Name: Auction: Orkney 2 works
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 529 GBP
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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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Sutherland, Elizabeth Leveson-Gower, Duchess of. Views in Orkney and on the North-Eastern Coast of Scotland. [London?: privately printed], 1807. Folio, 20th-century half morocco, edges untrimmed, half-title, etched title-page, 27 pp., 28 etched plates, etched vignettes in text, clipped inscription 'THe RIght Honourable The Speaker, etc. etc, with the Marchioness of Stafford's Compliments' mounted to front pastedown, bookplate of Charles Abbot, 1st Baron Colchester (1757-1829), sometime Speaker of the House of Commons, reimposed to front pastedown, additional bookplates of Matthew Henry Whitty Devenish and John Davie Manson Robertson, toning, spotting to half-title and title-page; and 1 other (F. W. L. Thomas, Account of some of the Celtic Antiquities of Orkney, 1851, 4to, later half morocco)

Orkney

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