Lot 3
Archaeology & Antiquities
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 14 February 2018 at 10:00 GMT
Description
Proceedings of the Orkney Antiquarian Society. Kirkwall: printed at the Orcadian Office, [1922-1939]. Volumes 1-15 bound in 3 4to books, contemporary red morocco; Weber, H. Illustrations of Northern Antiquities... Edinburgh: Longman, Hurst etc., 1814. 4to, modern crushed green half morocco, bookplate; Johnstone, James Antiquitates Celto-Normannicae... Copenhagen, 1786. 4to, contemporary tree-calf rebacked with modern spine, bookplate; Dietrichson, L. Monumenta Orcadica... Oslo, 1906. 4to, blue morocco gilt, bookplates; Mallet Northern Antiquities... Edinburgh: printed by C. Stewart, 1809. 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary half calf rebacked with modern spines, bookplates; Groat, A.G. Thoughts on Orkney and Zetland. Edinburgh: Neill & Co., 1831. 8vo, original red cloth, rebacked, bookplate; and three other copies; Cursiter, James W. The Scottish Brochs. Kirkwall, 1898. 8vo, contemporary half calf, original wrappers bound in, bookplate; Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Report of an Excursion to the Western Islands of Scotland, Orkney, and Caithness, June 1899. Dublin, 1900. 8vo, original blue cloth gilt; Charleson, M.M. Account of the Excavation of Chambered Cairn in the Parish of Firth, Orkney. Stromness, n.d. 8vo, blue cloth, bookplate; Huxley, Thomas H. Pre-Historic Remains of Caithness. Edinburgh: Williams and Nordgate, 1866. 8vo, original red cloth, rebacked, bookplate; Maule, Henry Miscellanea Pictica... Edinburgh: D. Webster, 1818. 8vo, original cloth, bookplate; Fergusson, James A Short Essay on the Age and Uses of the Brochs and Rude Stone Monuments of the Orkney Islands... London: William Mullan and Son, 1877. 8vo, inscribed on the title-page to David Balfour from the author, original green cloth gilt, bookplate; and 12 others, sold not subject to return (30)
Footnote
Provenance: From the collection of the Late John Davie Manson Robertson, CBE, DL, FRSA