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Ptolemaeus, Claudius La Geografia di Claudio Tolomeo Alessandro Nuovamente tradotta di Greco in Italiano, da Girolamo Ruscelli ... Venice: Vincenzo Valgrifi, 1561. 4to (24 x 18cm), 64 maps, contemporary vellum with manuscript title to spine and initials to upper cover, 20th century ownership signature (Alan Stevenson) to paste-down endpaper, early ownership signature to title-page, some very light and minor marginal dampstaining, browning and occasional soiling in places, page numbers added in an early hand to unpaginated sections, maps neatly mounted on slightly later guards, a few binding anomolies not affecting the flow of the work, covers a little frayed [USTC 851489] FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE STEVENSON LIGHTHOUSE ENGINEERSA complete copy of the first edition of Ruscelli's translation of Ptolemy in contemporary vellum. Ptolemy's 'Geography' was rediscovered at the beginning of the fifteenth century and translated into Latin from the Greek, although none of Ptolemy's maps survived. Cartographers such as Giacomo Gastaldi recreated the maps from the descriptions, and the results can be seen here.

Stevenson, Alan Report to the Committee of the Commissioners of Northern Lights appointed to take into consideration the subject of Illuminating the Lighthouses by Means of Lenses. Edinburgh: Neill and Company, 1835. First edition, 4to, 6 plates, original quarter morocco over cloth with green paper label FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE STEVENSON LIGHTHOUSE ENGINEERS

Heaney, Seamus Collection of works, all signed Unless otherwise stated, all first trade editions, first impressions, published by Faber and Faber, 8vo, original boards, with the dust jackets, with Seamus Heaney's signature on the title-page in blue or black ink. Titles comprise:Beowulf, 1999 (ownership inscription to front free endpaper, dust jacket price-clipped);The Testament of Cresseid. London: Enitharmon Editions, 2004. Limited edition, one of 350 copies signed by Heaney and illustrator Hughie O'Donoghue on the limitation leaf, large 4to, original green cloth;Electric Light, 2001. First edition, deluxe issue, one of 300 copies specially bound and signed by Heaney, original cloth-backed boards, slipcase;Hailstones. Dublin: Gallery Press, 1984. First edition, deluxe issue, one of 250 copies bound in cloth and signed by Heaney (this copy inscribed 'for Jim, Happy Christmas! Seamus') (dust jacket front panel sunned);North, 1975. First edition, paperback issue, signed 'Seamus Heaney, 8.ix.'98' on initial blank (wrappers slightly rubbed and marked);Field Work, 1979. First edition, paperback issue, with Heaney's inscription reading 'inscribed for Margaret Herbert's friend, Slainte gus saol, Seamus Heaney, December 1979' on the initial blank, spine sunned, wrappers somewhat creased and marked;Sweeney Astray. A Version from the Irish. Derry: Field Day, 1983. Original cloth;Station Island, 1984;The Haw Lantern, 1987 (textblock toned);The Redress of Poetry. Oxford Lectures, 1995;The Spirit Level, 1996;Opened Ground. Poems 1966-1996, 1998;Hallaig. Somhairle MacGill-Eain. Translated by Seamus Heaney. [No place:] Urras Shomhairle, the Sorley MacLean Trust, 2002. One of 200 copies, single unsigned gathering of 4 leaves, original card wrappers (wrappers faded, front wrapper with pen-mark to recto and Edinburgh International Book Festival ticket mounted to verso);The Burial at Thebes. Sophocles' Antigone, translated by Seamus Heaney, 2004;District and Circle, 2006;Human Chain, 2010;and 7 paperback reprints, including Beowulf, all signed by Heaney(23)

Collection of travel narratives, 19th century Carnarvon, Henry George Herbert, Earl of. Reminiscences of Athens and the Morea. Extracts from a Journal of Travels in Greece in 1839. London: John Murray, 1869. First edition, 8vo, original green cloth, folding map frontispiece, ink-stamp including monogram 'BO', ducal coronet and Order of the Garter motto to title-page, advertisement leaf to rear;Tozer, Henry Fanshawe. The Islands of the Aegean. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1890. First edition, 8vo, original blue cloth, folding map frontispiece, cloth marked, spotting to outer leaves, edges and margins, ownership inscriptions and mounted typescript label to front free endpaper and half-title;Fergusson, James. The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus Restored in Conformity with the Recently Discovered Remains. London: John Murray, 1862. First edition, 4to, original cloth, tinted lithographic frontispiece, 3 lithographic plates, inscribed 'Presented by the author, received 1873, John H. Small [?]', ink-stamps and plate of the Edinburgh Architectural Association;Cockerell, Samuel Pepys (editor). Travels in Southern Europe and the Levant, 1810-1817. The Journal of C. R. Cokerell, R.A. Edited by his son. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1903. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, frontispiece, inscribed 'With best love[?] from the editor, S. Pepys Cockerell' on the initial blank;Young, James Foster. Five Weeks in Greece. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1876. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, inscribed 'Florence Carrick Moore, from her affection cousin the author, J. F. Y. ... 1876' on the half-title;and 12 others similar, all in original cloth, a few works early-20th century(19) THE LIBRARY OF DR ANDREW G. FRASER MD FSA SCOT (1937-2020)Reminiscences of Athens and the Morea is notably uncommon, with only a handful of copies traced in auction records.

Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone London: Bloomsbury, 1997. First edition, fourth impression, hardback issue, 8vo, 223 pp., original pictorial boards, dust jacket (spine sunned), textblock toned as usual The third impression was the first to be issued with a dust jacket.

Sutherland, Elizabeth Leveson-Gower, Duchess of (1765-1839) Views on the Northern and Western Coasts of Sutherland [London:] Engraved by Mr. F. C. Lewis, c.1833. Engraved title-page with list of contents, engraved map, 22 hand-coloured aquatints after Sutherland by F. C. Lewis (on wove paper, J. Whatman watermarks, 25 x 17cm, tipped to card mounts, 44.5 x 28 cm, a few aquatints mounted at all four corners, mounts with contemporary manuscript numbering), all loose as issued in cloth portfolio inscribed on inside front cover 'For Wm Mackenzie Esqr, with the Duke of Sutherland's kind regards, S.', title-page and map slightly spotted, title-page with a few small nicks to edges [Bobins supplementary list 08/14; S. P. Lohia collection 5560] First and only edition. Very rare on the market: while eight copies of the work are confined to the National Library of Scotland as part of the Sutherland Estate Papers (Acc.13290), no other copy appears to have been offered at auction. The Duchess Sutherland was the driving force behind the modernisation of her family's vast estate and the associated clearance of tenants from highland to coastal areas. A talented watercolourist, she also published a collection of etchings titled Views in Orkney and on the North-Eastern Coast of Scotland, which appeared in 1807.Provenance: 1) With Charles J. Sawyer (bookseller, London), catalogue 280, 1969; 2) Acquired by the vendor from John Grant (bookseller, Edinburgh) in 1979 (typescript catalogue description included: '[...] Such is the high quality in the faithful reproduction of the artist's work that these subjects have been mistaken for original watercolours').

[Venette, Nicholas de] Mysteries of Conjugal Love Reveal'd London: John Chomley, 1703. First edition in English, 8vo, collates: [8], 496, with several annotations, previous ownership signature cut from title-page, dampstaining and spotting, text block split and leaves loose, old repair to the binding Rare. The first English edition of Nicolas de Venette's Tableau de l’amour conjugal, ou l'Histoire complète de la génération de l’homme, considered to be the first treatise on sexology in the West. The work covers sex, conception and foetal development, before addressing issues such as divorce and whether the application of charms can cause impotence or infertility. Written from a clearly male perspective (although not completely diminishing female pleasure), the annotations in the text, written in an early hand, seem to be agreeing with and refuting de Venette's writing from a female perspective, such as page 26, noting that "women have so much more pleasure than men..." Clearly a well read and used volume.

Christmas and Other Feasts and Festivals A Picture commentary for Grown-Ups. Printed from Linoleum Blocks cut by Claude Flight and Edith Lawrence. London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd, 1936. First edition, 4to, original blue cloth, 45 full-page linocut illustrations, a little spotting

Edinburgh Collection of antiquarian local histories Bower, Alexander. The History of the University of Edinburgh. Edinburgh: Alex. Smellie, 1817. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, uncut in original boards;Stevenson, R. H. The Chronicles of Edinburgh, from its Foundation in A.D. 617, to A.D. 1851. Edinburgh: William Whyte & Co., [1851]. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, 7 engraved plates including frontispiece and folding view;[Mackie, Charles]. The History of the Abbey, Palace, and Chapel-Royal of Holyroodhouse. Edinburgh: J. Hay and Co., 1819. First edition, 8vo, original pictorial boards, later spine label, engraved additional title-page, 8 engraved plates and plans (one folding);Foulis, Robert. Old Houses in Edinburgh, and their Inhabitants, as they are and Might; with the Result of an Experiment towards their Improvement in the Grassmarket. Edinburgh: Johnstone and Hunter, 1852. First edition, inscribed 'with the author's kind regards', 8vo, original cloth;Miller, Peter. The Old Tolbuith ... With the Luckenbooths and the Mercat Cross of Edinburgh from 1365 to 1617. Edinburgh: printed for private circulation, 1867. First edition, inscribed 'Thomas Dickson Esq LLD with Mr Miller's best respects May 1887', 4to, original cloth, engraved plates;Chalmers, P. Macgregor. Dalmeny Kirk: its History and Architecture. Glasgow: Carter and Pratt, 1904. First edition, one of 120 copies signed by the author, 8vo, original boards, dust jacket, woodcut illustrations, laid-in autograph letter signed from the author;Dickson, John. Centenary Memorial. History of South College Street Church. Edinburgh: William Oliphant & Co., 1866. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, tinted wood-engraved frontispiece, 8 tinted lithographic portrait plates;and 37 others similar, 19th or early 20th century, original cloth, concerning areas including Morningside, Leith, Stockbridge, various churches, etc.(40+) THE LIBRARY OF DR ANDREW G. FRASER MD FSA SCOT (1937-2020)

