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Booth, Charles
Labour and Life of the People
LOT 2
Botero, Giovanni
Relationi universali
LOT 3
Bowen, Emanuel
Collection of engraved maps, c.1750-65
LOT 4
Evans, Lewis
A General Map of the Middle British Colonies in America
LOT 5
Gall & Inglis (publishers)
The Edinburgh Imperial Atlas
LOT 6
Island of Saint Helena
Read, Lieut. R. P.
LOT 8
Mortier, Pierre
[Chart of the Indian Ocean on two sheets], Amsterdam, c.1700
LOT 9
[Ottoman Empire] - Speed, John
The Turkish Empire
LOT 10
Ortelius, Abraham
Islandia [Iceland]
LOT 11
Scottish maps
A collection
LOT 12
Speed, John - Keere, Pieter van den
A Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World
LOT 13
Thomson, John
The Atlas of Scotland
LOT 14
Two atlases
19th century
LOT 15
Abbott, Henry
Antiquities of Rome
LOT 17
Africa
Photograph album relating to the Four Power Commission on ex-Italian colonies, 1946-7
LOT 18
Annan, Thomas
Memorials of the Old College of Glasgow
LOT 19
Arabic printing
Kitab zabur Dawud al-malik wa'l-nabi
LOT 20
Australia, Turkey, France etc.
21 volumes
LOT 21
Baker, Sir Samuel W.
Ismailia
LOT 22
British photographic incunabula
Collection of 19 works
LOT 23
Broughton, Thomas Duer
Letters written in a Mahratta Camp during the Year 1809
LOT 25
Clutterbuck, Robert
The History and Antiquities of the County of Hertford
LOT 26
Constantinople
Rare Panorama
LOT 27
Davidson, Allan A.
South Australia. Journal of Explorations in Central Australia...
LOT 28
Denon, Vivant
Planches du voyage dans la basse et la haute Egypte
LOT 29
East India Company
'Vellore Garrison Orderly Book', 1785-9
LOT 32
Edinburgh Town Council
3 rare broadsides
LOT 33
Edinburgh Town Council
10 printed 18th century works
LOT 34
Edinburgh Town Council
and other rare Edinburgh items
LOT 35
Ellicott, Andrew
The Journal of Andrew Ellicott
LOT 36
European travel and others
8 volumes
LOT 37
European Travel
3 volumes, 2 in fine morocco bindings
LOT 38
Germany and Holland
5 volumes
LOT 39
Germany, Switzerland and Travel
39 volumes
LOT 40
Good, Frank Mason
Selected Photographs of the Nile and its Scenery
LOT 43
Harrison & Co.
Picturesque Views of the Principal Seats of the Nobility and Gentry
LOT 44
Hooker, William Jackson
Journal of a Tour in Iceland, in the Summer of 1809
LOT 45
Iraq
Archive relating to surveying work conducted by A. L. Holt for the Cairo-Baghdad air route, 1921
LOT 46
Lawrence, T.E.
10 volumes
LOT 47
Luynes, Honoré Paul Joseph d'Albert, duc de
Voyage d'exploration à la mer Morte, à Petra, et sur la rive gauche du Jourdain
LOT 48
Mackenzie, Sir George Steuart
Travels in the Island of Iceland, during the Summer of the Year MDCCCX
LOT 49
McLeod, John
Voyage of His Majesty's Ship Alceste, along the oast of Corea, to the Island of Lewchew
LOT 51
Monro, Donald
Description of the Western Isles of Scotland, called Hybrides...
LOT 52
Mountaineering
26 volumes
LOT 53
North-West Passage
Collection of travel narratives
LOT 54
Olearius, Adam
[The Voyages and Travels of the Ambassadors sent by Frederick Duke of Holstein]
LOT 55
Palafox y Mendoza, Juan de
The History of the Conquest of China by the Tartars
LOT 57
Park, Mungo
Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa
LOT 58
Pinelli, Bartolomeo
Costumi diversi in no. 25 tavole
LOT 59
Richardson, Sir John
Arctic Searching Expedition
LOT 61
Scotland
Collection of pamphlets and proclamations, 17th-18th century
LOT 62
Scotland
Collection of archaeological monographs
LOT 63
Scotland
Two sammelbands of laws and acts
LOT 64
Scotland
Collection of antiquarian and topographical books, mainly Scotland-related, 17th-19th century
LOT 65
[Scotland]. Evans, Revd Thomas
Account of a Tour from Dunham [Massey] to Scotland and back
LOT 66
Shackleton, Ernest H.
South
LOT 67
Shackleton, Ernest H.
