Lot 369
SCOTTISH PAMPHLETS, A COLLECTION
OF 10 ITEMS, COMPRISING
Rare Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 19 June 2019 at 12:00 BST
Description
1) [Voght, Caspar] Account of the Management of the Poor in Hamburgh, since the year 1788. Edinburgh, 1795. 8vo, [2],61,[1]p. , [ESTC: 23 copies]
2) The Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor. The First Report. London: T. Becket, 1797. 8vo, [2],xv,[3],46,6p., [ESTC: 10 copies in UK, 6 in USA, 2 in Australia]
3) [Lowe, Alexander]. Account of the Drilled Turnip Husbandry of Berwickshire. 8vo, 16pp., [ESTC: L & NLS]
4) Howlett, John. Dispersion of the Gloomy Apprehensions of late repeatedly suggested, from the Decline of our Corn-Trade. London: W. Richardson, 1797. 8vo, 4, 52pp., with half-title, [ESTC: 7 copies in UK, 2 in USA]
5) Importance of the Brewery Stated. Edinburgh: P. Hill & T.N. Longman, 1798. 8vo, [2],74,10,18p., [ESTC: 2 copies in UK, 3 in USA]
6) Number XXVIII. Parish of Peterhead... by the Rev. Dr Moir. pp. 541-630, extracted from periodical.
7) epertory of Arts and Manufactures. Number L. [Dec. 12, 1797], 8vo, 24pp., 1 plate, [extract from]
8) An Important Crisis, in the Callico and Muslin Manufactory in Great Britain, explained. [London, 9th April, 1788, dated at end] 8vo, 28pp., drop-head title, [ESTC: 7 copies in UK, 4 in N. America]
9) Letter from Bailies Dalrymple, Smith and Hall, to the Lord Provost at Peterhead. [Edinburgh, 1 August 1798], 8vo, 24pp., drophead title, [ESTC: 3 copies in UK, 1 in N. America]
10) [?Wood, J.] Elements of Perspective. [n.p., n.d.] 8vo, 64pp., 6 folding plates, [possibly ESTC T113885, incomplete]; 10 items in one volume, contemporary quarter calf, vellum tips, red morocco label "Miscellanies" , numbered "273" in gilt on spine, bookplate of Sir William Forbes Bart. of Pitsligo; and a volume of later articles [c. 1806-15], extracted from magazines, 8vo, contemporary half calf (2)