Name: Auction: Scottish maps A collection
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 687 GBP
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Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs

Sale number: 694 Our July Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps &amp; Photographs sale was led by an important document signed by Sir Walter Raleigh, a very early edition of John Cleland's Memoirs of A Woman of Pleasure (c.1755), a work better known to posterity as Fanny Hill, and a rare first edition of John Law’s Money and Trade Considered (1705). Additional highlights featuring in the sale included a first edition, first impression, paperback issue of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997), a set of James Sowerby's The Mineral Conchology of Great Britain (1812-29) from the library of Andrew Carnegie, and an imposing 18th century atlas by Thomas Kitchin.

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Blaeu. Duo Vicecomitatus Aberdonia &amp; Banfia, 59 x 46cm, hand-coloured in outline; [Idem] Moravia... 59 x 45cm, hand-coloured in outline; [Idem] Annandiae, 53 x 44cm, hand-coloured in outline; [Idem] Lidalia vel Lidisdalia Regio... 58 x 46cm, hand-coloured in outline, browned and foxed; [Idem] Caricta Borealis... 62 x 51cm, laid-down, foxed; Johnston, Andrew. A New Map of the South Part of Scotland [and] A New Map of the North Part of Scotland, [London, 1722], each 49 x 42cm, some very neat repairs to reverse; and another copy of the South part, hand-coloured in outline, browned; Zatta, Antonio. Il Regno di Scozia, Venice, 1776, 42x 32.5cm, hand-coloured in outline; Scotland, or North Britain, [n.p., n.d.], 22 x 27cm, hand-coloured in outline; and a later Bartholomew map on 4 sheets

Scottish maps

A collection

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