Language & Literature, including Jakobsen, Jakob
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 14 February 2018 at 10:00 GMT
Description
An Etymological Dictionary of the Norn Language in Shetland. London: David Nutt, 1928. 2 volumes, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, bookplates; [Idem] The Dialect and Place Names of Shetland. Lerwick: T. & J. Manson, 1897. 8vo, portrait, original olive cloth, bookplate; and another copy; Ross, David Place-Names and Dialect of Shetland. Glasgow: Robert Anderson, [1894]. 8vo, modern red cloth gilt, original wrappers bound in, bookplate; Edmondston, Thomas An Etymological Glossary of the Shetland & Orkney Dialect. London: Asher & Co., 1866. 8vo, contemporary half calf rebacked, bookplate; McLennan, John F. Songs and Verses. Edinburgh: privately printed by William Hodge, 1923. 8vo, blue cloth gilt, bookplate; Poetical Descriptions of Orkney, M.DC.LII. Edinburgh, 1835. 8vo, modern quarter calf, bookplate, blindstamp of the Library of Malcolm Stewart, Hoy; Vedder, David Orcadian Sketches... Edinburgh: William Tait, 1832. 8vo, modern half calf, bookplate, ownership signature to title-page; Calder, James T. Sketches from John O'Groats, in prose and verse. Wick: Peter Reid, 1842. 8vo, contemporary calf, rebacked, with a loose note reading: "Presented to the Miss Stewarts with the Sender's respectful compliments", bookplate; Reid, Mary A Voice from an Orkney Manse. Edinburgh: W. Oliphant, 1859. 12mo, contemporary half morocco, bookplate; Horne, David Under Orcadian Skies. Kirkwall, [n.d.], 8vo, red half morocco gilt, bookplate; [Idem] Songs of Orkney. Kirkwall, [n.d.] 8vo, red half morocco gilt, bookplate; sold not subject to return (13)
Footnote
Provenance: From the collection of the Late John Davie Manson Robertson, CBE, DL, FRSA