Name: Auction: Edinburgh Advertiser Vol. XXVIII Nos. 1418-1458
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 500 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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Edinburgh: James Donaldson, August-December 1777. 4to (29 x 21.5cm), contemporary marbled boards (binding broken), containing 41 semiweekly numbers, each 8 pp., and 2 ‘Edinburgh Advertiser Extraordinary’ numbers, 2 pp., contents including numerous reports from the American War of Independence e.g. ‘Mr Washington, with his army, we hear, is encamped on the heights between New German-town and the river Schuylkill, a few miles from the city of Philadelphia' (No. 1441), shipping notices (principally for merchantmen bound from Leith to the West Indies, including Kingston, Savanna La Mar, Grenada and Tobago, each signalled with small ship woodcut), notices of land sales, stolen property, escaped prisoners and similar, trade and bookseller advertisements, book extracts (e.g. ‘The Rural Industry and Oeconomy of the Chinese … by the Abbé Raynal’), and more, 1424 and 1438 each with extensive repaired tear to one leaf

Vol. XXVIII Nos. 1418-1458

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Vol. XXVIII Nos. 1418-1458

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