Lot 49
Orkney
A collection of 10 works
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 07 February 2024 from 10:00 GMT
Description
Peterkin, Alexander. Notes on Orkney and Zetland. Edinburgh: Macredie, Skelly, and Company, 1822. Volume 1 (all published), 8vo, frontispiece and engraved plate, later cloth;
The Statistical Account of the Orkney Islands by the Ministers of the Respective Parishes... Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1842. 8vo, original green cloth gilt;
Baikie, W.B. Historia Naturalis Orcadensis. Zoology, part 1... Edinburgh: J. and W. Paterson, 1848. 8vo, original cloth;
Saint Magnus of The Orkneys. Paisley: Alexander Gardner, 1887. 8vo, original wrappers torn;
Macbeath, James M. The Orkneys in Celtic Times. Kirkwall: William Peace & Son, 1892. 8vo, frontispiece, 2 double-sided plates, 11 single plates, original cloth gilt;
Cursiter, James W. List of Books and Pamphlets relating to Orkney and Shetland. Kirkwall: Wm. Peace & Son, 1894. 8vo, original black morocco gilt;
Steuart, A. Francis. Diary of Thomas Brown. Kirkwall: William Peace & Son, 1898. 8vo, inscribed by the author to a female relative, original half cloth;
Johnston, A.W. The Round Church and Earl's Bú of Orphir, Orkney. Coventry: Curtis & Beamish, Ltd., 1903. 8vo, 4 maps (one torn out), original purple cloth;
Middlemore, Thomas. Hoy and Walls Improvement Scheme, reply to Mr. J.C. Wason's Attacks. Kirkwall, [n.d. but c.1903] 8vo, original wrappers bound into modern brown morocco gilt;
Poetical Descriptions of Orkney MDCLII. [Edinburgh, 1835?] 8vo, 19th or early 20th century green half morocco
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