Scotland
Large collection of works on topography and local history
£580
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 September 2023 at 10:00 BST
Description
Wilson, Daniel. Memorials of Edinburgh in the Olden Time. Edinburgh: Thomas C. Jack, c.1840. 2 volumes, 4to, original green cloth gilt, folding map frontispiece, numerous engraved plates;
St John, Charles. A Tour in Sutherlandshire, with Extracts from the Field-Books of a Sportsman and Naturalist. London: John Murray, 1849. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original green pictorial cloth gilt, 10 engraved plates, wear to spine-ends, tissue-guard for frontispiece of volume 1 removed;
Mackenzie, Colin. Storm and Sunshine of a Soldier's Life. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1884. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, engraved portrait frontispiece (pencil-marking to tissue-guard), rubbing to extremities, half-title inscribed in pencil 'Emma A. P. Dawson, from Mrs Colin Mackenzie, 1884', albumen print mounted to verso;
Craig, R. S., & Adam Laing. The Hawick Tradition of 1514. Hawick: W. & J. Kennedy, 1898. First edition, 4to, original red cloth, frontispiece, folding map to rear, damp-stain to front board and concomitant bleeding of dye into margins of prelims;
Batten, Edmund Chisholm. The Charters of the Priory of Beauly. [Edinburgh]: for the Grampian Club, 1877. First edition, 8vo, original cloth;
Penney, John. A Topographical and Historical Account of Linlithgowshire. Edinburgh: Stevenson, 1832. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, engraved additional title-page (dated 1831);
Edwards-Moss, John E. A Season in Sutherland. London: Macmillan and Co., 1888. First edition, 8vo, original blue cloth, bookplate of Charles Thomas-Stanford (1858-1932);
Sharpe, J. Selkirk: its Church, its School, and its Presbytery. Selkirk: James Lewis, c.1914. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, 4 halftone photographic plates;
Mackay, Donald. Memories of our Parish (Parish of Reay, Caithness). Dingwall: Ross-shire Printing & Publishing Co., Ltd., 1925. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, 2 plates, presentation inscription from the author;
Horne, John. Summer Days in Cattiland. Wick: office of the "John O'Groat Journal", c.1910. First edition, 8vo, original cloth-backed boards;
MacCormick, John. An t-Eilean Muileach. The Island of Mull. Its History, Scenes and Legends. Glasgow: Alex. Maclaren & Sons, 1923. First edition, 8vo, original cloth;
Evans, A. H. A Fauna of the Tweed Area. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1911. First edition, 8vo, plates, bookplates;
Tait, E. S. Reid (editor). The Statistical Account of Shetland 1791-1799 ... by Sir John Sinclair. Lerwick: T. & J. Manson, 1925. 4to, original cloth;
Metcalfe, William M. A History of the County of Renfrew from the Earliest Times. Paisley: Alexander Gardner, 1905. 4to, original quarter vellum, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, folding map (detached, spotted);
Anderson, Joseph (editor). The Orkneying Saga. Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1873. 8vo, original cloth, lithographic frontispiece, plates;
and approx. 40 others including Edinburgh and provincial Scottish imprints