Lot 72
Travel
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 14 February 2018 at 10:00 GMT
Description
Wilson, James A Voyage round the Coasts of Scotland and the Isles. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1842. 2 volumes, 8vo, modern green cloth, bookplates; Macky, John A Journey through Scotland...being the third volume which compleats Great Britain. London: J. Pemberton, 1723. 8vo, modern half morocco, bookplate; [Gifford, Thomas] Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica, no. XXXVII, contains Mr. Gifford's Historical Description of Zetland. London: J. Nichols, 1786. 4to, map, modern half calf, several ownership stamps, bookplate; Brand, John A Brief Description of Orkney, Zetland, Pightland-Firth & Caithness. Edinburgh: William Brown, 1883. 8vo, 1/157 copies, original cloth; Miscellanea Antiqua: Containing First the Life and Death of King James the Vth. of Scotland [including The Navigation of King James V. round Scotland...] London: W. Taylor, 1710. 8vo, later calf, rebacked, bookplate; Low, George A Tour through the Islands of Orkney and Schetland. Kirkwall: William Peace & Son, 1879. 8vo, original cloth; Goodrich-Freer, A. Outer Isles. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co Ltd, 1904. 8vo, original red cloth, bookplate; Lord Teignmouth Sketches of the Coasts and Islands of Scotland and the Isle of Man. London: John W. Parker, 1836. 2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, bookplates; Ferguson, Malcolm An Autumn Tour through Orcadia and the North of Scotland. Glasgow, 1869. 8vo, original blue cloth; Ker's Naval Log A folio photocopy of the log, 1778-1782, including visits to Shetland and Orkney in 1778, modern black morocco gilt; and 24 others, sold not subject to return (36)
Footnote
Provenance: From the collection of the Late John Davie Manson Robertson, CBE, DL, FRSA