Lot 59
Sibbald, Sir Robert
Books, Maps, Photographs & Manuscripts
Auction: 12 July 2005 at 13:00 BST
£2,151
Description
A Collection of Several Treatises in Folio, concerning Scotland, first edition, 4 maps (3 folding) and 10 plates (9 folding), folio, Edinburgh, Hamilton and Balfour, 1739; Tractatus varii ad Scotiae antiquae & modernae historiam, folding map, folio, Edinburgh, 1711, 2 works bound in one volume, contemporary calf, rubbed, hinges cracked
Footnote
Note: Sir Robert Sibbad (1641-1722), a distinguished Scottish physician, botanist, antiquary and historian, was appointed Royal Geographer for Scotland in 1682.