Lot 39
Low, George
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 14 February 2018 at 10:00 GMT
Description
Fauna Orcadensis: or, the Natural History of the Quadrupeds, Birds, Reptiles, and Fishes, of Orkney and Shetland. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Company, 1813. 4to, interleaved with notepaper with several manuscript notes and the comment: The notes marked Forbes are from manuscript comments(?) from Mr James Forbes, parish schoolmaster of St Margaret's Hope, South Ronaldshay, contemporary half calf, rebacked, lacking half-title, some browning and offsetting from inserted newspaper articles
Footnote
Provenance: William Balfour Baikie's name, dated January 26 1847, written to paste-down endpaper. Baikie was an Orcadian naturalist and explorer; From the collection of the Late John Davie Manson Robertson, CBE, DL, FRSA