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PAST AUCTION
13 July 2022 from 10:00 BST
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Sale Number: 694
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LOT 1
Booth, Charles
Labour and Life of the People
SOLD FOR £6,750
LOT 2
Botero, Giovanni
Relationi universali
SOLD FOR £2,750
LOT 3
Bowen, Emanuel
Collection of engraved maps, c.1750-65
SOLD FOR £550
LOT 4
Evans, Lewis
A General Map of the Middle British Colonies in America
SOLD FOR £1,500
LOT 5
Gall & Inglis (publishers)
The Edinburgh Imperial Atlas
SOLD FOR £525
LOT 6
Island of Saint Helena
Read, Lieut. R. P.
SOLD FOR £475
LOT 8
Mortier, Pierre
[Chart of the Indian Ocean on two sheets], Amsterdam, c.1700
SOLD FOR £500
LOT 9
[Ottoman Empire] - Speed, John
The Turkish Empire
SOLD FOR £1,013
LOT 10
Ortelius, Abraham
Islandia [Iceland]
SOLD FOR £8,500
LOT 11
Scottish maps
A collection
SOLD FOR £688
LOT 12
Speed, John - Keere, Pieter van den
A Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World
SOLD FOR £3,250
LOT 13
Thomson, John
The Atlas of Scotland
SOLD FOR £1,063
LOT 14
Two atlases
19th century
SOLD FOR £400
LOT 15
Abbott, Henry
Antiquities of Rome
SOLD FOR £3,500
LOT 17
Africa
Photograph album relating to the Four Power Commission on ex-Italian colonies, 1946-7
SOLD FOR £425
LOT 18
Annan, Thomas
Memorials of the Old College of Glasgow
SOLD FOR £875
LOT 19
Arabic printing
Kitab zabur Dawud al-malik wa'l-nabi
SOLD FOR £1,000
LOT 20
Australia, Turkey, France etc.
21 volumes
SOLD FOR £500
LOT 21
Baker, Sir Samuel W.
Ismailia
SOLD FOR £938
LOT 22
British photographic incunabula
Collection of 19 works
SOLD FOR £1,125
LOT 23
Broughton, Thomas Duer
Letters written in a Mahratta Camp during the Year 1809
SOLD FOR £1,188
LOT 24
China
4 volumes
SOLD FOR £300
LOT 25
Clutterbuck, Robert
The History and Antiquities of the County of Hertford
SOLD FOR £250
LOT 26
Constantinople
Rare Panorama
SOLD FOR £1,750
LOT 27
Davidson, Allan A.
South Australia. Journal of Explorations in Central Australia...
SOLD FOR £250
LOT 28
Denon, Vivant
Planches du voyage dans la basse et la haute Egypte
SOLD FOR £450
LOT 29
East India Company
'Vellore Garrison Orderly Book', 1785-9
SOLD FOR £3,500
LOT 31
Edinburgh
2 volumes
SOLD FOR £600
LOT 32
Edinburgh Town Council
3 rare broadsides
SOLD FOR £300
LOT 33
Edinburgh Town Council
10 printed 18th century works
SOLD FOR £1,375
LOT 34
Edinburgh Town Council
and other rare Edinburgh items
SOLD FOR £375
LOT 35
Ellicott, Andrew
The Journal of Andrew Ellicott
SOLD FOR £1,000
LOT 36
European travel and others
8 volumes
SOLD FOR £400
LOT 37
European Travel
3 volumes, 2 in fine morocco bindings
SOLD FOR £325
LOT 38
Germany and Holland
5 volumes
SOLD FOR £375
LOT 39
Germany, Switzerland and Travel
39 volumes
SOLD FOR £300
LOT 40
Good, Frank Mason
Selected Photographs of the Nile and its Scenery
SOLD FOR £1,750
LOT 42
Greece
8 volumes
SOLD FOR £625
LOT 43
Harrison & Co.
Picturesque Views of the Principal Seats of the Nobility and Gentry
SOLD FOR £475
LOT 44
Hooker, William Jackson
Journal of a Tour in Iceland, in the Summer of 1809
SOLD FOR £875
LOT 45
Iraq
Archive relating to surveying work conducted by A. L. Holt for the Cairo-Baghdad air route, 1921
SOLD FOR £7,500
LOT 46
Lawrence, T.E.
10 volumes
SOLD FOR £200
LOT 47
Luynes, Honoré Paul Joseph d'Albert, duc de
Voyage d'exploration à la mer Morte, à Petra, et sur la rive gauche du Jourdain
SOLD FOR £750
LOT 48
Mackenzie, Sir George Steuart
Travels in the Island of Iceland, during the Summer of the Year MDCCCX
SOLD FOR £2,125
LOT 49
McLeod, John
Voyage of His Majesty's Ship Alceste, along the oast of Corea, to the Island of Lewchew
SOLD FOR £575
LOT 51
Monro, Donald
Description of the Western Isles of Scotland, called Hybrides...
