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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.

Senior, Nassau W. A Journal Kept in Turkey and Greece London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1859. First edition, 8vo, xi [3] original green pebble-grain cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, covers stamped in blind, half-title, 2 engraved folding maps hand-coloured in outline (one bound as frontispiece), 2 colour lithographic plates, 4 + 18 pp. advertisements to rear, slightly rubbed, spine rolled, short nick to head of each joint, short section of wear to head of front board, tips bumped [Blackmer 1525] THE LIBRARY OF DR ANDREW G. FRASER MD FSA SCOT (1937-2020)Uncommon, especially in the original cloth.

Collection of travel accounts, 18th-19th century Faujas de Saint Fond, Barthélemy. Travels in England, Scotland, and the Hebrides ... Containing Mineralogical Descriptions of the Country round Newcastle; of the Mountains of Derbyshire; of the Environs of Edinburgh ... and of the Cave of Fingal. London: James Ridgway, 1799. First edition in English, 2 volumes, 8vo, 20th-century calf, half-title to volume 1, 7 engraved plates (including one not listed), errata leaf to each volume, offsetting;[Simond, Louis]. Journal of a Tour and Residence in Great Britain, during the Years 1810 and 1811, by a French Traveller. Edinburgh: George Ramsay and Company, 1815. First edition in English, 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary tan calf, rebacked, covers with gilt and blind panels enclosing central heraldic crest, to 21 sepia aquatint plates, 2 folding letterpress tables, bookplates of Edward Craven Hawtrey;Stoddart, John. Remarks on Local Scenery and Manners in Scotland during the Years 1799 and 1800. London: William Miller, 1801. 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf, rebacked, half-titles, engraved vignette title-pages, map, 32 aquatint plates, offsetting, section excised from head of each title-page;Campbell, Alexander. A Journey from Edinburgh through Parts of North Britain. New Edition. London: John Stockdale, 1811. 2 volumes, 4to, modern red quarter morocco, marbled sides, 43 aquatint plates (of 44: lacking 'Edinburgh from the West') [Abbey Scenery 485 for the first edition, 1802];and 8 others: Francis Grose, The Antiquities of Scotland, 1797 (2 volumes, 4to, contemporary half russia, edges untrimmed, folding map loose); Lord Teignmouth, Sketches of the Coasts and Islands of Scotland and the Isle of Man, 1836 (2 volumes, contemporary green calf by Griffith, 3 engraved maps, inscribed 'Florence Anderson, the gift of her affection uncle the author, Feb 28 1848' on volume 1 initial blank); William Gilpin, Observations on Several Parts of Great Britain, particularly the High-Lands of Scotland, 1808 (third edition, 2 volumes, joints cracked); John MacCulloch, The Highlands and Western Isles of Scotland, 1824 (4 volumes in 2, 20th-century half calf); Daniel Defoe, A Tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain, 1742 (third edition, 4 volumes, contemporary calf, volumes 1 and 4 front board detached); Thomas Frognall Dibdin, A Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in the Northern Counties of England and in Scotland, 1838 (2 volumes, 20th-century red half calf, covers detached or detaching); Thomas Pennant, A Tour in Scotland, 1774-6 (3 volumes, 4to, contemporary sprinkled calf, rebacked); Edmund Burt, Letters from a Gentleman in the North of Scotland, 1818 (fifth edition, 2 volumes, contemporary calf, volume 1 front board detached).The lot not fully collated and sold as seen(27) THE LIBRARY OF DR ANDREW G. FRASER MD FSA SCOT (1937-2020)

Waverley Novels, a selection of works, first editions Waverley; or, 'tis Sixty Years Since. Edinburgh: John Ballatyne and Co., for Longman, Hurst... 1814. First edition with all the definite misprints listed by Worthington as required in the first edition, 3 volumes, 12mo, half-titles, modern half-calf; Guy Mannering; or, the Astrologer. Edinburgh: John Ballatyne and Co., for Longman, Hurst... 1815. First edition, intermediate state with second state errata leaf but first state p.309 in volume 3, contemporary half calf, volume 2 lacking half-title, spotting, joints cracked; Tales of my Landlord. Second Series. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Company, 1818. 4 volumes, first edition, second state, lacking half-titles, contemporary calf; The Monastery. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1820. 3 volumes, first edition, half-titles present, contemporary half-calf; Kenilworth. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1821. 3 volumes, first edition, second state, half-titles lacking, contemporary panelled calf gilt; The Fortunes of Nigel. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1822. 3 volumes, first edition, contemporary half calf gilt, half-titles present, bookplate of Hugh Cecil Earl of Lonsdale; St Ronan's Well. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1824. 3 volumes, first edition, half-titles present, contemporary half calf gilt, bookplates of Hugh Cecil of Lonsdale to volumes 2 and 3 (22) Provenance: The former property of Sir Eric Kinloch Anderson KT FRSE, sale proceeds to be donated to the Abbotsford Trust.

