Lot 323
Scotland - Grierson, Flora
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: 4 September 2013 at 12:00 BST
Description
Haunting Edinburgh.1929. Number 17 of 110 copies signed by the author, original signed etching by Katharine Cameron, original cloth-backed boards, uncut, Ewing, J.C. Robert Burns's commonplace book 1783-1785. Glasgow, 1938. Folio, number 196 of 475 copies, original cloth, t.e.g., Fenwick, R.O. The Gobling room; a tale of Dunse. Edinburgh, 1809. First edition, 4to, half calf; Ritchie, James The influence of man on animal life in Scotland. 1920. 8vo, torn dust-jacket; Hooker, W.J. Flora Scotica. London, 1821. 8vo, green calf gilt; Dobson, W.T. History of the Bassandyne Bible. 1887. 8vo, original cloth; Burns, Robert The Geddes Burns. Boston, 1908. 8vo, limited to 473 copies, original calf, uncut, slipcase; Stewart, D.W. Old and rare Scottish tartans. 1893. 4to, number 210 of 250 copies, coloured plates, original buckram gilt, t.e.g.; Grant, J. Cassell's OId and new Edinburgh. [c.1880], 3 volumes, 4to, contemporary half calf; [Anonymous] A holiday notes of a week-end cruise on the S.Y. Valda. Edinburgh: Privately Printed, 1903. 4to, mounted photographs, blue morocco gilt, rubbed; Scott, A.M. The battle of Langside MDLXVIII. Glasgow, 1885. 4to, folding map, frontispiece, morocco-backed cloth, part of spine lacking, Butler, D. The Tron kirk of Edinburgh. 1906. 4to, blue buckram, dustwrapper frayed; MacGregor, G. The history of Burke and Hare. 1884. 8vo, original cloth; Wilson, G.W. & Co. Scottish scenery. 10 mounted photographic plates, red morocco, worn; Gilchrist, John A collection of Scottish ballads, tales and songs. Leith, 1814. 2 volumes, 12mo, modern cloth; Royal Commission on the Ancient Monuments of Scotland. Orkney and Sheland. Edinburgh, 1946. 3 volumes; East Lothian. 1924; Fife, Kinross and Clackmannan. 1933; Mid-Lothian and West Lothian. 1929. 2 copies; Edinburgh. 1951, all Edinburgh, 4to, original cloth, last two with dust-jacket; and 9 others (35)