Glasgow and the west coast of Scotland
Large collection of works
£1,197
Auction: 05 February 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
McUre, John. A View of the City of Glasgow. Glasgow: James Duncan, 1736. First edition, 8vo, contemporary calf, mezzotint portrait frontispiece, 2 folding panoramas, plate of arms, bound without the appendix or dedication to the Duke of Argyll mentioned in list of plates but pagination (376 pp.) matching library records;
Regality Club. The Regality Club. First [Second; Third; Fourth] Series. Glasgow: for the Regality Club by James Maclehose and Sons, 1889-1912. First editions, 4 volumes, 4to, near-contemporary dark red crushed half morocco, photogravure and other plates;
[Motherwell, William, editor]. The Paisley Magazine. No. I [-XIII]. Paisley: David Dick, 1828-9. 13 monthly numbers, 8vo, each in original lithographic wrappers, housed in custom red morocco pull-off case;
Pitcairn, Robert. Historical and Genealogical Account of the Principal Families of the Name of Kennedy. Edinburgh: William Tait, 1830. 4to, contemporary half calf by Charles Day;
and approx. 50 others, including: View of the History, Constitution, and Funds of the Guildry, and Merchants House of Glasgow, 1817 (8vo, c.1900 blue crushed half morocco); Walter Baynham, The Glasgow Stage, 1892, one of 100 copies; History of the Hospital and School founded in Glasgow, A.D. 1639-45, by George and Thomas Hutcheson of Lambhill, 1881 (one of 150 copies, 4to, original cloth); George Robertson, Topographical Description of Ayrshire; more particularly of Cunninghame, Irvine, 1820 (4to, uncut in original boards, rebacked, engraved hand-coloured folding map (with a duplicate laid in)
Provenance
The Library of a Scottish Gentleman.