Edinburgh and Scotland Collection of topographical and historical works, 18th-19th century all 4to, comprising:Wood, John Philp. The Antient and Modern State of the Parish of Cramond. To which are added, Biographical and Genealogical Collections ... comprehending a Sketch of the Life and Projects of John Law of Lauriston, Comptroller General of the Finances of France. Edinburgh: John Paterson, 1794. Near-contemporary calf, viii 291 [3] pp., engraved map, 7 engraved plates, mezzotint portrait of John Law, 3 folding letterpress pedigrees, list of plates at rear, front joint superficially cracked but holding, head of spine slightly defective;Trotter, Alexander. Observations in Illustration of his Modified Plan of a Communication between the New and the Old Town of Edinburgh. Edinburgh: for Laing & Forbes; and R. Ackermann, London, 1834. [Bound with:] A Plan of Communication between the New and Old Town of Edinburgh, in the Line of the Earthen Mount ... Second Edition, greatly enlarged, with Additional Plates. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1829. 2 works in 1 volume, contemporary cloth-backed boards, printed pink paper label to front, Observations with engraved frontispiece view, engraved plan, A Plan with 6 lithographic or engraved plates, all folding (plate 3 with outer section reattached), the 2 works divided by a publisher's notice on pink paper (1 f., 'What follows is Mr. Trotter's Original Plan of 1828, now abandoned, as mentioned on first page of the preceding observations')Johnstone, J. & J. Historical and Descriptive Account of the Palace and Chapel-Royal of Holyroodhouse. Edinburgh: J. Cunningham and J. & J. Johnstone, 1826. First edition, one of an unknown copies with proof plates on india paper, original printed boards, rebacked, engraved dedication, vignette title-page and 8 plates, all printed on india paper and mounted, inscribed 'To Mr John Graham Macdonald Bart, from his much obliged servants the engravers' on the front free endpaper, spotting; Lees, J. Cameron. St Giles', Edinburgh, Church, College, and Cathedral, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day. Edinburgh: W. & R. Chambers, 1889. One of 50 copies on large paper, this copy out-of-series and annotated 'Publishers' Copy' on the limitation page, apparently by the author, with his signature below, contemporary half morocco (spine sunned), Chambers family bookplate to front pastedown;Gregory, James. Memorial to the Managers of the Royal Infirmary. Edinburgh: Murray & Cochrane, 1800. 19th-century half calf, bookplate of the barons Napier, front joint split but held by cords;Robertson, D. H. The Sculptured Stones of Leith. Leith: Reid & Son, 1851. First edition, contemporary green half calf (rubbed), tinted lithographic additional title-page, 18 tinted lithographic plates (slightly spotted), folding plan;and 6 others (these not collated), all with engraved plates, including: Thomas Allom, Scotland, c.1835; J. Ewbank, Picturesque Views of Edinburgh, 1825; Thomas H. Shepherd, Modern Athens, 1829; Daniel Wilson, Memorials Edinburgh in the Olden Time, 1848 (2 volumes); and similar(14) THE LIBRARY OF DR ANDREW G. FRASER MD FSA SCOT (1937-2020)The Antient and Modern State of the Parish of Cramond is also of Indian interest, containing an account of John Law's time as French governor-general of Pondicherry.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man London: Egoist Press, 1917 [i.e. 1918]. 8vo, [vi] 299 pp., original green cloth, spine darkened, a few small marks and areas of cockling to covers, contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper, small nick to foot of pp. 179-82 [Slocum & Cahoon A13] First UK edition to be printed in the country, the third edition overall, one of 1,000 copies: the work was first published in New York in 1916; the first UK edition of the following year comprised the American sheets with a cancel title-page.

The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe A Story for Children. Illustrations by Pauline Baynes. London: Geoffrey Bles, 1950. First edition, first impression, 8vo, recent black half morocco gilt by the Abbey Bookbindery, Hampshire, half-title, colour frontispiece, small stain to fore edge, finger-soiling to foot of title-page, a few marks elsewhere, small nick to foot of pp. 19/20, very small chip to lower fore corner of pp. 143/4, housed in black cloth slipcase

The Works including her Correspondence, Poems and Essays. London: Richard Phillips, 1803. First edition, 5 volumes, 8vo, contemporary red half morocco, smooth spines gilt in compartments, marbled sides, engraved frontispiece, 10 plates of manuscript facsimile (several folding), contemporary book-labels of Anne Isabella Kevill to front pastedowns, spotting to front and rear of each volume;[Scottish Highlands]. Letters from the Mountains; being the Real Correspondence of a Lady [Anne MacVicar Grant], between the Years 1773 and 1807. London: for Longman [et al.], 1807. Second edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, contemporary mottled calf, half-titles, slightly rubbed, ownership inscriptions and blind stamps to front free endpapers of volumes 2-3, small marginal tear to B3 volume 3;Paley, William. Natural Theology: or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity, collected from the Appearance of Nature. London: R. Faulder, 1802. Second edition, 8vo, contemporary tree calf, half-title discarded, part of L3 recto failed to print, occasional pencilled annotations and underlining, bookplate and ownership inscription;and 2 others (these not collated): Bacon, Essays, 1755 (contemporary sprinkled calf); and Erasmus, L'Eloge de la Folio, Neuchatel, 1777 (contemporary quarter sheep)(11)

A Pale View of Hills London: Faber and Faber, 1982. First edition, first impression, 8vo, original pale blue-grey boards, spine lettered in gilt, with the dust jacket (retaining price £6.25) The author's first book.

Collection of travel narratives, 17th-19th century Morritt, John Bacon Sawrey. A Vindication of Homer and of the Ancient Poets and Historians, who have recorded the Siege and Fall of Troy. In Answer to Two Late Publications of Mr Bryant. York: by W. Blanchard, for T. Cadell, Jun., and W. Davies, 1798. First edition, 4to, original boards, sheep backstrip, folding engraved map, 5 folding aquatint plates, ownership inscription of one G. H. Nochden dated 1824 to initial blank, binding worn, a few spots to title-page [Abbey Travel 398; Blackmer 1157; ESTC T2297];Chandler, Richard. Travels in Asia Minor: or an Account of a Tour made at the Expense of the Society of Diletanti. London: J. Dodsley [and others], 1776. Second edition, 4to, contemporary calf, engraved folding map, errata leaf, binding worn, front joint cracked, front board near detached (held by one cord), a few spots and marks internally, title-page with contemporary ownership inscription of the Royal High School, Edinburgh [ESTC T63358];Wordsworth, Christopher. Athens and Attica: Journal of a Residence there. London: John Murray, 1837. Second edition, 8vo, contemporary tan calf, 3 lithographic plates including frontispiece, 2 folding maps, folding plate of Greek inscriptions printed in red and black, contemporary school prize inscription to front free endpaper, front joint split at head;Addison, Joseph. Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, etc. In the Years 1701, 1702, 1703. London: Jacob Tonson, 1705. First edition, 8vo, contemporary tan calf, rebacked, half-title, engraved arms to dedication, engraved numismatic vignettes in text [ESTC T74575];Irvine, William. Letters on Sicily. London. J. Mawman, 1813. Large 8vo, uncut in original boards, half-title;Busbecq, Ogier Ghislain de. Travels into Turkey: containing the most Accurate Account of the Turks, and Neighbouring Nations. London: J. Robinson; and W. Payne, 1744. 12mo, contemporary speckled calf, binding worn, joints cracked, endpapers removed, title-page browned along edges and with partially effaced ownership inscription [ESTC T99955];and 8 others similar(15) THE LIBRARY OF DR ANDREW G. FRASER MD FSA SCOT (1937-2020)

