£1,512
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 725
Auction: 8 February 2023 at 10:00 GMT
Edinburgh: Bell & Bradfute, 1811-[1839], volumes 1-8 part 1 [all published], 8vo, 159 engraved plates and maps, a few folding, some printed in colour, some coloured by hand, volumes 1-5 contemporary half calf, volumes 6-8 contemporary calf gilt, plate 13 of volume 3 evidently never bound in, volume 8 part 1 bound without title [being the final part, possibly never printed], occasional spotting;
and a duplicate of volume 7, 45 engraved plates (including 33 bis and 'Explanation plate' counted as plate number 17), also with the 5 plates [but not text] of volume 8 bound in at end (and 2 further duplicate plates), contemporary half calf;
stamp of Royal Physical Society Edinburgh to some titles, no stamps to plates, several boards detached, some volumes rubbed, volume 2 lacking head of spine; full plate collation available on request.
Note: Rare Complete Run of Robert Jameson's Influential Natural History Periodical. The final part present here - Vol. 8 pt. 1 - is often missing.