The Savoy Cocktail Book London: Constable & Company, Ltd., 1930. First edition, first impression, 8vo, 287 pp., original cloth-backed pictorial boards with silver foil onlays, colour illustrations throughout by Gilbert Rumbold, errata slip to p. 25, binding rubbed, short split to front joint, rear joint entirely split, tips bumped, a few stains to pp. 37-8 and 184-5;Thomas, Jerry, 'Professor'. The Bon Vivant's Companion ... or ... How to Mix Drinks. Edited, with an Introduction, by Herbert Asbury. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. First edition thus, trade issue, 8vo, original cloth-backed boards(2)

Edinburgh Collection of works, 18th-19th century [Topham, Edward]. Letters from Edinburgh; written in the Years 1774 and 1775: containing some Observations on the Diversions, Customs, Manners, and Laws, of the Scotch Nation, during a Six Months Residence in Edinburgh. London: J. Dodsley, 1776. First edition, 8vo, xv 383 pp., contemporary calf, rebacked, a few spots, tide-mark to head of gutter of a few early leaves, C7 with a couple of small nicks to upper margin;Kincaid, Alexander. The History of Edinburgh, from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time. Edinburgh: for the author, 1787. First edition, 12mo, contemporary calf, rebacked, 2 engraved folding maps (one repaired);[Almanacs]. The Original Edinburgh Almanack, and Universal Scots Register for 1816. [And:[ The Edinburgh Almanack, or Universal Scots and Imperial Register, for 1817. Edinburgh: for William Blackwood [and others], 1816-17. 2 works, 12mo, both in contemporary straight-grain red morocco gilt;and 23 others (these not collated), including: Alexander Grant, The Story of the University of Edinburgh, 1884 (first edition, 2 volumes, contemporary red morocco gilt); The Life of the Right Honourable Willielma, Viscountess Glenorchy, 1822 (first edition, contemporary pink half calf); J. & H. S. Storer, Views in Edinburgh and its Vicinity, 1820 (first edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary quarter calf, numerous engraved plates); J. Stark, Picture of Edinburgh, 1806 (2 copies, contemporary quarter roan and 20th-century full calf, each with engraved folding plan as frontispiece); Léon de Buzonnière, Voyage en Ecosse, visite à Holy0Rood, Paris, 1832 (first edition, original wrappers, untrimmed); A New History of the City of Edinburgh, 1800 (fourth edition, contemporary half calf, half-title, engraved plates); The Fudge Family in Edinburgh, in a Series of Poetical Epistles ... by Nehemiah Nettlebottom, 1820 (apparently original boards, possibly rebacked); An Historical Sketch of the Municipal Constitution of the City of Edinburgh, 1826 (contemporary blue quarter sheep); and similar(27) THE LIBRARY OF DR ANDREW G. FRASER MD FSA SCOT (1937-2020)

Two signed Harry Potter books Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone; Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. London: Bloomsbury, c.1997 & 2000. Philosopher's Stone: first edition, paperback issue, twenty-sixth impression, signed by Rowling on the title page, 8vo, 223 pp., original wrappers, spine rolled, wear to head of spine, faint creasing to wrappers, bumping to tips, faint damp-staining to half-title and title-page, short closed tear to final leaf. Goblet of Fire: first edition, hardback issue, second impression, inscribed by Rowling 'for Stewart Maclean - congratulations! J K Rowling' on the half-title, 8vo, 636 pp., original boards, dust jacket, spine rolled, wear to foot of spine and to corners of boards, front inner hinge loosening, half-title detaching at foot, pp. 515/16 and 589/90 loose (pp. 589/90 also with closed tear in middle of text), pp. 525/26 and 531/32 with tears to foot of gutter, pp. 623/4 with loss to lower outer corner, pp. 626-36 (i.e. final 10 pages) with tape-reinforcement to gutter and a few marginal nicks and chips(2) Provenance: The Goblet of Fire inscribed for the son of the vendor as a prize in a charity competition held for the benefit of Trefoil House, Edinburgh, c.2000; The Philosopher's Stone signed according to the vendor's recollection at the Edinburgh international book festival at a similar time.

Gray, Alasdair Group of works All 8vo, original boards, with the dust jackets.Lanark. Edinburgh: Canongate Publishing, 1985. Signed limited edition, one of 1,000 copies signed, numbered and dated by the author on the front free endpaper;Poor Things. Episodes from the Early Life of Archibald McCandless M.D., Scottish Public Health Office. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 1992. First edition, second impression, signed by the author on the front free endpaper (light abrasion below the inscription);Unlikely Stories, Mostly. Edinburgh: Canongate Press, 1983. First edition, first impression, dust jacket price-clipped, gift inscription to front free endpaper;and 6 others(9)

Scotland Collection of travel and other accounts, 18th-19th century [Morer, Thomas]. A Short Account of Scotland. London: for Tho. Newborough, 1702. First edition, 8vo, 156 pp., recent red quarter morocco;Bristed, John. Anthroplanomenos [title in Greek]; or a Pedestrian Tour through Part of the Highlands of Scotland. London: J. Wallis, 1803. First edition, 2 volumes in 1, 8vo, 20th-century quarter calf, hand-coloured etched frontispiece;[Thomson, William]. A Tour in England and Scotland, in 1785. By an English Gentleman. London: for G. G. J. and J. Robinson 1788. First edition, 8vo, near-contemporary cloth, half-title, 6 engraved plates, spine-label worn and detaching, free endpaper removed;Buchanan, John Lanne. A General View of the Fishery of Great Britain. London: Tho. Kay, and T. N. Longman, 1794. First edition, 8vo, contemporary quarter calf; Lettice, John. Letters on a Tour through Various Parts of Scotland, in the Year 1792. London: T. Cadell, 1794. First edition, 8vo, contemporary half morocco (worn in places), contemporary ownership inscription of one Elizabeth Hervey to the title-page, possibly the novelist (1748-1820);Spence, Elizabeth Isabella. Sketches of the Present Manners, Customs, and Scenery of Scotland. London: Longman [and others], 1811. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, uncut in original boards, inscribed 'with the authors respects to Lord Woodhouselee' on the title-page of volume 1;[Heron, Robert]. Scotland Delineated, or a Geographical Description of Every Shire in Scotland, including the Northern and Western Isles. Edinburgh: Bell & Bradfute, 1799. Second edition, 8vo, 20th-century quarter calf, engraved folding general map (backed on linen and tipped to front pastedown), 6 further engraved maps (collation not established);and 25 others similar, including further 18th-century titles(33) THE LIBRARY OF DR ANDREW G. FRASER MD FSA SCOT (1937-2020)

An Account of the Bell Rock Light-House Edinburgh: for Archibald Constable & Co., 1824. First edition, 4to, contemporary blue half roan, all edges untrimmed, xix 533 pp., engraved frontispiece, engraved additional title-page (on india paper, mounted), 21 engraved plates (many folding), Stevenson family ownership inscription to head of title-page, spine perished, front board and frontispiece detached, plates spotted.Together with another copy of the same work (lacking at least the frontispiece), and 2 copies of Alan Stevenson, Account of the Skerryvore Light-House, 1848, both defective(4) FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE STEVENSON LIGHTHOUSE ENGINEERS

Poems Poems. New Edition. London: Chapman & Hall, 193, Piccadilly. (Late 186, Strand.), 1850. 2 volumes, 8vo (17 x 10.2cm), xii 362 [2], viii [2] 480 pp., original cloth, spines lettered in gilt between friezes in blind, decorative frames and centrepieces to covers in blind, yellow endpapers, half-title to each volume, printer's colophon leaf to rear of volume 1 (lacking in volume 2 if called for). Bindings rubbed overall, spines heavily sunned, fraying to spine-ends, covers faded, tips bumped and worn, bookplates removed from front pastedowns, contemporary ownership inscriptions ('Amy') to half-titles, a few light marks internally, volume 1 front pastedown retaining contemporary bookseller's ticket of W. F. Watson, Edinburgh (largely effaced in volume 2), small closed tear to half-title, quires L-M starting, volume 2 rear joint split, small section of paper disruption at foot of gutter from front free endpaper to pp. v/vi, finger-soiling to upper fore corner of title-page(2) Second edition, greatly expanded, and the first with 'Sonnets from the Portuguese'. All proceeds from the sale of this lot are to go to Oxfam UK.

The Power of Movement in Plants London: John Murray, 1880. First edition, first issue, 8vo, x 592 pp., original green cloth, half-title, 32 pp. advertisements dated May 1878 to rear, numerous wood-engraved illustrations in text, binding rebacked with original spine laid down and endpapers renewed, wear to tips, library stamps markings professionally effaced from rear cover and title-page, small stain to half-title, spotting to rear of advertisements [Freeman 1325]

Brent-Dyer, Elinor The School at the Châlet London: W. & R. Chambers, Limited, [1925]. First edition, first impression, 8vo, original orange-brown cloth with pictorial blocks in red to spine and front cover, dust jacket (backed on paper), frontispiece and 3 plates by Nina K. Brisley, school prize plate dated 1927 to front pastedown, light spotting to endpapers and outer leaves The first book in the immensely popular Chalet School series, which would go on to comprise 59 books in total. Very rare in commerce.

