Lot 53
Orkney Library & Bibliography, including Craven, J.B.
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 14 February 2018 at 10:00 GMT
Description
Descriptive Catalogue of the Bibliotheck of Kirkwall (1683). Kirkwall: Privately printed, 1897. 8vo, one of 25 copies, frontispiece, original green cloth gilt, J. Robertson bookplate; Institution, Rules, & Catalogue, of the Orkney Library. Edinburgh: John Moir, 1816. 8vo, lacking 8 pages, modern morocco gilt; [Baikie, W.B., editor] List of Books and Manuscripts relating to Orkney and Zetland... Kirkwall: the Kirkwall Press, 1847. 8vo, black cloth, stamp of Wm. Traill to title-page, bookplates of Ronald P. Doig, James Shand and J. Robertson; Cursiter, J.W. List of Books and Pamphlets relating to Orkney and Shetland. Kirkwall: Wm. Peace & Son, 1894. 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, interleaved with notepaper, ownership stamp of Nicol Spencer to free-endpaper; and another copy (5)
Footnote
Provenance: From the collection of the Late John Davie Manson Robertson, CBE, DL, FRSA