Glasgow
Large collection of works
£479
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 September 2023 at 10:00 BST
Description
Pagan, James (editor). Sketch of the History of Glasgow. Glasgow: Robert Stuart & Co., 1847. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, engraved additional title-page, folding map, 22 plates (on tinted ground);
Idem. Glasgow, Past and Present: illustrated in Dean of Guild Court Reports, and in the Reminiscences and Communications of Senex, Aliquis, J. B., etc. Printed by private subscription. Glasgow: James Macnab [-David Robertson], 1851-6. First edition, 3 volumes in 2, 8vo, original green cloth, engraved frontispiece to volume 3;
Marwick, Sir James D. The River Clyde and the Clyde Burghs, the City of Glasgow, and its Old Relations with Rutherglen, Renfrew, Paisley, Dumbarton, Port-Glasgow, Greenock, Rothesay and Irvine. Glasgow: James Maclehose & Sons, 1909. First edition, 4to, original cloth, photogravure portrait frontispiece;
Ibid. Early Glasgow. A History of the City of Glasgow from the Earliest Times to the Year 1611. Glasgow: James Maclehose and Sons, 1911. First edition, 4to, original cloth, halftone photographic plates;
Renwick, Robert. Glasgow Memorials. Glasgow: James Maclehose and Sons, 1908. First edition, one of 600 copies, 4to, original cloth, halftone photographic plates;
Cruikshank, George (illustrator). Midnight Scenes and Social Photographs: being Sketches of Life in the Streets, Wynds, and Dens of the City. By Shadow. Glasgow: Thomas Murray and Son, 1858. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, etched frontispieces (browned and damp-stained), free endpaper removed;
[Rutherglen poet]. Hamely Echoes from an Auld Toun. By Hugh Muir. Glasgow: Aird and Coghill, 1899. First edition, 8vo, original blue cloth, all edges gilt, halftone photographic frontispiece and similar plates;
Strang, John. Glasgow and its Clubs. London: Richard Griffin and Company, 1856. First edition, 8vo, contemporary green half calf;
Campbell, William. History of the Incorporation of Cordiners in Glasgow. Glasgow: Robert Anderson, 1883. First edition, 8vo, original cloth;
Crawfurd, George. A Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the Trades' House of Glasgow. Glasgow: Bell and Bain, 1858. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, folding plate;
Insch, George Pratt. Carmina Glottiana. Poems of Avondale and Clydeside. Edinburgh: Lindsay & Co., 1928. First edition, 8vo, original cloth;
Gibson, John. The History of Glasgow, from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time. Glasgow: for the author, 1777. First edition, 8vo, contemporary sprinkled calf, worn, joints cracked, lacking map;
and approx. 45 others, 19th and first half of the 20th century, including histories of Glasgow parishes, churches, trade organisations, and similar, mainly Glasgow-published, original cloth or wrappers