Name: Auction: Middle East, Sudan, Africa, India Collection of works, 19th-20th century
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 1197 GBP
Availability: OutOfStock

Our September 2024 Books &amp; Manuscripts auction brings the best of Scotland with an extremely rare, first ‘Kilmarnock’ edition of <a href="/artists/robert-burns">Robert Burns</a> Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, 1786.This is accompanied in the sale by an original manuscript copy of the Scottish National Covenant, 1638-9, and a beautifully presented collection of books from a Scottish gentleman’s library, collected in the early 20th century and now being offered for sale after around 100 years with the family. &nbsp;Scientific interest features strongly, with John Snow’s seminal epidemiological work, On the Mode of Communication of Cholera, leading the section, followed by an impressive selection of natural history and botanical works.In travel and topography, an extremely rare true first edition of John Webber's spectacular suite of views from Cook's third and final voyage, entitled Views in the South Seas, is expected to draw a great deal of interest, being the only complete copy of the first edition ever offered at auction, depicting scenes in New Zealand, Macao, Krakatoa, Kamchatka, Tahiti, Moorea, and Pulo Condore in what is now Vietnam.Viewing in Broadside, Edinburgh&nbsp;Viewing will begin on Monday 16 September in our rare Books department at Broadside in the Canonmills area of Edinburgh.&nbsp;<a class="ck-btn" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.lyonandturnbull.com/events/books-viewing-edinburgh">Viewing Times &amp; Map&nbsp;</a>Buyer's Guide:&nbsp;

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J. E. Esslemont, Baha'u'llah and the New Era, 1923 (first edition, original cloth, photographic portrait frontispiece, damp-stain to head of spine of binding and textblock, mounted newspaper cuttings and inscriptions to endpapers); &nbsp;C. M. Doughty, Arabia Deserta, 1923 (2 volumes, original cloth, folding map in end-pocket); S. Krishnaswami Aiyangar, Some Contributions of South India to Indian Culture, 1923 (first edition, original cloth, inscribed ‘With the author’s best compliments' on front free endpaper); C. H. Stigand, Administration in Tropical Africa, 1914 (first edition, original cloth); E. S. Stevens, Folk-Tales of 'Iraq, 1931 (first edition, original cloth, halftone photographic plates); Edwin W. Smith and Andrew Murray Dale, The Ila-Speaking Peoples of Northern Rhodesia, 1920 (first edition, 2 volumes, original cloth, plates, ownership inscription of James Gordon Stewart Macphail, 1900-1986, Sudan Political Service); and 21 others (30)

Middle East, Sudan, Africa, India

Collection of works, 19th-20th century

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