The Heart of the Antarctic
LOT 68
Sibbald, Sir Robert
The History, Ancient and Modern, of the Sheriffdoms of Fife and Kinross
LOT 69
Sierra Leone
Photograph album, c.1875
LOT 70
South-East Asia
Five personal photograph albums, c.1937-8
LOT 71
Laborde, Alexandre Louis Joseph
Voyage Pittoresque et Historique de l'Espagne [Catalonia]
LOT 72
St Petersburg
Mornay
LOT 73
Stein, Sir Aurel
On Alexander's Track to the Indus
LOT 74
Switzerland, Germany and the Danube
5 volumes
LOT 75
Sykes, Mark
Through Five Turkish Provinces
LOT 76
[The Hague & Views of Holland]
3 volumes in 2
LOT 78
Travel
Collection of works on various regions, 18th-20th century
LOT 79
Vertot, René-Aubert
The History of the Knights of Malta
LOT 80
Watts, William
The Seats of the Nobility and Gentry
LOT 81
Women in World War I
Photograph album, c.1911-20
LOT 82
World travel - [Numerous engraved plates]
L'Univers. Histoire et description de tous les peuples
LOT 83
Gentlemen's Seats
Two works
LOT 84
Curtis, John
British Entomology
LOT 85
Darwin, Charles
On the Various Contrivances by which British and Foreign Orchids are fertilised by Insects, and the Good Effects of Intercrossing
LOT 86
Darwin, Charles
Group of early editions
LOT 87
Darwin, Charles
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
LOT 88
Folio Society
Group of deluxe limited editions, natural history
LOT 89
Geology, botany, palaeontology
Collection of works from the library of Richard G. West
LOT 90
[Hill, John]
Eden: or, a Compleat Body of Gardening
LOT 91
Houghton, William
British Fresh-Water Fishes
LOT 92
Mattioli, Pietro Andrea [Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun]
Commentarii in sex libros
LOT 93
Millais, John G.
British Diving Ducks
LOT 94
Milne-Edwards, Henri
Recherches Zoologiques pour servir a l'histoire de la Faune de l'Amérique Centrale...Troisième Partie
LOT 95
Natural History
7 volumes
LOT 96
New Naturalists
Richard G. West's personal set of the 'Golden Fourteen'
LOT 97
New Naturalists
Richard G. West's personal set of signed limited editions
LOT 98
New Naturalists
Extensive run of volumes from the library of Richard G. West
LOT 99
New Naturalists
Run of volumes from the library of Richard G. West
LOT 100
Perry, George
Conchology, or the Natural History of Shells
LOT 101
Prichard, James Cowles
The Natural History of Man
LOT 103
Sowerby, James
The Mineral Conchology of Great Britain
LOT 104
Celsus, Aulus Cornelius
De re medica
LOT 105
Medical books - Byrom Bramwell
the author's own copies
LOT 106
Mercuriale, Girolamo
De arte gymnastica libri sex
LOT 107
Microscopy
Diaries of John Thomas Quekett (1815-1861), and related effects
LOT 108
Newton, Isaac
Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica
LOT 109
Ophthalmology
Album of original eye studies and sketches by James Travis Whittaker, c.1873-5
LOT 110
Gandhi, Mahatma
Two works
LOT 111
Marx, Karl
Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production
LOT 112
Smith, Adam
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
LOT 113
Smith, Adam
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
LOT 114
Smith, Adam
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
LOT 115
[Bailey, Samuel]
A Critical Dissertation on the Nature, Measures and Causes of Value
LOT 117
Economics
4 volumes
LOT 118
H., E.
Decus & Tutamen, or, Our new Money as now Coined
LOT 119
Harris, Joseph
An Essay upon Money and Coins
LOT 120
Hume, David
Political Discourses
LOT 121
Law, John
Money and Trade Considered
LOT 123
Scottish banking
5 volumes
LOT 127
Silver coins and trade
two 18th and 19th century works
LOT 128
Trade
Two 18th century works
LOT 129
Vernon, Christopher
Considerations for regulating the Exchequer
LOT 130
Vickaris, A.