Collection of works, 19th-early 20th century Hall, James. Travels in Scotland, by an Unusual Route: with a Trip to the Orkneys and Hebrides. London: J. Johnson, 1807. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary cloth, 29 engraved plates including frontispieces, engraved map, ink annotation to reverse of volume 2 frontispiece and to a few tissue-guards;[Mawman, Joseph]. An Excursion to the Highlands of Scotland and the English Lakes. London: for J. Mawman, 1805. First edition, 8vo, uncut in original boards, engraved folding map frontispiece, 3 engraved plates after J. M. W. Turner, binding worn and marked, tear to foot of spine, inner hinges strengthened, closed tear to map, prelims working loose, spotting, occasional annotations;Maxwell, W. H. Wanderings in the Highlands and Islands, with Sketches taken on the Scottish Border. London: A. H. Baily, 1844. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original green cloth gilt, engraved frontispiece, spines sunned;Spence, Elizabeth Isabella. Letters from the North Highlands during the Summer 1816. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817. First edition, 8vo, later quarter linen, edges untrimmed, 4 pp. advertisements to front, inscribed 'To Mrs Fletcher with the authors kind compts' on the title-page;Ferguson, Malcolm. Rambles in Skye, with Sketch of a Trip to St Kilda. Irvine: Chas. Murchland, 1885. First edition, 8vo, original green cloth;Mackenzie, Alexander. The Isle of Skye in 1882-1883. Inverness: A. & W. Mackenzie, 1883. First edition, 8vo, original red cloth, spine sunned;and approx. 25 others similar(approx. 34) THE LIBRARY OF DR ANDREW G. FRASER MD FSA SCOT (1937-2020)

Carnacki the Ghost-Finder London: Eveleigh Nash, 1913. First edition, first impression, 8vo, 287 pp., original red cloth, spine and front board lettered in gilt, decorative panels to boards in blind, half-title, 16 pp. advertisements to rear, spine rolled and slightly faded, and with small mark below author's name, fraying to head of front joint, lower fore corners of boards bumped, ink-stamps and inscriptions of Keswick School to front free endpaper and half-title [Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction, 819; Ellery Queen, Queen's Quorum, 53]

Paine, Thomas Rights of Man: being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution. London: for J. S. Jordan, No. 166, Fleet-Street, 1792. [Bound with:] Letter addressed to the Addressers, on the Late Proclamation. London: for H. D. Symonds, in Paternoster Row, and Thomas Clio Rickman, No. 7, Upper Mary-Le-Bone Street, 1792. 2 works in 1 volume, large 12mo, iv 78 [2], 40 pp., contemporary half calf, marbled sides, Rights of Man with advertisement leaf to rear, small hole in title-page, stab-holes visible in gutter, closely trimmed along top edge in places [ESTC N13084 for Rights of Man, giving the format as 8vo];[Molesworth, Richard Molesworth, Viscount]. A Short Course of Standing Rules, for the Government and Conduct of an Army, designed for, or in the Field. With some Useful Observations drawn from Experience. By a Lieutenant-General of His Majesty's Forces. London: R. Dodsley, 1744. First edition, 8vo, contemporary sprinkled calf ruled in gilt, half-title, engraved folding plate with dispositions hand-coloured, ownership inscription of Richard Cope Hopton to front pastedown, wear to spine-ends, front joint superficially cracked, short closed tear in plate, D2 lower fore corner torn not affecting text [ESTC T101513](2) The Rights of Man was first published in 1791, the Letter in 1792; Molesworth's work is notably uncommon, with five copies only in UK libraries according to ESTC.

Du Tilliot, Jean Baptiste Lucotte Mémoires pour servir a l'histoire de la Fête des Foux qui se faisoit autrefois dans plusieurs églises. Lausanne & Geneva: Marc-Michel Bousquet, 1741. First edition, 4to, title printed in red and black, 12 engraved plates, contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt, red morocco label;Boswell, James. An Account of Corsica, the journal of a tour to that island. London: E. and C. Dilly, 1768. Second edition, 8vo, folding engraved map, neatly rebacked, black morocco label, corners neatly repaired;Johnson, Samuel. The Idler. London: T. Davies, J. Newbery and T. Payne, 1767. Third edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf, spines gilt, dampstained at beginning of volume 1, rubbed;Johnson, Samuel. A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. Dublin: J. Williams, 1775. 8vo, contemporary calf, rubbed, spine split;Hume, David. Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects... a new edition. London: T. Cadell, C. Elliott, T. Kay, 1788-93. 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary half calf, head of title of volume 2 excised, rubbed, upper joint volume 2 split and slightly loose;Pope, Alexander. Essays and Epistles and Odes. Edinburgh: Yair, & Fleming, and L. Hunter, 1754. 12mo, original boards, uncut, inscription of Robert Lorimer 1793 and William Laughton Lorimer 1902 on title, spine worn, upper board and first gathering loose(8)

Gregory the Great, Saint (540-604) Dialogus eiusque diaconi Petri in quattuor libros divisus: de vita et miraculis patrum italicorum et de eternitate animarum cum tabulis nuncnunc a novo supradditis. Paris: Ulrich Gering and Berchtoldt Rembolt, 23rd March 1508. 8vo (21 x 13.5cm), later vellum, 64 ff., signatures a-h8, title-page with criblé woodcut central panel containing Rembolt's device on shield suspended on vine and supported by two lions rampant, letterpress above in red, the whole enclosed by decorative criblé woodcut frame, large woodcut portrait of Gregory to verso of title-page, criblé woodcut initials throughout, all with red penwork embellishment, capital strokes throughout in red, boards sprung, a1-2 slightly marked and damp-stained, minute worm-track to lower margins of quires a-b, g5-h8 with small repaired tear in gutter, a few other light marks [not in Adams but cf. G1191 for a 1513 edition by Rembolt] Ulrich Gering (d.1510) was one of three German printers who together established the first printing press in France, in Paris in 1470.

Maitland, William The History of Edinburgh, from its Foundation to the Present Time Edinburgh: Hamilton, Balfour and Neill, for the Author, 1753. First edition, folio, contemporary sprinkled calf, neatly rebacked with original spine laid down, engraved folding map, 20 engraved plates (several folding), signatures 2O2 and 2X2 duplicated;Gibson, Patrick. Select Views in Edinburgh: consisting chiefly of Prospects that have presented themselves, and Public Buildings that have been erected in the Course of the Recent Improvements of the City. Edinburgh: J. Pillans & Son, 1818. First edition, 4to, original boards, 15 pp., 6 etched plates (one folding), spine worn with two cords of three split;Hardiviller, Charles Achille d'. Souvenirs des Highlands, voyage à la suite de Henri V en 1832. Paris: Dentu, 1835. First edition, 4to, original printed green paper boards with gilt green sheep backstrip, half-title, lithographic frontispiece, 29 similar plates, plate of manuscript facsimile, binding rubbed and marked, spotting to contents;Knox, John. A View of the British Empire, more especially Scotland; with some Proposals for the Improvement of that Country, the Extension of its Fisheries, and the Relief of the People. London: J. Walter [and others], 1786. First edition, 4to, 19th-century half calf, early manuscript list of library borrowers to initial blank, tear to foot of spine, spotting and soiling internally [ESTC T83714: 4 copies only];Gordon, Alexander. Itinerarium Septentrionale: or, a Journey thro' most of the Counties of Scotland, and those in the North of England. London: for the author, 1726. First edition, folio, contemporary sprinkled calf, rebacked with original spine laid down, 66 engraved plates (numbered 1-65 and one unnumbered), several folding, bound without the folding map, wear to binding, title-page slightly soiled, with repaired closed tears in gutter and ink-stamp of the Church of Scotland;and 2 others (John Parker Lawson, Scotland Delineated, London: Day and Son, c.1860, 4to, original blue cloth gilt, tinted lithographic plates, recased, spotted, not collated, and a volume of early issues of the Scotsman newspaper from 1821)(7) THE LIBRARY OF DR ANDREW G. FRASER MD FSA SCOT (1937-2020)Gibson's Select Views of Edinburgh is notably uncommon, with no other copy traced in auction records, and three in British and Irish institutions on Library Hub.

Narrative of a Mission to Bokhara, in the Years 1843-1845 to ascertain the Fate of Colonel Stoddart and Captain Conolly. London: for the author by John W. Parker, 1845. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo (22 x 13.5cm), xix [1] 352, xvi 335 pp., recent dark blue straight-grain half morocco by the Abrams Bindery, 9 lithographic plates including frontispieces, half-title to each volume, 16 pp. advertisements dated 1845 to rear of volume 2, volume 1 prelims spotted, pp. 18-19 with small adhesion-related abrasion to one letter on each page, old stain to p. 106, spotting to p. 269, volume 2 half-title spotted, title-page slightly marked, spotting to p. 202, a few other marks;Together with Robert Glasgow Dunlop, Travels in Central America, London, 1847 (first edition, large 12mo, original cloth, folding map, inner hinges strengthened, neat repair to map stub)(3)

Scottish History Collection of works [Golf interest]. The Muses Threnodie; or Mirthful Mournings on Death of Mr Gall. Containing variety of pleasant Poetical Descriptions, Moral Instructions, Historical Narrations, and Divine Observations, with the most remarkable Antiquities of Scotland, especially of Perth. By Mr. H. Adamson … New Edition … Compiled from authentic records, by James Cant. Perth: by George Johnston for the Editor, 1774. Second edition, 2 volumes in 1, 8vo, 19th-century calf by J. Carrs of Glasgow, xxii [2] 261 200 pp., engraved folding plan of Perth (backed on linen), errata leaf, variant with title-page to volume 1 only (volume 2 with drop-head title ('Appendix. Number II'), laid-in c.1800 manuscript copy of the letter from William Drummond to Henry Adamson and the address to the reader from the first edition of 1638 (on single bifolium watermarked 1796, now split along central fold);Arnot, Hugo. The History of Edinburgh. Edinburgh: for W. Creech, 1779. First edition, 4to, contemporary half calf, engraved frontispiece, engraved folding map, bookplate of General Alexander Campbell of Monzie (c.1750-1832), ownership inscriptions dated 1860 to front pastedown and title-page, binding rubbed, a little cracking to joints, spotting;Dibdin, Thomas Frognall. A Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in the Northern Counties of England and in Scotland. London: for the author by C. Richard, 1838. First edition, 2 volumes, large 8vo (25 x 14.5cm), recent blue crushed half morocco by Paul C. Delrue, edges untrimmed, engraved plates (frontispiece to volume 1 replaced with duplicate of ‘Regeneration of the Heart’ plate at volume 2 p. 773), engraved vignettes on india paper, mounted, plates spotted;and 6 others including David Hume, History of England, Dublin, 1780 (new edition, 8 volumes, recent quarter morocco)(15+)  The Muses Threnodie, first published in 1638, is known for containing an early description of the game of golf.

Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom (1819-1901) Leaves from the Journal of our Life in the Highlands, from 1848 to 1861 ... Illustrated Edition. London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1868. First edition, deluxe issue, inscribed by Victoria 'To Sir James Clark Bart. K.C.B., from Victoria R., April 13th 1869' on verso of the front free endpaper, 4to, original red cloth over bevelled boards, richly decorated in black, gilt and blind, all edges gilt, 8 steel-engraved plates including frontispiece, 2 chromolithographic plates, wood-engraved vignettes throughout the text, wear to spine-ends and tips, inner hinges reinforced Sir James Clark (1788-1870), 1st baronet, was physician-in-ordinary to Queen Victoria from her accession to the throne in 1837 until his retirement in 1860. He received his formative medical education as a naval surgeon during the Napoleonic Wars, subsequently moving to Rome, where he treated John Keats during his final illness. He was the author of works including A Treatise on Pulmonary Consumption (1835), and notably introduced Victoria to Florence Nightingale, thereby helping her nursing reforms achieve wider notice. 'Above all he was to be remembered for his devotion to the welfare of the queen and the royal family, especially the prince consort, whom he advised regularly on matters of medical science and education' (ODNB).

Boswell, Alexander, Lord Auchinleck (1707-1782), his copy The Actis and Constitutionnis of the Realme of Scotland Maid in Parliamentis hald in by the rycht excellent, hie and mychtie princeis kingis James the First, Secund, Thud, Feird, Fyft, and in tyme of Marie now Quene of Scottis. Edinburgh: Robert Lekprevik, 28th November, 1566. First edition, second issue, folio in fours (26.3 x 17.8cm), +4 (lacking +4, blank), a-b4 c2 A-2T4 (-2L1, cancelled and not replaced, as called for; 2O1 + chi2O1; 2R2 +  chi2R3.[4]) chi2U1.[2] 2U-2X4, [15] 3-132 134-145 [1] 146-158 [2] 159-168 [2] 169-182 ff., text mainly in black letter, woodcut royal arms to title-page, woodcut initials, xylographic signatures of compilers, 18th-century sprinkled calf, spine gilt in compartments, edges sprinkled red, binding rebacked with original spine laid down, rear joint partly cracked, light wear to tips, title-leaf closely trimmed and with old hand-colouring, variable damp-staining to contents, intermittent old repairs and infilling chiefly in fore margins from quire P to rear, repaired closed tear to foot of 2K3, final two leaves extended at foot, ink annotations in various hands, printed catalogue description mounted to front pastedown below pencilled ownership inscription ‘Saltcoats 9 February 1910, Albert Wood’ [STC 21876a] Alexander Boswell’s copy of the foundational statement of Scots law, the so-called ‘Black Acts’, acquired by him in Edinburgh in 1730, shortly after his return from legal study in Leiden, and bound with 20 leaves of manuscript excerpts from Scottish parliamentary records made at his behest by Alexander Tait (d.1781), writer to the signet.Below Boswell’s ownership inscription, ‘Alexr Boswell, Edr 1730’, on the front free endpaper is a further inscription, in his hand but perhaps written later, reading:‘The Black Acts of Parliament, as they are commonly called. To which is subjoin’d, in manuscript, excerpts from the records of parliament, mostly to shew who the persons were who sat in parliament in the year 1467 down to the [year] 1579. Partly extracted by myself and partly by Alexr Tait whom I employd from his known accuracy in reading old writing & faithfully copying them’.There are two further inscriptions by Boswell, each on a separate leaf bound immediately before Tait’s manuscript, the first concerning the appointment in 1466 of Robert, Lord Boyd as regent of Scotland until the majority of James III, the second of similar content to the annotation on the front free endpaper, but adding that Tait ‘copied a multitude of manuscripts from the Advocates Library where he almost constantly was to be found’.A leading judge, remembered by Sir Walter Scott as ‘an able lawyer, a good scholar, after the manner of Scotland, and … a strict presbyterian and whig of the old Scottish cast’, Alexander Boswell is known to posterity as the father of James Boswell, and for his tempestuous encounter with Samuel Johnson ruefully described by his son in his Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides. Having begged Johnson before their visit to Auchinleck House to avoid any talk of Whiggism or Presbyterianism, James enjoyed only a few days’ grace before an inspection of his father’s coin collection turned sour:‘If I recollect right, the contest began while my father was shewing him his collection of medals; and Oliver Cromwell’s coin unfortunately introduced Charles the First, and Toryism. They became exceedingly warm, and violent, and I was very much distressed by being present at such an altercation between two men, both of whom I reverenced; yet I durst not interfere.’ Alexander Tait was Alexander Boswell’s fellow member of the Select Society, the elite Edinburgh debating club founded by Allan Ramsay in 1754 and attended by David Hume and others. A cultured individual whose ‘political connections were keenly whig’ (ODNB), doubtless an advantage in Boswell’s company, he became principal clerk of session in 1760 and a director of the Bank of Scotland two years later.Commissioned by Mary Queen of Scots in a year of crisis for her regime, and a year before her deposition and flight to England, The Actis and Constitutionnis of the Realme of Scotland was the first collected edition of all public Scottish acts of parliament since 1424, during the reign of James I. The first edition was printed in October 1566; a month later a second issue was rushed out with several pieces of anti-Protestant legislation removed.The ‘Black Acts’, as they became known on account of the gothic typeface, are remarkable to a modern audience for a reason unintended by the compilers, containing the first printed references to golf, with football also mentioned, in a succession of acts intended to prevent Scots from neglecting their military duties:‘That ilk man busk thame to be archaris’ (James I, 1424, f. 4v.):‘It is statute and the king forbiddis, that na man play at the fute ball under the pane of xl s. to be raist to the lord of the land’‘Of wapinschawing’ (James II, 1457, f. 40v.):'It is decretit and ordanit, that the wapinschawing be haldin be the lordis and barronis spirtuall and temporall, foure tymis in the year. And that the futball and golf by utterly cryit downe, and not be usit. And schuting be usit ilk Sonday … And as tuiching the futball and the golf to be punist be the barronis unlaw’‘The length of speiris, and that yemen have targeis, and of wapinschawing’ (James III, 1471, f. 56v.):‘And at the fute ball and golf be abusit in tyme cumming, and at the buttis be maid up and schuting usit, efter the tennour of the act of parliament maid thairupone’‘Of wappinschawing’ (James IV, 1491, f. 92v.)‘And attour that in na place of the realme their be usit futballis, golf, or other sic unproffitabill sportis, bot for the common gude of the realme and defence thairof’.Provenance:Sotheby’s, London, 12th August 1941, lot 173 (the relevant leaf from the sale catalogue is included with the lot).

Collection of works, 18th-19th century [Locatelli, Francesco]. Lettres moscovites. Paris: Huart l'aîné, 1736. First edition, small 8vo, [4] 363 pp., contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt monogram 'B' with ducal coronet to covers, joints superficially cracked;Davenport, R. A. The Life of Ali Pasha, of Tepeleni, Vizier of Epirus: surnamed Aslan, or the Lion. London: Thomas Tegg and Son, 1837. Small 8vo, contemporary green morocco gilt, engraved portrait frontispiece;Johnston, Robert. Travels through Part of the Russian Empire and the Country of Poland. London: J. J. Stockdale, 1815. First edition, 4to, contemporary calf (covers detached), 20 hand-coloured aquatint plates, wood-engraved plate, 2 engraved maps, lacking half-title and list of plates (pp. ix/x), general soiling, paper disruption to gutter of frontispiece, title-page and dedication leaf [Abbey Travel 15];and 14 others (these not collated), including: Henry Maundrell, A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter, A.D. 1697, Perth, 1800 (20th-century quarter calf, engraved plate); John Dundas Cochrane, A Pedestrian Journey through Russia and Siberian Tartary, to the Frontiers of China ... A New Edition, Edinburgh, 1829 (2 volumes in 1, contemporary half calf, engraved frontispiece and folding map; John G. Stephens, Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Dublin, 1839 (contemporary half calf); John Kitto, The Gallery of Scripture Engravings, London, c.1840 (3 volumes, 4to, contemporary half morocco, numerous engraved plates); William Otter, The Life and Remains of Edward Daniel Clarke, Professor of Mineraology in the University of Cambridge, London, 1825 (2 volumes, contemporary blue half calf by T. Armstrong of Villiers St, Strand, with his ticket, engraved bookplates of the barons Northwick); The Scots Magazine, Volume 25, Edinburgh, 1763 (contemporary half calf, engraved plates and maps including 'A Curious Map of Some Late Discoveries in the Terra Australis comprehending New Guinea and New Britain', and 'An Accurate Map of Minla and the Rest of the Philippine Islands'); and similar.Sold as seen, not subject to return(20) THE LIBRARY OF DR ANDREW G. FRASER MD FSA SCOT (1937-2020)

Byrne, Oliver The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid in which Coloured Diagrams and Symbols are used instead of Letters for the Greater Ease of Learners. London: William Pickering, 1847. First edition, 4to (24 x 19cm), xxix 268 pp., original boards, green linen backstrip, printed label to front board, illustrated throughout with colour-printed diagrams in red, blue and yellow, criblé woodcut initials, binding somewhat worn, short split to front joint, a few bumps to extremities, contents spotted, pencilled annotations to p. 45, a few gatherings unopened [McLean, Victoria Book Design, p. 51] A masterpiece of Victorian book design, considered 'one of the oddest and most beautiful books of the whole century' (McLean). Copies are also encountered in publisher's cloth bindings in various colours. All proceeds from the sale of this lot are to be donated to West Norfolk Deaf Association.

