Name: Auction: Scott, Peter Morning Flight
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 500 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.

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London: Country Life Limited [1935]. 4to, number 750 of 584 copies signed by Peter Scott, original cloth gilt, dust-jacket price-clipped and backed onto card, slipcase; Idem. Wild Chorus. London: Country Life Limited [1938]. 4to, number 722 of 1200 signed copies by Peter Scott, original blue cloth gilt, backed onto card, slipcase; Payne-Gallwey, Sir Ralph. The Book of Duck Decoys. London: John van Voorst, 1886. Large 8vo, colour frontispiece, and 13 colour plates (two folding), original green cloth gilt (3)

Scott, Peter

Morning Flight

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