Goddard, Robert H. A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes City of Washington: The Smithsonian Institution, 1919. First edition, 8vo, 10 photographic plates, original wrappers bound into modern blue boards, a few stamps and markings to upper wrapper and title page including the Imperial College of Science and Technology and a 'withdrawn' stamp and the numbers '2734' in red biro, modern ownership signature to free-endpaper A rare, early work on space travel.Robert Hutchings Goddard (1882-1945) was an early pioneer in the theory of space travel. He posited that rockets may be capable of extra-terrestrial travel in a time when most scientists believed that no rocket was capable of travelling beyond Earth’s upper atmosphere.Working at the Worchester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, Dr Goddard developed a mathematical theory of rocket propulsion, before receiving patents for rockets in 1914 and 1915. Despite stringent disagreement from many of his peers, in 1915 he stated publicly that space travel was possible.In 1916, Goddard was granted research funding by the Smithsonian Institution – work which supported the development of weapons during the First World War. The funding enabled Goddard to pursue his great interest – space travel. Goddard published A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes in 1919, exploring rocket propulsion using gasoline and liquid oxygen. Goddard’s theory stated that a rocket would have to travel at the speed of 6.95 miles per second in a vacuum to overcome the pull of Earth's gravity and reach space, and predicted that human beings could reach the moon.

The History and Description of the Great Western Railway London: David Bogue, 1846. First edition, folio (53.1 x 36.4cm), 20th-century half morocco, all edges gilt, iv 58 57-76 pp. letterpress, tinted lithographic frontispiece, lithographic dedication leaf, lithographic list of plates incorporating vignette view, 2 lithographic vignettes in text (on india paper, mounted), 33 tinted lithographic plates (several incorporating multiple images), 3 hand-coloured maps and plans (including geological map and cross-section) , wear to spine, joints cracked, tips worn, toning, variable spotting, small damp-stains to margins of frontispiece and list of plates, front inner hinge strengthened [Abbey Life 399]

Leslie, John De Origine Moribus, et Rebus gestis Scotorum, Libri decem Rome: Stamperia del Popolo Romano, 1578. First edition, small 4to (21 x 16cm), map, contemporary vellum, bookplate, ownership signature of Alan Stevenson to paste-down endpaper, a few annotations in an early hand including to title-page, close trimming to upper margins, some slight tearing to inner margins of the first few leaves slightly affecting text, title and image excised from T1 with loss to half a leaf of text and image, joints and hinges split [USTC 838078] FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE STEVENSON LIGHTHOUSE ENGINEERS

Muret, Pierre Rites of Funeral Ancient and Modern in use through the known world.... to which is added a Vindication of Christianity against Paganism. All translated into English by P. Lorraine. London: for R. Royston, 1683. First English edition, 8vo, [xii], 308; [xvi], 126, [ii]; contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, red morocco lettering piece, [ESTC R28843; Sabin S1443] The seventh and eighth chapters are devoted to the description of the funerals of the Americans and West Indian Islanders. The work is dedicated to the diarist, Samuel Pepys. Rare. Muret's original edition was published in Paris in 1679.

Six first or early editions The Tailor of Gloucester. London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1903. Possibly a composite edition (endpapers matching Quinby Plates 1 and 2, with other issue points as described in the first edition), a little rubbing to plate at p.35 and adhesion onto the opposite leaf, and again around p.62 with loss to a couple of letters, some rubbing and fading to spine [Quinby 4 in variation maroon boards];The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin. London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1903. First edition (endpapers matching Quinby Plate 1), covers intact but nearly detached and rubbed, a few minor marginal tears [Quinby 5];The Tale of Benjamin Bunny. London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1904. First edition (endpapers matching Quinby Plate 2), hinges split, pp.79-80 detached and soiled [Quinby 6 in variation tan boards];The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle. London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1905. First edition (endpapers matching Quinby Plate 2), spine slightly discoloured [Quinby 8 in variation brown boards];The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies. London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1909. First edition (endpapers match Quinby Plate 7), spine and boards slightly discoloured, very small dampstain to rear endpaper [Quinby 16];The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse. London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1910. First edition (endpapers matching Quinby Plate 10), frontispiece loose [Quinby 18](6)

A Natural History of British Birds, etc. with their Portraits accurately drawn, and beautifully coloured from Nature. London: for S. Hooper, 1775. First edition, folio (52 x 36.4cm), contemporary calf-backed marbled boards with vellum tips, [2] 24 pp., 40 engraved plates (2 folding), contemporary manuscript list of contents laid in, spine worn, front joint largely cracked, title-page creased and marked and with loss to lower fore corner (not affecting text), variable spotting to plates, most with contemporary manuscript titles (in ink or pencil), folding plates creased, bittern folding plate rumpled along fore edge, brent goose with browning and paper disruption along one fold [Anker 198; Fine Bird Books (1990) p. 105; Nissen IVB 421; Zimmer I pp. 293-4]