Smyth, William Henry Memoir Descriptive of the Resources, Inhabitants, and Hydrography, of Sicily and its Islands London: John Murray, 1824. First edition, 4to, 20th-century cloth, engraved folding map frontispiece, 13 aquatint plates, ex Manchester Central Library with plates to front pastedown and free endpaper and blind stamps to plates and title-page, map and title-page spotted, light spotting to a few plates, contemporary ownership inscription 'Bolton' to title-page, bookplate of the barons Bolton re-imposed to front pastedown [Abbey Travel 263]

An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China taken chiefly from the papers of his Excellency the Earl of Macartney. [London, 1797. First edition, large folio, atlas volume only (without the 2 vols. of text), folding map and 44 maps, plates, charts and plans, including 6 double-page, old half vellum, slightly spotted, slight loss to upper margin of plate 39, binding rubbed, library stamp to plate 2 Staunton was appointed principal secretary to Lord Macartney's embassy to China in 1792 which sought "to improve commercial relations with China, through Canton (Guangzhou), and to establish regular diplomatic relations between the two countries. Though Macartney and Staunton had an audience with the emperor their proposals were rebuffed. In China [Staunton] closely observed and noted all that he saw, and during expeditions he was able to collect botanical specimens. His son, George Thomas, then just twelve years old, accompanied him to China as page to Lord Macartney, and was the only member of the mission who bothered to learn Chinese" (DNB). Staunton's account of this important, but ultimately unsuccessful mission, conceived on a grand scale, takes in numerous places visited en route: Madeira, Tenerife, Rio de Janeiro, Java, Sumatra, Cochin-China, etc. Brunet V:525; Cox I:344; Cordier Sinica 2382

Blaeu, Johannes [Tooneel des Aerdrycx, oft Nieuwe Atlas … Vyfde Deel] [i.e. the Scotland and Ireland volume from the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, Dutch edition]. [Amsterdam: Johannes Blaeu, 1654]. Folio (50 x 33cm), contemporary morocco, spine gilt in compartments, gilt panels incorporating arabesque cornerpieces and central lozenges to sides, all edges gilt, [8] 189 [1] 70 [2] pp., engraved hand-coloured architectonic title-page incorporating arms of Scotland (central panel blank, i.e. without printed slip containing title, but with onlaid photographic roundel of the arms of clan MacKay), 55 engraved maps with contemporary hand-colouring, all but one double-page, comprising ‘Insulae Albion et Hibernia’ (Ptolemaic map of the British Isles), ‘Scotia antiqua’, ‘Scotia Regnum’, ‘Hibernia Regnum’, and the Scottish and Irish counties, islands and regions, front joint rubbed, front inner hinge discreetly strengthened, a little light toning, Strathnaver map coat of arms embellished with later onlays containing the arms and motto of the clan MacKay, pp. 133-6 with tide mark in upper margin (not affecting any maps) [Chubb, ‘Atlases of Scotland’, II; Skelton 59] An excellent copy of the first printed atlas of Scotland' (Skelton), being the fifth volume of Blaeu's 1654 world atlas, this copy from the Dutch-text edition: editions with text in Latin, Dutch, French and German were all published in the same year, with a Spanish edition appearing in 1659; the maps themselves are titled in Latin and English. The work contains 'three general maps and forty-six maps of Scottish counties and regions, engraved at Amsterdam from drawings by Robert Gordon of Straloch (1580-1661) and his son James (c.1615-1686), minister of Rothiemay in Banffshire, together with a general map of Ireland and five maps of Irish provinces, after Mercator and Jansson. The maps by the Gordons incorporate the results of the earliest topographical survey of Scotland, that made by Timothy Pont at undetermined dates, apparently within the last two decades of the 16th and the first decade of the 17th century' (ibid.).

Beaton, Cecil The Book of Beauty London: Duckworth, 1930. First edition, deluxe issue, number 100 of 110 copies signed by the author, 4to, original white cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge dyed red, colour frontispiece, 27 photographic plates, line drawings in text, laid-in tissue guards, very light marking to covers, spotting along fore-edges of a few plates The author's first book.

[Mandeville, Bernard de] Venus la Populaire, ou Apologie des Maisons de Joye London: A. Moore, 1727. First edition, small 8vo, original? boards, library stamp of the Bibliotheque de P.H. Rodde to front free-endpaper, some light browning throughout, closed tear to one leaf The first French edition of A Modest Defence of Publick Stews, in which Mandeville argues for the legalisation and regulation of prostitution.

Arundell, Francis Vyvyan Jago Discoveries in Asia Minor including a Description of the Several Ancient Cities, and especially Antioch of Pisidia. London: Richard Bentley, 1834. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo (21.7 x 13.1cm), contemporary half calf, half-title to volume 1, engraved folding map, 8 lithographic plates, 2 lithographic plans, contemporary ownership inscriptions (Henry Frith) to title-pages, toning, intermittent light spotting to margins of text and plates, plates offset, map with closed handling tear to inner fold and splitting along outer margin, volume 2 leaf T7 with closed tear to foot [Atabey 37; Blackmer 49](2) THE LIBRARY OF DR ANDREW G. FRASER MD FSA SCOT (1937-2020)

Incline Press Collection of limited editions 1) A Book of Nursery Rhymes. Illustrated with Wood Engravings by Enid Marx, 1993. One of 260 copies;2) Marco's Animal Alphabet. Linocuts by Enid Marx, 2000. One of 160 copies, folio, slipcase (sunned), publisher's prospectus laid in;3) Aesop's Fable of The Miller, His Son, and Their Ass. Retold and Illustrated with Linocuts by Nick Wonham, [2010]. Number 2 of 160 copies signed by the artist, folio, limitation leaf annotated in pencil 'Bound by Alison Allison February 2010';4) The Charm of Magpies. Illustrated by Nick Wonham, [2018]. Folio, one of 160 copies signed by the artist;5) Carole George. Layers of Concord. Creating the Landscape Garden of Le Berceau, 2014. One of 175 copies signed by the bookbinder, folio, slipcase;6) Robert Burns. To A Mouse ... An Edition for those who would read without faking a Scottish accent, 2019. 2 copies from the edition of 72, one copy numbered, one out-of-series, housed in one case;Graham Foster introduces Anthony Burgess, An Elegy for X, 2018. One of 50 hardback copies from the total edition of 200;7) Urban Birds. A Collection Cuts by Jo Spaul. Illustrated with a Selection of Suitable Verse, 1999. One of 180 copies, this copy apparently in a variant of untreated craft paper over boards (the limitation statement only mentioning copies in black cloth);8) Suyeon Kim. A Line, 2009. One of 200 copies signed by the artist, single continuous linocut bound in concertina format, with slipcase;9) A Selection of Poems on the Theme of Water. With Original Prints by Clare Curtis [etc.], 2008. One of 150 copies bound in marbled leatherette by Alison Allison (q.v.), from the total edition of 550 (the remaining copies issued as sheets for the International Competition of Designer Bookbinders);10) Jonathan Wonham. Steel Horizon. Poems of the North Sea. Lino-cut Illustrations by Nick Wonham, 2013. One of 200 copies signed by the author and illustrator, with slipcase;11) Three Poems of the Seventeenth Century, from the Manuscript Cabinets of Chetham's Library ... Introduced and Transcribed by Dr Joel Swann, 2017. One of 220 copies signed by the bookbinder;12) David Blamires. When in Doubt, Wash! On the Naming of Cats. With Wood Engravings by Chris Daunt, 2015. One of 200 copies signed by the bookbinder, from the total edition of 240;13) Robert Louis Stevenson. The Long Journey ... With Wood Engravings by Robin Mackenzie, 2014. One of 200 copies signed by the artist and bookbinder;14) Robin Flower's Translation of Pangur Ban. With Lino-Cuts by Philippa Threlfall, 2010. One of 200 copies;15) G. K. Chesterton. The Rolling English Drunkard Made The Rolling English Road. Linocut Illustrations by John Watson, 2021. One of 175 copies signed by the bookbinder;16) Randall Davies and his Books of Nonsense. With a Learned Introduction by Dr Paul W Nash of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, 2014. One of 175 copies bound at the Incline Press in quarter cloth and signed by the bookbinder;17) Deirdre Armes Smith. The First Wife a Voice for Katherine of Aragon. Wood Engraved Illustrations by Alan Smith, 2003. One of 160 copies signed by author and illustrator;18) On the Visionary Work and Revolutionary Life of an Idle Idol: William Morris. By John Mitchinson, 2008. One of 60 copies;19) Robert Burns and Brose for his Breakfast, 2021. One of 160 copies;20) Elizabeth Freedlander, 2018. One of 120 copies(20) A Book of Nursery Rhymes, Illustrated with Wood Engravings by Enid Marx (1993) was the first book printed by the Incline Press.Provenance: From the collection of bookbinder Alison Allison, whose work for the Incline Press includes A Selection of Poems on the Theme of Water (2008).

