Lot 59
Arbroath
Collection of works about or printed in Arbroath or environs
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 07 February 2024 from 10:00 GMT
Description
1) With the Scottish Yeomanry. Being a Reprint, somewhat altered and extended, of Letters written from South Africa during the War of 1899-1901 by Thomas F. Dewar ... surgeon-captain ... Imperial Yeomanry. Arbroath: T. Buncle & Co., 1901. First edition, 8vo, original cloth;
2) Poems and Songs from the Hackle-Shop by James Greig, Arbroath. Arbroath: Thomas Buncle, 1887. First edition, 8vo, contemporary half roan;
3) Poems and Songs by Alf. T. Matthews, Arbroath. Arbroath: Arbroath Herald Office, 1891. First edition, 8vo, contemporary blue quarter roan, contents partly unopened);
4) Poems on Various Subjects: Political, Satirical, and Humorous. First Series. By John Sim Sands, Writer in Arbroath. Arbroath: Stewart, 1833. First edition, 8vo, near-contemporary half calf, lithographic portrait frontispiece;
5) A Record of Lunan, its Descent and Transmission, from 1189 to 1849, by William Blair-Imrie. Edinburgh: Waterston and Sons, 1902. First edition, one of 50 copies printed for the author, 4to, original red morocco gilt, top edge gilt, addressed in manuscript on limitation leaf to J. M. McBain FSA (dedicatee of Poems and Songs from the Hackle-Shop, q.v.);
6) Collections and Observations Methodized; concerning the Worship, Discipline, and Government of the Church of Scotland ... by Walter Steuart, Esq. of Pardovan. Arbroath: J. Findlay for A. Brown, 1802. First edition, 8vo, viii 234 2 pp., contemporary half calf, covers detached, spotting to title-page;
7) The History of Dundee ... by James Thomson. Dundee: Robert Walker, 1847. First edition, 8vo, contemporary green half calf, engraved frontispiece and additional title-page;
8) Reminiscences of Arbroath and St Andrews by D. S. Salmond. Arbroath: Brodie and Salmond, 1905. First edition, 8vo, original green cloth, 7 photographic plates;
9) [Angus]. Sammelband of locally-printed pamphlets, including: i) A Garland for the Ancient City; or, Love Songs of Brechin and its Neighbourhood, with Historical Notes, by Colin Sievwright, Brechin: D. H. Edwards, 1881; ii) Maryton, Records of the Past. A Lecture delivered in the Public School of Maryton, January 18, 1877, by Rev. William R. Fraser, Montrose: Alex. Burnett, 1877; iii) Brechin Cathedral: its History ... by the Rev. James Landreth, Brechin: D. H. Edwards, 1883; iv) Five Score and One: a Sketch of the Life of Mrs John Alexander, Brechin: D. H. Edwards, 1883; v) The Earl of Dalhousie and his Tenantry, Banquet at Edzell Castle, 1882; vi) For Love's Sake: being a Farewell Sermon preached in the West Free Church, Brechin ... by James M'Cosh, Brechin: D. H. Edwards, 1884; and approx. 6 others;
10) Celebration of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in Arbroath. Arbroath: Brodie & Salmond, 1897. First edition, 8vo, original quarter japon;
and 25 others, including Natural History of Arbroath and District by Thomas F. Dewar, 1893 (first edition, original cloth, inscribed), The Sough o' the Shuttle; or Poems and Songs by Colin Sievwright, Weaver, Kirriemuir, Dundee, 1866 (first edition, original wrappers, front wrapper near detached), Bannatyne Club, Liber S. Thome de Aberbrothoc, Edinburgh, 1848 (4to, original cloth), An Original Collection of the Poems of Ossian, Orrann, Ulin, and other Bards ... collected and edited by Hugh and John M'Callum, Montrose: printed at the Review Newspaper Office, 1816 (8vo, original boards, rear board detached, front board near detached), and similar (including broader Scottish interest)
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Footnote
Provenance: J. M. McBain FSA, author of Arbroath: Past and Present (1887); thence by descent.