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PAST AUCTION
22 September 2021 at 11:00 BST
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Sale Number: 659
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LOT 1
Art
10 volumes, comprising
£300
LOT 2
Chambers, William
A Treatise on the Decorative Part of Civil Architecture
£375
LOT 3
Forth Rail Bridge, circa 1890 SALEROOM NOTICE: THIS MEASURES 60 x 358cm
Scottish School illustration
£750
LOT 4
Freedman, Barnett
15-Inch Gun Turret, HMS Repulse
£575
LOT 6
Palladio, Andrea
The Four Books of Andrea Palladio's Architecture
£300
LOT 8
Man Ray (American 1890-1976)
Alphabet for Adults
£1,063
LOT 9
Rennie, Sir John
The Theory, Formation and Construction of British and Foreign Harbours
£400
LOT 10
Stevenson, Robert
An Account of the Bell Rock Light-House
£813
LOT 13
[Map of Africa] De Lisle, Guillaume
L'Afrique Dressée par les Observations de Mrs de l'Acadamie Royale des Sciences
£500
LOT 14
[Map of Africa] Fer, Nicolas de
L'Afrique Dressée selon les derniers Relations et Suivant les Nouvelles Decouvertes
£375
LOT 16
[Map of Africa] Münster, Sebastian
Totius Africae tabula & descriptio universalis
£300
LOT 21
Armstrong, John
A Scotch Atlas: or, Description of the Kingdom of Scotland
£750
LOT 22
Atlases
A collection of 5 works
£300
LOT 24
Cary, John
Improved Map of England and Wales
£625
LOT 26
German Atlas
Berghaus, Dr. Heinrich
£575
LOT 27
Mauritius, manuscript plan
Plan de Rediuit Scituée entre le Quartier de Moka et célui des Plaines de Wilheme
£2,375
LOT 29
7 Children's Books
Including Ardizzone, de Brunhof and Frances Hodgson Burnett
£625
LOT 30
7 Children's Books
A collection, including Grahame, Kenneth
£688
LOT 31
Burnside, H.M.
The Fairy Ring
£325
LOT 33
Potter, Beatrix
The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit
£375
LOT 34
Rowling, J.K.
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
£1,188
LOT 35
Rowling, J.K.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
£450
LOT 36
Rowling, J.K.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
£3,250
LOT 38
Aldus - Petrarca, Francesco
Il Petrarca
£300
LOT 39
Calligraphy - Rossignol, Louis
Nouveau livre d'Ecritures Italienne batarde
£300
LOT 41
Luna, Miguel and Tarif Abentarique, Abulcacim
Historia verdadera del Rey Don Rodrigo
£300
LOT 42
Schedel, Hartmann
[The Nuremberg Chronicle] Liber Chronicarum
£30,000
LOT 43
1730s pamphlets, some relating to Sir Robert Cochran
including
£238
LOT 44
1745 Jacobite Rising
7 pamphlets, including
£475
LOT 45
20 late 18th century Scottish pamphlets in one volume
comprising
£250
LOT 48
American Revolutionary War - Marshall, John
Atlas to Marshall's Life of Washington
£300
LOT 49
Bacon, Francis
The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh
£625
LOT 50
Churchill, Sir Winston Spencer
The Story of the Malakand Field Force
£1,750
LOT 51
Colonial India
A collection of 8 books
£938
LOT 54
Kay, John
A Series of Original Portraits
£375
LOT 55
Miller, Hugh
[The Works]
£750
LOT 56
Orme, Edward
Historic, Military and Naval Anecdotes
£325
LOT 57
Pamphlets and short publications
A collection, political and literary
£1,750
LOT 58
Politics in 1721-22: a collection of 7 pamphlets in one volume
comprising
£350
LOT 59
Politics, 11 mid 18th century pamphlets
in one volume, comprising
£213
LOT 60
Politics, 1689-1712: a collection of 16 pamphlets in one volume
comprising
£325
LOT 61
Proclamations regarding Act of Union & others, 4 Broadsides
and 2 printed works
£1,250
LOT 62
Scottish Books
13 works on Scottish History
£300
LOT 63
Scottish History
11 volumes, comprising
£300
LOT 64
Scottish works,
6 volumes, finely bound, comprising
£300
LOT 68
1960s Literature
A collection of 12 volumes
£688
LOT 69
20th Century First Editions
A collection of 9 books
£375
LOT 70
Beecher Stowe, Harriett
Uncle Tom's Cabin
£300
LOT 71
Bindings - George Eliot, Thomas Carlyle, and W.M. Thackeray
50 volumes, comprising
£1,125
LOT 72
Buchan, John
11 works, including one signed by Buchan to the dedicatee, and several ALS
£1,000
LOT 74
Burns, Robert
13 volumes, comprising
£625
LOT 75
Dickens, Charles
The Works
£1,188
LOT 76
Dickinson, Emily
Poems
£1,500
LOT 77
Dostoevsky, Fyodor
Four Novels
£1,125
LOT 78
Fleming, Ian
Goldfinger
£625
LOT 79
Homer - Thomas Hobbes
The Iliads and Odysses of Homer
£1,125
LOT 80
Hughes, Ted
Meet my Folks!
