Lot 107
Scotland
Collection of works, 18th-20th century
Auction: Other Properties | Wed 25 February from 10am | Lots 63 to 255
Description
Martin, Martin. A Description of the Western Islands. London: printed for A. Bell, 1716. Second edition, 8vo, folding map laid down on Japanese tissue, folding plate, 20th-century full calf panelled binding by Tom Valentine of Falkirk in imitation of 18th-century style [ESTC T31703];
Macaulay, Kenneth. A Voyage to, and History of, St. Kilda. Dublin: printed by James Hoey, jun., 1765. First Irish edition, following the English edition of 1764, 12mo, with half-title and final advertisement leaf, contemporary full sprinkled calf, with gilt tooling on boards and spine, raised bands, gilt edges [ESTC T76273];
Boutcher, William. A Treatise on Forest-Trees. Edinburgh: printed by R. Fleming, 1775. First edition, 4to, additional engraved title leaf, list of subscribers and postscript, full contemporary calf attributed to James Scott of Edinburgh (not recorded in Loudon), with gilt tooling on spine, occasional spotting [ESTC T101306, Henrey, B. British botanical and horticultural literature before 1800, 476];
[Johnson, Samuel]. A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. London: printed for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1775. First edition, second issue, with 6-line errata leaf, half calf (rebacked with modern spine, sunned), contemporary marbled boards (scuffed) [ESTC T83702];
Boswell, James. The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson. London: printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, 1785. Second edition, revised and corrected, 8vo, with half-title and final advertisement leaf, contemporary half calf, marbled boards (scuffed), corner tips repaired, armorial bookplate of Earl of Dorchester [ESTC T53588];
Ramsay, Allan. The Gentle Shepherd, a Pastoral Comedy. Edinburgh: printed by Abernethy and Walker, 1808. 2 volumes (continuously paginated), tall 8vo (23.2 x 14cm), 14 engraved plates, with tissue guards, mostly by R. Scott after drawings by J. Stevenson (including frontispiece portrait of author) and 1 folding map in volume 1, full embossed calf with gilt spines, corner tips bumped and spines worn;
Buchan, Peter. The Peterhead Smugglers of the Last Century. Edinburgh: Thomas Stevenson, 1834. First edition, 12mo, lithograph frontispiece, 19th-century yellow cloth-covered boards, cloth worn away on spine;
Leighton, John M; Fleming, John [illus.]. The Lakes of Scotland. Glasgow: Joseph Swan, 1834. 4to, volume containing only the 2 engraved title leaves and 52 engraved plates by Joseph Swan, without the text by Leighton, 20th-century buckram binding by Edmond & Spark of Aberdeen;
Buchanan, John Hamilton. Photographs of Trees and Shrubs in the Grounds of Leny Perthshire. [Scotland?: s.n.], 1907. First and only edition, 4to (29.5 x 24cm), [4] pages of printed text and 44 platinum prints (various sizes, interleaved with paper and mounted on card) of flora in the woodland garden of Leny Glen, Callander, privately printed for the owner of Leny House, John Hamilton Buchanan (1861–1919), half green morocco with buckram boards, decorated endpapers and pastedowns, gilt edges, endpapers with some spotting;
Alburger, Mary Anne. Scottish Fiddlers and their Music. London: Victor Gollancz, 1983. First edition, 8vo, 16 pages of plates, modern morocco binding by Tom Valentine of Falkirk, dated 1993, with gilt tooling including pictorial design on upper board, raised bands, marbled endpapers (11)