Name: Auction: [Ottoman Empire] - Speed, John The Turkish Empire
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 1012 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: G. Humble, [1626] Hand-coloured engraved map, English text on verso, 395 x 515mm

[Ottoman Empire] - Speed, John

The Turkish Empire

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