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Lot 32
Jonaeus, Jonas, editorOrkneyinga Saga sive Historia Orcadensium… Copenhagen: P. Frid. Suhm., 1780. First edition, 4to, plate, contemporary half calf with gilt stamp of the Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow to the upper cover, bookplates of the Earl of Fife and J. Robertson, hinges split, a little foxing, some rubbing to spine
![[Walsh, William]Letters and Poems, amorous and gallant. London, Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1692. First edition, 8vo, pp. [16],](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/a47fc324-3170-425b-8d46-a86c010236c1/af23d283-0197-48f9-d6f9-abf7dab78a24/468x382.jpg)
Lot 320
[Walsh, William]Letters and Poems, amorous and gallant. London, Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1692. First edition, 8vo, pp. [16], 120, title-page printed in red and black, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked, early armorial bookplate of the Bellasyse library (Viscount Fauconberg), [Wing W 647; Hayward 136]Note: First edition of Walsh's second work. Walsh (1662-1708) was one of Dryden's circle of wits at Will's Coffee House and a mentor to the young Pope with whom he continued a long literary correspondence. Pope acknowledged his debt to Walsh with some flattering lines in his Essay on Criticism, (1711).
Lot 323
Wilson, AngusAnglo-Saxon Attitudes. London: Secker & Warburg, 1956. First edition, 8vo, dust-jacket spine partially lacking; [Idem] A Bit off the Map. London: Secker & Warburg, 1957. First edition, 8vo; [Idem] The Middle Age of Mrs. Eliot. London: Secker & Warburg, 1958. First edition, 8vo; [Idem] The Old Men at the Zoo. London: Secker & Warburg, 1961. First edition, 8vo; [Idem] The Wild Garden. London: Secker & Warburg, 1963. First edition, 8vo; [Idem] Late Call. London: Secker & Warburg, 1964. First edition, 8vo; [Idem] No Laughing Matter. London: Secker & Warburg, 1967. First edition, 8vo; all original cloth with unclipped dust-jackets, rubbing and tears to some dust-jackets, some dampstaining; and two others (9)
Lot 339
Ransome, Arthur2 typed letters, signed, addressed to 'Howard', and written at Haverthwaite: in the first dated June 2. 1960, Ransome discusses Swedish publishers for his works, and experiences of the Adriatic coastline; in the second letter, dated May 5. 1961, Ransome refers to the publication of Swallowdale and discusses misprints in the proof copies of the work, followed by a brief request that "...the Penguins follow the text of, say, the 29th edition..." before Ransome laments his own typing skills; each letter 26 x 21cm; a note from the Alden Press is stapled to the reverse of the second letter; and a camera, said to have belonged to Arthur RansomeNote: The camera included in this lot, a Six-20 'Kodak' B, issued between 1937 and 1940, was given to the vendor by George Wren Howard, of the Jonathan Cape publishing house. Howard was chairman of the company and a good friend of Arthur Ransome, who is thought to have given him the camera.
Lot 357
Atlas - Thomson, JohnA New & Historical Atlas, being a Series of Maps illustrative of the Classical and Historical Authors. Edinburgh: J. Thomson, 1829. First edition, large folio (552 x 394mm.), 49 engraved maps as per list, hand-coloured in outline, some double-page (some 2 or more to a double page sheet), contemporary half calf, bookplate of William Young Herries, spine gilt
Lot 374
Boxing - Egan, PierceBoxiana, or Sketches of Ancient and Modern Pugilism. London: volume 1: G. Smeeton, 1812; [volume 2: Sherwood, Neely & Jones, 1818]. 2 volumes, 8vo, additional engraved title and frontispiece in volume 1, and 23 plates (4 folding, of which 2 laid down), EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with 9 hand-coloured engraved plates by Henry Alken, contemporary half calf gilt; Fitchett, W.H. Fights for the Flag. 1898, 8vo, plates, contemporary calf gilt, bookplates of C.F.S. Chambers; Famous Fights in the Prize Ring. Great International Fight between Tom Sayers and Heenan. Large 8vo, folding frontispiece, pp.1-238, 19th century cloth, some browning; Sparrow, W.S. British Sporting Artists from Barlow to Herring. 1922. First edition, 4to, plates, some coloured, original bright green cloth gilt; Sabin, V.P. An Illustrated Catalogue of a Fine Collection of Old English Sporting Prints, Drawings & Paintings. 1933. 4to, plates, original wrappers; Greenwood, J. Wild Sports of the World. 1862, 8vo, 10 coloured plates printed by W. Dickes (Ostrich plate misbound at p.321), 5 folding maps, later cloth (7)
Lot 376
