Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire
Collection of works of local interest including local imprints
£378
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 19 June 2024 from 10:00 BST
Description
Burnett, Alexander G., Laird of Kemnay. [Three travel accounts:] France and the French, a Lecture delivered at Kemnay Parish School, Aberdeenshire; Italian Experiences, being the Substance of a Lecture delivered in Kemnay Parish School; A Trip to Norway, in the St. Rognvald. Aberdeen: James Murray, 1868-78-87. 8vo, original varicoloured cloth, each work with folding colour map as frontispiece, France and the French and Italian Experiences each with bookplate of W. Kendall Burnett, A Trip to Norway with ownership inscription of Amelia Burnett dated Kemnay 1887;
Leslie, John. Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments … published for the Benefit of the Shipwrecked Seaman's Fund. Aberdeen: D. Chalmers and Co., 1822. First edition, 8vo, uncut in original boards, half-title, front board near-detached;
Innes, Thomas. The Chronicle of the Familly of Innes of Edingight. Aberdeen: privately printed, 1898. First edition, inscribed ‘from the author Tho. Innes’, 4to, original cloth;
Wilson, G. W. Photographs of Aberdeen and Vicinity. Aberdeen: John Duffus, 1867. First edition, 4to, original cloth, 12 albumen-print photographs mounted on card, cloth very mottled, textblock detached from binding;
Elphinstone-Dalrymple, C. Lays, Highland and Lowland. Aberdeen: John Rae Smith, 1885. First edition, 8vo, original red cloth (sunned);
Buchan, Peter. Gleanings of Scotch, English, and Irish, Scarce Old Ballads, chiefly Tragical and Historical; many of them connected with the Localities of Aberdeenshire. Peterhead: P. Buchan, 1825. 8vo, contemporary half calf, lacking pp. 213/14;
and 20 others similar, including general Scotland interest (e.g. R. Carruthers, The Highland Note-Book, 1843, original cloth, Bannatyne Club, Descrittione del regno di Scotia di Petruccio Ubaldini, 1829, original boards, backstrip perished (28)
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. Bogdan was also a descendant of the Burnett family of Kemnay.