Highland Clearances and Economy & Colonsay and Oronsay
A collection of works
£950
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 23 June 2021 at 11:00 BST
Description
[Manuscript ledger] Supplies given out for Highland Relief Committee, Glasgow Section. Folio, 1848-9, comprising 183 manuscript pp. with names and the quantities of oatmeal and cornmeal received; [Manuscript ledger] Pauper Meal Distributions from Local Mills 1850/51. Folio, 53 manuscript pp. with names or recipients and their residences; Somers, Robert Letters from the Highlands; or, the famine of 1847. London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., 1848. 8vo, original purple cloth gilt; Loch, David Essays on the Trade, Commerce, Manufactures, and Fisheries of Scotland. Edinburgh: printed by Thomas and Walter Ruddiman for the Author, 1778. 3 volumes, 12mo, original wrappers [ESTC T107026]; Sellar, Thomas The Sutherland Evictions of 1814. London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1883. 8vo, folding map, original brown cloth gilt; McLeod, Donald Gloomy Memories in the Highlands of Scotland... Glasgow: Archibald Sinclair, 1892. 8vo, original green cloth gilt; Dempster, George A Discourse containing a Summary of the Proceedings of the...Society for extending the Fisheries...and some Thoughts on the present Emigrations from the Highlands. London: G. and T. Wilkie; and J. Debrett, 1789. 8vo, modern quarter calf; Ritchie, and others The Memorial of the Central Board of Management of the Fund raised for the Relief of the Destitute Inhabitants of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland; [bound with] Skene The Memorial of the Central Board of Management of the Fund raised for the Relief of the Destitute Inhabitants of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, 4to, purple half morocco; Alison, William Pulteney Observations on the Famine of 1846-7 in the Highlands of Scotland. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1847. 8vo; Mackenzie, Alexander The Highland Clearances. Inverness: A. & W. Mackenzie, 1881. 8vo, blue cloth gilt; [Idem] An Analysis of The Report of the Crofter Riyal Commission... Inverness: A. & W. Mackenzie, [n.d.]. 8vo, blue cloth gilt; Pattison, Thomas The Western Highlands, a Lecture delivered before the Islay Association... Glasgow: Archibald Sinclair, 1864. 8vo, original yellow wrappers; Campbell, John F. Report of the Proceedings at the Annual Meeting of the Islay Association. Glasgow: Archibald Sinclair, 1878. 8vo; Gray, Alexander The History of Islay Place Names. Glasgow: Archibald Sinclair, [n.d.] 8vo, green cloth; Loder, John de Vere Colonsay and Oronsay, in the Isles of Argyll. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1935. 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, dust-jacket; Grieve, Symington The Book of Colonsay and Oronsay, 1923. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1923. 2 volumes, 8vo, original green cloth gilt, bookplates; McNeill, Murdoch Colonsay, one of the Hebrides. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1910. 8vo, original red cloth gilt; Maclean, Magnus The Literature of the Highlands. London: Blackie and Son Limited, [n.d.] 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, dust-jacket, signed and inscribed by the author; Wheaton, Nathaniel S. A Journal of a Residence during several Months in London. Hartford: H. & F. J. Huntington, 1830. 8vomodern quarter calf; [MacLean, Lachlan] The Native Steam-Boat Companion. Edinburgh: Quentin Dalrymple, 1845. 12mo, original green cloth gilt, clamshell box; [Bell, C.S.] The Highlands of Scotland. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: W. & J. Bell, 1843. 8vo, contemporary green half calf, printed on blue paper, bookplate; and 5 others (29)