Orwell, George [Eric Arthur Blair] Animal Farm A Fairy Story. London: Secker & Warburg, 1945. First edition, first impression, 8vo, 92 pp., original green cloth, spine lettered in white, with the dust jacket (priced 6s on front flap, 'An early list for 1945' advertisement on rear panel, Searchlight advertisement printed in red on verso). Sunning to cloth at head and foot of spine and along head of front board, very superficial cracking to inner hinges, manuscript date to front pastedown (behind jacket flap), dust jacket rubbed and chipped, rear panel dust-soiled

The Lakes of Scotland a series of views, from paintings taken expressly for the work by John Fleming, engraved by Joseph Swan. Glasgow: Joseph Swan, 1834. First edition, folio, large paper copy, list of subscribers, 52 engraved plates including 4 vignette titles on India paper, contemporary red morocco gilt, sides elaborately tooled in gilt, spine gilt in compartments, t.e.g., lightly rubbed

Account of the Skerryvore Lighthouse with Notes on the Illumination of Lighthouses. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black 1848. First edition, 4to, contemporary reddish-brown morocco by Alexander Banks Junior of Edinburgh, arms of the Northern Lighthouse Board gilt to covers, x [5] 10-439 pp., engraved frontispiece, folding table, 33 engraved or aquatint plates, Stevenson family ownership inscription to title-page, occasional pencilled marginalia, laid-in leaf of manuscript notes on letterhead of David Alan Stevenson facing plate 17, front joint rubbed, frontispiece loosening, tissue-guard creased FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE STEVENSON LIGHTHOUSE ENGINEERS

Maillard, Olivier (c.1430-1502) Sermo[n]es de adve[n]tu declamati Parisius in ecclesia sa[n]cti Joa[n]nis i[n] Gravia [Bound with:] Sequuntur quattuor sermones comunes per adventum et consequenter Dominicales sermones nondum impressi. Paris: Jehan Petit, 22 December 1511 [second work undated]. 2 works in 1 volume, 8vo (15.2 x 9cm), 116 [5] and 102 ff., 19th-century French tan calf gilt by Ottman-Duplanil, all edges gilt, each work printer's large criblé woodcut device to title-page, criblé woodcut initials, printed with rounded Gothic types in double columns, first work title-page with small stain to foot of title-page and 19th-century ownership inscription to head, short closed tear to top edge of leaf k2, second with silverfish damage to lower margin of E3 not affecting text [neither in Adams; cf. USTC 180642 for another edition of Sermones de adventum, dated 1511 but with different foliation; USTC cites one edition of Sequuntur quattuor sermones dated 1518]

Collection of works about or printed in Arbroath or environs 1) With the Scottish Yeomanry. Being a Reprint, somewhat altered and extended, of Letters written from South Africa during the War of 1899-1901 by Thomas F. Dewar ... surgeon-captain ... Imperial Yeomanry. Arbroath: T. Buncle & Co., 1901. First edition, 8vo, original cloth;2) Poems and Songs from the Hackle-Shop by James Greig, Arbroath. Arbroath: Thomas Buncle, 1887. First edition, 8vo, contemporary half roan;3) Poems and Songs by Alf. T. Matthews, Arbroath. Arbroath: Arbroath Herald Office, 1891. First edition, 8vo, contemporary blue quarter roan, contents partly unopened);4) Poems on Various Subjects: Political, Satirical, and Humorous. First Series. By John Sim Sands, Writer in Arbroath. Arbroath: Stewart, 1833. First edition, 8vo, near-contemporary half calf, lithographic portrait frontispiece;5) A Record of Lunan, its Descent and Transmission, from 1189 to 1849, by William Blair-Imrie. Edinburgh: Waterston and Sons, 1902. First edition, one of 50 copies printed for the author, 4to, original red morocco gilt, top edge gilt, addressed in manuscript on limitation leaf to J. M. McBain FSA (dedicatee of Poems and Songs from the Hackle-Shop, q.v.);6) Collections and Observations Methodized; concerning the Worship, Discipline, and Government of the Church of Scotland ... by Walter Steuart, Esq. of Pardovan. Arbroath: J. Findlay for A. Brown, 1802. First edition, 8vo, viii 234 2 pp., contemporary half calf, covers detached, spotting to title-page;7) The History of Dundee ... by James Thomson. Dundee: Robert Walker, 1847. First edition, 8vo, contemporary green half calf, engraved frontispiece and additional title-page;8) Reminiscences of Arbroath and St Andrews by D. S. Salmond. Arbroath: Brodie and Salmond, 1905. First edition, 8vo, original green cloth, 7 photographic plates;9) [Angus]. Sammelband of locally-printed pamphlets, including: i) A Garland for the Ancient City; or, Love Songs of Brechin and its Neighbourhood, with Historical Notes, by Colin Sievwright, Brechin: D. H. Edwards, 1881; ii) Maryton, Records of the Past. A Lecture delivered in the Public School of Maryton, January 18, 1877, by Rev. William R. Fraser, Montrose: Alex. Burnett, 1877; iii) Brechin Cathedral: its History ... by the Rev. James Landreth, Brechin: D. H. Edwards, 1883; iv) Five Score and One: a Sketch of the Life of Mrs John Alexander, Brechin: D. H. Edwards, 1883; v) The Earl of Dalhousie and his Tenantry, Banquet at Edzell Castle, 1882; vi) For Love's Sake: being a Farewell Sermon preached in the West Free Church, Brechin ... by James M'Cosh, Brechin: D. H. Edwards, 1884; and approx. 6 others;10) Celebration of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in Arbroath. Arbroath: Brodie & Salmond, 1897. First edition, 8vo, original quarter japon;and 25 others, including Natural History of Arbroath and District by Thomas F. Dewar, 1893 (first edition, original cloth, inscribed), The Sough o' the Shuttle; or Poems and Songs by Colin Sievwright, Weaver, Kirriemuir, Dundee, 1866 (first edition, original wrappers, front wrapper near detached), Bannatyne Club, Liber S. Thome de Aberbrothoc, Edinburgh, 1848 (4to, original cloth), An Original Collection of the Poems of Ossian, Orrann, Ulin, and other Bards ... collected and edited by Hugh and John M'Callum, Montrose: printed at the Review Newspaper Office, 1816 (8vo, original boards, rear board detached, front board near detached), and similar (including broader Scottish interest)(35) Provenance: J. M. McBain FSA, author of Arbroath: Past and Present (1887); thence by descent.