Clarke, J. Stirling, Mrs.The habit and the horse: a treatise on female equitation. London: Rogers, 1857. First edition, 4to., with 9 plates (including 6 hand tinted lithographs), original publisher's red cloth with gilt figure of a woman on a horse on the upper cover, a.e.g., head, tail and corners, rubbed, some foxing of the plate paper, with the bookplate of Gilmour of Lundin and Montrave
![Cruickshank, George, & Leech, John, illustratorsBerener, Ltd Col. Baron de [i.e. Charles Random] Helps and hints: how to prot](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/a47fc324-3170-425b-8d46-a86c010236c1/6415456c-e8d4-4b35-f03c-0f0921ffb5b9/468x382.jpg)
Lot 377
Cruickshank, George, & Leech, John, illustratorsBerener, Ltd Col. Baron de [i.e. Charles Random] Helps and hints: how to protect life and property with instructions in rifle and pistol shooting. London: Hurst, 1835. First edition, 8vo., engraved plates by George Cruikshank and others (including 2 folding), woodcut illustrations, publisher's cloth, folding plates with foxing, some margins dusty; Punch and Judy. London: Bell & Daldy, 1873. 6th edition, 8vo., frontispiece and other illustrations by Cruickshank, original cloth; Ackerman, John Yonge. A numismatic manual. London: Taylor & Walton, 1840. First edition, 8vo., plates, modern cloth; [Boyne, William]. A manual of Roman Coins from the earliest period to the extinction of the Empire. London: Johnston, 1865, First edition, 8vo., plates, publisher's cloth; Wade, H. Halcyon: or, rod-fishing with fly, minnow, and worm. London: Bell & Daldy, 1861. 8vo., with 12 plates (8 hand coloured), publisher's blind stamped cloth, spine faded; Watt, W. Remarks on shooting in verse. London: Baily, 1839. 8vo., calf, spine faded; Facts and useful hints relating to fishing and shooting edited by I.E.B.C. London: Cox, 1866. 8vo.,publisher's cloth; Stewart, W.C. The practical angler or the art of trout-fishing. Edinburgh: Black, 1857. 2nd edition, 8vo., publisher's cloth, signature on half title, spine faded and 22 others (29)
Lot 379
Geography - Pemble, WilliamA Briefe Introduction to Geography containing a Description of the Grounds and generall Part thereof, very necessary for young Students in that Science. Oxford, Printed by John Lichfield for Edward Forrest, 1630. First edition, small 4to, pp. [4], '64' [i.e. 46], [2, blank], woodcut diagrams in the text, folding 'table of the climats', early manuscript biographical notes on the title verso and the final blank, modern red half-morocco, small rust hole repaired in C1, just catching an occasional letter (still legible), [ESTC S114325: 6 copies in UK, 5 in N. America]Note: A popular textbook which reached a fifth edition by 1675, The Briefe Introductionis devoted to 'the nature, qualities, measure, [and] other general properties of the earth' rather than to descriptions of particular 'countrys and coasts'.
Lot 381
Haydn, Franz JosephDr Haydn's VI original Canzonettas, for the Voice with an Accompaniment, for the Piano-Forte. Dedicated to Mrs. John Hunter … [London,] Printed for the Author, & sold by him at No. 1, Bury Street, St. J. Corri, Dussek & Co. Music Sellers to her Majesty, No. 67 Dean Street, Soho, & Bridge Street, Edinburgh. [1794.] [Bound with:] Second Sett of Dr Haydn's VI original Canzonettas, for the Voice with an Accompaniment, for the Piano Forte. Dedicated to the Right Hon.ble Lady Charlotte Bertie … London; Printed & sold for Messrs. Corri Dussek & Co. Music Sellers to her Majesty & their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales & Duchess of York … [1795], Folio, pp. 31, [1]; [2], 23, [1]. First edition of both sets, the first signed by Haydn on the title-page (as usual), ink ownership inscription, "Osborne Wight, 1795", to each title; bound with five other contemporary works, near-contemporary half calf, marbled sides, rebacked and recorneredNote: First edition of both sets of Haydn's English Canzonettas, the first signed by Haydn on the title-page (as usual). This is an early issue of the first set, with the fifth song untitled. Anne Hunter (née Home, 1742-1821), wife of the great surgeon John Hunter, provided Haydn with all the texts for the first set of six songs and selected a further six (Shakespeare, Metastasio, and at least one by herself, 'The Wanderer') for the second. The present copy of the first set is the trade edition (the work also exists without Corri, Dussek & Co. on the title; RISM lists only 6 copies worldwide). RISM H 2656 and 2678; British Union-Catalogue of Early Music, pp. 457 and 458. Provenance: From the library of the Rev. Osborne Wight (d. 1800), Fellow of New College, Oxford, whose bequest laid the foundations for the music manuscript collections at the Bodleian.
