Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Sale #694
The sale is 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 include 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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Lyon & Turnbull
33 Broughton Place
Edinburgh, UK
55.959083923507, -3.18731095
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