£625
LOT 82
Lucas-Lucas, St. John W.
Nocturnes and Day-Dreams
£300
LOT 83
MacDiarmid, Hugh [Christopher Murray Grieve]
Selected Lyrics
£188
LOT 85
Macdiarmid, Hugh [Grieve, C.M.]
Works by and about MacDiarmid, 10 signed by MacDiarmid, comprising
£688
LOT 86
Mackay Brown, George
7 volumes, 5 signed, comprising
£1,188
LOT 87
Mann, Thomas
Unordnung und Frühes Leid
£875
LOT 88
Science Fiction and Fantasy
A collection of 34 books
£600
LOT 89
Science Fiction and Fantasy
A collection of 9 books
£750
LOT 90
Scott, Sir Walter
The Works
£425
LOT 92
Shaw, George Bernard
Cashel Byron's Profession
£425
LOT 93
Spark, Muriel
11 volumes, 5 signed, comprising
£425
LOT 94
Stoker, Bram
First edition, with Autograph Letter Signed
£1,063
LOT 95
[Swift, Jonathan]
Bacon, Francis, Lord
£450
LOT 96
The British Poets
35 volumes in calf gilt
£375
LOT 97
Tolkien, J.R.R.
6 volumes, comprising
£688
LOT 98
Whitney, James Lyman
Catalogue of the Spanish Library and of the Portuguese Books bequeathed by George Ticknor
£75
LOT 99
Wodehouse, P.G.
Psmith Journalist
£375
LOT 100
Autograph Album
mostly compiled 1937-40
£450
LOT 101
Scottish Independence Movement - Barns-Graham, Allan, and Scottish Home Rule
A collection of A.L.S.
£938
LOT 102
Black, Duncan - RAF Flight Officer
A small archive of letters
£188
LOT 103
Bold, Alan, 1943-1988, Scottish poet
A collection of signed poems, including
£813
LOT 104
Campaigns in Egypt and India
Letters written by a 19th century British officer, Alexander Redmond Bewley Warrand
£500
LOT 105
Faraday, Michael & Aneurin Bevan
3 items
£425
LOT 106
Ferme, G.
Christmas Carols and Hymns on the Nativity
£400
LOT 109
[Jacobite Interest] Forbes of Culloden, Duncan
A collection of manuscripts by and relating to Forbes of Culloden
£1,625
LOT 110
James II & VII, King of England, Ireland and Scotland, 1633-1701
Document Signed
£300
LOT 111
Linlithgow archive SALEROOM NOTICE: PLEASE SEE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
A quantity of documents, including contemporary copies, relating to Linlithgow and political and legal matters
£875
LOT 112
Sorabji, Kaikhosru
Inscribed musical scores, letters & photographs, comprising
£4,250
LOT 113
Sorabji, Kaikhosru
Autograph music scores, comprising
£5,000
LOT 114
Sorabji, Kaikhosru and Norman Peterkin SALEROOM NOTICE: PLEASE NOTE THE REVISED DESCRIPTION
A collection of signed music and photographs
£2,750
LOT 115
Telford, Thomas
Two Autograph Letters, Signed
£688
LOT 116
The Commissioners of Ross-Shire
Valuation Book of the Shire of Ross, Allested[?] copy
£500
LOT 117
Aristotle
Aristotelis De Moribus ad Nicomachum, Libri Decem
£688
LOT 118
Bindings - Highland Society of Scotland
Prize-Essays and Transactions
£475
LOT 119
Bindings, 9 volumes
Including Thomson, Thomas
£150
LOT 120
[Erotic Literature] Nerciat, Andréa de SALEROOM NOTICE: lacking several plates in second state and advert leaves
Les Aphrodites, ou Fragments Thali-Priapiques
£350
LOT 121
Magic
Thorndike, Lynn
£750
LOT 123
Miscellaneous books
13 volumes, comprising
£500
LOT 124
Music - 16 volumes including Mahler, Gustave
Zehnte Symphonie
£1,375
LOT 127
Three 17th and 18th century books
including Hopton, Arthur
£400
LOT 128
Two illustrated volumes and an atlas
comprising
£375
LOT 129
Wine - Henderson, Alexander
The History of Ancient and Modern Wines
£450
LOT 130
Agriculture - Dickson, R.W.
Practical Agriculture
£275
LOT 132
Geology
A collection of 12 geology books
£400