Lot 384
Literature, Taste and History, 17 volumes, including Crabbe, GeorgeThe Works... in five volumes. London: John Murray, 1823. 5 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf, spines gilt, this copy bound without the plates found in a few sets; Alison, Archibald Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste. Edinburgh, 1811. 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf, spines gilt, morocco lettering pieces; [Senault, J. - F.] The Philosophy of the Passions. London: J. Almon, 1772. First English edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf, spines gilt; Wrangham, F. The British Plutarch, containing the Lives of the most eminent Divines, Patriots, Statesmen, Warriors, Philosophers, Poets and Artists. London: J. Mawman, 1816. 6 volumes, 8vo, contemporary half calf, spines gilt; Milton, John Paradise Lost. London, for J. Johnson [&c.], 1802. 8vo, additional engraved title, portrait, & 12 plates after Burney, contemporary mottled calf gilt, black morocco label, slightly worn at head of spine; Cicero Of the Nature of the Gods. London, 1775. 8vo, edited by Dr. Francklin, half-title, contemporary calf gilt (17)
![Miscellaneous books, including Howe, James[Fourteen Engravings, from Drawings of the Horse. Edinburgh, 1824.] 10 (of 14) engr](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/a47fc324-3170-425b-8d46-a86c010236c1/cac5db69-48dc-442b-c49b-fd23daecb727/468x382.jpg)
Lot 388
Miscellaneous books, including Howe, James[Fourteen Engravings, from Drawings of the Horse. Edinburgh, 1824.] 10 (of 14) engravings mounted in a large folio half calf album, 2 slightly cut down; Kirby, W.F. The Butterflies and Moths of Europe. 1904. 4to, 54 coloured plates, contemporary brown half morocco gilt, t.e.g., upper hinge broken; Beattie, William Switzerland Illustrated. London: G. Virtue, 1836. 2 volumes, 4to, folding map & 106 plates, contemporary brown morocco gilt, a.e.g., worn, joints split; Sallust. The Works. London: T. Woodward & J. Peele, 1744. 4to, contemporary calf, short tear to head of spine; Rosini, Joannes Antiquitatum Romanarum corpus absolutissimum. Leiden: Hackios, Parentem & Filios, 1663. 4to, additional engraved title, folding view, engraved plates, contemporary calf, spine split, worn, covers detached; Boccaccio, Giovanni Il Decameron. "1527" [Venice: Pasinello, 1729], small 4to, 18th century calf, some light dampstaining, worn, one cover detached; Xenophontis De Cyri Expeditione libri Septem. Cambridge: J. Archdeacon, 1785. 4to, folding map, text in Greek and Latin, contemporary calf, worn, upper cover detached; Cuming, R.G. Five Years of a Hunter's Life in the Far Interior of South Africa. 1850. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, additional titles, map and 14 plates, original pictorial cloth gilt, spines worn; The Old Testament; The New Testament, edited by Rev. Charles Girlestone. 1837, 4 volumes; 1835, 2 volumes, uniform contemporary half calf; Finden, W. & E. Landscape Illustrations of the Bible. 1836. 2 volumes, large 8vo, engraved titles & plates, contemporary calf, slightly rubbed; [Keith, Robert] The History of the Affairs of Church and State in Scotland, Edinburgh, 1734. Folio, volume 1 (all published), engraved map, contemporary calf, head and base of spine worn; and 14 others, miscellaneous; sold not subject to return (quantity)
Lot 395
Chapman, Philip - New NaturalistCaves and Cave Life. London: Collins, 1993. First edition. 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket not price clipped, ownership stamp to free endpaper; Maitland, P. S. and R. N. Campbell. Freshwater Fishes. London: Collins, 1992. First edition. 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket price clipped, ownership stamp to free endpaper; Majerus, Michael E. N. Ladybirds. London: Collins, 1994. First edition. 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket price clipped, ownership stamp to free endpaper; Simms, Eric British Warblers. London: Collins, 1985. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket not price clipped, ownership stamp to free endpaper; Walters, Max.Wild & Garden Plants. London: Collins, 1993. First edition. 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket price clipped, ownership stamp to free endpaper; (5)
![Husbandry - [Harte, Walter]Essays on Husbandry. London: for W. Frederick, 1764. First edition, 8vo, 5 engraved plates, woodcu](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/a47fc324-3170-425b-8d46-a86c010236c1/d69f1dd8-56c0-4e7c-dccd-6f7fca397ad6/468x382.jpg)
Lot 399
Husbandry - [Harte, Walter]Essays on Husbandry. London: for W. Frederick, 1764. First edition, 8vo, 5 engraved plates, woodcuts in text, contemporary calf, lacks front free endpaper, slightly rubbed at head and base of spine; Wilkinson, George.Experiments and Observations on the Cortex Salicis Latifoliæ: or broadleaved willow bark; interspersed with general observations and remarks on the different species of the Cinchona, &c. General history and progressive introduction of the Salix latifolia, with a variety of experiments. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Printed for the Author by Edw. Walker, [1803]. First edition, 8vo, hand-coloured engraved frontispiece by Bewick after Assiotti, modern boards, cloth folding box, plate slightly frayed at edges, offset onto title, text uniformly slightly browned and a few scattered spots, pp. xi-xiv misbound (2)
Lot 416
