Lot 166

[Prostitution] Logan, William

The Great Social Evil: its Causes, Extent, Results, and Remedies

£693

Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs

Auction: 07 February 2024 from 10:00 GMT

Description

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1871. First and only edition, 8vo, 240 [2] pp., original dark red cloth lettered and decorated in gilt and black;
Tait, William. Magdalenism. An Inquiry into the Extent, Causes, and Consequences, of Prostitution in Edinburgh. Edinburgh: P. Rickard, 1842. Second edition, 8vo, xx 360 pp., original cloth, recased and relined;
Creech, William. Edinburgh Fugitive Pieces. Edinburgh: for William Creech and T. Cadell, 1791. First edition, 8vo, contemporary tree calf, rubbed, joints cracked, extra-illustrated with frontispiece from the 1815 second edition [ESTCT102224];
[Jacobite Rebellion of 1745]. The Life, Adventures, and Many Great Vicissitudes of Fortune of Simon, Lord Lovat, the Head of the Family of Frasers ... by the Rev. Archibald Arbuthnot. London: printed and sold (for the Author) by R. Walker, 1746. 8vo, contemporary marbled boards with sheep backstrip, engraved frontispiece;
and 22 others (these not collated), including: Dalzel, History of the University of Edinburgh, 1862 (first edition, 2 volumes, original cloth, endpapers renewed); Creech, Edinburgh Fugitive Pieces, 1815 (second edition, original boards, rebacked, frontispiece); Cuthbertson, Revelations of a Library Life, 1923 (first edition, original cloth, inscribed by author on mounted slip); Autobiography of Mrs Fletcher, 1875 (first public edition, original cloth); [J. G. Lockhart], Peter's Letters to his Kinsfolk, 1819 (third edition, 3 volumes, contemporary tan calf, armorial bookplates); Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ... Illustrated Edition, c.1840 (2 volumes, large 8vo, contemporary half calf, engraved plates); and similar, Scottish interest and literature, privately printed works, etc.
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Footnote

THE LIBRARY OF DR ANDREW G. FRASER MD FSA SCOT (1937-2020)