Name: Auction: Denon, Vivant Planches du voyage dans la basse et la haute Egypte
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 450 GBP
Availability: OutOfStock

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.

Diego

large_694-Header-1.jpg

medium_694-Header-1.jpg

small_694-Header-1.jpg

thumbnail_694-Header-1.jpg

xlarge_694-Header-1.jpg

694-Header-1.jpg

small_MicrosoftTeams-image-removebg-preview.png

thumbnail_MicrosoftTeams-image-removebg-preview.png

Logo with add text

Lyon & Turnbull | Online Auction Specialists

large_Placeholder-for-Blog.jpg

medium_Placeholder-for-Blog.jpg

small_Placeholder-for-Blog.jpg

thumbnail_Placeholder-for-Blog.jpg

xlarge_Placeholder-for-Blog.jpg

Placeholder-for-Blog.jpg

[London: Samuel Bagster, 1807]. Folio (48.5 x 28.5cm), 19th-century half morocco, engraved frontispiece, 107 plates (many folding), including large area map, plans, views, and depictions of hieroglyphs and antiquities, plates 25 and 84 not present (these listed as bound as frontispieces to the text volumes), tide-mark to head of gutter (encroaching on a few platemarks), occasional spotting and browning, plates 74 and 77 each with short closed handling tear, a few other marks [cf. Blackmer 471]

Planches du voyage dans la basse et la haute Egypte

Denon, Vivant

0001_QAIcqw.jpg

Zero Rated

Denon, Vivant

Planches du voyage dans la basse et la haute Egypte

Description