New Naturalist MonographNeal, Ernest. The Badger. London: Collins, 1962. Second edition. 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket not price clipped, ownership stamp to free endpaper; Buxton, John. The Redstart. London: Collins, 1950. First edition. 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket price clipped, ownership stamp to free endpaper; Stuart, Smith. The Yellow Wagtail. London: Collins, 1950. First edition. 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket price clipped, ownership stamp to free endpaper; Tinbergen, Niko. The Herring Gull's World. London: Collins, 1976. 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket price clipped, ownership stamp to free endpaper; Shorten, Monica. Squirrels. London: Collins, 1954. First edition. 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket not price clipped, ownership stamp to free endpaper; Thompson, Harry V. and Alastair N. Worden. The Rabbit. London: Collins, 1956. First edition. 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket not price clipped, ownership stamp to free endpaper; Jones, J. W. The Salmon. London: Collins, 1972. Fourth impression. 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket price clipped, ownership stamp to free endpaper; Summers-Smith, J. D. The House Sparrow. London: Collins, 1963. First edition. 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket price clipped, ownership stamp to free endpaper; Murton, R. K. The Wood Pidgeon. London: Collins, 1965. First edition. 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket price clipped, ownership stamp to free endpaper; Frost, W. E. & M. E. Brown. The Trout. London: Collins, 1972. 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket price clipped, ownership stamp to free endpaper; Mellanby, Kenneth. The Mole. London: Collins, 1974. 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket price clipped, ownership stamp to free endpaper (11)
Lot 418
Purton, ThomasA Botanical Description of British Plants in the Midland Counties, particularly of those in the neighbourhood of Alcester. Stratford-upon-Avon, J. Ward, 1817- [London: for the author, 1821]. First edition, 3 volumes in 4, [the Appendix comprising volume 3 part 1 and volume 3 part 2], 8vo, 38 hand-coloured plates, half-titles, contemporary half calf, a trifle rubbed
Lot 419
Royale, J. ForbesIllustrations of the Botany and other Branches of the Natural History of the Himalayan Mountains, and of the Flora of Cashmere. London: Wm. H. Allen and Co., 1839. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to., [plate and text volume], ground plan of Botanic Garden bound as frontispiece and 100 lithographed plates (all but 3 hand-coloured), lacking the frontispiece called for: View of the Himalaya Mountains, 6 plates with neat cut and folding slip at outer margin (to prevent image being trimmed by binder), text volume contemporary green half morocco gilt, plate volume full contemporary green morocco gilt, one or two slight spots, plates clean, corners rubbedNote: An attractive set. The plates are curiously numbered, there being plates numbered 63a, 75a and 78a but no plate numbered 76, 79 or 100.
Lot 424
Bolton, RobertInstructions for a Right Comforting Afflicted Consciences. London: F. Kyngston for Thomas Weaver, 1631. First edition, small 4to. in eights, woodcut printer's device on title, contemporary mottled calf, blind tooled corner ornaments, very slight damp-staining in the upper margins, initial blank discarded, top compartment of spine defective, upper joint splitting, inscription on title-page 'Christo Duce, R.C.' , 17th century signature of T. Browne on flyleaf, 20th century note of acquisition by Reginald Chas. Tudor Hutchins, [ESTC S106257]
Lot 426
Book of Common Prayer, 1637-36The Booke of Common Prayer... for the Use of the Church of Scotland. Edinburgh: Robert Young, 1637, [2nd part: The Psalter. Edinburgh: Robert Young, 1636]. Folio, 2 parts in one volume, title printed in red and black within typographic border, black letter, woodcut initials, The Psalter ending on KK6 [KK6 without the catchword "Certaine"], 2 leaves (? from another edition) "Certaine godly prayers" loosely inserted, first 7 leaves repaired with corners renewed, some soiling and spotting, P1 torn without loss, P2 and P7 with slight marginal loss; (bound with The Psalmes of King David, translated by King James. London: Printed by Thomas Harper, 1636, [2], 147); modern period-style calf, brown morocco label, bookplate of Sir Archibald Dunbar of Northfield, Bart., loosely inserted, with early signatures of Isobell King, William King, Agnes King, Jean King, James King, Goreff King, Barbara Cumming and others, a few headlines slightly trimmed
Lot 435
Cartier-Bresson, HenriThe Decisive Moment. New York: Simon and Schuster in Collaboration with Editions Verse of Paris, 1952. First edition, 4to, French edition with laid in captions booklet in English, original boards with cover designed by Henri Matisse, no dust-jacket, joints slightly split, spine slightly discoloured
Lot 457
Sark - Dunkerley, William Arthur - John OxenhamThe Book of Sark. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1908. First edition, folio, number 100 of 500 copies signed by the artist and author, plates by William A. Toplis, 21 coloured mounted plates, contemporary vellum gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, slight crease to 5 plates, slipcase very worn
Lot 46
Martin, MartinA Late Voyage to St. Kilda… London: D. Brown, 1698. First edition, 8vo, half-title, map, plate, later calf gilt with red morocco gilt label to spine, J. Robertson bookplate, blindstamp of the Library of Malcolm Stewart, Hoy and signature of Alan Stevenson to half-title, closed tear to half-title, pp.113-116 slightly torn with some minor loss to text, plate trimmed slightly affecting engraving, hinges splitting, a little soiling throughout, covers rubbed
Lot 462
Bateson, W.Mendel's Principles of Heredity, a defence. Cambridge: University Press, 1902. First edition, 8vo, portrait, original blue cloth gilt, lacking front free-endpaper, ownership signature to half-titleNote: Unlike the later edition, this edition does not seem to include plates, and several copies in libraries correspond to this. However, a couple of copies recorded on ABPC do record 3 portraits and 6 colour plates. This copy has only one portrait and no plates.
