Lot 44
Aberdeen & the North-East
Auction: 16 May 2008 at 12:00 BST
Description
Illustrations of the topography and antiquities of the shires of Aberdeen and Banff. Aberdeen: Spalding Club, 1869, large 8vo, 4 volumes, original green cloth gilt, rubbed, backstrip of volume 3 repaired, inner hinges strengthened throughout; Smith, Alexander A new history of Aberdeenshire. Aberdeen, 1875, 8vo, 2 volumes, original green cloth gilt, rubbed, inner hinges weak, bookplate of Saltoun in each volume; McPherson, J.M. Primitive beliefs in the north-east of Scotland. London, 1929, 8vo, original green cloth, review copy from publisher with manuscript review inserted; Jervise, Andrew The history and traditions of the land of the Lindsays in Angus and Mearns. Edinburgh, 1853, 8vo, frontispiece, folding map, contemporary calf gilt, some rubbing to extremities, bookplate; Mitchell, David The history of Montrose. Montrose, 1866, 8vo, contemporary cloth gilt, bookplate; Melville, Lawrence Errol: Its legends, lands and people. Perth, 1935, second edition, 8vo, portrait frontispiece, illustrated, original cloth gilt; Scott, Archibald The pictish nation. Edinburgh, 1918, 8vo, original cloth gilt; and 8 others (19)