PAST AUCTION

13 July 2022 from 10:00 BST

Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs

Sale Number: 694

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Sale number: 694

Our July Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs sale was led by an important document signed by Sir Walter Raleigh, a very early edition of John Cleland's Memoirs of A Woman of Pleasure (c.1755), a work better known to posterity as Fanny Hill, and a rare first edition of John Law’s Money and Trade Considered (1705). Additional highlights featuring in the sale included a first edition, first impression, paperback issue of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997), a set of James Sowerby's The Mineral Conchology of Great Britain (1812-29) from the library of Andrew Carnegie, and an imposing 18th century atlas by Thomas Kitchin.

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Booth, Charles

Labour and Life of the People

SOLD FOR £6,750

Botero, Giovanni

Relationi universali

SOLD FOR £2,750

Bowen, Emanuel

Collection of engraved maps, c.1750-65

Evans, Lewis

A General Map of the Middle British Colonies in America

SOLD FOR £1,500

Gall & Inglis (publishers)

The Edinburgh Imperial Atlas

Island of Saint Helena

Read, Lieut. R. P.

Mortier, Pierre

[Chart of the Indian Ocean on two sheets], Amsterdam, c.1700

[Ottoman Empire] - Speed, John

The Turkish Empire

SOLD FOR £1,013

Ortelius, Abraham

Islandia [Iceland]

SOLD FOR £8,500

Scottish maps

A collection

Speed, John - Keere, Pieter van den

A Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World

SOLD FOR £3,250

Thomson, John

The Atlas of Scotland

SOLD FOR £1,063

Two atlases

19th century

Abbott, Henry

Antiquities of Rome

SOLD FOR £3,500

Africa

Photograph album relating to the Four Power Commission on ex-Italian colonies, 1946-7

Annan, Thomas

Memorials of the Old College of Glasgow

Arabic printing

Kitab zabur Dawud al-malik wa'l-nabi

SOLD FOR £1,000

Australia, Turkey, France etc.

21 volumes

Baker, Sir Samuel W.

Ismailia

British photographic incunabula

Collection of 19 works

SOLD FOR £1,125

Broughton, Thomas Duer

Letters written in a Mahratta Camp during the Year 1809

SOLD FOR £1,188

China

4 volumes

Clutterbuck, Robert

The History and Antiquities of the County of Hertford

Constantinople

Rare Panorama

SOLD FOR £1,750

Davidson, Allan A.

South Australia. Journal of Explorations in Central Australia...

Denon, Vivant

Planches du voyage dans la basse et la haute Egypte

East India Company

'Vellore Garrison Orderly Book', 1785-9

SOLD FOR £3,500

Edinburgh

2 volumes

Edinburgh Town Council

3 rare broadsides

Edinburgh Town Council

10 printed 18th century works

SOLD FOR £1,375

Edinburgh Town Council

and other rare Edinburgh items

Ellicott, Andrew

The Journal of Andrew Ellicott

SOLD FOR £1,000

European travel and others

8 volumes

European Travel

3 volumes, 2 in fine morocco bindings

Germany and Holland

5 volumes

Germany, Switzerland and Travel

39 volumes

Good, Frank Mason

Selected Photographs of the Nile and its Scenery

SOLD FOR £1,750

Greece

8 volumes

Harrison & Co.

Picturesque Views of the Principal Seats of the Nobility and Gentry

Hooker, William Jackson

Journal of a Tour in Iceland, in the Summer of 1809

Iraq

Archive relating to surveying work conducted by A. L. Holt for the Cairo-Baghdad air route, 1921

SOLD FOR £7,500

Lawrence, T.E.

10 volumes

Luynes, Honoré Paul Joseph d'Albert, duc de

Voyage d'exploration à la mer Morte, à Petra, et sur la rive gauche du Jourdain

Mackenzie, Sir George Steuart

Travels in the Island of Iceland, during the Summer of the Year MDCCCX

SOLD FOR £2,125

McLeod, John

Voyage of His Majesty's Ship Alceste, along the oast of Corea, to the Island of Lewchew

Monro, Donald

Description of the Western Isles of Scotland, called Hybrides...

