Scotland
10 volumes, comprising
£300
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 2 February 2022 at 10:00 GMT
Description
The Laws and Acts of Parliament made by King James the First, Second... Edinburgh: printed by David Lindsay, 1681. Folio, engraved coat of arms, additional engraved title-page, title-page in red and black, 9 portraits, contemporary calf, lacking inserted leaves between p.2O2 and 2O3 which should be entitled "The King's Majestie's Letter...", rubbed, joints split; Manuscript: "A few Scenes of Scottish Story, to cousin Carlie, with love from E. Sinne". [c.1870], 4to, 9 leaves of original pen and ink illustrations mounted on thick card with manuscript verses on verso, pictorial cloth with ties; Victoria, Queen Leaves from the Journal of our Life in the Highlands. 1868; More Leaves from the Journal of a Life in the Highlands. 1884, plates, original green cloth and original pictorial green cloth, the first lightly rubbed; Lauder, Thomas Dick An Account of the Great Floods of August 1829. Edinburgh, 1830, Second edition, 8vo, plates, maps, modern quarter calf, uncut; Haldane, Gen. Sir J. A.L. The Haldanes of Gleneagles. 1929, presentation copy to B.E.A. Napier, and with autograph letter from author, bookplate (slightly damaged) of Hon. Wm. Napier loosely inserted, original decorated cloth gilt, t.e.g.; Knott, C.G. Napier Tercentenary Memorial Volume. 1915. 4to, presentation copy to John Scott Napier, original white buckram gilt, t.e.g.; Geikie, Walter Etchings illustrative of Scottish Character and Scenery. [c. 1853]. 4to, 94 etched plates, contemporary maroon half morocco, slightly rubbed; Geikie, Walter Etchings illustrative of Scottish Character and Scenery. 1884. 4to, one of 50 copies with proof impressions of the plates on India Paper, original blue pictorial cloth gilt, uncut, binding lightly soiled; Greig, G .and A. Keith Last leaves of Traditional Ballads and Ballad Airs. Aberdeen, 1925. 4to, original buckram, t.e.g. (10)