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Books & Manuscripts Sale on Thursday 8th March 2007

Lot numbers:

1-30 of 228

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Description & Estimate

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Barry, John. History of the Orkney islands. . . second edition. Longman, London, 1808. Folding map, plates, calf, rebacked; Cordiner, Charles. Antiquities & Scenery of the North of Scotland. London, 1780. Plates, 4to, cont. calf. (2) £100-200

Nil

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420
2 Bristed, John. Anthroplanomenos (Greek) or a Pedestrian tour through . . . the Highlands of Scotland. Wallis, London, 1803. 2 vol., coloured frontispiece, some browning, modern half calf; and 8 others, Scottish. (10) £50-100

Nil

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440
3 Buchanan, J.L. Travels in the Western Hebrides. London, 1793. Recent half calf; [Newte, Thomas] A Tour in England and Scotland. London, 1788. Modern half calf; [Larkin.] Sketch of a Tour in the Highlands. London, 1819. 19th century cloth, leather label; and 4 others. (7) £100-120

Nil

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420
4 Buchanan, Robert. The Land of Lorne. Chapman, London, 1871. 2 vol., photographic plates, original cloth, bit worn. (2) £40-80

Nil

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80
5 [Chapman, Robert]. The Picture of Glasgow, and strangers' Guide . . . third edition. Chapman, Glasgow, 1818. Plates, original boards, repaired; and nine others, guides & almanacks. (10) £40-80

Nil

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130
6 Dalgleish, W. Scott. The cruise of the RMS Dunottar Castle round Scotland. Constable, Edinburgh, 1890. Illustrations, 4to; Ferguson, Malcolm. Rambles in Skye. Murchland, Irvine, 1885; Leyden, John. Journal of a tour in the Highlands. Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1903; Smith, W. Anderson. Lewsiana, or, Life in the outer Hebrides. London, 1875. All original cloth, the last worn; and six others, Scottish. (10) £50-100

Nil

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380
7 Garnett, T. Observations on a tour through the Highlands. Cadell, London, 1800. 2 vol., 4to., plates, rather browned, map, half calf, bit worn; and another, similar. (3) £60-100

Nil

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8 Grant, James. The tartans of the clans of Scotland. Johnston, Edinburgh, 1886. Chromolithographic plates, cloth worn; Loch, James. Memoir of George Granville, late Duke of Sutherland. Not published, London, 1834. Folio, portrait, cloth. (2) £40-80

Nil

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200
9 [Johnson, Samuel]. A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. Strahan, London, 1775. 6 line errata, cont. calf, worn, repaired. £50-100

Nil

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240
10 Knox, John. A Tour through the Highlands of Scotland . . . in MDCCLXXXVI. London, 1787. 8vo, recent half calf, uncut; Gilpin, William. Observations relative chiefly to picturesque Beauty. Blamire, London, 1789. 2 vol., tinted plates, cont. calf gilt, somewhat worn; [Burt, Edward.] Letters from a gentleman in the North of Scotland . . . fifth edition. London, 1822. 2 vol., calf, worn. (5) £70-90

Nil

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11 Lauder, Sir Thomas Dick. Highland Rambles. Black, Edinburgh, 1837. 2 vol., plates, cloth, printed labels, loose; Weld, C.R. Two Months in the Highlands. Longman, London, 1860. Coloured plates, binder's cloth; and seven others, Scottish. (9) £70-120

Nil

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280
12 [Leslie, Charles.] Gallienus redivivus, or Murther Will Out . . . the De-Witting of Glencoe. Edinburgh, 1695. 4to. Modern boards; and six others, Scottish. (7) £50-80

Nil

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130
13 Lovat, Simon, Lord. Memoirs. Nicol, London, 1797. Cont. half calf, Brodie copy; and 6 others, Jacobite. (7) £40-60

Nil

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200
14 Macculloch, John. A description of the Western Islands of Scotland. London, 1819. 2 vol. 8vo and 1 vol. 4to., plates and maps, original boards, uncut, repaired; The Highlands and Western Islands. Longman, London, 1824.

Nil

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700
15 Macleay, K. Description of the Spar Cave . . . Isle of Skye. Edinburgh, 1811. Original boards, uncut, bit worn; [Parker, Miss]. A Tour in Scotland in 1863. London, Roxburghe Club, 1984. Half leather, 4to; Book of Common Prayer, French. La Liturgie. The Hague, Neulme, 1739. Contemporary blue morcco, gilt, 12mo; and another. (4) £50-100

Nil

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170
16 Martin, M. A late Voyage to St. Kilda. London, 1698. First edition, leaf of ads at end, some spotting, contemporary sprinkled sheep. £150-200

Nil

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650
17 Monipennie, John. The Abridgement or summarie of the Scots Chronicles. Budge, London, 1612. 2 pt. in one vol., early 19th century green morocco, gilt, bookplate of Joseph Neeld. £300-400