Darkness at Noon Translated by Daphne Hardy. London: Jonathan Cape, 1940. First edition, first impression, 8vo, original light brown cloth lettered in red, bottom edge untrimmed, with the dust jacket (priced 8s, unclipped, flaps and rear panel blank). Spine slightly rolled, a few small marks to rear board, light spotting to top edge of textblock, dust jacket with intermittent rubbing and a few very small nicks and ships along top and bottom edges, rear panel dust-soiled and with a few splash-marks A superb copy of 'one of the best-known and most widely read political novels of the twentieth century' (ODNB), retaining the extremely uncommon dust jacket in an excellent state of preservation. We trace one other copy in auction records with the jacket, in that instance price-clipped and repaired; Anthony Hobson's copy, with a presentation inscription to him from Koestler, did not have a jacket at all. The rarity of the first edition is often ascribed to the destruction of a large proportion of the print run during the Blitz. Darkness at Noon was Koestler's third published book in English, following Spanish Testament (1937) and The Gladiators (1939).

Caird, Mona and other Henryson Cairds A collection, including a rare triple-decker Caird, Mona. The Wing of Azrael. London: Trübner & Co., 1889. First edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, original cloth gilt with printed 'wings' motif to upper and lower covers, volume 1 title-page with ownership signature of James A. Caird, spines discoloured, some soiling to covers;Idem. Romantic Cities of Provence. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906. 8vo, original green cloth gilt, Henryson Caird bookplate and signature, some soiling to cloth;Caird, James. The Landed Interest and the Supply of Food. London: Cassell Petter & Galpin, [n.d.] 8vo, contemporary calf, inscribed to the title-page: "James A. Caird, from his Affectionate Father, the Author";Idem. English Agriculture in 1850-51. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1852. Second edition, 8vo, original brown cloth gilt inscribed to the title-page: "James A. Henryson Caird, from his Affectionate Father, the Author Aug 8. 1863";Idem. High Farming... Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1850. Seventh edition, 8vo, original wrappers;and another work with a homage from the author to Mr Caird(8)

Collection of works, 18th-19th century Wallace, James. An Account of the Islands of Orkney. London: Jacob Tonson, 1700. First London edition and first edition under this title, 8vo, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked, engraved folding map, engraved folding plate, 18th-century bookplate of John Spencer Esqr, light browning, rear free endpaper detached [ESTC R34706];Knox, John. A Tour through the Highlands of Scotland, and the Hebride Isles, in MDCCLXXXVI. London: for J. Walter [and others], 1787. First edition, 8vo, contemporary tree calf gilt, repaired closed tear in O1 [ESTC T92815];Anderson, James. An Account of the Present State of the Hebrides. And Western Coasts of Scotland: in which an Attempt is made to explain the Circumstances that have hitherto repressed the Industry of the Natives; and some Hints are suggested for encouraging the Fisheries. Edinburgh: G. G. and J. Robinson, 1785. [Bound with:] Fall, Robert. Observations on the Report of the Committee of the House of Commons appointed to enquire into the State of the British Fishery. London: J. Debrett, 1786. First editions (second issue of Anderson's work, the same year as the first), 2 works in 1 volume, 8vo, contemporary marbled calf, rebacked, Anderson with half-title, engraved folding map, engraved speculative town plan, folding letterpress table [ESTC T135827 & N44452]Buchanan, John Lanne. Travels in the Western Hebrides: from 1782 to 1790. [Bound with:] A Defence of the Scots Highlanders, in General ... with a New and Satisfactory Account of the Picts, Scots, Fingal, Ossian, and his Poems. London: G. G. J. and J. Robinson [-J. Egerton], 1793-4. First editions, 2 works in 1 volume, 8vo, 20th-century half calf, Travels half-title discarded, sig. N2 closely trimmed along bottom edge, A Defence spotted, bound without errata slip but retaining advertisement leaf [ESTC T144646 & T144643];[Johnson, Samuel]. A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. London: for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1775. First edition, second issue (with six-line errata leaf), 8vo, contemporary sheep, rebacked, spotting and soiling, G4 repaired, endpapers detached [ESTC T83702];Hill, Rowland. Extract of a Journal of a Second Tour from London through the Highlands of Scotland. London: A. Paris, 1800. 8vo, near-contemporary half calf, half-title discarded, spotting;and 6 others (these not collated: Charles Richard Weld, Two Months in the Highlands, Orcadia, and Skye, 1860, contemporary tan calf; Thomas Wilkinson, Tours to the British Mountains, 1824, contemporary tan calf by J. Neilson of Glasgow; Catherine Sinclair, Shetland and the Shetlanders ... Second Thousand, 1840, contemporary half calf, spine strengthened; [Anne Grant], Letters from the Mountains, 1807, third edition, 3 volumes in 1, contemporary half calf; [Larkin], Sketch of a Tour in the Highlands of Scotland, 1819, contemporary half calf, rebacked with original spine laid down; Robert Fraser, A Letter to ... Charles Abbot, containing an Inquiry into ... the Extension of the Fisheries, 1803, 20th-century calf)(12) THE LIBRARY OF DR ANDREW G. FRASER MD FSA SCOT (1937-2020)

Drummond, James Old Edinburgh Edinburgh: G. Waterston, Sons, & Stewart, 1879. First edition, one of 500 copies, large folio (52 x 39cm), original quarter morocco, 104 tinted lithographic plates on 80 sheets, binding slightly worn, marked and cockled, light spotting, occasional faint tide-mark to upper margins of plates;Reid, John. Bits of Old Edinburgh, Removed or Altered under Recent Improvement Schemes. Edinburgh: Banks & Co., 1900. Large folio, original cloth, 23 colour plates with captioned tissue-guards, binding rubbed, a little fraying to spine-ends;Simon, Frank W. Bits of Old Edinburgh. Drawn and Etched. Edinburgh: George P. Johnston, 1885. First edition, one of 250 copies, 10 etched plates (39 x 28cm), each with explanatory text leaf, title leaf, contents leaf, all loose as issued in original roan-backed green cloth portfolio, title-leaf and contents leaf browned, portfolio marked and with one inner panel detached;Bell, J. Munro. Old Edinburgh Closes. Twelve Etchings. Edinburgh: [no publisher], 1884. 12 etched plates (38.5 x 28.5cm), title leaf, contents leaf, loose as issued in original yellow cloth portfolio, title-leaf stained and creased;and 4 others similar(8) THE LIBRARY OF DR ANDREW G. FRASER MD FSA SCOT (1937-2020)

Crow from the Life and Songs of the Crow. With Twelve Drawings by Leonard Baskin. London: Faber and Faber, 1973. One of 400 copies signed by Ted Hughes and Leonard Baskin, folio, original black quarter cloth, blue linen sides, top edge red, others untrimmed, slipcase;Idem. Shakespeare's Ovid. Christopher Le Brun. London: Enitharmon Press, 1995. One of 150 copies signed by Ted Hughes, 4to, original cloth;Idem. River. Poems. Photographs by Peter Keen. London: Faber and Faber, 1983. First edition, oblong 4to, original boards, dust jacket, inscribed by Ted Hughes 'For Janos, from your old friend Ted with love. October 1983' on the front free endpaper (the recipient identified in a laid-in catalogue description as Hungarian poet Janos Csokits (1928-2011), dust jacket toned;Libanus Press. Candide, or Optimism ... now newly translated by Doctor Christopher Thacker and illustrated by Angela Barrett. Marlborough: Libanus Press, 1996. One of 125 copies only, folio, original quarter vellum, inscribed by the translator on the front free endpaper;Brown, George Mackay. Orcadians: Seven Impromptus, illustrated by Simon Manfield. Newtyle, Angus: Kettillonia, 2016. One of 300 copies signed by the artist, 4to, original green cloth;and 11 similar works including others by Ted Hughes(16)

Wheeler, Stephen History of the Delhi Coronation Durbar Held on the First of January 1903 to Celebrate the Coronation of His Majesty King Edward VII, Emperor of India. London: John Murray, 1904. First edition, deluxe issue, one of 250 numbered copies printed on hand-made paper, large 4to, original vellum gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, 30 photogravure portraits with tissue-guards, 18 halftone photographic plates, 3 maps and maps (2 folding), photogravure panorama on 2 folding sheets, photogravure plate of the Delhi Durbar medal, front inner hinge cracked The trade issue was bound in red cloth.

Première Exposition d'Art Photographique, Paris 1894 Paris: Photo-club de Paris, 1894. First edition, one of 470 numbered copies on papier blanc du Marais from the total edition of 500, folio (40.2 x 28.2cm), original wrappers, [10] pp., 66 heliogravures on 56 sheets, printed in various colour tints, with captioned tissue-guards tipped in, wrappers spotted, tissue-repairs to spine, small abrasion to front wrapper, stitching strained in places, plates 2 and 3 loose, spotting to text-leaves, light spotting to plates margins, tissue-guard for plate 28 loose Founded in 1894 by Robert Demachy and Constant Puyo, the Photo-club de Paris was the French equivalent of the Camera Club of New York and the Linked Ring in London, associations of photographers dedicated to the emergent philosophy of pictorialism, which promoted photography as a fine art rather than purely as a means of documenting reality. This overview of their first exhibition includes photographs by leading figures including Alfred Stieglitz, James Craig Annan and Rudolf Eickemeyer Jr, and numerous others. Rare in commerce.

