Orkney
Collection of works on Orkney including local imprints
£530
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 19 June 2024 from 10:00 BST
Description
All 8vo and in original cloth unless otherwise stated. Including:
Pictures from the Orkney Island by John T. Reid. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1881. First edition, one of 500 copies only, 4to;
Rentals of the Ancient Earldom and Bishoprick of Orkney … collected by Alexander Peterkin. Edinburgh: printed in the year 1820. Later half sheep, half-title, tear to head of spine, section excised from front free endpaper, 6D2-3 working loose;
A Collection of Armorials of the County of Orkney … by H. L. Norton Smith. Illustrated by A. M. Traill. Galashiels: printed for the author, 1902. First edition, one of 200 copies only;
The Orkneying Saga, translated from the Icelandic … edited … by Joseph Anderson. Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1873. First edition;
A Peculiar People and Other Orkney Tales. By J. T. Smith Leask. Kirkwall: W. R. Mackintosh, 1931. First edition;
A History of Orkney by J. Storer Clouston. Kirkwall: W. R. Mackintosh, 1932. First edition;
The History of the Kirkwall United Presbyterian Congregation … by the Rev. David Webster. Kirkwall: William Peace & Son, 1910. Contemporary red half-calf (sunned and sunned);
St. Magnus - Earl of Orkney. By John Mooney. Kirkwall: W. R. Mackintosh, 1935. First edition;
Fifteen Centuries of the Church in Orkney. By the Rev. Andrew J. Campbell. Kirkwall: Kirkwall Press, 1938. First edition;
Orkney and the Last Great War. Being Excerpts from the Correspondence of Admiral Alexander Graeme of Graemeshall 1788-1815. Kirkwall: William Peace & Son, 1915. First edition, original quarter cloth;
‘Pateas Amicis’. The Story of the House of Graemeshall in Orkney. Kirkwall: The Proprietor of the “Orkney Herald”, 1936. First edition, original quarter cloth, glassine dust jacket (probably not original);
and 16 others (the lot not fully collated and sold as seen) (27)