Lot 172
Scotland
Group of histories and travel accounts, 18th-early 19th century
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 07 February 2024 from 10:00 GMT
Description
Arnot, Hugo. The History of Edinburgh, Edinburgh: W. Creech, 1779 & 1788. 2 copies, first and second editions, both 4to (26.5 x 19.5cm), contemporary calf, rebacked, first edition with engraved frontispiece, folding plan of Edinburgh (backed on linen), contemporary bookplate and ownership inscription (Tower of Alloa, seats of the earls of Mar), binding rubbed, contents toned, spotting to endpapers, frontispiece offset, second edition with advertisement leaf (not present in all copies), directions to the binder leaf, engraved folding plan (with short closed tear), 19 engraved plates (most folding, plate facing p. 565 repaired along top edge and with stain in image), lacking leaf 4N1 (Appendix XI, pp. 649/50, possibly cancelled), but with leaf 4N2 (Appendix XII, pp. 651/2) present in two states, the first with verso blank [ESTC T142880 & T143106];
Garnett, Thomas. Observations on a Tour through the Highlands and Part of the Western Isles of Scotland, particularly Staffa and Icolmkill. London: T. Cadell, Junior, and W. Davies, 1800. First edition, 2 volumes in 1, 4to, 20th-century quarter calf, 2 engraved maps (one folding), 52 aquatint plates, browning and spotting to text, plates offset, a few marked, old repairs to folding map, title-page laid down, repaired closed tear in volume 1 pp. 333/4 [Abbey Scenery 482; ESTC T131649];
[Thomson, William]. Prospects and Observations on a Tour in England and Scotland: Natural, Oeconomical, and Literary. By Thomas Newte. London: G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1791. First edition, 4to, contemporary calf, engraved folding map (repaired), 23 engraved plates, front joint cracked, excision to lower margin of 2D1, damp-stains to a few plates [T1309];
Carr, Sir John. Caledonian Sketches, or a Tour through Scotland in 1807. London: Mathews and Leigh, 1809. First edition, 4to, contemporary half calf, 12 aquatint plates (including folding frontispiece view of Edinburgh), front board detached [Abbey Scenery 488];
and 7 others (these not collated: James Bone, Edinburgh Revisited, 1911; J. Stewart Smith, The Grange of St Giles, 1898; Clement B. Gunn & Others, George Heriot's Hospital, c.1900; James Colston, The Guildry of Edinburgh, 1887; Robert Miller, The Municipal Buildings of Edinburgh, 1895; Alexander Heron, The Rise and Progress of the Company of Merchants of the City of Edinburgh, 1903; D. Butler, The Tron Kirk of Edinburgh, 1906)
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Footnote
THE LIBRARY OF DR ANDREW G. FRASER MD FSA SCOT (1937-2020)