Name: Auction: Stevenson, Robert An Account of the Bell Rock Light-House
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 1386 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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Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1824. 4to, contemporary diced russia decorated in gilt and blind including a palmette roll along edges of covers, engraved frontispiece after J. M. W. Turner, engraved additional title-page (both on india paper, mounted), 21 engraved plates and charts (many folding), inscribed on the initial blank ‘To the Right Honbl Lord Viscount Melville, from the Commissioners of the Northern Lighthouses’, engraved bookplate of Viscount Melville, joints and extremities rubbed, rear joint cracking at foot, a few plates offset

Stevenson, Robert

An Account of the Bell Rock Light-House

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