Lot 109
Map - Ainslie, John
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Description
Scotland drawn and engrav'd from a series of angles and astronomical observations. Edinburgh: "Published according to Act of Parliament with improvements till 1800 by Thomas Brown", large folding map on 9 sheets, engraved and hand-coloured in outline, dissected and backed on linen, each sheet c. 60.5 x 55cm., contemporary morocco case with flap, case somewhat worn, map clean; Foster, J.J. The Stuarts. London: Dickinson's, 1902. Folio, 2 volumes, 116 (of 129) plates and illustrations, extra-illustrated with 60 additional plates, contemporary red half morocco gilt, some foxing to plates and pages and some slight fading to covers; Hooker, Sir W.J. Perth-shire illustrated... Glasgow: A . Fullarton and Co., 1843. Folio, 63 engraved plates, panelled green morocco with acanthus pattern, gilt tooling, spine tooled with gilt floral pattern, edges gilt, rubbing and fading to spine and covers, some foxing to plates; Gibbon, Edward Miscellaneous works, with memoirs of his life and writings composed by himself: illustrated from his letters, with occasional notes and narrative by John Lord Sheffield, in two volumes. London: A. Strathan, T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1796. 4to., silhouette portrait, contemporary tree calf, neatly rebacked with original spines, occasional light spotting (6)
Footnote
Provenance: Viscount Strathallan, Stobhall, Perthshire