Lot 31
History: Stewart, David, and others
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 14 February 2018 at 10:00 GMT
Description
Sketches of the Character, Manners and Present State of the Highlanders of Scotland. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable & Co., 1822. 2 volumes, 8vo, hand-coloured folding map with tears and repairs, marbled boards, bookplates; Gifford, Thomas Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica No. XXXVII [containing Mr Gifford's Historical Description of Zetland.] London: J. Nichols, 1786. 4to, folding map, later cloth, bookplate; [Hepburn, Thomas] A Letter to a Gentleman from his Friend in Orkney. London, 1760. 8vo, modern calf gilt, bookplate; The Statistical Account of the Shetland Islands. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1841. 8vo, original green cloth, rebacked, bookplate; The Duke of Sutherland Two Ancient Records of the Bishopric of Caithness, from the Charter-room at Dunrobin. Edinburgh: Bannatyne Club, 1848. 4to, contemporary half morocco; [Sands, James] A Letter Directed thus for Mr. James Lyon in Kirkwall. [Edinburgh?] 1710. 8vo, final leaf torn and laid-down lacking around 50 percent of text; [bound with] Lyon, James A Short Account of the Divine Original of Episcopacy... [Edinburgh?] 1710. 8vo, title-page laid down; in contemporary calf, rebacked; Sinclair, Thomas Caithness Events...Wick: W. Rae, 1894. 8vo, contemporary half morocco, bookplate; Tudor, John R. The Orkneys and Shetland. London: Edward Stanford, 1883. 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, bookplate; Glass, N.M. Caithness - and the War. Wick: Peter Reid & Co., Ltd., 1948. 8vo, original cloth, bookplate; sold not subject to return (10)
Footnote
Provenance: From the collection of the Late John Davie Manson Robertson, CBE, DL, FRSA