An Essay for Regulating of the Coyn
LOT 131
Violet, Thomas
2 works in one volume
LOT 133
Bible (English; Authorised Version)
The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New
LOT 134
Bible (English; Authorised Version)
The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments
LOT 135
Bible (English; Geneva Version)
[The Bible... with... Annotations... And also a most profitable Concordance]
LOT 136
Locke, John
Some Thoughts concerning Education
LOT 137
Methodism
18th century works
LOT 138
Scottish herringbone binding
The Psalms of David, Edinburgh: John Watson, 1722
LOT 139
Scottish herringbone bindings
The Holy Bible
LOT 140
17th- and 18th-century English books
Collection of works
LOT 141
17th-century biography
Collection of works
LOT 142
Brereton, Henry
Newes of the Present Miseries of Rushia: occasioned by the Late Warre in that Countrey
LOT 143
Camden, William
Britannia, enlarged... by Richard Gough
LOT 144
Chillingworth, William
The Religion of Protestants a Safe Way to Salvation
LOT 145
Coke, Edward
The Institutes of the Laws of England
LOT 146
English Civil War
Collection of biographies, memoirs and letters, 17th-18th century
LOT 147
English Civil War
Collection of pamphlets
LOT 148
Harrington, James
The Oceana of James Harrington
LOT 149
Law
Group of English legal treatises, 17th-18th century
LOT 150
Law
Collection of English legal treatises and reports, 17th-18th century
LOT 151
Purchas, Samuel
Purchas his Pilgrimage
LOT 152
Religion and politics in 17th-century England
Collection of treatises
LOT 153
Religion in 17th-century England
Collection of treatises
LOT 154
Sarpi, Paolo
The Historie of the Councel of Trent
LOT 155
Selden, John
Titles of Honor
LOT 156
Sidney, Algernon
Discourses concerning Government. Published from an Original Manuscript of the Author
LOT 157
Stafford, Sir Thomas
Pacata Hibernia, Ireland Appeased and Reduced
LOT 158
Strada, Famiano
De bello Belgico
LOT 159
17th-century England and English Civil War
Collection of bindings, 19th century
LOT 160
17th-century English books
Collection of works on politics, theology, law and literature
LOT 161
18th-century English books
Collection of works on various subjects
LOT 162
19th-century fiction
Collection of triple-decker novels
LOT 163
19th-century literature
Collection of works by various authors
LOT 164
Antiquarian literature
Collection of English and continental books, 16th-18th century
LOT 165
[Ballet]
The Works of Monsieur Noverre, translated from the French
LOT 166
[Brooke, Frances]
The History of Emily Montague
LOT 167
[Cleland, John]
Memoirs of *********** ** ************ [a Woman of Pleasure]
LOT 168
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Poems
LOT 169
Dickens, Charles
Works
LOT 170
Dickens, Charles
Works
LOT 171
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
The Complete Works. Cambridge, MA: Riverside Press, 1903-4
LOT 172
Fernandez de Avellaneda, Alonso
The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote, de la Mancha
LOT 173
Machiavelli, Niccolo
The Florentine History in VIII Books
LOT 174
North American literature
Collection of works, 19th-20th century
LOT 175
Pamphlets
Collection of plays and tracts, 17th-19th century
LOT 176
Rameau, Jean-Philippe
Traité de l'harmonie [and:] Nouveau système de musique théorique
LOT 177
Shakespeare, William
Julius Caesar. A Tragedy. As it is now acted at the Theatre Royal
LOT 178
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus
LOT 179
Statius, Publius Papinius; Gibbon, Hume and James,
26 volumes
LOT 180
War of the Spanish Succession; Battle of Blenheim
Pamphlet volume
LOT 181
Wilde, Oscar
[The Works]
LOT 182
Bates, H. E.
Collection of signed limited editions
LOT 183
Dick, Philip K.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
LOT 184
Dilke, Lady [Emilia Francis]
The Shrine of Death and Other Stories
LOT 185
Dowson, Ernest
Decorations: in Verse and Prose, London: Leonard Smithers and Co, 1899
LOT 186
Eliot, T. S.
