Lot 50
Natural History
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 14 February 2018 at 10:00 GMT
Description
Selous, Edmund The Bird Watcher in the Shetlands. London: J.M. Dent, 1905. 8vo, original cloth gilt, worn; two more copies, one in modern half calf; Saxby, Henry L. - Stephen H. Saxby, editor The Birds of Shetland. Edinburgh: Maclachlan & Stewart, 1874. 8vo, original cloth, stamp of G.F. Argyll Saxby to title-page, covers and initial leaves very worn; Barclay, Dr. Remarks on some parts of the Animal that was cast ashore on the Island of Stronsa, September 1808, pp.418-444 extracted from Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society, volume 1, (these pages only and 2 plates) 8vo, in modern brown calf gilt; Baikie, W.B. and Robert Heddle Historia Naturalis Orcadensis. Zoology, part i. Edinburgh: J. and W. Paterson, 1848. 8vo, modern calf; and two other copies; Buckley, Thomas E. and J.A. Harvie-Brown A Vertebrate Fauna of the Orkney Islands. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1891. 8vo, green cloth gilt; Crichton, A.W. A Naturalist's Ramble to the Orcades. London: Jon van Voorst, 1866. 12mo, original cloth; Spence, Magnus Flora Orcadensis. Kirkwall: D. Spence, 1914. 8vo, original green cloth; and 2 other copies; Edmondston, Thomas A Flora of Shetland. Aberdeen: Geo. Clark and Son, 1845. 12mo, original cloth gilt; and another copy; Claridge Druce, G. Flora Zetlandica. Arbroath: printed by T. Buncle & Co., September 1922. 8vo, original wrappers, upper wrapper detached; and 6 others, sold not subject to return (22)
Footnote
Provenance: From the collection of the Late John Davie Manson Robertson, CBE, DL, FRSA