Orkney
2 works
£530
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 September 2023 at 10:00 BST
Description
Sutherland, Elizabeth Leveson-Gower, Duchess of. Views in Orkney and on the North-Eastern Coast of Scotland. [London?: privately printed], 1807. Folio, 20th-century half morocco, edges untrimmed, half-title, etched title-page, 27 pp., 28 etched plates, etched vignettes in text, clipped inscription 'THe RIght Honourable The Speaker, etc. etc, with the Marchioness of Stafford's Compliments' mounted to front pastedown, bookplate of Charles Abbot, 1st Baron Colchester (1757-1829), sometime Speaker of the House of Commons, reimposed to front pastedown, additional bookplates of Matthew Henry Whitty Devenish and John Davie Manson Robertson, toning, spotting to half-title and title-page;
and 1 other (F. W. L. Thomas, Account of some of the Celtic Antiquities of Orkney, 1851, 4to, later half morocco)