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22 September 2021 at 11:00 BST

Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs

Sale Number: 659

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Art

10 volumes, comprising

Chambers, William

A Treatise on the Decorative Part of Civil Architecture

Forth Rail Bridge, circa 1890 SALEROOM NOTICE: THIS MEASURES 60 x 358cm

Scottish School illustration

Freedman, Barnett

15-Inch Gun Turret, HMS Repulse

Palladio, Andrea

The Four Books of Andrea Palladio's Architecture

Man Ray (American 1890-1976)

Alphabet for Adults

SOLD FOR £1,063

Rennie, Sir John

The Theory, Formation and Construction of British and Foreign Harbours

Stevenson, Robert

An Account of the Bell Rock Light-House

[Map of Africa] De Lisle, Guillaume

L'Afrique Dressée par les Observations de Mrs de l'Acadamie Royale des Sciences

[Map of Africa] Fer, Nicolas de

L'Afrique Dressée selon les derniers Relations et Suivant les Nouvelles Decouvertes

[Map of Africa] Münster, Sebastian

Totius Africae tabula & descriptio universalis

Armstrong, John

A Scotch Atlas: or, Description of the Kingdom of Scotland

Atlases

A collection of 5 works

Cary, John

Improved Map of England and Wales

German Atlas

Berghaus, Dr. Heinrich

Mauritius, manuscript plan

Plan de Rediuit Scituée entre le Quartier de Moka et célui des Plaines de Wilheme

SOLD FOR £2,375

7 Children's Books

Including Ardizzone, de Brunhof and Frances Hodgson Burnett

7 Children's Books

A collection, including Grahame, Kenneth

Burnside, H.M.

The Fairy Ring

Potter, Beatrix

The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit

Rowling, J.K.

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

SOLD FOR £1,188

Rowling, J.K.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Rowling, J.K.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

SOLD FOR £3,250

Aldus - Petrarca, Francesco

Il Petrarca

Calligraphy - Rossignol, Louis

Nouveau livre d'Ecritures Italienne batarde

Luna, Miguel and Tarif Abentarique, Abulcacim

Historia verdadera del Rey Don Rodrigo

Schedel, Hartmann

[The Nuremberg Chronicle] Liber Chronicarum

SOLD FOR £30,000

1730s pamphlets, some relating to Sir Robert Cochran

including

1745 Jacobite Rising

7 pamphlets, including

20 late 18th century Scottish pamphlets in one volume

comprising

American Revolutionary War - Marshall, John

Atlas to Marshall's Life of Washington

Bacon, Francis

The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh

Churchill, Sir Winston Spencer

The Story of the Malakand Field Force

SOLD FOR £1,750

Colonial India

A collection of 8 books

Kay, John

A Series of Original Portraits

Miller, Hugh

[The Works]

Orme, Edward

Historic, Military and Naval Anecdotes

Pamphlets and short publications

A collection, political and literary

SOLD FOR £1,750

Politics in 1721-22: a collection of 7 pamphlets in one volume

comprising

Politics, 11 mid 18th century pamphlets

in one volume, comprising

Politics, 1689-1712: a collection of 16 pamphlets in one volume

comprising

Proclamations regarding Act of Union & others, 4 Broadsides

and 2 printed works

SOLD FOR £1,250

Scottish Books

13 works on Scottish History

Scottish History

11 volumes, comprising

Scottish works,

6 volumes, finely bound, comprising

1960s Literature

A collection of 12 volumes

20th Century First Editions

A collection of 9 books

Beecher Stowe, Harriett

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Bindings - George Eliot, Thomas Carlyle, and W.M. Thackeray

50 volumes, comprising

SOLD FOR £1,125

Buchan, John

11 works, including one signed by Buchan to the dedicatee, and several ALS

SOLD FOR £1,000

Burns, Robert

13 volumes, comprising

Dickens, Charles

The Works

SOLD FOR £1,188

Dickinson, Emily

Poems

SOLD FOR £1,500

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Four Novels

SOLD FOR £1,125

Fleming, Ian

Goldfinger

Homer - Thomas Hobbes

The Iliads and Odysses of Homer

SOLD FOR £1,125

Hughes, Ted

Meet my Folks!