Grey, Elizabeth, Countess of Kent A choice manuall or rare and select secrets in physick and chyurgery collected and practised by the Right Honourable the Countesse of Kent... whereon are added several Experiments of the Virtues of Gascon pouder and Lapis contra Yaruam by a Professor of Phisick. As also most exquisite ways of Preserving, Conserving, Candying, &c.; London: printed by G.D. sold by William Skears, 1653. 2 volumes in one, second edition, 16mo, [16], 1-206; [16], 140, lacking the first leaf (frontispiece) of part 1, page 1 of part 2 somewhat soiled; a little light worming to a few leaves in part 2, occasional loss to a letter of fore-margin, a few headlines shaved, some light soiling or spotting A hugely popular work of medicinal receipts that went through 22 editions between 1653 and 1728. Especially popular was the Countess of Kent's receipt for a ‘cure-all’ powder, ‘good against all malignant and pestilent Diseases, French Pox, Small Pox, Measles, Plague, Pestilence, malignant or scarlet Fevers, [and] good against Melancholy, dejection of Spirits’:Take the Magistery [essence] of Pearles, of Crabs eyes prepared, of white Amber prepared, Hartshorn, Magistery of white Corral, of Lapis contra Parvam of each a like quantity, to these pouders infused put of the black tips of the great clawes of Crabs, to the full weight of all the rest, beat these all into very fine pouder, and searce [sieve] them through a fine Lawn Searce, to every ounce of this pouder adde a drachm of true Oriental Bezar …An explanation of each of these ingredients – all chosen for their supposed curative powers – would require an essay in itself. ‘Crabs eyes’, for example, were small stones composed mostly of lime found in the stomachs of crayfish, which were powdered for medicinal use.Such ‘cure-alls’ were immensely popular at the time, and ‘The Countess of Kent’s Powder’ received consistently good reviews, the 17th century diplomat Sir William Temple declaring that ‘Of all Cordialls, I esteem my Lady Kent’s Powder the best, the most innocent, and the most universal’.

Cosmographiae Universalis Lib. VI In quibus juxta certioris fidei scriptores... Basel: Ex Officina Henricpetrina, [March 1572 to colophon]. First edition in Latin, small folio (32 x 21.5cm), woodcut vignette on title with portrait of Münster to verso, woodcut maps and town views, double-page woodcut of 'sea and land monsters', lacking 24 leaves including 9 views: Figura areae Romanae, Geneva, Verona, Florence, Worms, Heidelberg, Pomerania, large folding plan of Vienna, Constantinople, contemporary calf neatly rebacked with later spine, final leaf laid-down obscuring printer's device, 1920s Stevenson ownership signature to title-page, small hole to title-page with some loss to text on verso and upper margin repaired, some light dust-soiling and occasional spotting, some areas of light dampstaining throughout book (mostly marginal), occasional offsetting particularly to 'Civitas Francofordiana', outer edges of 'Civitas Bisontina...' torn away with some loss to engraved area, small tear to corner of Cologne with loss to page number, some minor repairs and slight fraying to several leaves, some mild worming affecting a few letters towards the end of the book, some light dampstaining [USTC 625634] FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE STEVENSON LIGHTHOUSE ENGINEERS

Helps, Arthur Collection of works, finely bound London: Various publishers, 1835-1884. First edition unless otherwise stated. 21 works in 32 volumes, 8vo, uniform contemporary maroon half morocco, spines gilt in compartments, top edges gilt, a few boards detached, titles comprise: Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd, 1835; Essays, 1841; The Claims of Labour, 1845; Companions of my Solitude, 1851; The Conquerors of the New World, volume II, 1852; The Spanish Conquest in America, 4 volumes, 1855-61; Friends in Council, 2 volumes, 1859 [2 sets]; Realmah, 2 volumes, 1868; Organization in Daily Life, 1862, second edition; The Life of Las Casas, 1868; Leaves from the Journal of Our life in the Highlands, from 1848-1861, 1868; The Life of Columbas, The Discoverer of America, 1869; Casimir Maremma, 2 volumes, 1870; The Life of Hernando Cortes, 2 volumes, 1871; Conversations on War and General Culture, 1871; Brevia, Short Essays and Aphorisms, 1871; Thoughts Upon Government, 1872, with author’s inscription; Life and Labours of Mr Brassey 1805-1870, 1872; Ivan de Biron, 3 volumes, 1874; Social Pressure, 1875; More Leaves from the Journal of A Life in the Highlands, from 1862-1882, 1884(32)

“Randall, Anne Frances” [Mary Robinson] A Letter to the Women of England on the injustice of Mental Subordination… London: T.N. Longman, and O. Rees, 1799. First edition, 8vo, contemporary quarter calf over limp boards, ownership signature cut from free-endpaper, lacking half-title, a little dust-soiling and spotting, upper cover detached SALEROOM NOTICE - FRONT COVER NOW DETACHEDAn exceptionally rare first edition of an early feminist textRobinson was all too familiar with the patriarchal constraints that prevented women from success in her era.  During her time as an actress, Robinson caught the attention of the Prince of Wales, future George IV, who offered her twenty thousand pounds to become his mistress. After spoiling her reputation and ending her career in theatre, he refused to pay the promised amount and she was forced to rely on her own ingenuity to survive. The challenges faced by Robinson fueled her fire: she became known as “the English Sappho” for her writings.  She was a prolific poet, an eight-time novelist, a playwright, and a political activist.  In A letter to the women of England, Robinson argues for the intellectual liberation of women across England.  She asks of the reader: “is not woman a human being, gifted with all the feelings that inhabit the bosom of man?” She lists important women in history to highlight how key women were in making England and finishes her Letter with an index of contemporary authoresses to prove that women authors are as successful as men.  In this first edition, we see an interesting piece of this text’s history still remaining: the pseudonym.  In the second edition, Robinson used her own name and placed an advertisement at the start revealing she was Anne Frances Randall all along. Once she had been assured of her book’s popularity to the point where it had merited a second print run, she claimed her work.  In this edition, Robinson deliberately misled readers by placing herself in the index of authoresses and took great pains to hide her identity. [ESTC N033704]Only 5 known copies, 2 of which are in the UK.

Dialogues concerning Natural Religion London [no publisher], 1779. Second edition, 8vo, half-title, 264pp., original boards, uncut, binding worn, spine split, boards a bit scraped and stained;Smith, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. Complete in one volume. Edinburgh: P. Brown & T. & W. Nelson, 1826. 8vo, Prize inscription on title verso, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked retaining original spine;Bewick, Thomas. A History of British Birds. Newcastle: for T. Bewick, 1809. 2 volumes in one, 8vo, numerous wood engravings, contemporary tree calf, rebacked, rubbed;Bewick, Thomas. A General History of Quadrupeds. Newcastle upon Tyne: for S. Hodgson, R. Beilby and T. Bewick, 1800. Fourth edition, 8vo, numerous wood engravings, contemporary half calf, neatly rebacked, spine gilt, corners rubbed;Livingstone, David. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa. London: J. Murray, 1857. First edition, 8vo, folding engraved frontispiece, plates, 1 folding map, lacking folding map of Dr Livingstone's Route, original brown cloth, rubbed, plate at p.332 torn without loss;Yeats, W.B. Poems. London: T. Usher Unwin, 1908. 8vo, original pictorial blue cloth gilt designed by Althea Gyles, uncut;Doughty, Charles M. Travels in Arabia Deserta. London, 1936, 2 volumes, 4to, plates, original brown buckram, 'Eric Malcolm Fraser Collection' stamp to titles and endpapers;Ramsay, Allan. The Gentle Shepherd. Edinburgh: A. Mackay, 1807. 12mo, original cloth-backed boards, uncut, ownership inscriptions on front endpaper, rubbed(9)

The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex London: John Murray, 1871. First edition, first issue, volume 1 only, original green cloth gilt, joints weak, spine split and rubbed, some internal soiling

Wright, Thomas Louthiana, or an Introduction to the Antiquities of Ireland. In Upwards of Ninety Views and Plans. London: R. Dodsley and M. Senex, 1748. First edition, 4to, large paper copy, engraved frontispiece and 66 engraved plates, 8 engraved vignettes, contemporary calf, list of subscribers, armorial bookplate of Thomas Philip Earl de Grey of Wrest Park, rubbed

The Eagles of the Empire series and other works, most signed by Scarrow London: Headline [Gladiator series: Puffin], 2000-20. First editions, first impressions unless otherwise stated, 8vo, original boards, dust jackets. Titles comprise:1) [The Eagles of the Empire series:] Under the Eagle; The Eagle's Conquest, 2 copies, one a second impression, signed and dated by Scarrow; When the Eagle Hunts; The Eagle and the Wolves; The Eagle's Prey, signed; The Eagle's Prophecy, 2 copies, one an uncorrected proof, inscribed by Scarrow 'Simon Scarrow, Placeat lector!'; The Eagle in the Sand; Centurion, 2 copies, both signed; The Gladiator, collector's edition, one of 75 signed copies, with a copy-edited proof sheet signed by Scarrow laid in; The Legion; Praetorian, signed; The Blood Grows, signed and dated; Brothers in Blood; Britannia, signed; Invictus, signed; Day of the Caesars, signed; The Blood of Rome, signed; Traitors of Rome, signed; The Emperor's Exile, signed;2) [Gladiator series:] Fight for Freedom; Street Fighter; Son of Spartacus. All signed, Son of Spartacus with ownership inscription to front free endpaper;3) [The Wellington and Napoleon quartet:] Young Bloods; The Generals; Fire and Sword; The Fields of Death. All signed, Young Bloods one of 80 deluxe copies with ink-stamp depicting Napoleon on the title page, The Generals one of 50 deluxe copies with Scarrow Brothers ink-stamp on title page, spines rolled;and 3 others by Scarrow, all signed(32)

Scenery of the Grampian Mountains, 3 copies, all in different states First edition. London: printed by S. Gosnell, published by the author, 1814. Oblong folio (49.5 x 33cm), 41 plates (soft-ground etchings, uncoloured), engraved folding map, errata slip [Abbey Scenery 504, with plates coloured];Second edition (2 copies). London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1819. Folio (52.6 x 34cm and 51.8 x 32cm), each copy with 41 aquatint plates and engraved folding map hand-coloured in outline, one copy with the plates hand-coloured, one with plates uncoloured, coloured copy with title from original wrapper mounted to front pastedown [Abbey Scenery 506, coloured issue only].Uniform 20th-century red crushed half morocco, all edges gilt, second edition, uncoloured issue with offsetting from plates, faint offsetting in coloured issue(3) Robson visited Scotland in 1809 on the back of his successful debut at the Royal Academy in 1807. He reputedly wandered over the mountains 'dressed as a shepherd with a copy of Walter Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805) in his pocket' (ODNB), and on his return exhibited his views at the Associated Painters in Water Colours from 1810 to 1812, and then at the Society of Painters in Oil and Water Colours from 1813, before publishing them first in 1814 soft-ground etchings, then in 1819 as aquatints. Abbey describes the first edition, as 'so scarce that its existence is hardly known'. The title-page for the second edition describes the plates as 'coloured from original drawings made on the spot by the spot', so it is unusual to encounter an uncoloured copy as here.Provenance: Beeleigh Abbey Books (W. & G. Foyle Ltd), with typescript catalogue description.