Pride and Prejudice, with a Preface by George Saintsbury and Illustrations by Hugh Thomson London: George Allen, 1894. First Thomson-illustrated edition, first impression, 8vo, xxvii 476 pp., original blue cloth, spine and front board lavishly decorated with peacock design in gilt, all edges gilt, frontispiece and illustrations throughout by Hugh Thomson, spine rolled and with tear to headcap, abrasions to spine and rear cover, a little rubbing to front cover, engraved bookplate (Woolley Park)

Uncle Remus, his songs and sayings New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1881. First edition, first state, with "presumptive" in the last line of p.9 and 8pp. of undated adverts not mentioning this title, original green cloth gilt with gilt Brer Rabbit motif to upper cover, gift inscription Joel Chandler Harris gathered this collection of stories whilst speaking with enslaved people on a plantation in Georgia in the 1880s. Believing that it was important to record these tales, he wrote them down, with the fictional narrator, 'Uncle Remus'. The work has become an important written source of African American storytelling traditions. However, the book (and the film that it would later inspire, Song of the South), portray the life of enslaved people as somewhat idyllic, as opposed to the harsh and brutal reality, alongside perpetuating stereotypes of African American people. Thus, the work is simultaneously an important and beautifully bound, but problematic book.

A Treatise on Gun-Powder; a Treatise on Fire-Arms; and a Treatise on the Service of Artillery in Time of War. Translated from the Italian by Captain Thomson, of the Royal Regiment of Artillery. London: T. and J. Egerton, 1780. First edition in English, 8vo, contemporary calf, rebacked with original spine laid down, half-title, 24 engraved folding plates, errata leaf [ESTC T117826];Brett, Edwin J. A Pictorial and Descriptive Record of the Origin and Development of Arms and Armour. To which are appended 133 Plates specially drawn from the Author's Collection at Oaklands, St Peter's, Thanet, and Burleigh House, London. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1894. First edition, 4to, original cloth, neatly rebacked in black morocco, retaining earlier morocco cornerpieces (apparently original), all edges gilt, 133 plates, headings, decorative initials and decorative frames printed in red, very occasional light foxing, bookplate (Michael Moad);Baker, Ezekiel. Remarks on Rifle Guns. London: E. Baker, 1825. Ninth edition, 8vo, contemporary red half morocco with red morocco label to front board, book-label of R. T. Wigington, half-title, 6 hand-coloured etched plates including frontispiece, 2 further etched plates, etched table ('The Weight and Diameter of Lead Balls', 6 pp.);and 2 others similar(5)

Hardy, Thomas [Pre-1900 Dust Jacket] Life's Little Ironies a Set of Tales with some Colloquial Sketches entitled A Few Crusted Characters. London: Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., 1896. 8vo, original blue cloth, etched frontispiece by H. Macbeth Raeburn, map of Wessex to rear, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, with the printed dust jacket (chipped, spine toned), rear inner hinge partially cracked with possible attempted repair First published in 1894; this edition published as volume 14 in The Wessex Novels.

Ellis, John An Essay towards a Natural History of the Corallines and other Marine Productions of the like Kind, commonly found on the Coasts of Great Britain and Ireland. London: for the author, 1755, First edition, 4to, engraved frontispiece and 39 plates, xvii, [x], 104; contemporary calf, neatly rebacked retaining original spine, some light spotting and offsetting to title and frontispiece

Le Carré, John The Spy Who Came in from the Cold London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1963. First edition, first impression, 8vo, original blue boards, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket, bookplate to front pastedown, textblock slightly toned, dust jacket with splits to folds, spine panel faded, a little rubbing and wear to extremities, mark to front panel, rear panel dust-soiled and superficially creased

A Voyage into the Levant perfom'd by Command of the late French King. Containing the Antient and Modern State of the Islands of the Archipelago; as also of Constantinople, the Coasts of the Black Sea, Armenia, Georgia, the Frontiers of Persia, and Asia Minor. London: for D. Browne [and others], 1718. First edition in English, 2 volumes, 4to (24.7 x 19cm), mid-20th-century blue half calf, xlii 402, [4] 398 [18] pp., 152 engraved plates, engraved folding map by John Senex, light browning, volume 1 with occasional damp-staining to margins, volume 2 with stronger and more consistent damp-staining to plates and worming in gutter occasionally affecting a few images, folding plate 150 with marginal loss [ESTC T133108; Nissen ZBI 4156](2) THE LIBRARY OF DR ANDREW G. FRASER MD FSA SCOT (1937-2020)First published in French the previous year.

Robson, George Fennell Scenery of the Grampian Mountains London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1819. Large folio (53.5 x 35.5cm), contemporary maroon half morocco, gilt edges, engraved folding map hand-coloured in outline, 41 hand-coloured aquatint plates by Henry Morton after Robson, a little wear to extremities, sides slightly marked, variable offsetting, a little marginal dust-soiling to map, marginal finger-soiling to final plate, endpapers creased [Abbey Scenery 506] First edition thus: the sketches were originally published in 1814 as a series of soft-ground etchings, uncoloured. The list of subscribers records 210 copies.

