Lot 289
Sobieski Stolberg, John and Stuart, Charles Edward
Rare Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 16 January 2013 at 10:00 GMT
Description
The costume of the clans. Edinburgh: John Menzies, 1845. Large folio, engraved title and 36 plates (29 coloured), contemporary half morocco, rubbed, bumped and soiled, internal dampstaining, soiling and foxing, occasional marginal worming to plates; Grose, Francis The antiquities of Scotland. London: Hooper and Wigstead, 1797. 4to, 2 volumes, 189 (of 190) engraved plates and 2 titles with engraved vignettes, contemporary red morocco gilt, binding rubbed and soiled with some parts lacking leather, occasional spotting and some soiling, hinges weakening; Burns, Thomas Old Scottish communion plate. Edinburgh: R. and R. Clark, 1892. 4to, frontispiece, 86 plates, original red half morocco, t.e.g. binding rubbed, soiled and a little faded, some foxing, hinges repaired but weak; Small, John William Scottish woodwork of the sixteenth & seventeenth centuries... Stirling: Eneas Mackay, n.d. [1878?] Large folio, number 164 of 500 copies, engraved title, plates, original yellow cloth, endpapers darkened, occasional spotting, covers soiled; Armstrong, Sir Walter Sir Henry Raeburn. London: William Heinemann, 1901. Folio, portrait, 61 plates, original red cloth gilt, cloth frayed, covers and spine stained and faded, some foxing; and 16 others, all with 'ex libris' bookplates; sold not subject to return (22)