Name: Auction: Annan, Thomas - The Glasgow City Improvement Trust Old Closes and Streets of Glasgow
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 900 GBP
Availability: OutOfStock

Head of Sale, Cathy Tait, is delighted to present our first Books &amp; Manuscripts auction of 2025, which took place on Wednesday 05 February in our historic saleroom in Edinburgh and online.Manuscript and archive material lead the way in the sale, with a signed letter by Mary I of England (Mary Tudor), a fascinating English Civil War medical text and an account of a voyage undertaken by the East India Company ship the “Swift”, a journey instrumental in the treatment and prevention of scurvy.Further highlights of the sale include an intriguing collection of detective and adventure novels from the golden age of mystery fiction, a near-complete collection of the output of the T.N. Foulis Press and an extremely rare 1915 copy of the Persian Gulf Pilot.Buyer's Guide:&nbsp;

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Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons, 1900. Folio, 50 photographic plates, original red cloth gilt, some foxing, a little rubbing to joints and fading to spine; [Annan, Thomas]. University of Glasgow Old and New. Glasgow: T. & R. Annan & Sons, 1891. Folio, out-of-series copy of 350, title-page with photogravure, 27 leaves of views (including 34 views) and 42 leaves of portraits, original grey-green cloth gilt, a little foxing to initial and final leaves (2)

Annan, Thomas - The Glasgow City Improvement Trust

Old Closes and Streets of Glasgow

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