Name: Auction: Travel and Trade A group of 9 books
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 300 GBP
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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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David, Henry. An Historical Account of all the Voyages round the World performed by English Navigators, 1773. Volumes 1, 3 and 4 only, 34 (of 52) plates and maps, contemporary calf, some offsetting, a few shaved, one title creased, slightly rubbed;&nbsp; Raynal, W.T. A Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade, 1786, volumes 1-4 (of 5), contemporary calf; Hedin, Sven. Through Asia. London: Methuen, 1908. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, photogravure portrait frontispiece to each volume, numerous plates and illustrations, 2 folding maps, orignal green cloth gilt, t.e.g. (9)

A group of 9 books 

Travel and Trade

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Travel and Trade

A group of 9 books

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