The William Mowat-Thomson Collection

McTear’s is delighted to offer at auction the contents of 19 St Bernard’s Crescent, Edinburgh – The Private Collection of William Mowat-Thomson.

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The William Mowat-Thomson Collection

McTear’s is delighted to offer at auction the contents of 19 St Bernard’s Crescent, Edinburgh – The Private Collection of William Mowat-Thomson.

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EARLY 20TH CENTURY THREE-DRAW BRASS TELESCOPE, by Broadhurst, Clarkson & Co., London, leather bound, 76cm fully drawn Provenance: The William Mowa...

ROYAL INTEREST - EARLY 19TH CENTURY ENGLISH STONEWARE JUG AND COVER, reputedly '...used in making whisky toddy for King Geoge the fourth at Duckwo...

MID-20TH CENTURY MOTHER OF PEARL MOUNTED BIBLE, the front and back cover mounted with engraved mother of pearl panels, 12.5cm x 8cm, with cloth ba...

COLLECTION OF VICTORIAN AND LATER SHEET MUSIC, including Scotland Calling, Three More Songs of the Fair, Somewhere a Voice is Calling, and many Cl...

GRANT (JAMES) - OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH, illustrated, published by Cassells, quarter bound in red leather, ND, 3 volumesProvenance: The William Mowa...

GRANT (JAMES) - OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH, Illustrated, published by Cassells, half calf, ND, 3 volumes Provenance: The William Mowat-Thomson Collecti...

GRANT (JAMES) - OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH, Illustrated, published by Cassells, cloth gilt, ND, 3 volumes Provenance: The William Mowat-Thomson Collect...

THE ROYAL COMMISSION ON THE ANCIENT MONUMENTS OF SCOTLAND - THE CITY OF EDINBURGH, Illustrated, cloth, 1951 also Caroline Park House, an account b...

BURNS (ROBERT) - THE PROSE WORKS, engraved frontis., half calf, published by Mackenzie and Dent, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1819, 2 volumes, also two vo...

GROUP OF TARTAN CLOTH BOUND VOLUMES, relating to Scotland, Scottish History, Clans, Heraldry, Tartans, Burns and others (14) Provenance: The Willi...

CUST (LIONEL) - NOTES ON THE AUTHENTIC PORTRAITS OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS, Illustrated, vellum gilt, published by John Murray, London 1903 Provenanc...

De MEZERAY - ABBREGE CHRONOLOGIQUE L’HISTOIRE DE FRANCE, Illustrated with numerous portraits, published by Thierry, Guignard and Barbin, Paris, ca...

VOLUME OF MID 19TH CENTURY HAND WRITTEN RELIGIOUS VERSE, by various hands, tooled calf, also another 19th Century volume of hand written verse ill...

JOHNSON (GEORGE W) - THE COTTAGE GARDENER, Illustrated, half calf, 1849, 2 volumes Provenance: The William Mowat-Thomson Collection

CLARENDON (Edward Earl of) - THE HISTORYOF THE REBELLION AND CIVIL WARS IN ENGLAND, Illustrated with portraif frontis., published Oxford, calf, 17...

GIBSON (EDMUND) - CODEX JURIS EXCLESIASTICI ANGLICANI, Volume One, published Oxford, calf, 1761 Provenance: The William Mowat-Thomson Collection

LAVATER (JOHN CASPAR) - ESSAYS ON PHYSIOGNOMY, Illustrated by Thomas Holloway, trans. by Henry Hunter, Vol. 1 and Vols. 2 and 2 part II, calf, pub...

LAVATER (John Caspar) - ESSAYS ON PHYSIOGNOMY, Illustrated by Thomas Holloway, trans. by Henry Hunter, Vols. 2 and 2 part II, red morocco, publish...

TAYLOR (James) - THE PICTORIAL HISTORY OF SCOTLAND, Illustrated with numerous engraved plates, half calf, published by Virtue, London, 1859, 2 vol...

McNAUGHTON (Arnold) - THE BOOK OF KINGS, A Royal Genealogy, Illustrated, blue cloth, published by the Garnstone Press, 1973, 3 vols Provenance: Th...

ROBSON (John) - CANARIES, HYBRIDS AND BRITISH BIRDS, In Cage and Aviary, illustrated, half calf, ND Provenance: The William Mowat-Thomson Collecti...

LLOYD (Reginald) - TWENTIETH CENTURY IMPRESSIONS OF THE WESTERN REPUBLICS OF SOUTH AFRICA, Illustrated, morocco gilt, 1915 Provenance: The William...

GROVE (George) - DICTIONARY OF MUSIC AND MUSICIANS, Illustrated, half calf, published by MacMillan, London, 1879, 3 vols Provenance: The William M...

CHAMBERS’S ENCYCLOPAEDIA, A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People,Illustrated, half calf, 1860, 10 vols Provenance: The William Mowat-T...

KNIGHT (CHARLES) - THE POPULAR HISTORY OF ENGLAND, Illustrated, half calf, 1856, 8 volumes Provenance: The William Mowat-Thomson Collection

STRUTHERS (John) THE HISTORY OF SCOTLAND from THE UNION to 1748 Illustrated with frontis. and port., gilt tooled morocco, 1827, 2 vols. Provenance...

WILSON (Horace Hayman) - THE HISTORY OF BRITISH INDIA FROM 1805 -1835, gilt tooled calf, 1848, 3 volumes Provenance: The William Mowat-Thomson Col...

