Edinburgh
Collection of works on Edinburgh topography and history
£630
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 September 2023 at 10:00 BST
Description
Hamilton, John (publisher). Edinburgh Delineated: comprising Twenty-Five [sic[ Views of the Principal Public Buildings, Streets, and Picturesque Scenery of the Scottish Metropolis. Edinburgh: John Hamilton, 8vo, original cloth, rebacked, 50 engraved plates with tissue-guards;
Wilson, Daniel. Memorials of Edinburgh in the Olden Time. Edinburgh: Hugh Paton, 1848. 2 volumes, 4to, original cloth, engraved plates;
Shepherd, Thomas H. Modern Athens! Displayed in a Series of Views: or Edinburgh in the Nineteenth Century. London: Jones & Co., 1829. 4to, contemporary straight-grain grain red morocco, engraved plates;
Kay, John. A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings. Edinburgh: Hugh Paton, 1837 and 1838. First edition, 2 volumes in 4, 4to, contemporary half morocco, marbled boards, 271 etched plates of 361, bindings bumped, owner's plate to paste-down endpapers of each volume, foxing to free endpapers, some dampstaining and intermittent foxing to pages;
Irons, James Campbell. Leith and its Antiquities. Edinburgh: printed for the subscribers, 1897. 2 volumes, 4to, original cloth, plates, fraying to spine-ends;
and approx. 20 others including Bruce J. Home, Old Houses in Edinburgh, c.1905, Benjamin W. Crombie, Modern Athenians, 1882, Hugh Paton, Modern Athenians, 1851 (oblong folio, 24 plates only, original wrappers, repairs), J. Cameron Lees, St Giles', Edinburgh, Church, College, and Cathedral, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, Edinburgh: W. & R. Chambers, 1889 (4to modern blue half morocco, top edge gilt, others untrimmed), early-19th-century Edinburgh almanacs, and similar, the lot sold as seen