The Waste Land
LOT 187
European literature
Collection of works in French and other languages
LOT 188
Fleming, Ian
Moonraker
LOT 189
Fleming, Ian
Casino Royale
LOT 190
Fleming, Ian
For Your Eyes Only
LOT 191
Gorodetsky, Sergei (1884-1967)
Angel Armeniy. Stikhotvoreniya [Title in Russian; 'The Angel of Armenia: Poems']
LOT 192
Heaney, Seamus
The Door Stands Open: Czeslaw Milosz 1911-2004
LOT 193
Huxley, Aldous
Brave New World
LOT 194
Huxley, Aldous
Collection of works
LOT 195
Joyce, James
Ulysses
LOT 196
Lawrence, D. H., Joseph Conrad, Norman Douglas and others
Collection of works
LOT 197
Minton, John (illustrator)
Time was Away
LOT 198
Modernism and Bloomsbury
Collection of works
LOT 199
World War I writers
Collection of works by Edward Thomas, Rupert Brooke and others
LOT 200
20th-century poetry
Large collection of poetry pamphlets, mainly limited editions and small-press publications
LOT 201
Cuala Press
The Great Hunger by Patrick Kavanagh
LOT 202
Folio Society
Collection of deluxe illuminated manuscript facsimiles
LOT 203
Folio Society
Group of five deluxe limited editions
LOT 204
Golden Cockerel Press
Glory of Life. By Llewellyn Powys, 1934
LOT 205
Gregynog Press
Agnes Miller Parker. Wood Engravings
LOT 206
Kelmscott Press
The Nature of the Gothic
LOT 207
Nonesuch Press
Collection of limited editions
LOT 208
Poem-of-the-Month Club
Collection of 43 broadsides signed by the author
LOT 209
Private press
Collection of works
LOT 210
Tragara Press
20 volumes
LOT 211
Tragara Press
20 volumes
LOT 212
Tragara Press
25 limited editions
LOT 213
Tragara Press
Collection of broadsides
LOT 214
Vale Press
The Centaur. The Bacchante
LOT 215
Illustrated and private press books
Collection of works
LOT 216
Carroll, Lewis
Le avventure d'Alice nel paese delle meraviglie
LOT 217
Dali, Salvador (illustrator)
Macbeth. [By] William Shakespeare
LOT 218
Dulac, Edmund, illustrator
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
LOT 219
Grahame, Kenneth
The Wind in the Willows. Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard
LOT 220
Grahame, Kenneth
The Wind in the Willows. Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard
LOT 222
Rackham, Arthur (illustrator)
Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. Jonathan Swift
LOT 223
Rackham, Arthur (illustrator)
The Pied Piper of Hamelin. [By] Robert Browning
LOT 224
Rackham, Arthur (illustrator)
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame. Introduction by A. A. Milne
LOT 225
Rowling, J. K.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
LOT 226
Rowling, J. K.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone [and:] Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, both inscribed
LOT 227
Rowling, J. K.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
LOT 228
Rowling, J. K.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
LOT 231
Tolkien, J. R. R.
[The Lord of the Rings:]
LOT 232
[Sir Walter Scott interest]
Regiam majestatem. The Auld Lawes and Constitutions of Scotland
LOT 233
Scotland
Works by Scottish authors or relating to Scotland
LOT 234
Brown, George Mackay
13 volumes, 4 signed, and 3 Prospectuses
LOT 235
Brown, George Mackay
11 volumes, 5 signed
LOT 236
Brown, George Mackay (1921-1996)
Collection of autograph manuscripts
LOT 237
MacDiarmid, Hugh [Christopher Murray Grieve, 1892-1978]
Substantial collection of autograph letters signed and related material, 1920s-1970s
LOT 238
MacDiarmid, Hugh [Christopher Murray Grieve, 1892-1978]
Collection of autograph poems
LOT 239
MacDiarmid, Hugh [Christopher Murray Grieve, 1892-1978]
Important collection of autograph article and essay drafts, 1920s and later
LOT 240
MacDiarmid, Hugh [Christopher Murray Grieve, 1892-1978]
Collection of autograph manuscripts
LOT 241
Macdiarmid, Hugh [Christopher Murray Grieve]
14 signed works
LOT 242
Macdiarmid, Hugh [Christopher Murray Grieve]
16 works by or honouring MacDiarmid, mostly signed
LOT 243
MacDiarmid, Hugh [Christopher Murray Grieve]
Collection of pamphlets by or relating to Hugh MacDiarmid, all signed or inscribed by the author
LOT 244
Macdiarmid, Hugh [Christopher Murray Grieve]
A collection of signed works
LOT 245
Mitchell, J. Leslie [pseudonym: Lewis Grassic Gibbon, 1901-1935]
Spartacus
LOT 246
Rowling, J. K., and others
One City
LOT 247
Scottish poetry
Collection of works, 18th-19th century
LOT 248
Smith, Sydney Goodsir
Collection of inscribed copies and limited editions
LOT 249
Smith, Sydney Goodsir (1915-1975)
Backaskail Bay, Sanday, Orkney
LOT 250
Henry VI, King of England (1421-1471)
Letters patent addressed to the treasurers and general governors
LOT 251
Edward IV, King of England (1442-1483)
n.d. [after 14 April 1471]
LOT 252
Burghley, William Cecil, 1st Baron (1520-98)
Autograph letter signed
LOT 253
Dudley, Robert, 1st Earl of Leicester (1532-1588)
Letter Signed 'R. Leycester', and Subscribed
LOT 254
Raleigh, Sir Walter (1554-1618)
Document signed, Isle of Wight, 15th August 1580
LOT 255
Suffolk, Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of (1561-1626)
Document signed, 1613
LOT 256
Puritanism; Samuel Garey (1582/3-1646)
Manuscript commentaries on the Gospel of John, c.1620
LOT 257
[Insane 17th-century annotator]
The Most Notable Antiqui[ty] of Great Britai[n], vulgarly called Stone-Hen[g]
LOT 258
Newton, Isaac
'Détail raisonné de la chronologie des premiers ages des Grecs', c.1750?
