Name: Auction: [Maitland, James, 8th Earl of Lauderdale] An Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Public Wealth
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
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.

Rare Books & Manuscripts | UK Auction Specialist

large_Books-and-Manuscripts-Departmenr-2025.jpg

medium_Books-and-Manuscripts-Departmenr-2025.jpg

small_Books-and-Manuscripts-Departmenr-2025.jpg

thumbnail_Books-and-Manuscripts-Departmenr-2025.jpg

xlarge_Books-and-Manuscripts-Departmenr-2025.jpg

Books-and-Manuscripts-Departmenr-2025.jpg

small_MicrosoftTeams-image-removebg-preview.png

thumbnail_MicrosoftTeams-image-removebg-preview.png

Logo with add text

Lyon & Turnbull | Online Auction Specialists 

thumbnail_Favicon.png

Lyon & Turnbull

and into the means and causes of its increase. Edinburgh: for A. Constable, London: T.N. Longman and O. Rees, 1804. First edition, 8vo, [viii], 482, folding table, contemporary tree calf, library stamp on title and bookplate on endpaper of the Institute of Bankers in Scotland, rubbed, upper cover detached

[Maitland, James, 8th Earl of Lauderdale]

An Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Public Wealth

Description