Name: Auction: [Hill, John] Eden: or, a Compleat Body of Gardening
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 525 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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... Compiled and digested from the Papers of the Late Celebrated Mr. [Thomas] Hale. London: for T. Osborne [and others], 1757. First edition, folio (40.5 x 26cm), contemporary panelled calf, 60 engraved plates, covers detached, spine split between signatures 4D and 4E, toning, frontispiece chipped, creased and detached, title-page and preface leaf spotted and detached, occasional spotting elsewhere, plates slightly offset, contents leaf (a1) bound at rear, early manuscript notes (list of contents) laid in, sold as a collection of plates [ESTC T32413; Henrey 776; Nissen BBI 880]

[Hill, John]

Eden: or, a Compleat Body of Gardening

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