Scotland
Collection of works on local history including provincial imprints, 19th-20th century
Estimate: £300 - £400
Auction: 18 June 2025 from 10:00 BST
Description
Including: [Highland Clearances], An Account of the Improvements on the Estates of the Marquess of Stafford, in the Counties of Stafford and Salop, and on the Estate of Sutherland. With Remarks. By James Loch. London: for Longman [et al.], 1820 (first edition, inscribed on the half-title ‘With Lord & Lady Staffords Compliments to Dr Horne Esq’, 8vo, 20th-century red half morocco, engraved folding map, repairs, 39 engraved plates, of which 38 listed many hand-coloured or folding, a few plates stained, plate 9 proud and consequently nicked along fore edge, letter tipped to initial blank; James Ferguson, Two Scottish Soldiers, a Soldier of 1688 and Blenheim, a Soldier of the American Revolution. And a Jacobite Laird and his Forbears, Aberdeen: D. Wyllie & Son, 1888 (first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author, 8vo, original cloth); Thomas Sellar, The Sutherland Evictions of 1814, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1883 (first edition, 8vo, original brown cloth); A. Mercer Adam, The Dumfries Album, [Dumfries:] Dumfries and Maxwelltown Mechanics' Institution, 1857 (first edition, 4to, 20th-century cloth); Edinburgh Almanack for 1818 (12mo, original red morocco wallet binding); William McDowall, Chronicles of Lincluden as an Abbey and as a College, Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1886 (first edition, of 350 copies, crown 4to, original half roan); and 23 others similar (30)