Lot 183
A quantity of books on Scotland and other subjects, including
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: 15 January 2014 at 11:00 GMT
Description
Simpson, William Glasgow in the "forties". Glasgow, 1899. 4to, number 140 of 500 copies, photogravure frontispiece, 47 plates and a portrait,; Marwick, Sir James D. The river Clyde and the Clyde burghs. Glasgow, 1909. 4to, portrait, plates, folding maps; [Idem] Early Glasgow... Glasgow, 1911. 4to, number 53 of 60 copies with plates on Japanese vellum, original red quarter morocco gilt; The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland... Edinburgh, [n.d.]. 4 volumes, 240 plates, contemporary calf gilt, bookplates; Clerk, John Collection of 52 Views of Scotland...in 1786. 1915. Folio, limited to 200 copies, 52 plates on 40 loose sheets of card contained in their original box file; Bone, Muirhead Glasgow: fifty drawings. Glasgow, 1911. Folio, 52 (of 53) engraved plates (plate 6 lacking), including 3 coloured lithographs; Irving, John Dumbarton Castle... Dumbarton, 1917. 4to, blue cloth, spine soiled and bumped, covers a little soiled and rubbed; Crawfurd, George A general description of the Shire of Renfrew... Paisley, 1818. 4to; Strutt, Joseph The sports and pastimes of people in England. 1830. 8vo, hand-coloured woodcuts throughout; Scrope, William Days and nights of salmon fishing. 1898. 8vo, 14 plates (3 coloured); Malloch, P.D. Life-history and habits of the salmon. 1910. First edition, 4to, original pictorial boards; Colquhoun, John The moor and the loch. Edinburgh, 1878. 2 volumes, fourth edition; Bewick, T. A history of British birds. Newcastle, 1821. 2 volumes, 8vo; Ransome, Arthur Mainly about fishing. 1959. 8vo, dust-jacket; Tambs, Erling The cruise of the Teddy. [n.d.] 8vo, introduction by Arthur Ransome, green cloth, spine faded, with a loose note: For the sailing Dobsons, from Arthur Ransome; Bellin, Jacques Nicolas L'empire de la Chine, 1748. 423x135mm., hand-coloured in parts, some very slight browning; and a quantity of other books, sold not subject to return