Lot 431
Scottish Fisheries and Fishing, 9 volumes, comprising
Commissioners and Trustees for Improving Fisheries and Manufactures in Scotland
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: Day Two: 25 February 2021 | From 10:00
Description
Plan by the Commissioners... Edinburgh: J. Davidson, 1727, modern quarter morocco; another copy. Edinburgh: J. Davison, Re-printed, 1734, fine modern quarter calf, spine gilt, morocco label; [Fisheries] Reasons for Improving the Fisheries and Linnen Manufacture of Scotland. London: J. Roberts, 1727, 8vo, half calf, fine modern quarter calf gilt, red morocco label; Beaufoy, Henry The Substance of the Speech... to the British Society for extending the Fisheries. London: T. Cadell, 1788, 8vo, black half morocco; [Fishing Copartnery] A Letter from a Gentleman in Town to a Friend in the Country concerning the State of the Fishing-Copartnery in North-Britain. Edinburgh, 1723. 4to, fine modern quarter calf, spine gilt, red morocco label; Reclaiming Note for the Lord Lovat against Lord Curriehill's Interlocutor. 1878. 4to, contemporary calf, crudely rebacked; Salmon Fisheries Report from the Select Committee on Salmon Fisheries, Scotland. 1836, folio, original wrappers, rebacked; Knox, John A View of the British Empire, more especially Scotland, with some proposals for the improvement of that country, the extension of its Fisheries... 1785. Third edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf, one joint splitting (9)