Name: Auction: Kay, John A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 378 GBP
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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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with Biographical Sketches and Illustrative Anecdotes. Edinburgh: Hugh Paton, 1837-8. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to (26.5 x 19cm), near-contemporary half calf, 357 etched plates (170 in volume 1, 159 in volume 2, and 28 in the separately-issued appendix at rear of volume 2), including Adam Smith, Francis Grose, John Wesley, Admiral Duncan, Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, Mirza Aboul Hassan Khan (Persian ambassador), Napoleon, Toussaint Louverture, etc. occasional light spotting and spotting, bookplates of Adam Sim of Coulter Mains (1805-1868), antiquarian, volume 1 annotated on front free endpaper 'This copy was one of five subscribed for by Mr Kays friend Mr William Robertson, bookseller, Lanark', bindings refurbished, volume 2 plate 152 (folding) repaired (2)

A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings

Kay, John

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Kay, John

A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings

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