Miscellaneous books
Collection of works from the Dollerie library
£303
Auction: 05 February 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
Napier, John. De arte logistica Joannis Naperi, Merchistoni baronis libri qui supersunt. Edinburgh: [Bannatyne Club], 1839. First edition thus, presentation copy, inscribed ‘M. General Mark Kerr Hamilton, from his affectionate nephew, the editor [i.e. Mark Napier]’ on the front free endpaper, 4to, contemporary green half morocco, bookplate of the recipient to pastedown, spotting and damp-staining;
Napier, Mark. Memoirs of John Napier of Merchiston, his Lineage, Life, and Times, with a History of the Invention of Logarithms. Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1834. First edition, 4to, original cloth, engraved portrait frontispiece, all plates as called for, rear joint cracked (and with possible attempt at repair);
Hayter, Charles. An Introduction to Perspective, Drawing, and Painting, in a Series of Pleasing and Familiar Dialogues between the Author's Children … The Second Edition, considerably enlarged and improved. London: Black, Parry, and Co., 1815. 8vo, uncut in original boards, engraved frontispiece, 17 engraved plates (many folded);
and 26 others (not fully collated), including: John Evelyn, Sylva, 1670 (second edition, folio, 19th-century calf, lacking at least the final text-leaf and errata leaf), a2 (dedication) laid down and with marginal loss affecting headline; Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum, [1651] (sixth edition, folio, contemporary boards, worn, engraved portrait frontispiece and additional title-page, the former cropped to image along fore edge, loss to title-page to loss of date in imprint; David Wilkie, The Wilkie Gallery, James Virtue, c.1840 (large 4to, contemporary red morocco gilt, numerous steel-engraved plates); [Canada], Plans of Various Lakes and Rivers between Lake Huron and the River Ottawa, to Accompany the Geological Reports, Toronto, 1857 (4to, original half morocco, lithographic folding maps, joints cracked); Bannatyne Club, Liber Insule Missarum, 1847 (4to, original cloth, joints cracked); Bannatyne Club, Liber Ecclesie de Scon, 1843 (4to, original cloth); Catalogue de la collection célèbre de tableaux de feu M. Jean Jules Angerstein, London, 1823 (folio, contemporary half roan, engraved plates); Lives of the Lindsays, 1858 (second edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, contemporary blue morocco, blue moiré silk doublures); Walter Wood, The East Neuk of Fife, 1862 (8vo, original cloth) and similar (approx. 30)
Provenance
From the library of the Murrays of Dollerie, Crieff, Perthshire.