Name: Auction: Watts, William The Seats of the Nobility and Gentry
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 350 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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Chelsea: W. Watts, 1779. Oblong 4to, engraved title and 84 plates, list of subscribers, contemporary blue morocco gilt, g.e., upper joint split, board virtually detached

Watts, William

The Seats of the Nobility and Gentry

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