Lot 167
Edinburgh and Scotland
Collection of topographical and historical works, 18th-19th century
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 07 February 2024 from 10:00 GMT
Description
all 4to, comprising:
Wood, John Philp. The Antient and Modern State of the Parish of Cramond. To which are added, Biographical and Genealogical Collections ... comprehending a Sketch of the Life and Projects of John Law of Lauriston, Comptroller General of the Finances of France. Edinburgh: John Paterson, 1794. Near-contemporary calf, viii 291 [3] pp., engraved map, 7 engraved plates, mezzotint portrait of John Law, 3 folding letterpress pedigrees, list of plates at rear, front joint superficially cracked but holding, head of spine slightly defective;
Trotter, Alexander. Observations in Illustration of his Modified Plan of a Communication between the New and the Old Town of Edinburgh. Edinburgh: for Laing & Forbes; and R. Ackermann, London, 1834. [Bound with:] A Plan of Communication between the New and Old Town of Edinburgh, in the Line of the Earthen Mount ... Second Edition, greatly enlarged, with Additional Plates. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1829. 2 works in 1 volume, contemporary cloth-backed boards, printed pink paper label to front, Observations with engraved frontispiece view, engraved plan, A Plan with 6 lithographic or engraved plates, all folding (plate 3 with outer section reattached), the 2 works divided by a publisher's notice on pink paper (1 f., 'What follows is Mr. Trotter's Original Plan of 1828, now abandoned, as mentioned on first page of the preceding observations')
Johnstone, J. & J. Historical and Descriptive Account of the Palace and Chapel-Royal of Holyroodhouse. Edinburgh: J. Cunningham and J. & J. Johnstone, 1826. First edition, one of an unknown copies with proof plates on india paper, original printed boards, rebacked, engraved dedication, vignette title-page and 8 plates, all printed on india paper and mounted, inscribed 'To Mr John Graham Macdonald Bart, from his much obliged servants the engravers' on the front free endpaper, spotting;
Lees, J. Cameron. St Giles', Edinburgh, Church, College, and Cathedral, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day. Edinburgh: W. & R. Chambers, 1889. One of 50 copies on large paper, this copy out-of-series and annotated 'Publishers' Copy' on the limitation page, apparently by the author, with his signature below, contemporary half morocco (spine sunned), Chambers family bookplate to front pastedown;
Gregory, James. Memorial to the Managers of the Royal Infirmary. Edinburgh: Murray & Cochrane, 1800. 19th-century half calf, bookplate of the barons Napier, front joint split but held by cords;
Robertson, D. H. The Sculptured Stones of Leith. Leith: Reid & Son, 1851. First edition, contemporary green half calf (rubbed), tinted lithographic additional title-page, 18 tinted lithographic plates (slightly spotted), folding plan;
and 6 others (these not collated), all with engraved plates, including: Thomas Allom, Scotland, c.1835; J. Ewbank, Picturesque Views of Edinburgh, 1825; Thomas H. Shepherd, Modern Athens, 1829; Daniel Wilson, Memorials Edinburgh in the Olden Time, 1848 (2 volumes); and similar
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Footnote
THE LIBRARY OF DR ANDREW G. FRASER MD FSA SCOT (1937-2020)
The Antient and Modern State of the Parish of Cramond is also of Indian interest, containing an account of John Law's time as French governor-general of Pondicherry.