Travel & Topography
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Scotland, tourist guides
Scottish Travel & Literature, 6 works
Keddie, William Highland Route No. v - Oban to the Isle of Skye. Glasgow, [n.d.] 8vo, 19th century half calf; [bound with no. ii and no. iv from the same series]; Johnson, James The Recess or Autumnal Relaxation in the Highlands and Lowlands. London: Longman, Rees..., 1834. 8vo, contemporary half-calf, rebacked; Thomson, John, and others, publishers An Account of the Pleasure Tours in Scotland. Edinburgh, 1827. Fourth edition, 12mo, contemporary red morocco; [Idem] The Traveller’s Guide to Scotland. Edinburgh, 1824. 12mo, 2 volumes bound together in red morocco; Black, Adam and Charles, publishers Black’s Picturesque Tourist of Scotland. Edinburgh, 1882. 12mo, original green cloth gilt; and 13 others, sold not subject to return (19)
Dibdin, Thomas Frognall A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour of the Northern Counties of England and in Scotland. London: James Bohn, 1838. 2 volumes, 8vo, original boards, some splitting and repair to covers; Campbell, Alexander The Grampians Desolate: a poem. Edinburgh: Vernor and Hood, 1804. 4to, modern quarter calf; Creech, William Edinburgh Fugitive Pieces... Edinburgh: John Fairbairn, 1815. 8vo, later half morocco; Mawman, J. An Excursion to the Highlands of Scotland and the English Lakes... London: J. Mawman, 1805. 8vo, later half calf; Gilpin, William Observations Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty... London: R. Blamrie, 1789. 2 volumes, 8vo, modern quarter calf; Lettice, I. Letters on a Tour through various parts of Scotland... London: T. Cadell, 1794. First edition, 8vo, contemporary calf, rebacked; sold not subject to return (8)
£250-350
532 Scottish books, a collection Marquess of Bute Registrum Monasterii de Cambuskenneth A.D. 11471535. Edinburgh, 1872. 4to, contemporary cloth; Shepherd, Thomas H. Modern Athens; Displayed in a Series of Views...London: Jones & Co., 1829. 4to, contemporary half calf; Thomson, A. Col. A History of the Fife Light Horse. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1892. 8vo, original red cloth; Shaw, Lauchlan The History of the Province of Moray. Edinburgh: William Auld, 1775. 4to, modern red cloth; Young, Robert Annals of the Parish and Burgh of Elgin...Elgin: James Watson, 1879. 4to, contemporary brown cloth; Hay, Andrew Leith Castles of Aberdeenshire...Aberdeen: D. Wyllie & Son, 1887. 4to, contemporary half calf; and 31 others, sold not subject to return (37)
£300-400
533 Scottish History, Topography, & Trading Standards, 17 volumes, including Swinton, John A Proposal for Uniformity of Weights and Measures in Scotland. Edinburgh: C. Elliot, 1789. First edition, 8vo, original boards uncut, half-title, [Kress C238], spine worn; Monypenny, David Remarks on the Poor Laws. Edinburgh: T. Clark, 1834. First edition, 8vo, original quarter cloth, paper label on spine; [Weights & Measures] An Abstract of the Act 5, George IV. Cap. 74... for ascertaining and establishing Uniformity of Weights & Measures. Edinburgh: Waugh & Innes, 1827. 8vo, original quarter cloth; [Pamphlet] Tables of Weights and Measures drawn up in Conformity with the Act of Parliament. Edinburgh: Fraser & Co., 1835. 12mo, mauve wrappers; Pennant, Thomas A Tour in Scotland, MDCCLXIX. London: B. White, 1776. 4to, engraved title & 42 plates (including 2 plates from the following work misbound); A Tour in Scotland, and Voyage to the Hebrides, MDCCLXXII. London: B. White, 1776. Second edition, 2 volumes, 4to, engraved titles & 89 (of 91 plates, the 2 missing plates misbound into the 1769 Tour), uniform contemporary tree calf, worn, joints split, hinges weak; Lamont of Newton, John The Chronicle of Fife, being the Diary of John Lamont. Edinburgh, 1810. 4to, 1 engraved facsimile plate, contemporary calf, joints split, hinges repaired; Cust, L. Notes on the Authentic Portraits of Mary Queen of Scots. 1903. 4to, original parchment gilt, t.e.g., uncut, binding somewhat discoloured; Tytler, Patrick F. History of Scotland. Edinburgh: W. Tait, 1841. 9 volumes, 8vo, contemporary half calf, morocco labels, (17)
£350-450
£400-500
535 Sinclair, Sir John The Statistical Account of Scotland. Edinburgh: W. Creech, [&c.], 179199. First edition, 21 volumes, 8vo, engraved plates, original blue cloth, uncut, paper label on spines, ownership inscription at head of titles “Sir P. Murray Threipland Bart”, spines slightly faded; sold not subject to return
£300-400
536 Storer, James S. and John Grieg. The Antiquarian and Topographical Cabinet, containing a Series of Elegant Views. London: W. Clarke, 1807-11. 10 volumes, 8vo, 10 additional engraved titles and 480 plates, tissue guards, contemporary green morocco gilt, a.e.g., occasional slight spotting
£150-250
537 Stuart, John Sobieski Stolberg & Charles Edward Stuart The Costume of the Clans. Edinburgh: John Grant, 1892. Folio, outof-series copy, frontispiece, 35 plates, many hand-coloured, lacking coloured additional title-page, original red quarter morocco, hinges splitting in places, covers soiled; Another copy Out-of-series copy, additional title, hand-coloured frontispiece, all other plates uncoloured (2)
£250-350
538 The Hebrides Anderson, James An Account of the Present State of the Hebrides... Dublin: White, Byrne..., 1786. 8vo, folding map, contemporary calf gilt, hinges split; Necker de Saussure, L.A. A Voyage to the Hebrides... London: Sir Richard Phillips & Co., 1822. 8vo, modern cloth; Martin, Martin A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland. London: A. Bell..., 1716. Second edition, 8vo, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked with modern spine; Monro, Sir Donald Description of the Western Isles of Scotland... Glasgow: Thomas D. Morison, 1884. 8vo, one of 250 copies, contemporary cloth, bookplates and ownership signatures; Buchan, Alex. A Description of Saint Kilda. Glasgow: John Wylie & Co., 1818. 12mo, later half cloth; sold not subject to return (5)
£250-350
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