Lot 464
Cruikshank, WilliamThe Anatomy of the Absorbing Vessels of the Human Body. London, 1786. First edition, 2 plates (of 3; lacks plate 1), contemporary calf, heavily dampstained at end, worn, one cover detached; Winslow, Jacques-Benigne An Anatomical Exposition of the Structure of the Human Body. London: J. & F. Rivington, 1776. Fifth edition, 2 vols. in one, 4to., 4 folding engraved plates, contemporary calf, rebacked, worn; Winslow, Jacques-Benigne Exposition Anatomique de la Structure du Corps Humain. Paris: G. Desprez & J. Desessart, 1732. First edition, 4to., 4 folding plates, contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt, head of spine rubbed (3)
![[Electricity] - Cavallo, TiberiusThe Elements of Natural or Experimental Philosophy. London: T. Cadell & W. Davies, 1803. Fir](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/a47fc324-3170-425b-8d46-a86c010236c1/c3d4d289-d278-4b78-9bb4-bb65256f55a5/468x382.jpg)
Lot 465
[Electricity] - Cavallo, TiberiusThe Elements of Natural or Experimental Philosophy. London: T. Cadell & W. Davies, 1803. First edition, 5 volumes (including plate volume), 8vo, inscription on verso of volume 1 title: "To William Young, Student of Logic, this Premium, given by the City of Edinburgh, was adjudged by David Ritchie, Professor Logic and Metaphysics in the University of Edinburgh, 6th April, 1811", 29 double-page engraved plates mounted on guards, contemporary calf gilt, gilt arms to coversNote: Italian physicist and moral philosopher, he invented Cavallo's multiplier, a device used for the amplification of small electric charges, making them observable and measurable in an electroscope. He also worked on refrigeration.
![[Tucker, Abraham]Vocal Sounds by Edward Search, Esq. London: Printed by T. Jones, and sold by T. Payne, 1773, First edition,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/a47fc324-3170-425b-8d46-a86c010236c1/6640d6e4-6d42-487e-91e0-ac093c8b2329/468x382.jpg)
Lot 467
[Tucker, Abraham]Vocal Sounds by Edward Search, Esq. London: Printed by T. Jones, and sold by T. Payne, 1773, First edition, small 8vo, pp. [i], ii, 148, nineteenth-century half maroon morocco by E. Riley & Son, [ESTC T150278, 4 locations]Note: 'A highly technical and rather eccentric text devoted to the relationship between sounds and letters'. (ODNB).
Lot 481
Brenchley, Julius L.Jottings during the Cruise of H.M.S. Curaçoa among the South Sea Islands in 1865. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1873. First edition, "Presented by the Publishers" blindstamp to title margin, 8vo, folding double-page chromolithograph frontispiece, 50 lithograph plates (all but 9 in colour), 1 chromolithograph & 8 wood-engraved plates & folding map, partly hand-coloured in outline, original green pictorial cloth, small gilt stamp of C.L.A. on upper cover, head of spine worn, joints repaired
Lot 484
Burton, Sir Richard FrancisUltima Thule: or, a Summer in Iceland. London: William P. Nimmo, 1875. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, 11 plates, 2 folding maps, brushed calf gilt, red gilt printed endpapers, all edges gilt, original cloth covers bound in (2)Provenance: The horse and thistle binding with the motto: "Ride Thro Be Trew" matches bindings belonging to Robert Tyndall Hamilton Bruce (1847-1899). Bruce was a Glaswegian businessman, patron of the arts and golfer. In 1903, many items from his estate were sold by Christie's.