CASSELL’S ILLUSTRATED. SHAKESPEARE, Comedies and Histories, illustrated by H. C. Selous, half calf, ND, 2 vols Provenance: The William Mowat-Thoms...

SMITH ( William) - DICTIONARY OF GREEK AND ROMAN BIOGRAPHY AND MYTHOLOGY, gilt tooled calf, 1844, 3 vols Provenance: The William Mowat-Thomson Col...

SCOTT (Sir Walter) - THE WAVERLEY NOVELS, Melrose Edition, half calf, ND, 25 volumes Provenance: The William Mowat-Thomson Collection

SCOTT (Sir Walter) - THE POETICAL WORKS, half calf, 1857, 12 volumes Provenance: The William Mowat-Thomson Collection

SCOTT (Sir Walter) - THE POETICAL WORKS, Illustrated with frontis. port. and vignette, tooled calf gilt, Edinburgh 1823, 10 vols Provenance: The W...

SCOTT (Sir Walter) - WAVERLEY NOVELS AND OTHERS, a group of various leather bound works by Scott including Part sets of Waverley Novels, Memoirs a...

SCOTT (Sir Walter) - THE NOVELS, tooled calf, 1846, 5 volumes Provenance: The William Mowat-Thomson Collection

THE PICTORIAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND, Illustrated, New and Revised Edition, published by W. and R. Chambers, half calf, 1855, 6 volumes Provenance: Th...

GRAY (Thomas) - POEMS, Illustrated with port. and vignettes, Ex. Librus W. T. R. Houldsworth, Eton College prize 1893, cloth gilt, 1887 Provenance...

TYTLER ( Patrick Fraser) - HISTORY OF SCOTLAND, calf, Edinburgh 1828, 9 vols Provenance: The William Mowat-Thomson Collection

O’MEARA (Barry E) - NAPOLEON IN EXILE,4th Edition, illustrated with port., vol 1 lacking title page, half calf, 1822, 2 vols also The Life of Napo...

HUTCHISON; GREGORY and LYDEKKER - LIVING RACES OF MANKIND, Illustrated, half morocco, ND, 2 vols also Belgium the Glorious, Her Country and Her Pe...

BURNET (Bishop) - HISTORY OF HIS OWN TIME, from the Testoration of King Charles II to the Conclusion of the atreaty of Peace at Utrecht, in the Re...

JONES (Owen) (Illustrated by) - THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT, Illuminated by Owen Jones, tooled morocco, published by Longman & Co., 1844 Provenance: T...

CHAMBERS (Robert) - THE THREIPLANDS OF FINGASK, Illustrated with etched port. Frontis., half morocco, 1882 also a new edition of Chambers History ...

POWER (WILLIAM) - PRINCE CHARLIE, Illustrated, cloth, 1912 also a group of other volumes relating to Charles Edward Stuart (small quantity) Proven...

ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, Eleventh Edition, half morocco, 1911, 32 vols plus Index (33) Provenance: The William Mowat-Thomson Collection

BURKE’S PEERAGE, 1846, also Burke’s Peerage, 1939, Burke’s Landed Gentry and Vol. 1 of Burke’s History of the Colonial Gentry, 4 vols Provenance: ...

DEBRETT’S PEERAGE, 1947 and 1950 also a 1950 Kelly’s Handbook and three Who’s Who, 1939, 1957 and 1974, 6 vols Provenance: The William Mowat-Thoms...

LOT OF LEATHER BOUND POETICAL WORKS, various authors and dates Provenance: The William Mowat-Thomson Collection

LOT OF LEATHER BOUND CLASSICAL WORKS, Including part sets, various authors and dates Provenance: The William Mowat-Thomson Collection

LOT OF LEATHER BOUND AND OTHER CLASSICAL WORKS, Including French Historical and others, various authors and dates Provenance: The William Mowat-Th...

LARGE QUANTITY OF LEATHER, CLOTH AND CARD BOUND BOOKSProvenance: The William Mowat-Thomson Collection ...[more]

LOT OF LEATHER BOUND BOOKS (12) Provenance: The William Mowat-Thomson Collection

Lot 1139

SMOLLETT'S WORKS

SMOLLETT (T.) WORKS, Calf, 6 volumes (6) Provenance: The William Mowat-Thomson Collection

NINE LEATHER BOUND BOOKS, Guthrie's History, calf, (9) Provenance: The William Mowat-Thomson Collection

LOT OF FIVE LEATHER BOUND BOOKS (5) Provenance: The William Mowat-Thomson Collection

LOT OF SIX LEATHER BOUND BOOKS (6) Provenance: The William Mowat-Thomson Collection

LOT OF TWELVE LEATHER BOUND BOOKS (12) Provenance: The William Mowat-Thomson Collection

SET OF SIX LEATHER BOUND BOOKS, Pope's Works, along with two volumes of Fairbairn's Crests (8) Provenance: The William Mowat-Thomson Collection

DANTE (ALIGHIERI) LA DIVINA COMEDIA, Gilt tooled vellum Provenance: The William Mowat-Thomson Collection

Lot 1146

PAYEY'S WORKS

PALEY (WILLIAM) WORKS, calf, 1822, 4 volumes (4) Provenance: The William Mowat-Thomson Collection

Lot 1147

MILTON'S WORKS

MILTON'S WORKS, published 1834, calf with gilt tooled spine Provenance: The William Mowat-Thomson Collection

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