Name: Auction: Greece 3 works
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 800 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.

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

comprising: Hellenic Journal. Plates from the Hellenic Journal 1921-1936. 4to, specially bound volume of all the plates from the Hellenic Journal of 1921-1936 depicting Greek marble statues, heads, reliefs, vases, bronze statuettes, pottery cups, alabaster bowls, bronze sculptures &amp;c., numerous plates, some coloured, fine blue morocco gilt, spine gilt; Mahaffy, J.P. Greek pictures. 1890. 4to, plates, illustrations, original cloth, lightly rubbed; Thiersch, F. De l'état actuel de la Grèce. Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, 1833. 2 volumes in 1, 8vo, contemporary quarter calf, some light spotting (3)

Greece

3 works

Description