Lot 463
ORKNEY, SHETLAND AND OTHER TRAVEL
INCLUDING EDMONSTON, A.
Rare Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 19 June 2019 at 12:00 BST
Description
Observations on the Nature and Extent of the Cod Fishery carried on off the Coasts of the Zetland and Orkney Islands. Edinburgh: William Laing, 1820. 8vo, modern calf gilt; Burrows, C.W. Scapa and a Camera. London, 1921. 4to, dust-jacket; and another copy; Photograph Album entitled 'T.W. Millard, His Book', containing various photographs taken at King Street, Kirkwall, in 1898, alongside several photographs of boats; G.W. Wilson & Coy. Photographs of Orkney. Aberdeen, [n.d.] Original boards; Kent, Thos. Souvenir of Orkney. Kirkwall, c.1920. Oblong 8vo, later cloth; Photograph Album containing 12 photographs of Orkney, Stromness and Shetland by James Valentine; Haldane, R.C. Notes on Whaling in Shetland, 1904. [Ollaberry, 1904] 8vo, original wrappers bound into a larger book, with the compliments sticker of J.A. Harvie-Brown; Skraemur The Loves and Death of Lady Sarah... Kirkwall: David Spence, 1872. 8vo, later half calf; [Balfour, David] Odal Rights and Feudal Wrongs in Memorial for Orkney. Edinburgh, 1860. 8vo, original cloth, with the author's compliments to flyleaf; Marwick, Ernest W. unbound draft copies of Journey from Serfdom and The Sufficient Place; Lear, Edward Views in the Seven Ionian Islands. Oldham: Hugh Broadbent, [1986.] Folio, facsimile edition number 653 of 1000 numbered copies, original green cloth gilt; and 17 others, sold not subject to return (30)