LOT 260
Wilberforce, William (1759-1833)
Autograph letter on the slave trade, signed, Kensington Gore, March 1814
LOT 261
Chalmers, Thomas (1780-1847)
Collection of autograph letters signed, Edinburgh and Burntisland, 1832-42
LOT 262
Newman, John Henry, Cardinal, Saint (1801-1890)
Autograph letter signed, Oratory, Birmingham, 12th March 1862
LOT 263
Collins, Wilkie (1824-1889)
Autograph letter signed, 90 Gloucester Place, 24 January 1885
LOT 264
Ruskin, John (1819-1900)
Autograph letter signed, Brantwood, 2nd January 1885
LOT 265
British composers
Collection of manuscript music scores
LOT 266
Admirals, generals, colonial administrators, travellers, scientists, philanthropists
Large collection of autographs, 18th-19th century
LOT 267
Eminent Victorians
Autograph album
LOT 268
Literature, music and theatre
Collection of autographs, 19th and early 20th century
LOT 269
Prime ministers
Collection of autographs, 19th-early 20th century
LOT 270
Royals, peers, politicians
Large collection of autographs, 19th and early-20th century
LOT 271
Manuscripts
Collection of manuscripts on various subjects, 17th-19th century
LOT 272
Manuscripts
Assortment of journals and other material, 19th-20th century
LOT 273
Edinburgh Town Council
Six 18th century Manuscripts, probably by Robert Mein
LOT 276
Baskin, Leonard (illustrator)
William Shakespeare: Othello
LOT 277
Bone, Sir Muirhead
With the Grand Fleet
LOT 278
Bone, Sir Muirhead
Munition Drawings
LOT 279
Bryant & May
Collection of designs for matchboxes and public house signs
LOT 280
Chater, Catchick P., Sir and Orange, James (Ed.)
The Chater Collection
LOT 281
Dürer, Albrecht and German Renaissance painting
Collection of works
LOT 282
Gilbert & George (1942- & 1943-)
Red Boxers
LOT 283
Hogarth, William
Hogarth Restored
LOT 284
Illuminated work on vellum
Jones, Owen
LOT 285
Kay, John
A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings
LOT 286
Lowry, L. S. (1887-1976)
'Little office worker', 1953
LOT 288
Nevinson, C. R. W.
Modern War Paintings
LOT 289
Regency fashion
La belle assemblée
LOT 291
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de
Douze lithographies
LOT 293
Tealby, Norman (1885-?)
Original illustrations for Ivan the Fool and Other Tales by Leo Tolstoy, [1931]
LOT 294
Woodville, William P. Caton (1884-1962)
Complete set of original illustrations for The Yellow Pirates and Other Stories by John Finnemore, [1922]
LOT 295
Stirling-Maxwell, Sir William - Vesalius, Andreas
Tabulae anatomicae sex
LOT 298
Stirling-Maxwell, Sir William (publisher)
Examples of the Engraved Portraiture of the Sixteenth Century
LOT 299
Stirling-Maxwell, Sir William (publisher)
The Entry of the Emperor Charles V into the City of Bologna
LOT 300
Stirling-Maxwell, Sir William (publisher)
Solyman the Magnificent going to Mosque
LOT 301
Stirling-Maxwell, Sir William (publisher) - Coecke van Aelst, Pieter
The Turks in MDXXXIII
LOT 302
Stirling-Maxwell, Sir William (publisher) - Coecke van Aelst, Pieter
The Turks in MDXXXIII
LOT 303
Stirling-Maxwell, Sir William (publisher) - Vesalius, Andreas
Tabulae anatomicae sex
LOT 304
Stirling-Maxwell, Sir William (publisher) - Vesalius, Andreas
Tabulae anatomicae sex
LOT 305
Antiquarian books, 18th and 19th century
Large collection of works, including Scottish interest
LOT 307
Costume, Art and Travel
7 volumes
LOT 308
Engraved Copper Printing Blocks
William Stirling-Maxwell. Don John of Austria
LOT 309
Golf
Collection of club histories and other works
LOT 310
History, Art, Travel and Economics
26 volumes
LOT 311
Miscellaneous books
a large quantity