SOLD FOR £1,188
LOT 52
Mountaineering
26 volumes
SOLD FOR £1,188
LOT 53
North-West Passage
Collection of travel narratives
SOLD FOR £2,375
LOT 54
Olearius, Adam
[The Voyages and Travels of the Ambassadors sent by Frederick Duke of Holstein]
SOLD FOR £688
LOT 55
Palafox y Mendoza, Juan de
The History of the Conquest of China by the Tartars
SOLD FOR £688
LOT 56
Paris
Paris moderne
SOLD FOR £225
LOT 57
Park, Mungo
Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa
SOLD FOR £1,063
LOT 58
Pinelli, Bartolomeo
Costumi diversi in no. 25 tavole
SOLD FOR £813
LOT 59
Richardson, Sir John
Arctic Searching Expedition
SOLD FOR £1,188
LOT 61
Scotland
Collection of pamphlets and proclamations, 17th-18th century
SOLD FOR £2,125
LOT 62
Scotland
Collection of archaeological monographs
SOLD FOR £625
LOT 63
Scotland
Two sammelbands of laws and acts
SOLD FOR £688
LOT 64
Scotland
Collection of antiquarian and topographical books, mainly Scotland-related, 17th-19th century
SOLD FOR £1,063
LOT 65
[Scotland]. Evans, Revd Thomas
Account of a Tour from Dunham [Massey] to Scotland and back
SOLD FOR £3,500
LOT 66
Shackleton, Ernest H.
South
SOLD FOR £5,000
LOT 67
Shackleton, Ernest H.
The Heart of the Antarctic
SOLD FOR £813
LOT 68
Sibbald, Sir Robert
The History, Ancient and Modern, of the Sheriffdoms of Fife and Kinross
SOLD FOR £475
LOT 69
Sierra Leone
Photograph album, c.1875
SOLD FOR £2,125
LOT 70
South-East Asia
Five personal photograph albums, c.1937-8
SOLD FOR £1,000
LOT 71
Laborde, Alexandre Louis Joseph
Voyage Pittoresque et Historique de l'Espagne [Catalonia]
SOLD FOR £400
LOT 72
St Petersburg
Mornay
SOLD FOR £938
LOT 73
Stein, Sir Aurel
On Alexander's Track to the Indus
SOLD FOR £1,188
LOT 74
Switzerland, Germany and the Danube
5 volumes
SOLD FOR £375
LOT 75
Sykes, Mark
Through Five Turkish Provinces
SOLD FOR £1,188
LOT 76
[The Hague & Views of Holland]
3 volumes in 2
SOLD FOR £200
LOT 77
Travel
20 volumes
SOLD FOR £575
LOT 78
Travel
Collection of works on various regions, 18th-20th century
SOLD FOR £1,000
LOT 79
Vertot, René-Aubert
The History of the Knights of Malta
SOLD FOR £875
LOT 80
Watts, William
The Seats of the Nobility and Gentry
SOLD FOR £350
LOT 81
Women in World War I
Photograph album, c.1911-20
SOLD FOR £2,750
LOT 82
World travel - [Numerous engraved plates]
L'Univers. Histoire et description de tous les peuples
SOLD FOR £325
LOT 83
Gentlemen's Seats
Two works
SOLD FOR £300
LOT 84
Curtis, John
British Entomology
SOLD FOR £5,000
LOT 85
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
LOT 86
Darwin, Charles
Group of early editions
SOLD FOR £1,375
LOT 87
Darwin, Charles
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
SOLD FOR £550
LOT 88
Folio Society
Group of deluxe limited editions, natural history
SOLD FOR £2,250
LOT 89
Geology, botany, palaeontology
Collection of works from the library of Richard G. West
SOLD FOR £688
LOT 90
[Hill, John]
Eden: or, a Compleat Body of Gardening
SOLD FOR £525
LOT 91
Houghton, William
British Fresh-Water Fishes
SOLD FOR £1,000
LOT 92
Mattioli, Pietro Andrea [Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun]
Commentarii in sex libros
SOLD FOR £10,000
LOT 93
Millais, John G.
British Diving Ducks
SOLD FOR £425
LOT 94
Milne-Edwards, Henri
Recherches Zoologiques pour servir a l'histoire de la Faune de l'Amérique Centrale...Troisième Partie
SOLD FOR £1,063
LOT 95
Natural History
7 volumes
SOLD FOR £525
LOT 96
New Naturalists
Richard G. West's personal set of the 'Golden Fourteen'
SOLD FOR £2,375
LOT 97
New Naturalists
Richard G. West's personal set of signed limited editions
SOLD FOR £1,063
LOT 98
New Naturalists
Extensive run of volumes from the library of Richard G. West
SOLD FOR £1,125
LOT 99
New Naturalists
Run of volumes from the library of Richard G. West
SOLD FOR £350
LOT 100
Perry, George
Conchology, or the Natural History of Shells
SOLD FOR £2,250
LOT 101
Prichard, James Cowles
The Natural History of Man
SOLD FOR £250
LOT 103
Sowerby, James
The Mineral Conchology of Great Britain
SOLD FOR £7,250
LOT 104
Celsus, Aulus Cornelius
De re medica
SOLD FOR £875
LOT 105
Medical books - Byrom Bramwell
the author's own copies
SOLD FOR £375
LOT 106
Mercuriale, Girolamo
De arte gymnastica libri sex
SOLD FOR £375
LOT 107
Microscopy
Diaries of John Thomas Quekett (1815-1861), and related effects
SOLD FOR £2,000
