Auction Preview: Rare Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs at Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh, June 19
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What: Rare Books, Maps, Manuscripts & PhotographsWhere: Lyon & Turnbull, 33 Broughton Place, EH1 3RR, EdinburghWhen: June 19, 11:00 AMPublic Viewing: June 17, 10am-5pm, June 18, 10am-5pm, Morning of the sale from 9amTop Lots at the Sale:— “Fine SeAuction Preview: Rare Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs at Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh, June 19
What: Rare Books, Maps, Manuscripts & PhotographsWhere: Lyon & Turnbull, 33 Broughton Place, EH1 3RR, EdinburghWhen: June 19, 11:00 AMPublic Viewing: June 17, 10am-5pm, June 18, 10am-5pm, Morning of the sale from 9amTop Lots at the Sale:— “Fine Set of 24 Unjoined Globe Gores For 42 Inch (3 1/2 - Foot) Terrestrial Globe” — Coronelli, Vincenzo Maria; comprising 12 gores of the northern hemisphere and 12 gores of the southern hemisphere, plus the north and south polar calottes, one engraved “Venezia, 1688.” Featured in lot 40. Estimate: 25,400 USD – 38,200 USD— “Ten Scenes in the Last Ascent of Mont Blanc” — Alps, Mont Blanc, Mountaineering] Browne, James D. Howe. Five Views from the Summit. London: Thomas McLean, 1853. First edition, large folio (555 x 374mm.), lithographed pictorial dedication (printed on the card), and 10 lithographed plates, errata slip, original pictorial boards with original green cloth spine lettered in gilt, somewhat spotted. Featured in lot 435. Estimate: 8,900 USD – 10,200 USD— “12 Terrestrial Globe” — Addison, John. A New Edition of D. Adam’s Terrestrial Globe, correctly laid down according to the best Observations and latest discoveries with the tracks of all the circumnavigators up to Oct. 1st 1818, by J. Addison, Geographer London. Made and sold by J. Addison & Co., no 9 Skinners Street Snow Hill, [c.1820], hand-colored engraved globe, supported in graduated engraved brass meridian ring with hour circle. Featured in lot 39. Estimate: 3,800 USD – 6,400 USD— “The Artist and the Gravedigger in Greyfriars Churchyard with David Octavius Hill” — Hill, David Octavius, and Robert Adamson. His nieces the Misses Watson and an unknown man, salt prints from calotype negative, [1843-47], 201 x 148mm. Featured in lot 350. Estimate: 3,200 USD – 4,450 USD— “The Botanical Magazine; or, Flower-Garden Displayed” — Curtis, William. In which the most ornamental foreign plants, cultivated in the Open Ground, the Green-House, and the Stove, are accurately represented in their natural colors. First edition, first issue, volumes 1-15, 8vo, 567 finely hand-colored engraved plates, and one plain plate, contemporary mottled calf, gilt line border round sides, gilt tooled spines, double black lettering labels, sprinkled edges, armorial bookplates of Ralph Riddell. Featured in lot 292. Estimate: 2,550 USD – 3,820 USD— “Illustrations of British Birds” — Meyer, Henry Leonard, London: Longman & Co., [n.d., 1835-1841]. First edition, 4 volumes, folio, 320 hand-colored plates, including egg plates, modern half calf gilt with red Morocco gilt labels and bird motifs to spines, some light foxing (4). Featured in lot 300. Estimate: 2,550 USD – 3,820 USD— “Signature on Vellum Elizabeth R.” — Elizabeth I, (1533-1603, Queen Of England); excised slip from vellum document, 8.5 x 21cms. Featured in lot 200. Estimate: 2,550 USD – 3,820 USDFor details, visit: https://www.lyonandturnbull.comClick on the slideshow for the highlights of the salehttps://www.blouinartinfo.comFounder: Louise Blouin Read more