Atlas, cinquieme partie [Scotland and Ireland]

Collection of maps of Scotland, mid 17th century, Amsterdam

Cary's New and Accurate Map of London and Westminster, the Borough of Southwark

Map of the Colony of New South Wales [and other folding maps]

Map of the Island of Bombay 

Collection of engraved maps and charts, 17th to early 19th century

Collection of engraved maps, 17th and 18th century

16 maps of Scotland and its regions

Collection of maps, 18th and 19th century

Four volumes of railway plans and sections, 19th century

[Volume of miniature maps of Scotland and Ireland]

[Map] Palestine 1: 100,000

The Atlas of Scotland, containing Maps of Each County

A General Atlas

Who's Who in Tibet

Monograph on Swat State, 1933

Group of rare Indian imprints

Narrative of an Expedition into Southern Africa during the Years 1836 and 1837

Persian and Urdu literature, collection of works, 19th and early 20th century

Collection of works on Islam, 19th and early 20th century

Collection of works on science, cookery and other subjects

Geography and travel, collection of works in Urdu, 19th and early 20th century

Women's health and conduct, and general medicine, collection of works, 19th and early 20th century

Collection of works, 19th and early 20th century

The Voiage and Travaile of Sir John Maundevile, Kt. 

Legationis Turc[icae] Epistolae IV, eiusdem

Collection of works

Kuwait and her Neighbours

Four works

The Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia

The History of the Present State of the Ottoman Empire

The Story of the Cape to Cairo Railway and River Route, from 1887 to 1922

Sandys Traviles: containing a History of the original and present state of the Turkish Empire

Admirandorum quadruplex spectaculum

Mosaics and paintings, an album of painted copies

Le antichita dei Contorni di Roma

Byzantine Architecture

The Antiquities of Athens

19th century portfolio, including West Indies and North America interest

Voyages from Montreal, on the River St. Laurence, through the Continent of North America

[Voyages, abridged]

George Cruikshank

Collection of travel guides, 19th and 20th century

Group of 19

9 works

Collection of works, 18th and 19th century

12 works

Views of Eaton Hall in Cheshire

A Series of Etchings chiefly of Views in Scotland

[Collection of etchings]

A Voyage round Great Britain

Old Edinburgh

The Antiquities of Warwickshire

Collection of works on Edinburgh topography and history

Panoramic Views of Edinburgh

Large collection of works

Views of Aberdeen

The Catechism, or Christian Doctrine by way of Question and Answer

A collection of works

Dundee. Its Quaint and Historic Buildings

Survey of London

Collection of plates from The Clans of the Scottish Highlands

2 works

The Scots Peerage

Delineations of Fonthill and its Abbey 

Large collection of works on topography and local history

History, Literature and Topography

Collection of works, 18th to early 20th century

Large collection of local, regimental and family histories, 19th and early 20th century

Reference works and prints

Including The Curwen Studio

[Dirty Dogs of Paris]

Balmoral, signed limited edition print

including The Arts of the Ming Dynasty

Gothic Architecture

Liber Studiorum of Claude Lorraine [third part]

Paul among the Jews

Italian Etchings

Illustrations for the Bible

India Love Poems

A collection

Collection of trade catalogues, mainly Scottish, 19th and 20th century

Masterpieces of Industrial Art and Sculpture at the International Exhibition, 1862

Autograph letter, signed

Collection of letters to the 6th Earl of Selkirk and Countess of Selkirk, early 19th century

Autograph letter signed on his 'calculating engine'

Autograph letter signed as Lord Protector to his son Henry Cromwell as commander-in-chief in Ireland, 21st April 1656

Illustrated manuscript notebook of J. Longden, surgeon on East Indiaman Protector, 1837-8

Autograph signatures, 27th June 1966

Group of leaves from liturgical manuscripts

Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs

Sale Number: 759