Lot 45
Manuscript items, a collection
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 14 February 2018 at 10:00 GMT
Description
Discreet of Declaration in Favours of the Inhabitants of Stromness, H.G.K., 1744, copy, 54 manuscript pp., 31.5 x 19.5cm, later calf, with typed transcription; Cash Book of Orkney Schooner Margaret Traill 1882-1888, c.100 manuscript pages, 19 x 12cm, modern black quarter morocco; Notes on Orkney A notebook with manuscript text copied from various works on Orkney, 8vo; The Reverend David Ramsay Biographical Sketch of Rev David Ramsay, Kirkwall, 24pp., 21 x 17cm, black morocco gilt, some dampstaining and repairs affecting text; Kirkwall Literary & Debating Society 158pp. from 1904-1913; Botany Letter sent to Magnus Spence in Deerness regarding Orcadian botany, 1916, 5 leaves, 25 x 20cm, bound in modern red cloth; Orkney Harbour Commissioners Probable estimate of cost of repairing damage done to Holm Pier by S.S. Fidget...February 1916, 33 x 21cm; Drain Petition Addressed to the Police of the Burgh of Kirkwall asking for the reconstruction of the main drain leading from Clay Loan, with 57 signatures (8)
Footnote
Provenance: From the collection of the Late John Davie Manson Robertson, CBE, DL, FRSA