Lot 104
Scotland and Arran
Collection of works, 18th-20th century
Auction: Other Properties | Wed 25 February from 10am | Lots 63 to 255
Description
Sibbald, Robert. Collection of Several Treatises in Folio, concerning Scotland, as it was of Old, and also in Later Times. Edinburgh: Hamilton and Balfour [&c.], 1739. Folio (30.1 x 19.2cm), 6 parts in one volume, 4 maps (3 folding), 10 plates (9 folding); [bound with]: Ibid. Tractatus varii ad Scotiae antiquae & modernae historiam facientes. Edinburgh, 1711. Folio, 4 parts in one volume, 1 map (folding), contemporary calf, rebacked, with gilt stamp of the Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow on upper board, occasional spotting, slight tears in some of the folding plates [ESTC T131329 and T131328];
Jameson, Robert. A Mineralogical Description of the County of Dumfries. Edinburgh: printed at the University Press, 1805. First edition, 8vo (21.7 x 12.5cm), folding map and 4 engraved plates, without half-title, staining to map and title leaf, half calf over original marbled boards;
Hall, James. Travels in Scotland, by an Unusual Route. London: printed for J. Johnson, 1807. First edition, 8vo (22.8 x 13.5cm), folding map and 29 engraved plates, half calf, marbled boards and fore-edges, half calf, repair to map, armorial bookplates of John Alfred Back;
Phillips, Philip. The Forth Bridge in its Various Stages of Construction and Compared with the most Notable Bridges of the World. Edinburgh: R. Grant & Son, [1889]. First edition, Oblong folio (32.3 x 42.5cm), 55 black and white plates (collotypes and lithographs), numerous illustrations, portraits, plans, original red cloth gilt, fading and soiling to covers, board edges scuffed and bumped, hinges slightly weak, spotting and staining to endpapers;
[Heron, Robert]. Scotland Described: or, a Topographical Description of all the Counties of Scotland. Edinburgh: p[rinted by John Moir, 1799. New and improved edition, 12mo (18.7 x 11cm), folding engraved map, coloured in outline, half-title, original paper boards with later linen spine and leather spine label, slipcase, staining to upper board and folding map, armorial bookplate of James Farquhar, Doctors Commons [ESTC T84142];
Headrick, James. View of the Mineralogy, Agriculture, Manufactures and Fisheries of the Island of Arran. Edinburgh: printed by D. Willison for Archibald Constable and Co., 1807. First edition, 8vo (22.2 x 13.2cm), folding engraved map, with xvi pp. of advertisements for bound sets of ‘Farmer’s Magazine' and [8] pp. of advertisements for Constable, later green cloth binding with oval stamp on spine of Glasgow College Library, some spotting on map and staining to title leaf;
and 33 others, mainly relating to the Isle of Arran (41)