Collection of works, 18th-19th century Shaw, Lachlan. The History of the Province of Moray. Edinburgh: William Auld, 1775. First edition, 4to, contemporary calf (later spine-label), engraved additional vignette title-page, 3 engraved plates (one folding), E4 cancelled, L2 present in two states, errata/advertisement leaf to rear;Pennecuik, Alexander. An Historical Account of the Blue Blanket: or, Crafts-Mens Banner. Containing the Fundamental Principles of the Good-Town, with the Power and Prerogatives of the Crafts of Edinburgh, etc. Edinburgh: printed by John Mossman and Company, and sold by him and the author, 1722. First edition, small 8vo, contemporary sheep, binding defective and shaken, contents nearly loose (just holding by one cord only);[Johnson, Samuel]. A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. A New Edition. Edinburgh: Mundell & Son, 1798. 8vo, contemporary half calf by James Condie of Paisley (with his ticket);and 15 others (these not collated), including: Raphael Holinshed, The Scottish Chronicle, Arbroath: J. Findlay, 1805 (2 volumes, 4to, contemporary sprinkled sheep, half-titles, folding map, Skene library bookplates); David Person, Varieties: or a Surveigh of Rare and Excellent Matters, Necessary and Delectable for all Sorts of Persons, wherein the Principall Heads of Diverse Sciences are illustrated, Rare Secrets of Naturall Things unfoulded, etc., London: for Thomas Alchorn, 1635 (2 copies, 4to, both imperfect) Thomas Pennant, A Tour in Scotland, and Voyage to the Hebrides, 1772, Chester, 1774 (4to, contemporary tree calf, rebacked, worn, engraved plates); Forfarshire Illustrated, Dundee: Gershom Cumming, 1843 (4to, contemporary green half roan, engraved plates); James Browne, A History of the Highlands and of the Highland Clans, Glasgow: A. Fullarton & Co., 1838; William Anderson, The Scottish Nation; or the Surnames, Families, Literature, Honours, and Biographical History of the People of Scotland, Edinburgh: A. Fullarton & Co., 1863 (3 volumes, 4to, contemporary half calf, numerous plates); and similar(28)

Rowling, J. K. Two inscribed Harry Potter books Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. London: Bloomsbury, 1997. First edition, nineteenth impression, paperback issue, inscribed by Rowling 'to Marianna, from your very kind sister and JK Rowling' on the dedication page, 8vo, 223 pp., original wrappers, spine sunned and rolled, loss to foot of spine, fore corners of front wrapper bumped, delamination to upper fore corner, contents toned;Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. London: Bloomsbury, 1998. First edition, second impression, hardback issue, inscribed by Rowling 'to Marianna (again!) with best wishes JK Rowling' to the title-page, with an accompanying small doodle of a five-cornered star also by Rowling, 8vo, 251 pp., original pictorial boards, dust jacket, spine rolled, contents toned, dust jacket sunned on spine and along edges of front panel(2) Provenance: Inscribed for the vendor at the Edinburgh International Book Festival c.1998.

The History of Barbados London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1848. First edition, 8vo, modern tan half calf, 7 tinted lithographic plates including frontispiece and additional vignette title-page, 2 engraved plates printed in green, folding table [Abbey Travel 694];Delacour, Jean, and Pierre Jabouille. Les Oiseaux de l'Indochine Française. Paris: Exposition Coloniale Internationale, 1931. 4 volumes, 4to, contemporary tan half morocco, 67 chromolithographic plates after Henrik Grønvold, edges untrimmed [Nissen IVB 228];[Board of Agriculture]. General View of the Agriculture, State of Property, and Improvements, in the County of Dumfries. Edinburgh: for John Ballantyne and Co., 1812. First edition, 8vo, half-title, engraved folding map frontispiece, 5 engraved plates, 4 aquatint plates of bull specimens;Parnell, Richard. The Natural and Economical History of the Firth of Forth. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1839. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, 27 engraved plates numbered 18-44 (several folding);and 4 others

Chiromantia 1 Physiognomia, ex aspectu membrorum hominis. 2 Periaxiomata de faciebus signorum. 3 Canones astrologici, de judiciis aegritudinum. 4 Astrologia naturalis. 5 Complexionum noticia, juxta doninium planetarum. Strassburg: Johannes Schott, 1541. Folio (29 x 19.5cm), 130 [2] pp., a-l6, old vellum, large woodcut portrait of the author to title-page, woodcut illustrations of palms and facial types throughout the text, printer's woodcut devices to recto and verso of colophon leaf, annotated slips and engraved armorial bookplate mounted to front pastedown, faint early marginalia to pp. 65-6 [VD16 R 3111; this edition not in Adams] Scarce early edition of a widely-read work on palmistry, physiognomy and astrology, first published in 1522, also by Schott, under the title Introductiones in chiromantiam.

The Hobbit London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1937. First edition, second impression, 8vo, 310 pp., original green cloth, titles and decoration to spine and covers in blue, map endpapers printed in red and black, colour frontispiece depicting Hobbiton, 3 colour plates ('The Fair Valley of Rivendell'; 'The Dark River opened Suddenly Wide', '"O Smaug, the Chiefest and Greatest of Calamities"', one uncoloured plate (Mirkwood), full-page illustrations in text, advertisement leaf to rear, spine and covers marked, loss to head and foot of spine, incipient wear to section of front joint, front board slightly bowed and with fraying to cloth along top edge, tips of both boards bumped and worn, inner hinges superficially split but remaining firm, light spotting to endpapers and half-title, light finger-soiling to half-title, title-page and occasionally elsewhere, a few leaves faintly dog-eared [cf. Hammond A3a] The second impression was the first version of the book to be illustrated in colour: the first impression had two plates only, both of which were uncoloured. A total of 2,300 copies were printed, and some 400 held at the binder's London warehouse were destroyed during an air raid in November 1940.

