Highlands, a collection, including
£400
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 19 June 2018 at 12:00 BST
Description
Spence, Elizabeth Letters from the North Highlands during the Summer 1816. 1817, 8vo, brown half morocco gilt; Burns, Robert Historical Dissertations on the Law and Practice of Great Britain, and particularly of Scotland, with Regard to the Poor. Paisley, 1819. 8vo, modern quarter calf gilt; Lauder, Sir Thomas D. Ac Account of the Great Floods of August 1829. First edition, presentation copy from the author to C.E.L.C. Stuart, 2 folding maps and 63 (of 65) plates (lacks plate 26/27), modern half calf gilt; Smith, C.L. Excursions through the Highlands and Isles of Scotland. 1837. 8vo, plates, contemporary calf, library stamps, rebacked; Sinclair, Catherine Scotland and the Scotch. 1840, original cloth rebacked, new endpapers; [Banks & Co., publishers] Scenery in the Western Highlands on the Route from Oban to Iona, Staffa & Glencoe. Edinburgh, [c.1840] Oblong 8vo, numerous engraved plates, original green cloth gilt; [Bruce, James] Letters on the Present Condition of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. 1847, presentation copy from the author, modern cloth; Maclean, John Historical and Traditional Sketches of Highland Families, and of the Highlands. Dingwall, 1848, 12mo, original cloth; Somers, Robert Letters from the Highlands, or the Famine of 1847. 1848, 8vo, original cloth; Conway, James Letters from the Highlands. 1859. 8vo, contemporary half calf; Grierson, Thomas Autumnal Rambles among the Scottish Mountains. Edinburgh, 1850. 8vo, original cloth; Taylor, William Fragments of the Early History of Tain. 1865, 8vo, original cloth; Gregory, Donald The History of the Western Highlands. 1881, 8vo, quarter calf; Sellar, Thomas The Sutherland Evictions of 1814. 1883, original cloth; Fergusson, R.M. Rambles in the Far North. 1884, 8vo, original cloth, new endpapers, rubbed; Blackie, J.S. The Scottish Highlanders and the Land Laws. 1885, 8vo, presentation copy from the author, original cloth; Mackeay, Kenneth Highlanders of Scotland. 4to, half calf, worn; Macpherson, Alexander Glimpses of Church and Social Life in the Highlands in Olden Times. 1893. 4to, original cloth; Campbell, J.F. Popular Tales of the West Highlands orally collected. 1890-93. 4 volumes, 8vo, original cloth gilt; and c.62 others (including vol. 1-10 of the Transactions of the Inverness Scientific Society and Field Club, 1880-1925)