SOLD FOR £1,188

Mountaineering

26 volumes

SOLD FOR £1,188

North-West Passage

Collection of travel narratives

SOLD FOR £2,375

Olearius, Adam

[The Voyages and Travels of the Ambassadors sent by Frederick Duke of Holstein]

Palafox y Mendoza, Juan de

The History of the Conquest of China by the Tartars

Paris

Paris moderne

Park, Mungo

Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa

SOLD FOR £1,063

Pinelli, Bartolomeo

Costumi diversi in no. 25 tavole

Richardson, Sir John

Arctic Searching Expedition

SOLD FOR £1,188

Scotland

Collection of pamphlets and proclamations, 17th-18th century

SOLD FOR £2,125

Scotland

Collection of archaeological monographs

Scotland

Two sammelbands of laws and acts

Scotland

Collection of antiquarian and topographical books, mainly Scotland-related, 17th-19th century

SOLD FOR £1,063

[Scotland]. Evans, Revd Thomas

Account of a Tour from Dunham [Massey] to Scotland and back

SOLD FOR £3,500

Shackleton, Ernest H.

South

SOLD FOR £5,000

Shackleton, Ernest H.

The Heart of the Antarctic

Sibbald, Sir Robert

The History, Ancient and Modern, of the Sheriffdoms of Fife and Kinross

Sierra Leone

Photograph album, c.1875

SOLD FOR £2,125

South-East Asia

Five personal photograph albums, c.1937-8

SOLD FOR £1,000

Laborde, Alexandre Louis Joseph

Voyage Pittoresque et Historique de l'Espagne [Catalonia]

St Petersburg

Mornay

Stein, Sir Aurel

On Alexander's Track to the Indus

SOLD FOR £1,188

Switzerland, Germany and the Danube

5 volumes

Sykes, Mark

Through Five Turkish Provinces

SOLD FOR £1,188

[The Hague & Views of Holland]

3 volumes in 2

Travel

20 volumes

Travel

Collection of works on various regions, 18th-20th century

SOLD FOR £1,000

Vertot, René-Aubert

The History of the Knights of Malta

Watts, William

The Seats of the Nobility and Gentry

Women in World War I

Photograph album, c.1911-20

SOLD FOR £2,750

World travel - [Numerous engraved plates]

L'Univers. Histoire et description de tous les peuples

Gentlemen's Seats

Two works

Curtis, John

British Entomology

SOLD FOR £5,000

Darwin, Charles

On the Various Contrivances by which British and Foreign Orchids are fertilised by Insects, and the Good Effects of Intercrossing

SOLD FOR £3,500

Darwin, Charles

Group of early editions

SOLD FOR £1,375

Darwin, Charles

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection

Folio Society

Group of deluxe limited editions, natural history

SOLD FOR £2,250

Geology, botany, palaeontology

Collection of works from the library of Richard G. West

[Hill, John]

Eden: or, a Compleat Body of Gardening

Houghton, William

British Fresh-Water Fishes

SOLD FOR £1,000

Mattioli, Pietro Andrea [Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun]

Commentarii in sex libros

SOLD FOR £10,000

Millais, John G.

British Diving Ducks

Milne-Edwards, Henri

Recherches Zoologiques pour servir a l'histoire de la Faune de l'Amérique Centrale...Troisième Partie

SOLD FOR £1,063

Natural History

7 volumes

New Naturalists

Richard G. West's personal set of the 'Golden Fourteen'

SOLD FOR £2,375

New Naturalists

Richard G. West's personal set of signed limited editions

SOLD FOR £1,063

New Naturalists

Extensive run of volumes from the library of Richard G. West

SOLD FOR £1,125

New Naturalists

Run of volumes from the library of Richard G. West

Perry, George

Conchology, or the Natural History of Shells

SOLD FOR £2,250

Prichard, James Cowles

The Natural History of Man

Sowerby, James

The Mineral Conchology of Great Britain

SOLD FOR £7,250

Celsus, Aulus Cornelius

De re medica

Medical books - Byrom Bramwell

the author's own copies

Mercuriale, Girolamo

De arte gymnastica libri sex

Microscopy

Diaries of John Thomas Quekett (1815-1861), and related effects

SOLD FOR £2,000