Lot 266
Bindings
56 books, mostly leather bound
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 30 September 2020 at 11:00 BST
Description
Walton, Izaac - Charles Cotton - Moses Browne The Compleat Angler. London: Richard and Henry Causton, 1772. Eighth edition, 12mo, engraved frontispiece and 9 plates, contemporary calf, notes in an early hand to endpapers, joints split; Irving, Washington The Alhambra. London: Bell & Daldy, 1870. 12mo, contemporary calf gilt; Munro, Robert Notes of a Tour in the East. Kilmarnock, 1875. 12mo, contemporary calf gilt; Harrison, Joseph The Horticultural Cabinet and Florist's Magazine. London: Whittaker and Co., [1840]. 8vo, volume 8 only, hand-coloured plates, contemporary half-calf; Burns, Robert The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Burns. Kilmarnock: James McKie, 1871. 8vo, 2 volumes, contemporary calf gilt; Pope, Alexander The Odyssey of Homer. London: Vernor and Hood, 1802. 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf; Scott, Sir Walter Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft. New York: Collins & Hannay, 1830. 16mo, first US edition of the work with an inscription from the academic Edgar Johnson to the Scottish author Alistair Mair, dated 1962, cloth wrappers; and a quantity of others (56)