PAST AUCTION

07 February 2024 from 10:00 GMT

Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs

Sale Number: 773

Live in Edinburgh & Online

Head of Sale

Our forthcoming collection features 200 years of provenance from one of Scotland’s best-known families.

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Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs

Sale Number: 773

Cathy Marsden

The Stevenson Collection

Books & Manuscripts

Darwin, Charles

The Power of Movement in Plants

Darwin, Charles

The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex

Darwin, Charles

The Power of Movement in Plants

Darwin, Charles

Four works

Darwin, Charles

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection

Darwin, Charles [Owen, Richard]

Original review by Richard Owen of Darwin's seminal work, On the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection

Green, Thomas

The Universal Herbal, or Botanical, Medical and Agricultural Dictionary

Philpots, John R.

Oysters and all about them

Natural History

Collection of works

[Swedish flora]

Illustrerad Trädgårdstidning Månadsskrift för trädgårdskonstens idkare och Vänner i Norden

Mosses

6 volumes

Ellis, John

An Essay towards a Natural History of the Corallines

Traill, George William

A Monograph of the Algae of the Firth of Forth

Hayes, William

A Natural History of British Birds, etc. with their Portraits

Allom, Thomas (illustrator)

China, in a Series of Views

Indian lithographic printing

Collection of rare works in Urdu on various subjects

New Zealand

4 works

Indian lithographic printing

Collection of rare works in Urdu on various subjects

Allan & Ferguson, Lithographers

[Views on the Clyde]

Staunton, Sir George Leonard

An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China

Wolff, Joseph

Narrative of a Mission to Bokhara, in the Years 1843-1845

Knolles, Richard

The Generall Historie of the Turkes

California and the USA

6 books

[Locher]

[Recueil de Portraits et Costumes Suisses]

India

Illustrated Urdu manuscript on farming, 1903

Davies, Hannah

Among Hills and Valleys in Western China

Grant, James

The Tartans of the Clans of Scotland

Smyth, William Henry

Memoir Descriptive of the Resources, Inhabitants, and Hydrography, of Sicily and its Islands

Wheeler, Stephen

History of the Delhi Coronation Durbar

Schomburgk, Robert

The History of Barbados

Polar Exploration

Including Kane, Nansen and Scott

New Zealand

Maori Studies

Ancient Egypt

Museum of Cairo and The Egypt Exploration Fund

Robson, George Fennell

Scenery of the Grampian Mountains

Schetky, John Christian and Lord John Manners

Sketches and Notes of a Cruise in Scotch Waters

Sutherland, Elizabeth Leveson-Gower, Duchess of (1765-1839)

Views on the Northern and Western Coasts of Sutherland

Sutherland, Thomas (c.1785-1827), after John Gendall (1790-1865)

Three hand-coloured aquatints of Edinburgh

A New Display of the Beauties of England

ALPetit (19th century French)