Lot 62
Scotland
Collection of archaeological monographs
£625
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 13 July 2022 from 10:00 BST
Description
including:
Beveridge, Erskine. Coll and Tiree. Their Prehistoric Forts and Ecclesiastical Antiquities. Edinburgh: T. and A. Constable, 1903. First edition, out-of-series copy from the edition of 300, 4to, original quarter morocco, all plates as called for, spine sunned and rubbed;
Smith, G. Gregory. The Book of Islay. Documents illustrating the History of the Island. Edinburgh: privately printed, 1895. First edition, one of 250 copies, 4to, original half morocco, presentation plate to front pastedown, binding rubbed;
Ramsay, Lucy. The Stent Book and Acts of the Balliary of Islay 1718-1843. Edinburgh: privately printed, 1890. First edition, one of 250 copies, 4to, original half morocco, inscribed 'To James M. Hall Esqre of Killearn, with kindest regards from Lucy Ramsay, July 1891' on initial blank, some stripping to morocco;
Graham, Robert C. The Carved Stones of Islay. Glasgow: James Maclehose and Sons, 1895. First edition, 4to, original cloth, all plates as called for;
Napier, James. Folk Lore: or, Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within this Century. Paisley: Alex. Gardner, 1879. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, inscribed 'G. L. Gomme Esq, with the authors respects' on title-page, bookplate of Sir Laurence Gomme (1853-1916), folklorist, penciled marginalia, spine-label chipped, tips bumped;
Fergusson, James. A Short Essay on the Age and Uses of Brochs and the Rude Stone Monuments of the Orkney Islands and the North of Scotland. London: William Mullan and Son, 1877. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, inscribed 'Dr Hooker C.B., from the author, M[ar]ch 77' on title-page, the recipient probably Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911; appointed CB in 1879);
Pitt-Rivers, Augustus Henry Lane-Fox. Excavations in Cranborne Chase, near Rushmore, on the Borders of Dorset and Wilts [volume 3 titled 'Excavations in Bokerly and Wansdyke]. [London]: printed privately, 1887-1905. 5 volumes, 4to, original blue cloth, numerous plates (not fully collated), inscribed 'Col Murdoch Smith, from the author' on volume 1 title-page (likely to be the noted archaeologist, 1835-1900), volume 1 inner hinges cracked;
and 3 others: George C. Williamson, Trade Tokens issued in the Seventeenth Century ... New and Revised Edition of William Boyne's Work, 1889 (first edition, one of 25 copies of this size, 2 volumes, 4to, original quarter morocco), A List of Persons concerned in the Rebellion, Edinburgh: privately printed for the Earl of Rosebery, 1890 (first edition, one of 25 copies on large paper, this copy presented to the Dowager Countess of Seafield 8vo, lacking backstrip), H. Cameron Gillies, The Place-Names of Argyll, 1906 (first edition, one of 100 copies) (15)
Footnote
Provenance: The Library of Keith Schellenberg (1929-2019), British businessman, Winter Olympian and laird of Eigg.
