Lot 171
Scotland - Highlands and Islands
Collection of works, 18th-19th century
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 07 February 2024 from 10:00 GMT
Description
Wallace, James. An Account of the Islands of Orkney. London: Jacob Tonson, 1700. First London edition and first edition under this title, 8vo, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked, engraved folding map, engraved folding plate, 18th-century bookplate of John Spencer Esqr, light browning, rear free endpaper detached [ESTC R34706];
Knox, John. A Tour through the Highlands of Scotland, and the Hebride Isles, in MDCCLXXXVI. London: for J. Walter [and others], 1787. First edition, 8vo, contemporary tree calf gilt, repaired closed tear in O1 [ESTC T92815];
Anderson, James. An Account of the Present State of the Hebrides. And Western Coasts of Scotland: in which an Attempt is made to explain the Circumstances that have hitherto repressed the Industry of the Natives; and some Hints are suggested for encouraging the Fisheries. Edinburgh: G. G. and J. Robinson, 1785. [Bound with:] Fall, Robert. Observations on the Report of the Committee of the House of Commons appointed to enquire into the State of the British Fishery. London: J. Debrett, 1786. First editions (second issue of Anderson's work, the same year as the first), 2 works in 1 volume, 8vo, contemporary marbled calf, rebacked, Anderson with half-title, engraved folding map, engraved speculative town plan, folding letterpress table [ESTC T135827 & N44452]
Buchanan, John Lanne. Travels in the Western Hebrides: from 1782 to 1790. [Bound with:] A Defence of the Scots Highlanders, in General ... with a New and Satisfactory Account of the Picts, Scots, Fingal, Ossian, and his Poems. London: G. G. J. and J. Robinson [-J. Egerton], 1793-4. First editions, 2 works in 1 volume, 8vo, 20th-century half calf, Travels half-title discarded, sig. N2 closely trimmed along bottom edge, A Defence spotted, bound without errata slip but retaining advertisement leaf [ESTC T144646 & T144643];
[Johnson, Samuel]. A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. London: for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1775. First edition, second issue (with six-line errata leaf), 8vo, contemporary sheep, rebacked, spotting and soiling, G4 repaired, endpapers detached [ESTC T83702];
Hill, Rowland. Extract of a Journal of a Second Tour from London through the Highlands of Scotland. London: A. Paris, 1800. 8vo, near-contemporary half calf, half-title discarded, spotting;
and 6 others (these not collated: Charles Richard Weld, Two Months in the Highlands, Orcadia, and Skye, 1860, contemporary tan calf; Thomas Wilkinson, Tours to the British Mountains, 1824, contemporary tan calf by J. Neilson of Glasgow; Catherine Sinclair, Shetland and the Shetlanders ... Second Thousand, 1840, contemporary half calf, spine strengthened; [Anne Grant], Letters from the Mountains, 1807, third edition, 3 volumes in 1, contemporary half calf; [Larkin], Sketch of a Tour in the Highlands of Scotland, 1819, contemporary half calf, rebacked with original spine laid down; Robert Fraser, A Letter to ... Charles Abbot, containing an Inquiry into ... the Extension of the Fisheries, 1803, 20th-century calf)
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Footnote
THE LIBRARY OF DR ANDREW G. FRASER MD FSA SCOT (1937-2020)