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Books, Maps & Manuscripts Valuation Day - Aberdeen Area

This event is organised by our Edinburgh office.
5 Mar 2013 from 10:00 GMT to 15:00 GMT

Our specialist Henry Baggott will be available by appointment in the Aberdeen area to view and value books, maps and manuscripts with a view to selling at auction.

Home visits can be arranged.

For more information or to make an appointment please contact:

Frances Campbell
0131 240 2296
frances.campbell@bonhams.com

Sourced for future auctions

5x of albums - naval and world travel
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE. Document signed ("Napoleon"), 1808
ILLUMINATED CHOIRBOOK Manuscript choirbook, opening with the "Tantum Ergo", [late seventeenth century]; and another (2)
WOOD (ROBERT) The Ruins of Balbec, otherwise Heliopolis in Coelosyria, 1757
ANTIPHONAL Manuscript Antiphonal, written by a Dominican Nun, c.1720
CATHERINE DE MÉDICIS. Letter signed ("Caterine"), to the English Ambasador [Sir Nicholas Throckmorton], 1562

Previously sourced lots

Catesby Natural History
Sold for US$ 206,000 inc. premium
CATESBY, MARK. c.1679-1749. The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands: Containing the Figures of Birds, Beasts ...
AN ARCHIVE RELATING TO R.J. CUNINGHAM To include a journal from the Akeley Expedition, two further albums of Photographs by Cuninghame, Photographs and other items relating to hea early twentieth century exploration in Africa
Sold for £13,750 inc. premium
THE ARCHIVE OF RICHARD JOHN CUNINGHAME
BURTON (RICHARD FRANCIS) Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED "J. Grant Lumsden DD, R.F.Burton, August 1855" on title-page of volumes one and 2, 1855-1856
Sold for £11,875 inc. premium
BURTON (RICHARD FRANCIS) Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY ...
PHOTOGRAPH 2x Framed Photographs of Theodore Roosevelt and his son, BOTH INSCRIBED
Sold for £8,750 inc. premium
THEODORE ROOSEVELT A photograph of Theodore Roosevelt with his waterbuck trophy, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED "To R.J. Cuninghame, with the ...

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