Koestler, Arthur Spanish Testament With an Introduction by the Duchess of Atholl. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1937. First edition, first impression, 8vo, original black cloth, dust jacket, contents browned, spotting to endpapers and occasionally to margins, contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper, dust jacket spine-panel toned, spotted and nicked, a few front and rear panels toned along extremities, rear panel slightly spotted and marked The author's first book published in English, very uncommon in the dust jacket. Koestler travelled to Spain in 1936 as a special correspondent for the anti-Franco New Chronicle. A few months later 'he was captured by Franco's troops and imprisoned in Malaga and Seville from February to June, under daily threat of execution' (ODNB). He was eventually released following the intervention of the British government, but the experience scarred him for the rest of his life, and has a clear fictional parallel in the imprisonment and execution of Rubashov, the protagonist of Darkness at Noon.

Indian lithographic printing Collection of rare works in Urdu on various subjects all stitched or in wrappers.[Jaipur]. Tughra-i Nastaliq. Jaipur: Hira Lal Press, c.1890. Folio, original pictorial wrappers, [8] pp. text, 11 double-page plates including portraits of Mughal and contemporary Indian rulers including Queen Victoria,  captions in Hindi, as well as Urdu, wrappers, text and plates printed in various colours throughout, wear to spine, wrappers slightly spotted and with a few nicks;[Gynaecology]. ‘Ilm al-Nisa [’The Science of Women']. Sexual Science, 1904. Stiff red card wrappers, 104 pp., etc., closed tear in final leaf;[Astrology]. Intikhab al-Nujum ['Selecting the Stars']. [Lucknow]: Munshi Nawal Kishore, c.1900. Later wrappers, 96 pp.;[Indian detective play]. Chandar raka, ma'ruf bi Pulis Drama, Musannifuh Mister Ram Das ['A Few Stops, or, Police Drama, by Mister Ram Das']. Agra: 'Azizi Press, c.1900. 64 pp., later wrappers;[Gwalior]. Akhbar-i Gwalior [Gwalior News, volume 8, issue 33], 1912. Folio, 3 leaves, stitched, Hindi and Urdu text in double column, a little staining, stitching separating;and 15 others including Urdu novels, e.g. Muhammad ‘Abd al-Halim, Badr al-Nisa ki Musibat [The Trouble of Badr al-Nisa], Lucknow: Qawmi Press, 1896(20) Another edition of the first item (Tughra-i Nastaliq), printed in Kanpur and sold by Lyon & Turnbull on 8th February 2023, contained a biography in English of the author, named as Heera Lal of Jaipur, who was born in 1853 and describes himself as a tutor to 'several of the Rajput nobles of the Jeypore State amongst whom Thakur Mahtab Singh of the Rajawat clan, the Chief of Siwar, is one of my best and intelligent students'.

Rowling, J. K. Gift set of the first five Harry Potter books, signed by Rowling in each volume Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone [...] Chamber of Secrets [...] Prisoner of Azkaban [...] Goblet of Fire [...] Order of the Phoenix. London: Bloomsbury, 2003. First edition, first impression of Order of the Phoenix, later impressions of the remaining volumes (and Goblet of Fire a Canadian issue), 8vo, original pictorial boards, with the dust jackets, signed by Rowling in blue ink on the half-title of each volume, housed in the publisher's pictorial slipcase and paper gift bag(5) Provenance: Acquired by the vendor at a charity auction hosted for the benefit of the Sick Kids Friends Foundation at the Signet Library, Edinburgh on 8th December 2004 (tickets, programmes and invitation sold with the lot).

[Cotton, Captain Joseph] Memoir on the Origin and Incorporation of the Trinity House of Deptford Strond London: printed by J. Darling, 1818. First edition, 8vo, contemporary calf, ownership signatures of Robert and Alan Stevenson, joints split FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE STEVENSON LIGHTHOUSE ENGINEERS

Les neuf matinées Paris: Jean Richer, 1585. First edition, 8vo, [16] 315 [1] pp., 19th-century quarter roan, moderately spotted and browned, side-notes shaved, private Spanish library markings to front free endpaper, ink inscription cropped from head of title-page [not in Adams];Vaillant, Clément. De la commodité de l'appanage ou panage de messieurs les enfans puisnez de la royale maison de France. Paris: Guillaume Linocier, 1584. First edition, 8vo, [4] 31 ff., c.1900 pink paper boards, binding worn, browning [not in Adams];Giocchi, Fabiano, & Francesco Giovanetti. Tractatus de Emptione et Venditione. Venice: ad Candentis Salamndrae insigne ['at the sign of the shining salamander], 1575. First edition, 8vo, [32] 502 [1] pp., contemporary limp vellum, woodcut device to title-page and colophon leaf, endpapers removed, small spill-burn to I5, quire T misbound but all present, worming to foot of last few leaves [EDIT CNCE 34080; not in Adams];Theodoret of Cyrus. L'Histoire en laquelle sont contenues les choses dignes de memoire advenues en la primitive Eglise, tant du regne de l'Empereur Constantin le grand, comme de se successeurs, propre à ce temps. Traduict gu grec en françois par D. M. Matthée. Paris: Jérome de Marnes, and Guillaume Cavellat, 1569. 16mo, [7] 257 [7] ff., contemporary vellum with manuscript spine-title, ties perished, slightly spotted, possibly lacking final blank [not in Adams but cf. T506 for a French edition of 1544](4) Nicolas de Cholières's work comprises nine cryptic musings on subjects including 'Des laides et belles femmes' ('Of beautiful and ugly women'), 'De la jalousie du mary et de la femme' ('Of the jealousy of husbands and wives'), 'De l'inégalité de l'aage [sic] des mariez, si un vieiallard doit prendre une jeune fille: ou une vieille recerher [sic] un jeune homme' ('Of the unequal ages of married couples, whether an old man should take a young girl, or an old woman seek out a young man'), and similar matters.

