Name: Auction: Blaeu, Johannes Set of engraved maps of Scotland from Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1654
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 630 GBP
Availability: OutOfStock

Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs

Sale number: 773&nbsp;February 2024's auction features a fine range of modern literature (lots 275-298) including first editions of <a href="/auctions/rare-books-manuscripts-maps-and-photographs-773/lot/297" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">J.R.R. Tolkien's 'Lord of the Rings</a>' and <a href="/auctions/rare-books-manuscripts-maps-and-photographs-773/lot/279" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">George Orwell’s 'Animal Farm</a>', important manuscripts (lots 179-195), atlases &amp; maps (lots 112-151), photographs (lots 196-208) and The Collection of the Stevenson Lighthouse Engineers (lots 61-111), including <a href="/auctions/rare-books-manuscripts-maps-and-photographs-773/lot/85" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Sebastian Münster's 'Cosmographiae Universalis Lib. VI'</a>, and much more. The sale also features The Library of Dr Andrew Fraser MD FSA Scot (1937 - 2020) (lots 152 - 178).

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Ian Fleming | British 1908 - 1964

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all hand-coloured, framed and glazed, comprising: Duo vicecomitatus Aberdonia et Banfia ... auctore Roberto Gordonio à Straloch. A Description of the Two Shyres Aberdene and Banf. 54 x 63 cm, browning; Scotia antiqua. Mount aperture 43 x 55.5cm; Fifae pars orientalis, the East Part of Fife. 43.5 x 54.5cm; Fifae pars occidentalis. The West Part of Fife. 43.5 x 54.5cm, crack to glass. Together with: Abraham Ortelius, Scotiae tabula, Amsterdam, c.1600, engraved map, uncoloured, with large decorative strapwork cartouche, mounted, framed and glazed, mount aperture 37 x 49cm; and Hendrik Hondius, A New Description of the Shyres Lothian and Linlitquo, Amsterdam, c.1633, hand-coloured, mounted, framed and glazed, mount aperture 38 x 55cm (6) &nbsp;