Conolly, Arthur Journey to the North of India, overland from England, through Russia, Persia, and Affghaunistaun London: Richard Bentley, 1834. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo (21 x 13cm), contemporary half calf, etched frontispiece to each volume, folding lithographic map, advertisement leaf discarded, bindings a little worn, spotting, volume 1 spine-label renewed, 1 frontispiece extended along inner margin costing imprint and description but with original title laid down, map with old repair to short closed tear(2) THE LIBRARY OF DR ANDREW G. FRASER MD FSA SCOT (1937-2020)Arthur Conolly, an officer in the army of the East India Company, decided in 1829 to return to India from sick leave in England via the overland route through central Asia. Reaching Asterabad (modern Gorgan) in Persia, 'he disguised himself as an Asian merchant, with a stock of furs and shawls, hoping to reach Khiva. He left Asterabad for the Turkoman steppes on 26th April 1830, but when the little caravan to which he attached himself was about halfway between Krasnovodsk and Kizil Arvat he was seized by nomads and robbed. The Turkomans were undecided whether to kill him or sell him into slavery. Tribal jealousies in the end secured his release, and he returned to Asterabad on 22nd May 1830, from where he travelled to India by way of Mashhad, Herat, and Kandahar, visiting Sind, and finally crossing the Indian frontier in January 1831' (ODNB). He is remembered for coining the term the 'Great Game', and after a long period of imprisonment in Bukhara was eventually executed on the orders of the amir, along with British envoy Colonel Charles Stoddart.

[Prostitution] Logan, William The Great Social Evil: its Causes, Extent, Results, and Remedies London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1871. First and only edition, 8vo, 240 [2] pp., original dark red cloth lettered and decorated in gilt and black;Tait, William. Magdalenism. An Inquiry into the Extent, Causes, and Consequences, of Prostitution in Edinburgh. Edinburgh: P. Rickard, 1842. Second edition, 8vo, xx 360 pp., original cloth, recased and relined;Creech, William. Edinburgh Fugitive Pieces. Edinburgh: for William Creech and T. Cadell, 1791. First edition, 8vo, contemporary tree calf, rubbed, joints cracked, extra-illustrated with frontispiece from the 1815 second edition [ESTCT102224];[Jacobite Rebellion of 1745]. The Life, Adventures, and Many Great Vicissitudes of Fortune of Simon, Lord Lovat, the Head of the Family of Frasers ... by the Rev. Archibald Arbuthnot. London: printed and sold (for the Author) by R. Walker, 1746. 8vo, contemporary marbled boards with sheep backstrip, engraved frontispiece;and 22 others (these not collated), including: Dalzel, History of the University of Edinburgh, 1862 (first edition, 2 volumes, original cloth, endpapers renewed); Creech, Edinburgh Fugitive Pieces, 1815 (second edition, original boards, rebacked, frontispiece); Cuthbertson, Revelations of a Library Life, 1923 (first edition, original cloth, inscribed by author on mounted slip); Autobiography of Mrs Fletcher, 1875 (first public edition, original cloth); [J. G. Lockhart], Peter's Letters to his Kinsfolk, 1819 (third edition, 3 volumes, contemporary tan calf, armorial bookplates); Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ... Illustrated Edition, c.1840 (2 volumes, large 8vo, contemporary half calf, engraved plates); and similar, Scottish interest and literature, privately printed works, etc.(30) THE LIBRARY OF DR ANDREW G. FRASER MD FSA SCOT (1937-2020)

New Zealand 4 works Power, W. Tyrone. Sketches in New Zealand Sketches with Pen and Pencil. London: Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1849. 8 lithograph plates, modern half calf;Stoney, Capt. H. Butler. A Residence in Tasmania. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1856, First edition, frontispiece, double-page map, and 7 plates, original blue cloth, g.e., rebacked, original spine laid down;Therry, R. Reminiscences of Thirty Years' Residence in New South Wales and Victoria. London: Sampson Low, 1863, 8vo, contemporary half morocco;Cruise, Richard A. Journal of a Ten Months' Residence in New Zeland. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1823, First edition, hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, errata slip at end, modern antique style quarter calf, errata slip at end(4)

[The Pooh books] 4 works, 8vo, all with endpapers and text-illustrations by E. H. Shepard, and comprising:When We Were Very Young. London: Methuen Children's Books, 1974. Deluxe edition, one of 300 copies signed by Christopher 'Robin' Milne, 8vo, original light blue crushed morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, all edges gilt, spine sunned, mottling to front cover;Winnie-The Pooh. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1926. First edition, 8vo, original green cloth, pale mottling to front cover;Now We Are Six. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1927. First edition, 8vo, original red cloth, spine faded, pale markings to covers, browning to half-title and final page;The House at Pooh Corner. London: Methuen & Co., 1928. First edition, 8vo, original pink cloth, spine faded, juvenile crayon-markings to covers and pp. 6, 90, 100, tips bumped, negligible cockling to cloth on front cover(4)

The Little Prince Translated from the French by Katherine Woods. London: William Heinemann, Ltd., 1944. First UK edition, 8vo, 91 pp., original orange cloth lettered and decorated in pink and red, dust jacket, spine sunned, boards sprung and mottled, no free endpapers (apparently as issued), spotting to front pastedown and half-title, half-title with remnant of ink inscription (possibly a price) to head, faint damp-staining to final few leaves, dust jacket soiled, rear panel chipped and with area of damp-related paper disruption, a few shallow chips elsewhere, price (9s 6d net) scored through

Collection of works, 18th-19th century Shirrefs, Andrew. Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. Edinburgh: for the author, 1790. First edition, 8vo, engraved portrait frontispiece, half-title discarded;Galloway, Robert. Poems, Epistles and Songs, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. To which are added, a Brief Account of the Revolution in 1688, and a Narrative of the Rebellion in 1745-46, continued to the Death of Prince Charles in 1788. Glasgow: by W. Bell, for the author, 1788. First edition, small 8vo, contemporary sheep, rubbed, a few stains;[Chapbooks]. Volume of chapbooks, Glasgow: for the booksellers, early 19th century, contents including: History of Jack the Giant Killer; History of Paul Jones the Pirate; The Constant Lovers; or, Jemmy and Nancy of Yarmouth; The Comical Stories of Thrymmy Cap and the Ghaist; Napoleon Bonaparte's Book of Fate; The Story of Blue Bear, or the Effects of Female Curiosity; The Humours of Glasgow Fair, and the Comical Song of Auld John Paul; and numerous others similar, most with woodcut vignette on title-page;Balfour, Alexander. Contemplation; with Other Poems. Edinburgh: printed by William Watson, 1820. First edition, 8vo, uncut in original boards, half-title, slightly worn and damp-stained, largely unopened;and 15 others (these not collated), including: Robert Burns, Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. A New Edition, Considerably Enlarged, Edinburgh: for T. Cadell jun. and W. Davies, London, 1798, 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary sheep, half-titles, engraved portrait frontispiece to volume 1, rubbed; idem, Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, London: A. Cleugh [printed by J. Findlay, Arbroath], 1803, 8vo, contemporary sheep, worn; David Carey, Craig Phadric, Visions of Sensibility, with Legendary Tales, and Occasional Pieces, Inverness: for the author, 1811, first edition, 8vo, contemporary sheep, frequent old restoration to fore margins; Alexander Balfour, Characters omitted in Crabbe's Parish Register, Edinburgh, 1825, first edition, 8vo, contemporary marbled sheep; Robert Fergusson, The Poetical Works, Glasgow: Chapman and Lang, 1800, 8vo, contemporary sheep, engraved portrait, prelims loosening; and similar(20)

Gordon, James, of Rothiemay (1617-1686) Civitatis regiae, antiquissime et nobilissime Edinodunensis tabulam [Probably Amsterdam: F. de Wit, c.1690]. Bird's-eye view of Edinburgh from the south incorporating royal arms of Scotland top left, dedication to provost of Edinburgh Archibald Tod within decorative cartouche lower left, and large panel containing key to street and place names lower right, hand-coloured engraving on two sheets, mounted, framed and glazed, mount aperture 42.5 x 108cm [Cowan/Watson, Maps of Edinburgh 4a] The first properly cartographic printed view of Edinburgh, preceded only by the highly stylised depiction of the city in Braun and Hogenberg's Civitates orbis terrarum, published in the late 16th century and bearing little relation to the actual layout of the city except for the castle. Together with his father, Robert Gordon of Straloch, James Gordon drew up the maps of Scotland used by Johannes Blaeu in the Scottish and Irish volume of his Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, which appeared in 1654. In 1647 he was employed by Edinburgh town council to draw up a plan of the city, being rewarded with 500 merks and election as a burgess and guild brother for his efforts. Jeffrey C. Stone in ODNB states that ‘the plan was engraved and published in a rare first edition by Blaeu about 1650 and then by De Wit about 1695’. Cowan's Maps of Edinburgh does not cite a Blaeu edition; the present copy, however, lacks the imprint ‘F. de Wit Excudit Amstelodami’ next to the dedication cartouche mentioned in Cowan's description. There was an engraved facsimile published by R. Kirkwood in 1817, but this can be identified by its misnumbering of Tinnis Court as 51 instead of 31 in the key, and in any case contains a new title in the lower margin, not present here.