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Sale date: |
Books & Manuscripts Sale on Thursday 8th March 2007 |
Lot numbers: |
1-30 of 228 |
Lot |
Description & Estimate |
Vat on hammer % |
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Hammer Price £ |
1 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
420 | |
| 4 | Buchanan, Robert. The Land of Lorne. Chapman, London, 1871. 2 vol., photographic plates, original cloth, bit worn. (2) £40-80 | Nil |
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 |
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 |
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 |
280 | |
| 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 |
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 |
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 |
360 | |
| 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 |
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 |
130 | |
| 13 | Lovat, Simon, Lord. Memoirs. Nicol, London, 1797. Cont. half calf, Brodie copy; and 6 others, Jacobite. (7) £40-60 | Nil |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
170 | |
| 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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
110 | |
| 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 |
500 | |
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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 |
3000 |
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