ORKNEY AND SHETLAND ISLANDS, 28 VOLUMES, INCLUDING
BURROWS, C.W. SCAPA AND A CAMERA. 1921
£700
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 2 October 2018 at 12:00 BST
Description
4to, original boards, dustwrapper, boards and dustwrapper slightly worn at head and base of spine; Standen, Edward A Paper on the Shetland Islands. Oxford, 1845. First edition, 12mo, original cloth gilt; Tudor, John R. The Orkneys and Shetland. 1883. 8vo, plates, maps, original blue cloth, neatly repaired at head and base of spine, binding lightly marked; Tudor, John R. Another copy, ex-library, with stamps; [Photograph Album] Album with 10 mounted albumen prints of Shetland, 8 by J. Valentine and captioned in photograph, images 9 x 14cm., contemporary red morocco, rebacked, rubbed; Fergusson, R.M. Rambling Sketches in the Far North and Orcadian Musings. 1883. 8vo, original cloth; Fergusson, R.M. Rambles in the Far North. 1884. Second edition, 8vo, original pictorial cloth gilt, slightly rubbed; Fergusson, R.M. Our Trip North. 1892. 8vo, original cloth; Ployen, Christian Reminiscences of a Voyage to Shetland, Orkney & Scotland in the summer of 1839. Lerwick, 1896. Second edition, frontispiece, original cloth, slightly rubbed; Evans, A.H. & T.E. Buckley A Vertebrate Fauna of the Shetland Islands. 1899. 8vo, plates, original cloth slightly rubbed at head and base of spine; Hossack. B.H. Kirkwall in the Orkneys. Kirkwall, 1900. 4to, original cloth, binding slightly rubbed & slightly soiled; Goudie, Gilbert The Celtic and Scandinavian Antiquities of Shetland. 1904. 8vo, original cloth, library stamps; Hibbert, Samuel A Description of the Shetland Islands. Lerwick, 1931. 4to, blue half calf gilt; Childe, V.G. Skara Brae. 1931. 4to, plates, original buckram slightly marked; and 15 later volumes (c.27)
Footnote
Provenance: From the collection of Larry Hutchison