Spalding Club
Collection of works
£202
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 19 June 2024 from 10:00 BST
Description
All 4to, original green cloth (variable mottling and damp-staining to bindings), titles comprise:
Abredoniae Utriusque Descriptio. A Description of Both Touns of Aberdeen by James Gordon, Parson of Rothemay, 1842 (damp-staining); A Breiffe Narration of the Services done to Three Noble Ladyes, by Gilbert Blakhal, 1844; The Heraldic Ceiling of the Cathedral Church of St Machar, Old Aberdeen, 1888 (one of 525 copies); Hectoris Boetii Murthlacensium et Aberdonensium Episcoporum Vitae, 1894 (one of 500 copies, frontispiece near-detached); The Records of Aboyne, 1894 (one of 525 copies); Records of Old Aberdeen MCLVII-MDCCCXCI, 1899 (one of 525 copies); The Family of Burnett of Leys, 1901 (one of 525 copies); The Blackhalls of that Ilk and Barra, 1905 (2 copies, each one of 500, one copy with title-page detaching); Bibliographia Aberdonensis, 1929 (2 volumes); Mystics of the North-East, 1931; The Prehistoric Antiquities of the Howe of Cromar, 1931; The Jacobite Cess Roll for the County of Aberdeen in 1715, 1932; The Valuation of the County of Aberdeen for the Year 1667, 1933; Drawings of Aberdeenshire Castles, 1936; The House of Forbes, 1937; Powis Papers, 1951; The Place-Names of Aberdeenshire, 1952; George Strachan. Memorials of a Wandering Scottish Scholar of the Seventeenth Century, 1956; Together with 2 copies of William Temple, The Thanage of Fermatyn, Aberdeen, 1894, 4to, original green cloth, similar condition to the preceding (22)
Provenance
From the library of the late Robert Bogdan (1950-2023), of Boghead of Torries and Dykehead of Avochie, Aberdeenshire, geography master at Charterhouse and sometime chairman of the Scottish Castles Association.