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Head of Sale, Cathy Tait, is delighted to present our first Books &amp; Manuscripts auction of 2025, taking place on Wednesday 05 February in our historic saleroom in Edinburgh and online.Works already consigned to our auction include a fine selection of books illustrated by Arthur Rackham, a signed letter from Mary Tudor, and an impressive collection of early 20th century detective fiction.

Paul

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Optice

Session 1

Group of works

Encyclopaedia Britannica; or, a Dictionary of Arts and Sciences

Theory of the Earth

Collection of works, English and Scottish, mainly 18th century

De jure naturae et gentium libri octo

Collection of works including Scottish Enlightenment treatises

Essays Moral and Philosophical, on several Subjects

An Abridgment of Mr. Locke's Essay Concerning Humane Understanding

Collection of works, 17th-18th century

Collection of works, 16th-19th century

A Discourse of Money

Humas de Parasioth y Aftharoth

Biblia

The Holy Bible containing the Old Testament and the New

The Holy Bible

Collection of Bibles and religious works, 17th-18th century

The Booke of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments

Collection of works, 17th century

Collections of works including editions of Greek and Latin classics, 17th-18th century

Collection of editions of Greek and Latin classics, 17th century

Collection of works, 16th-17th century

Collection of works, 16th century

Dictionnaire historique et critique

The Life and Acts of the Most Famous and Valiant Champion, Sir William Wallace

The Muses Welcome to the High and Mighty Prince James

Poems

Paradise Lost

Novels including first editions

Politicall Reflections upon the Government of the Turks

Group of English imprints, 17th-18th century

A Chronicle of the Kings of England

Collection of English and French books, 16th-18th century

Collection of editions of Greek and Latin classics, 17th-19th century

Collection of Scottish imprints, 17th-19th century

Collection of works, 17th-19th century

Collection of works

Collection of library sets

Collection of fine bindings

Collection of works from the Dollerie library

Collection of volumes of engraved music including Scottish Highland music, 18th-19th century

[Description des projets et de la construction des ponts de Neuilly, de Mantes, d'Orleans et autres]

The Works

Schediasmata selecta

Britannia

Collection of works, 18th-19th century

Group of maps, 18th and 19th century

The True Interest of Great Britain, Ireland and our Plantations

A New General Atlas of the World

De rebus in Hibernia gestis

A New Directory for the East Indies

The Costume of China

Introduction in universam geographiam

A New and Correct Edition of the American Geography

An Account of a Geographical and Astronomical Expedition to the Northern Parts of Russia

Historie van Oost-Indien

Travels in Arabia

The Travels of the Chevalier D'Arvieux in Arabia the Desart

Visit to the Great Oasis of the Libyan Desert

Map of India

Travels through the United States of North America, the Country of the Iroquois, and Upper Canada

Journal of a Second Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage

Collection of works, 19th century

Plates Illustrative of the Researches and Operations of G. Belzoni in Egypt and Nubia

Persian Gulf Pilot, 1915 and 2 similar supplements

Collection of works, 18th-20th century

Collection of works in Urdu

Collection of Indian imprints and manuscripts

The Military Operations at Cabul

3 works

8 books

Travels to the Coast of Arabia Felix

Al-Qamus al-Muhit ['The Expansive Ocean']

The History of the Present State of the Ottoman Empire

Two Castle Hill Press limited editions

With Lawrence in Arabia

The Manchurian Month

Travels in Greece and Turkey

History of the British Expedition to Egypt

Through Asia

Comentari della Moscovia

South

A collection, including Bennett, George

Collection of works including Crimean War narratives, 18th-19th century

5 volumes

Large collection of works

Travels in Greece

Travels in Asia Minor

The Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians

Journal of a Tour in Iceland… 

An Historical Account of all the Voyages round the World performed by English Navigators, 1773

A collection of 40 titles

Collection of titles and Proceedings of the Orkney Antiquarian Society

A Series of Etchings Chiefly of Views in Scotland

Books & Manuscripts

Sale Number: 827

Cathy Tait

The Dorothy Bohm Collection

Books & Manuscripts

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