Lot 54

Peterkin, Alexander

Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 14 February 2018 at 10:00 GMT
£300
Description
Notes on Orkney and Zetland... Edinburgh: Macredie, Skelly, and Company, 1822. 8vo, 2 plates, later half morocco gilt, bookplates, spotting; Traill, Walter Vindication of Orkney, in answer to "Notes on Orkney," by Alex. Peterkin, Esq. Edinburgh: printed for the author by P. Neill, 1823. 8vo, modern calf gilt, half-title and title laid-down, bookplate; another copy in half calf; Peterkin, Alexander Letter to the Landholders, Clergy and Other Gentlemen of Orkney and Zetland... Edinburgh: printed by John Moir, 1823. 8vo, modern half morocco, bookplate, some soiling (4)
Footnote
Provenance: From the collection of the Late John Davie Manson Robertson, CBE, DL, FRSA
