Name: Auction: Lighthouses: sketches, watercolour sketches and prints A collection
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 554 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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A large quantity, including: Sketch of Skerries Light House, looking west, 38.5 x 56cm; Pen and ink wash sketch of Smalls Light House, 38 x 52cm; White, P.W.? Sketch of Lundy Island Light House, 15 x 22cm; After W. Simpson. The Light-House at Cape Chersonese, looking south, tinted lithograph; Desprez & Panseron. Cayer contenant les plans et elévations de trois differents phaneaux, propre a eclairer les vaisseaux sur les ports de mer, projet par le Sieur Panseron. [Paris: Chéz l'auteur : Le Vasseur graveur : Desnos, 1781] Folio, 5 plates of 6 only; and many others (quantity)

Lighthouses: sketches, watercolour sketches and prints

A collection

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