Lot 242

[Newte, Thomas] - Scottish History

Rare Books, Maps and Manuscripts

Auction: 29 August 2012 at 12:00 BST

£450

Description

A tour in England and Scotland in 1785. London: G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1788. 8vo., 6 engraved plates, contemporary calf, some rubbing to boards, cracking to spine and slight spotting to plates; [Gascombe, Professor/an English Officer] The contrast: or Scotland as it was in the year 1745, and Scotland in the year 1819. London: P. Wright & Son, 1825. 8vo., original boards, joints cracking, original paper label rubbed, some foxing to endpapers, bookplate of 'H. Vincent Whitelaw' attached to paste-down endpaper; Belfour, John A new history of Scotland... London: 1770. 12mo., engraved frontispiece, folding map, 7 engraved plates, contemporary calf, [ESTC T101758], slight rubbing and soiling to spine and boards, some marginal dust soiling and spotting, a few closed tears to map; [Anon.] The Scottish tourist, and itinerary... Edinburgh: Stirling & Kenney, 1825. 12mo., engraved frontispiece, 2 folding maps, 5 engraved plates, modern red half morocco, some spotting and offsetting; Cardonnel, Adam de Picturesque antiquities of Scotland. London: Edwards, 1788-1793. Small 4to., 3 volumes, 100 engraved plates with commentaries, original boards, pages untrimmed, some foxing to boards and text (in volume 1), some boards soiled, blue paper peeled away from part of volume 2 and all of volume 3, a few leaves loose, cracking to spine; [Idem] Picturesque antiquities of Scotland. London: Edwards, 1788. Small 4to., parts 1 and 2 together, 24 engraved plates, contemporary half calf, slight fading to spine and rubbing to boards, some spotting; Gregory, I.R. Solitary rambles among the mountains of Scotland in 1853. 4to., manuscript copy of the work, text pages bordered by watercolour thistle motifs, 15 plates, mostly lithographs with some hand-colouring, tissue guards, modern black cloth binding, occasional dust soiling (9)

Footnote

Provenance: Viscount Strathallan, Stobhall, Perthshire