Lot 74
Edinburgh - Grant, James
Auction: 16 May 2008 at 12:00 BST
Description
Old and new Edinburgh. London, [no date], large 8vo, 3 volumes, illustrated, contemporary half morocco gilt, some slight fading to backstrips; Edinburgh Old Edinburgh pedlars, beggers and criminals. Edinburgh, 1886, 8vo, later half calf gilt, ink inscripiton on endpaper; Mackay, James History of the burgh of Canongate. Edinburgh, 1900, 8vo, original red cloth gilt; Simpson, J.Y. The cat-stane, Edinburghshire. Edinburgh, 1862, 8vo, inscribed by the author on title, original green cloth gilt; Harrison, Wilmot Memorable Edinburgh houses. Edinburgh, 1898, 8vo, illustrated, later quarter cloth gilt; Lumsden, James Edinburgh and country croonings. Edinburgh, 1905, 8vo, illustrated, original blue cloth gilt, rubbed at edges; Grant, James Memorials of the castle of Edinburgh. Edinburgh, 1850, 8vo, original red cloth gilt, backstrip worn [some lacking], ex-library bookplate and numbers on backstrip; Chalmers, P. Macgregor Dalmeny Kirk: its history and architecture. [No place]: private printing, [no date], 8vo, number 91 of 120 copies, signed by the author, original boards, dustwrapper, bookplate of Sir James Colquhoun; Speedy, Tom Craigmillar and its environs. Selkirk, 1862, 8vo, presentation copy from the author "To Mary Speedy with compliments from Tom Speedy 18th October '99", original green cloth gilt, some foxing; RCHAMS The city of Edinburgh. Edinburgh, 1951, 4to, original blue cloth gilt, dustwrapper, torn [lacking sections]; Wood, L. Ingleby Vanishing Edinburgh and Leith. Edinburgh, 1903, 4to, 32 tipped in plates, original decorative green cloth; and 18 others (30)