Lot 315
Orkney & Shetlands, a collection of 23 volumes including Ployen, C.
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photography
Auction: 13 January 2016 at 11:00 GMT
Description
Reminiscences of a voyage to Shetland, Orkney & Scotland. Lerwick, 1894, original cloth; Clouston, J.S. A history of Orkney. Kirkwall, 1932, original cloth; Royal Commission on the Ancient Monuments of Scotland. Orkney. 1946, 3 volumes, 4to., plates, ex-library; Small, A. St. Ninian's Isle and its treasure. 1973. 2 volumes, 4to, dust-jackets; Tudor, J.R. The Orkneys and Shetland. 1883. 8vo, original cloth, ex-library copy; Pitt, F. Shetland pirates. 1923, original cloth; Berry, R.J. & J.L. Johnston. The natural history of Shetland. 1986. 8vo, dust-jacket; Holbourn, I.B.S. The Isle of Foula. 1938, original cloth, spine faded; Goudie, G. The Celtic and Scandinavian antiquities of Shetland. 1904, original cloth, ex-library; Evans, A.H. & T.E. Buckley A vertebrate fauna of the Shetland Islands. Edinburgh, 1899, original cloth; Tait, E.S.R. The Hjaltland Miscellany. Lerwick, 1934. 4to., volume 1 only, quarter cloth; Scott, H. Fasti ecclesiae Scoticanae. 1928, volume 7 only, original cloth; Cowie, R. Shetland. Aberdeen, 1871, folding map torn, original cloth, slightly soiled; and 8 more recent books (23)