Agriculture and Ornithology
Collection of works, 18th-19th century
£1,071
Auction: 05 February 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
Morris, Beverley. British Game Birds and Wildfowl. London: Groombridge and Sons, c.1890. 4to, original blue-green pictorial cloth gilt, 60 wood-engraved plates printed in colours, a little wear to extremities of binding, front free endpaper, initial blank and frontispiece loosening, light spotting to title-page and final text-leaf;
Morris, Francis Orpen. A History of British Birds. London: John C. Nimmo, 1891. Third edition ('newly revised, corrected, and enlarged'), 6 volumes, large 8vo, original green pictorial cloth gilt, all plates as called for;
Dickson, Adam. The Husbandry of the Ancients. Edinburgh: For J. Dickson, and W. Creech, 1788. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf, smooth spines decoratively ruled in gilt with red and black morocco labels, engraved plate facing volume 1 p. 390 (and a duplicate bound to face the same page in volume 2), ownership inscriptions of Anthony Murray to half-titles, light marginal worming to front of volume 1 (patched with paper);
Young, David. National Improvements upon Agriculture, in Twenty-Seven Essays. Edinburgh: for, and sold by the author, 1785. First edition, 8vo, contemporary calf, 3 engraved plates, ownership inscription of Anthony Murray to title-page, small chips to spine-label and headcap, half-title and free endpapers discarded;
[Manuscripts]. Three notebooks kept by Anthony H. Murray of Dollerie, c.1900, all 4to, on forestry (2 volumes, each approx. 100 pp.), and estate management (approx. 150 pp.);
and 14 others (these not collated, including Philip Miller, The Gardeners Dictionary, 1754, fourth edition, 3 volumes, contemporary calf) (29)
Provenance
From the library of the Murrays of Dollerie, Crieff, Perthshire.