Lucas-Lucas, St. John W.

Nocturnes and Day-Dreams

MacDiarmid, Hugh [Christopher Murray Grieve]

Selected Lyrics

Macdiarmid, Hugh [Grieve, C.M.]

Works by and about MacDiarmid, 10 signed by MacDiarmid, comprising

Mackay Brown, George

7 volumes, 5 signed, comprising

SOLD FOR £1,188

Mann, Thomas

Unordnung und Frühes Leid

Science Fiction and Fantasy

A collection of 34 books

Science Fiction and Fantasy

A collection of 9 books

Scott, Sir Walter

The Works

Shaw, George Bernard

Cashel Byron's Profession

Spark, Muriel

11 volumes, 5 signed, comprising

Stoker, Bram

First edition, with Autograph Letter Signed

SOLD FOR £1,063

[Swift, Jonathan]

Bacon, Francis, Lord

The British Poets

35 volumes in calf gilt

Tolkien, J.R.R.

6 volumes, comprising

Whitney, James Lyman

Catalogue of the Spanish Library and of the Portuguese Books bequeathed by George Ticknor

Wodehouse, P.G.

Psmith Journalist

Autograph Album

mostly compiled 1937-40

Scottish Independence Movement - Barns-Graham, Allan, and Scottish Home Rule

A collection of A.L.S.

Black, Duncan - RAF Flight Officer

A small archive of letters

Bold, Alan, 1943-1988, Scottish poet

A collection of signed poems, including

Campaigns in Egypt and India

Letters written by a 19th century British officer, Alexander Redmond Bewley Warrand

Faraday, Michael & Aneurin Bevan

3 items

Ferme, G.

Christmas Carols and Hymns on the Nativity

[Jacobite Interest] Forbes of Culloden, Duncan

A collection of manuscripts by and relating to Forbes of Culloden

SOLD FOR £1,625

James II & VII, King of England, Ireland and Scotland, 1633-1701

Document Signed

Linlithgow archive SALEROOM NOTICE: PLEASE SEE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

A quantity of documents, including contemporary copies, relating to Linlithgow and political and legal matters

Sorabji, Kaikhosru

Inscribed musical scores, letters & photographs, comprising

SOLD FOR £4,250

Sorabji, Kaikhosru

Autograph music scores, comprising

SOLD FOR £5,000

Sorabji, Kaikhosru and Norman Peterkin SALEROOM NOTICE: PLEASE NOTE THE REVISED DESCRIPTION

A collection of signed music and photographs

SOLD FOR £2,750

Telford, Thomas

Two Autograph Letters, Signed

The Commissioners of Ross-Shire

Valuation Book of the Shire of Ross, Allested[?] copy

Aristotle

Aristotelis De Moribus ad Nicomachum, Libri Decem

Bindings - Highland Society of Scotland

Prize-Essays and Transactions

Bindings, 9 volumes

Including Thomson, Thomas

[Erotic Literature] Nerciat, Andréa de SALEROOM NOTICE: lacking several plates in second state and advert leaves

Les Aphrodites, ou Fragments Thali-Priapiques

Magic

Thorndike, Lynn

Miscellaneous books

13 volumes, comprising

Music - 16 volumes including Mahler, Gustave

Zehnte Symphonie

SOLD FOR £1,375

Three 17th and 18th century books

including Hopton, Arthur

Two illustrated volumes and an atlas

comprising

Wine - Henderson, Alexander

The History of Ancient and Modern Wines

Agriculture - Dickson, R.W.

Practical Agriculture

Geology

A collection of 12 geology books