Name: Auction: Martin, R. Montgomery The Illustrated Atlas, and Modern History of the World
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 3024 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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London: J. & F. Tallis, c.1850. 4to, contemporary maroon half roan, engraved title-page, 79 engraved folding maps hand-coloured in outline (opening to 26.4 x 35.4cm), all with several inset scenes and views, engraved uncoloured folding plan of Plymouth, title-page and a few maps (Africa, British Isles, Scotland) loose, contents pages supplied in contemporary manuscript, light toning, several maps (e.g. France, British India, Northern Italy, Spain/Portugal) with splits to ends of along central fold, sold as a collection of maps, not subject to return

Martin, R. Montgomery

The Illustrated Atlas, and Modern History of the World

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