Lot 632

[Sands, James]

Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photography

Auction: 11 October 2017 at 11:00 BST

£325

Description

A Letter Directed thus, for Mr James Lyon in Kirkwall. [Kirkwall], 1710. [bound with]Lyon, James A Short Account of the Divine Original of Episcopacy... being an Answer to a Letter from Mr James Sands in Birsay. [Kirkwall], 1710. 2 works in one volume, 8vo, early 19th century calf, some browning, rubbed, boards detached; Vedder, David Orcadian Sketches, Legendary and Lyrical Pieces. Edinburgh, 1832, 12mo, contemporary calf, bookplate of John M. Slater of Kirkwall; Weld, C. R. Two Months in the Highlands, Orcadia and Skye. 1860. 8vo, 4 chromolithographed plates, later quarter calf, slightly spotted; Edmonston, Thomas A Flora of Shetland. Aberdeen, 1845. 12mo, original cloth, binding slightly soiled; [Extract] Barclay, Dr. Remarks on some parts of the Animal that was cast ashore on the Island of Stronsa, September 1808. 28pp.,3 plates (2 coloured), half calf; [Masters, J., publisher] Ecclesiological Notes on the Isle of Man, Ross, Sutherland and the Orkneys. 1848, 12mo., original cloth; Johnstone, James The Norwegian Account of Haco's Expedition against Scotland. 1882. 12mo, number 216 of 250 copies, grey half morocco, t.e.g.; Balfour, David Odal Rights and Feudal Wrongs. A Memorial for Orkney. 1860. 8vo, original green cloth; d'Arville, Nicholas The Navigation of King James I round Scotland, the Orkney Isles.. Glasgow, 1819. 12mo, [extracted from larger work], quarter cloth; Traill, William A Genealogical Account of the Traills of Orkney. Kirkwall, 1883. 8vo, 3 plates, original cloth (10)