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Lyon & Turnbull
1 ”Dodd, William” [Samuel Johnson] The Convict’s Address to his Unhappy Brethren... London: G. Kearsly, 1777. Second edition, 8vo, modern brown calf gilt, J. Robertson bookplate, title-page laiddown, leaves a little trimmed [ESTC T95460, however this copy contains 28 pages]
£250-350
2 Allen, John Romilly The Early Christian Monuments of Scotland. Edinburgh: printed for the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland by Neill & Co. Limited, 1903. 4to, 3 parts in one, number 119 of 400 copies, original green half morocco gilt, a little foxing, a few plates and leaves becoming loose, some fading to spine
£300-400
3 Archaeology & Antiquities Proceedings of the Orkney Antiquarian Society. Kirkwall: printed at the Orcadian Office, [1922-1939]. Volumes 1-15 bound in 3 4to books, contemporary red morocco; Weber, H. Illustrations of Northern Antiquities... Edinburgh: Longman, Hurst etc., 1814. 4to, modern crushed green half morocco, bookplate; Johnstone, James Antiquitates Celto-Normannicae... Copenhagen, 1786. 4to, contemporary treecalf rebacked with modern spine, bookplate; Dietrichson, L. Monumenta Orcadica... Oslo, 1906. 4to, blue morocco gilt, bookplates; Mallet Northern Antiquities... Edinburgh: printed by C. Stewart, 1809. 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary half calf rebacked with modern spines, bookplates; Groat, A.G. Thoughts on Orkney and Zetland. Edinburgh: Neill & Co., 1831. 8vo, original red cloth, rebacked, bookplate; and three other copies; Cursiter, James W. The Scottish Brochs. Kirkwall, 1898. 8vo, contemporary half calf, original wrappers bound in, bookplate; Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Report of an Excursion to the Western Islands of Scotland, Orkney, and Caithness, June 1899. Dublin, 1900. 8vo, original blue cloth gilt; Charleson, M.M. Account of the Excavation of Chambered Cairn in the Parish of Firth, Orkney. Stromness, n.d. 8vo, blue cloth, bookplate; Huxley, Thomas H. PreHistoric Remains of Caithness. Edinburgh: Williams and Nordgate, 1866. 8vo, original red cloth, rebacked, bookplate; Maule, Henry Miscellanea Pictica... Edinburgh: D. Webster, 1818. 8vo, original cloth, bookplate; Fergusson, James A Short Essay on the Age and Uses of the Brochs and Rude Stone Monuments of the Orkney Islands... London: William Mullan and Son, 1877. 8vo, inscribed on the title-page to David Balfour from the author, original green cloth gilt, bookplate; and 12 others, sold not subject to return (30)
£600-800
6 4 Balfour, David, Colonel Ancient Orkney Melodies. Edinburgh: Ballantyne, Hanson & Co., 1885. 4to, original green cloth gilt
£80-120
5 Balfour, David, Colonel Ancient Orkney Melodies. Edinburgh: Ballantyne, Hanson & Co., 1885. 4to, original green cloth gilt, dust-jacket, J. Robertson bookplate, a little soiling to covers
£150-200
6 Barry, George The History of the Orkney Islands. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, 1805. First edition, 4to, frontispiece, folding map, 10 plates, advertisement leaf, contemporary tree calf with red morocco gilt label and gilt tooling to spine, bookplates of Kimbolton Castle and J. Robertson, a little offsetting, hinges and joints splitting, rubbing to spine
£150-200