Lot 485
Canada - Prince Edward Island - Johnstone, WalterTravels in Prince Edward Island, Gulf of St. Lawrence, North-America, in the year 1820-21. Undertaken with a design to establish Sabbath Schools. Edinburgh: for David Brown, 1823. First edition, 12mo, [pp. xi , 12-132], folding engraved map, bound with Johnstone, Walter A Series of Letters, descriptive of Prince Edward Island, in the Gulph of St. Laurence. Dumfries: for the Author, 1822. 12mo, pp. iii, 4-72; 19th century blue pebble dash cloth, lettered in gilt
Lot 487
China - Giles, Herbert AllenA Chinese-English Dictionary. London: B. Quaritch; Shanghai, HongKong, &c., 1892. 4to., contemporary black half morocco, title with slight loss of blank lower margin and laid down, rubbed; Sommarström, Bo. Archaeological Researches in the Edsen-Gol Region Inner Mongolia. Stockholm, 1956. 2 volumes, 4to., presentation copy to Dr. John A. Pope, illustrations, original wrappers, small marks to half-titles, uncut; Pott, P.H. Introduction to the Tibetan Collection of the National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1951. 8vo, plates, original wrappers; Roosevelt, Theodore and Kermit. Trailing the Giant Panda. New York: Scribner's, 1929. First edition, 8vo, colour frontispiece, 42 photographs, large folding map, original blue pictorial cloth, bookplate carefully removed (5)
Lot 492
Durham - Hutchinson, WilliamThe History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham. Newcastle: S. Hodgson & Robinsons, 1785-94. First edition, 3 volumes, 4to., engraved titles, 52 engraved plates and 10 folding pedigrees, engraved illustrations in text, contemporary calf, gilt arms on sides, bookplates of Sir Walter Wyndham Burrell of West Grinstead Park, occasional spotting, a few small waterstains or light mark, slightly rubbed
Lot 498
Greece and the Mediterannean, & others, a large collection, including Douglas, NormanThree of them. 1930. First edition, dustwrapper, signed on title by author, dustwrapper slightly frayed; Graves, Robert Claudius the God. 1934, frayed dustwrapper; Byron, Robert The Station. 1949; Smyth, E. A Three-Legged Tour in Greece. 1927; Powell, D. An Affair of the Heart. 1957, dust-jacket; Byron, Robert First Russia then Tibet. 1933. First edition, original cloth; Byron, R. Europe in the Looking-Glass. 1926, original cloth, binding discoloured; Fleming, P. Bayonets to Lhasa. 1961, dustwrapper; Yeats, W.B. The Tower. 1928 (reprinted March 1928), original pictorial cloth gilt; and a small collection of other volumes; and c. 70 others, Greece & Mediterannean, & miscellaneous, most hardback, late 20th century
Lot 504
India - Fayrer, Sir J. - Printed for Private CirculationNotes of the Visits to India of their Royal Highnesses the Price of Wales and Duke of Edinburgh 1870 - 1875-6. London: Printed for Private Circulation only, 1878. First edition, 8vo, presentation copy to A Young Herries from the author, original pictorial red cloth gilt, slightly rubbed at head and base of spine, split to upper joint, [Rare: only 9 copies recorded on COPAC]
Lot 511
Lawrence, T.E.Seven Pillars of Wisdom. London: Jonathan Cape, 1935. First trade edition, large 8vo, portrait, original brown cloth gilt, dust-jacket torn with loss; [Idem] Revolt in the Desert. London: Jonathan Cape, 1927. 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket with some chipping and tears, price-clipped; [Idem] & David Garnett The Letters of T.E. Lawrence. London: Jonathan Cape, 1938. 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket, ownership signature to free-endpaper (3)
Lot 524
North Durham - Raine, JamesThe History and Antiquities of North Durham. London: John Bowyer Nichols, 1852. First edition, large folio (483 x 295mm.), engraved portrait, map, 9 plates, & 2 genealogical tables, illustrations in text, contemporary maroon morocco, g.e., some spotting to the plates, head and foot of spine worn, split at head of upper joint
Lot 525
Orkney & Shetland - Neill, PatrickA Tour through some of the Islands of Orkney and Shetland... Edinburgh: A. Constable, 1806. First edition, 8vo, later half calf, bookplate and cancelled library stamp to endpaper, neat marginal tear to p.145 with no loss to text; Peterkin, Alexander Rentals of the Ancient Earldom and Bishoprick of Orkney. Edinburgh, 1820. 8vo; [Idem] Notes on Orkney and Zetland. Edinburgh: Macredie, Skelly, and Company, 1822. 8vo, volume 1 (all published), frontispiece, plate; uniformly bound in contemporary calf gilt with black morocco gilt labels to spines, bookplates of John M. Slater, some spotting (3)
Lot 534
Scottish Travel & Literature, 6 worksDibdin, 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)
![Sinclair, Sir JohnThe Statistical Account of Scotland. Edinburgh: W. Creech, [&c.], 1791-99. First edition, 21 volumes, 8vo,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/a47fc324-3170-425b-8d46-a86c010236c1/c968a51d-8b14-4194-ba28-30db9dd8212d/468x382.jpg)
Lot 535
Sinclair, Sir JohnThe Statistical Account of Scotland. Edinburgh: W. Creech, [&c.], 1791-99. 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
Lot 541
