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Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 694
Auction: 13 July 2022 at 11:00 BST
to which is added: I. An Account of Hirta and Rona; by Sir George McKenzie ... never before published. II. A Description of Saint Kilda, by Mr Alexander Buchan ... III. A Voyage to Saint Kilda in 1697, by M. Martin. Edinburgh: William Auld, 1774. First edition, 8vo (16.5 x 10cm), c.1900 red half morocco, soiling, a few marginal tears, L6 repaired [ESTC T90619: no copies outside the UK], together with 17 others, Scottish interest (these not fully collated), including: John Rushworth, Historical Collections ... Beginning the Sixteenth Year of King James Anno 1618, London, 1659 (first edition, folio, contemporary calf, 2 engraved portraits, engraved folding map in good condition, binding rubbed, front joint repaired); David Stewart, Sketches of the Character, Manners, and Present State of the Highlanders of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1825 (third edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary polished calf, a bright copy); Gilbert Hutcheson, Treatise on the Offices of Justice of Peace [etc.], Edinburgh, 1809 (second edition, 4 volumes, 8vo, contemporary half calf gilt, spines rubbed); William John Napier, A Treatise on Practical Store-Farming, as Applicable to the Mountainous Region of Etterick Forest, Edinburgh, 1822 (first edition, 8vo, contemporary blue calf gilt, Napier bookplate); John Loudon McAdam, Remarks on the Present System of Road Making, London, 1820 (third edition, 8vo, uncut in original boards); Johnstone, An Account ... of Draining Land, Edinburgh, 1797 (first edition, 4to, contemporary calf, covers detached); David Brewster, Plates Illustrative of Ferguson's Astronomy, Edinburgh, 1811 (first edition, 4to, contemporary boards); and similar (22)