Nil

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1200
18 [Riddell, John]. Vindication of the "Clanronald of Glengary" against attacks . . . in the Inverness Journal. Engraved title (just trimmed), calf, rebacked, Tait, Edinburgh, 1821; [Baillie, W.R.]. An Breve Chronicle of the Earlis of Ross. Private circulation, Edinburgh, 1850; Mackenzie, Alexander. The Macdonalds of Glengary. Mackenzie, Inverness, 1881; Macrae-Gilstrap, Ella. The Clan MacRae. Rosemount Press, Aberdeen, 1923. Plates, 4to, the last three original cloth; and others, Scottish genealogy. (ca. 20) £100-200

Nil

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650
19 Scott, George. The memoires of Sir James Melvil. Boulter, London, 1683. Calf, repaired, bookplate of Arthur Kay; Drummond, William. The Works. Watson, Edinburgh, 1711. Calf, rebacked; Abercromby, Patrick. The martial achievements of the Scots nation. Freebairn, Edinburgh, 1711. 2 vol., half calf, worn; and a folder (acts of parliament, etc). (5) £80-120

Nil

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320
20 Selkirk, Earl of. On Emigration and the State of the Highlands. Ballantyne, Edinburgh, 1806. Some waterstains, boards, uncut, worn; Mackay, William. Narrative of the Shipwreck of the "Juno" on the coast of Aracan . . . new edition. Clan Mackay Soc., Edinburgh, 1892. Original cloth; and five others. (7) £60-120

Nil

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21 Smith, Alexander. A summer in Skye. Strahan, London, 1865; Gilfillan, George. The Massacre of Glencoe. Stirling, 1912; Carslaw, R.B. Leaves from Rowan's logs. Ross, London, [1945]; Grant, I.F. The Lordship of the Isles, Edinburgh, 1935. All original cloth, the first worn; and others, similar. (ca. 30) £50-100

Nil

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80
22 Book of Common Prayer, imperfect, lacks title, black letter, bound with Psalms and Apocrypha, [Barker, London, 1615]. Cont. calf, worn and repaired; and a 1709 Bible in cont. morocco; sold not subject to return. (2) £50-100

Nil

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320
23 [Gerard, J. The Herbal. London, 1633 or 1636]. Imperfect, lacking all before B1, other defects but body of book in sound state, old vellum, worn, bookplate of Frederic Leighton; sold not subject to return. £200-300

Nil

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380
24 [Perkins, W.] A Salve for a Sicke Man: or, a treatise containing the nature, differences and kindes of death. Legat, Cambridge, 1597. Chewed and defective at the end, wrappers, worn; [Whitlocke, Bulstrode]. Monarchy asserted. Redmayne, London, 1660. Portrait of Cromwell, calf, broken; and three others, odd; the lot sold not subject to return (5) £50-80

Nil

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220
25 [Herolt, J.] Discipulus de Eruditione Chistifedlium. H. Bungart, Cologne, 27 Oct., 1496. Reprint, 150 leaves; (bound with) Pelbartus de Themeswar. Sermones Quadragesimales Pomerii. H. Gran, Hagenau, 10 Nov. 1499. First edition, 154 leaves, the last blank. 2 vol. in one, Gothic letter, double column, initials in red or blue, 3 more elaborate borders with pink and green, contemporary calf over wooden boards, small leafy tool and rosette in blind, clasps intact, spine repaired and partly renewed. £600-1200

Nil

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4000
26 Dugdale, William. The antiquities of Warwickshire. Warren, London, 1656. Portrait (mounted, defective), engraved plates, folio, cont. calf, Talbot(?) armorial on covers, somewhat worn. £60-120

Nil

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280
27 Chamberlain, Sir Austen. Politics from inside, an epistolary Chronicle 1906-1914. Cassell, London, 1936. First edition, signed by Chamberlain and the recipient of the letters, his stepmother Mary Carnegie, original cloth; and others, some similar. (ca. 30) £50-100

Nil

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130
28 Belin, T. Collection de M.L.D. Manuscrits avec miniatures. Paris, 7 May, 1909. Plates, wrappers, bit worn; Durrieu, Paul. Les Manuscrits ... miniatures des Heroides d'Ovide. Paris, 1894. Plates, half cloth, ms. notes (? by L. Delisle) inserted; MSS. etc, Facsimiles. Ca. 1920-60. Scrapbook, numerous illustrations pasted in, first by St. John Hornby, then by J.R. Abbey, with the latter's notes and bookplate; and six others, similar, folio and large 4to. (9) £100-200

Nil

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29 Brown, T.J. The Stonyhurst Gospel. Oxford, 1969; Backhurst, J. The Madresfield Hours. ib., 1975; Scott, K.L. The Mirroure of the Worlde. ib., 1980, all Roxburghe Club, plates, 4to or folio, half morocco. (3) £80-120

Nil

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500

 30

Delisle, Lopold. Series of 24 a.l.ss (about 58pp.) to SC Cockerell, 1897-1910, Bound with some related material in black morocco, gilt, by Katharine Adams, with her cipher and signature at end, later slipcase, signature of Cockerell dated 1912 on flyleaf, later given by him to B.S. Cron, then sold to J.R. Abbey, with his bookplate, 1968 Abbey sale cutting inserted, and invoice from G.F. Sims to Kerrison Preston. £1000-1500

Nil

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3000

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