Travel, a collection including Murray, Rev. A. W.Forty Years' Mission Work in Polynesia and New Guinea, from 1835 to 1875. London: James Nisbet & Co., 1876. First edition, 8vo, original cloth; Hodder, Edwin Cities of the World... London: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., 1882. 3 volumes, 4to, contemporary half morocco; Shoberl, Fredric Narrative of the Most Remarkable Events which Occurred in and near Leipzig. London: printed for R. Ackerman, 1814. Fifth edition, 8vo, contemporary half calf; Vaugelas, M. Lagier de Soixante Vues Des Plus Beaux Palais... Paris, n. d. 8vo, contemporary half calf; Historical Account of the Cistercian Abbey of Salley... London: J. Russell Smith, 1853. 8vo, original cloth; Turner, J. M. W. The Seine and the Loire. London: H. Virtue & Co., 1895. 4to, quarter morocco retaining rebacked spine; Lang, Andrew Oxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes. London: Seeley, Jackson..., 1880. 4to, original cloth; and 14 others; sold not subject to return (23)
Lot 546
White, J. ClaudeSikhim & Bhutan. Twenty-one years on the North-East Frontier 1887-1908. London: E. Arnold, 1909. First edition, 8vo, portrait frontispiece, folding map, 40 plates, original pictorial green cloth gilt, spine faded, extremities worn, NLS de-accession stamp & label to front endpapers
Lot 548
Yorkshire and County of DurhamYorkshire and County of Durham, a further collection to include: Fletcher, J.S. Pictureque history of Yorkshire. London: Blackwood,1901. 6 volumes, 4to., illustrations, publisher's red cloth, a.e.g; Hargrove, E. The history of the castle, town, and forest of Knaresborough, with Harrogate and its mineral waters. York: Blanchard, 1789. 4th edition, small 8vo., frontispiece, folding map hand coloured in outline, contemporary half calf, marbled boards, rubbed; The Scarborough guide. Scarborough: Thomas Coultas, 1815. Small 8vo., folding plan as frontispiece, folding map, woodcut plates and illustrations, original printed paper boards; Leyland, John. The Yorkshire coast and the Cleveland Hills and Dales. London: Seeley, 1892. 8vo., frontispiece, plates, publishers cloth; An history of Leeds, compiled from various authors to which is added An history of Kirstall Abbey. Leeds: [no printer, no date, c. 1797?]. Small 8vo., folding map as frontispiece, engraved plate of Kirstall Abbey, contemporary half calf, marbled boards (ESTC T61871); [Croft, John]. Scrapeana: fugitive miscellany; or, a medley of choice bons mots, repartees, &c. to which is added a large collection of Yorkshire anecdotes, York: Blanchard, 1792. Second edition (in fact a reissue of the first edition), 8vo., 19th century half calf, cloth boards; Robson, Thomas. Birds of the Derwent Valley. Consett: Dent, 1896. 8vo., woodcut illustrations, contemporary cloth; Blackett, Walter, Sir. Memoirs … with a pedigree of the Calverleys, of Calverley in Yorkshire, and the Blacketts of Newcastle upon Tyne and Northumberland. Newcastle: Hodgson, 1819. 8vo., engraved frontispieces, plate, armorial illustrations, contemporary calf, red leather lettering piece; Phillips, John. The rivers, mountains, and sea-coast of Yorkshire. London: John Murray, 1853. 8vo., frontispiece, plates, publisher's cloth, rebacked; Purey-Cust, A. P., the Very Rev. Picturesque Old York. Leeds: Jackson, 1909. 4to., frontispiece, plates, publisher's parchment over bevelled boards, t.e.g., others uncut, one of an hundred copies; Album of 14 mounted photographs of Knaresborough [bound with] The legend of Saint Robert the Hermit. Knaresborough: Hamman, 1873. Small 8vo., contemporary tan morocco with raised panels, gilt metal clasps, a.e.g.; A New Guide to Scarborough. Scarborough: Story, 1844., Small 8vo., engraved frontispiece, engraved plates, illustrations, contemporary cloth; Tweddell, G.M. Rhymes and sketches to illustrate the Cleveland dialect. Stokesley: Tweddell,1875. Small 8vo., publisher's cloth; The Tyneside Songster: humorous and descriptive songs in the Newcastle dialect. Newcastle: Dean, 1889, Small 8vo., publisher's cloth; a quantity
Lot 6
Barry, GeorgeThe 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
Lot 68
Thorburn, ArchibaldGame Birds and Wild-Fowl of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1923. First edition, folio, 30 plates, red half morocco with brown morocco gilt labels to spine, spine banded in 6 compartments with 4 gilt bird motifs, bookplate of J. Robertson, a little foxing to half-title, upper cover very slightly faded
![Brown, George MackayThe Storm and Other Poems. [Kirkwall:] The Orkney Press, 1954. First edition, 8vo, signed and inscribed t](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/a47fc324-3170-425b-8d46-a86c010236c1/c13270db-2ffc-4d1d-baab-fb07f50e4df6/468x382.jpg)
Lot 77
Brown, George MackayThe Storm and Other Poems. [Kirkwall:] The Orkney Press, 1954. First edition, 8vo, signed and inscribed to Brian Murray from George Mackay Brown to the endpaper, with an unpublished acrostic poem spelling 'Brian Murray', inscription dated 1982, original printed wrappers, some soiling and rubbing, text block detached
Lot 79
