Orkney
Collection of titles and Proceedings of the Orkney Antiquarian Society
£1,008
Auction: 05 February 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
Wallace, James. An account of the islands of Orkney. London: Jacob Tonson, 1700. 8vo, contemporary calf, with fold-out map of Orkney and fold-out illustration; Sands, James. A Letter Directed Thus, for Mr James Lyon in Kirkwal; [no publisher details] printed 1710; [bound with] Lyon, James. A Short Account of the Divine Original of Episcopacy. [no publisher details] printed 1710. 8vo, contemporary calf; Charleson, M.M. Account of the Excavation of a Chambered Cairn in the Parish of Firth, Orkney. Stromness: Wm. Rendall, [n.d., 1903?]. 8v0, purple cloth;
[From a volume of Miscellaneous Poems in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates]. Poetical Descriptions of Orkney. MDCLII. Edinburgh [no publisher information, n.d.]. 1 of 35 copies; [Attributed to] The Rev. Thomas Hepburn of Birsay. A Letter from Orkney, 1757. Edinburgh: William Brown, 1885. No. 19 of 110; Dunn, Robert. The Ornithologists Guide to The Islands of Orkney and Shetland. Hull: Robert Dunn, 1837. 8vo, green cloth, fold-out maps of Orkney and Shetland Islands; Wallace, James. A Description of the Isles of Orkney. Edinburgh: William Brown, 1883. No. 32 of 260;
Wilson, James D. and John Mooney. The Deerness Mermaid, An Original Orkney Burlesque. Kirkwall: William Peace & Son, 1894; [authors unknown]. Orcadian Rhymes; or, Verses from the Far North. Kelso: J. and J.H. Rutherfurd, 1864; Spence, Magnus. The Climate of Orkney from Journal of Scottish Meteorological Society, 1908; Edmonston, A. Observations on the Nature and Extent of the Cod Fishery. Edinburgh: William Laing, 1820; Balfour of Balfour, David [editor]. Ancient Orkney Melodies. Edinburgh: Ballantyne, Hanson & Co., 1885; Omond, James. How to Know the Orkney Birds. Kirkwall: W.R. Mackintosh, 1925; Proceedings of the Orkney Antiquarian Society. Volumes I to XIV, 1922 to 1937 inclusive, duplicate copy of volume III; and approximately 50 further Orkney related publications (70+)