Brown, George Mackay - A collection of Scottish and Irish Poetry and LiteratureMuir, Edwin Edwin Muir Selected Prose. London: John Murray, 1987. Uncorrected proof copy on A4 sheets; Crichton Smith, Iain From Bourgeois Land. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1969. First edition, 8vo, some wear to dust-jacket; [Idem] Selected Poems. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1970. 8vo, some wear to dust-jacket; [Idem] The Last Summer. Glasgow: Richard Drew, 1986. 8vo, paperback, inscribed by the author; Heaney, Seamus Door into the Dark. London: Faber and Faber, 1969. First edition, 8vodust-jacket, gift inscription not from the author; [Idem] Hailstones. Dublin: Galley Books, 1984. 8vo, inscribed by the author to George Mackay Brown, original blue wrappers; [Idem] From the Republic of Conscience. Dublin: Amnesty International, 1985. 8vo, signed and inscribed from the author to George Mackay Brown; 'MacDiarmid, Hugh' [Christopher Murray Grieve] Hugh MacDiarmid, a festschrift. Edinburgh: K.D. Duval, 1962. 8vo, ownership signature of George Mackay Brown, dust-jacket slightly worn; [Idem] Selected Lyrics. Verona: Officina Bodoni, August 1977. 8vo, out-of-series copy, original quarter vellum, bookplate of George Mackay Brown; Conn, Stewart Thunder in the Air. Preston: Akros Publications, 1967. 8vo, inscribed to George Mackay Brown, original wrappers, a little soiling; and 84 others (94)
Lot 80
Brown, George Mackay - books from his library, a large collection, includingWaugh, Evelyn Scott-King's Modern Europe. London: Chapman & Hall, 1947. 8vo, with ownership sticker and signature of George Mackay Brown, some wear, including to dust-jacket; Hemingway, Ernest The Old Man and the Sea. London: Jonathan Cape, 1952. First UK edition, 8vo, dust-jacket with some wear but not price-clipped; Yeats, W.B. The Celtic Twilight. London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1883. First edition, second state binding, 8vo, original green cloth gilt; and a large quantity of others, many of which include George Mackay Brown's signature, address sticker, or both, several works include notes on criticism and annotations by Brown (quantity)
![Brown, George Mackay - Eliot, T.S.Burnt Norton. London: Faber and Faber, [n.d.] 8vo, original blue card wrappers; [Idem] East](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/a47fc324-3170-425b-8d46-a86c010236c1/90646a67-e350-4676-9e84-25e5e9efa307/468x382.jpg)
Lot 83
Brown, George Mackay - Eliot, T.S.Burnt Norton. London: Faber and Faber, [n.d.] 8vo, original blue card wrappers; [Idem] East Coker. London: Faber and Faber, [n.d.] 8vo, original orange card wrappers, some wear and foxing; [Idem] Points of View. London: Faber and Faber, 1941. 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket; [Idem] The Cocktail Party. London: Faber and Faber, 1950. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket spotted and torn, ownership signature of George Mackay Brown; Stephenson, E.M. T.S. Eliot and the Lay Reader. London: The Fortune Press, 1946. Second edition, 8vo, original cloth, ownership signature of George Mackay Brown with a mss. note reading: "Atrociouis writing on almost every page..."; and 16 others, sold not subject to return (21)
![Brown, George Mackay: 56 works, including 20 signed or inscribed by the authorA Voyage of Saint Brandon. [N.p., n.d.] Uncorre](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/a47fc324-3170-425b-8d46-a86c010236c1/4d1e25b6-2ee5-42d5-e6bc-b79e977f585a/468x382.jpg)
Lot 90
Brown, George Mackay: 56 works, including 20 signed or inscribed by the authorA Voyage of Saint Brandon. [N.p., n.d.] Uncorrected radio script, inscribed to Brian Murray from George Mackay Brown, dated Stromness 7/8/90; [Idem] Loaves and Fishes. London: Hogarth Press, 1959. First edition, 8vo, signed; [Idem] Poems, New and Selected. London: the Hogarth Press, 1971. First edition, 8vo, inscribed to John Broom, signed; [Idem] Greenvoe. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1972]. First American edition, 8vo, signed to title-page, inscribed to Brian and Eliza; [Idem] The Hooded Fisherman. Kulgin D. Duval & Colin H. Hamilton, 1985. 8vo, signed to title-page, inscribed to Brian and Eliza on the final leaf; [Idem] Christmas Stories. Oxford: The Perpetua Press, 1985. 4to, signed to final leaf, inscribed to Brian and Eliza; [Idem] In the Margins of a Shakespeare. Llandogo: The Old Stile Press, 1991. Oblong 4to, proof copy? with various annotated remarks and suggestions; [Idem] - Bryce Wilson - Keith Allardyce Sea Haven. Kirkwall: the Orkney Press, 1991. 4to, signed by George Mackay Brown and inscribed to Brian Murray within a manuscript poem to the title-page; [Idem] Brodgar Poems... Oxford: The Perpetua Press, 1992. 4to, signed and inscribed to Brian Murray; and a collection of others (55)
Lot 630
Various books, Collectables, etc., Rohde (Shelley), A Private View Of L S Lowry, Spike Milligan, Postcards From The Nursery, Rowling (J K), Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, first edition, in dust jacket, Royal Doulton figurine, collecting, The Art Of Angling, other fishing, etc. (a quantity)
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