Four works The Different Forms of Flowers. London: John Murray, 1877. First edition, 8vo, ads dated March 1877 at rear, original green cloth gilt, some tears and pulling to spine, lacking front free-endpaper, hinges split;Idem. The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants. London: John Murray, 1875. Second edition, 8vo, ads dated January 1875, original green cloth gilt;Idem. Insectivorous Plants. London: John Murray, 1875. Second thousand, 8vo, original green cloth gilt, some rubbing, hinges cracked;Idem. The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom. London: John Murray, 1878. Second edition, later impression, 8vo, ads dated January 1882 at rear, original green cloth gilt(4) Provenance: Bookplates of John M. Murray

Gaffarel, Jacques Curiositez inouyes sur la sculpture talismanique des Persans Horoscope des Patriarches. Et lectures des estoilles. [Paris?: no publisher,] 1631. 8vo, xvi 317 pp., contemporary vellum, 2 folding woodcut plates to rear, showing constellations with stars replaced by Hebrew characters (counted as pp. 316-17), binding slightly marked, lacking front free endpaper, variable light damp-staining to lower margins and upper fore corners [Caillet II 4293; Thorndike VII pp. 304-7] Early edition of a wide-ranging and popular work on the occult sciences, namely Persian talismans, Kabbalah and star reading, first published in Paris in 1629.

An Antidote against the Venome of the Snake in the Grass: or, the Book so stiled. And the Christian People called Quakers vindicated from its most gross Abuses and Calumnies ... Unto which is annex'd. A Brief Examination of the Author's Second Book, stil'd, Satan Dis-rob'd. Also, some Notice taken of his Discourse for the Divine Institution of Water-Baptism. London: for Tho. Northcott, 1697. First edition, 12mo (15 x 9.1cm), 19th-century half calf, lacking front endpapers, front inner hinge held by one cord only (of two), rear endpapers detaching, small stain and contemporary marginal ink annotation to title-page, a few old stains and marks elsewhere [ESTC R27066; Sabin 103655; Smith, Friends' Books II 902] A scarce work by a figure considered 'crucial to the development, establishment, and recognition of the Quaker movement' (ODNB).

The Anatomy of Melancholy Oxford: for Henry Cripps, 1638. Fifth edition, folio, 20th-century quarter morocco, engraved allegorical title-page, prelims misbound and lacking leaf ²[sec.]⁴ (containing part of the introductory poem), title-page laid down, marginal repairs to half-title and final quire (5A), 2I⁴ with small hole, ⁴2L¹ repaired, 4H³ with marginal repair, damp-staining towards rear [ESTC S122250; STC 4163];and 20 others (these not fully collated), including: C. F. Oldham, The Sun and the Serpent: A Contribution to the History of Serpent-Worship, 1905 (first edition, 8vo, original cloth, halftone photographic plates, cloth mottled); James Frazer, The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings, 1932 (2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth); ibid., Spirits of the Corn and of the Wild, 1912 (2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth); John Buller, A Statistical Account of the Parish of Saint Just in Penwith in the County of Cornwall, Penzance: R. D. Rodda, 1842 (first edition, 8vo, original cloth, lithographic frontispiece, other plates, several folding, spotting, annotations to front free endpaper, binding marked); The Studio, The Art of the Book, 1914 (folio, original wrappers, plates); a personal photograph album relating to the construction of Guelph prison, Ontario, Canada, 1910s; and similar(24)

Davies, Hannah Among Hills and Valleys in Western China Incidents of Missionary Work. With an Introduction by Mrs. Isabella Bishop. London: S. W. Partridge & Co., 1901. First edition, 8vo, original red cloth lettered in gilt, 20 halftone photographic plates including frontispiece, folding map, cloth mottled, a few small areas of wear to extremities

Set of signed copies and first editions London: Faber and Faber, 1989-. All 8vo, original boards, with the dust jackets. Comprising:The Remains of the Day, 1989. First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author 'Kazuo Ishiguro 25/5/89' on title-page;Never Let Me Go, 2005. First edition, signed limited issue, one of 1,000 numbered copies signed by the author on title-page, with cloth slipcase;The Unconsoled, 1995. First edition, first impression, signed by the author on the title-page;When We Were Orphans, 2000. First edition, first impression, signed by the author on the title-page;signed paperback of The Remains of the Day. London: Faber and Faber Limited, 2005; An Artist of the Floating World. London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1986. First edition;The Buried Giant. London: Faber & Faber Limited, 2015. First edition(7)

Oysters and all about them London & Leicester, 1891. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, library stamp to titles of 'Fisheries and Wildlife Department Library', original green pictorial cloth gilt

A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour as it existed in Europe, particularly in Great Britain, from the Norman Conquest to the Reign of King Charles II ... Second Edition, Corrected and Enlarged. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1842. 3 volumes, folio (36.6 x 26.4cm), contemporary red half morocco, spines gilt in compartments with labels to second and third and military motifs to remainder, all edges gilt, hand-coloured lithographic frontispiece to volume 1, 70 hand-coloured plates (etchings with aquatint), 10 uncoloured etched plates, tissue-guards, numerous hand-coloured historiated initials heightened with metallic pigments, directions to binder leaf and errata leaf to volume 1, rubbing to joints, extremities and covers, occasional light spotting, short closed marginal tear to plate 73;Skelton, Joseph. Engraved Illustrations of Antient Arms and Armour, from the Collection of Llewelyn Meyrick, at Goodrich Court, Herefordshire; after the Drawings, and with the Descriptions of Dr. Meyrick, by Joseph Skelton. London: by G. Schulze, for J. Skelton, 1830. First edition, 2 volumes, folio (37.4 x 25.5cm), later half morocco with earlier spines laid down, etched frontispieces and additional vignette title-pages, engraved portrait to volume 1 (dated 1833 and marked proof), and 151 etched plates (numbered 1-150, including 50A-B), all on india paper and mounted, errata leaf to rear, spines worn, covers rubbed, plates 149-50 and associated text-leaves misbound in index, bookplates to front endpapers(5)

At Swim-Two-Birds London: Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd., 1939. First edition, 8vo, 316 pp., original green cloth (second-issue binding), spine toned, marked and rolled, rubbed at head and foot, tips slightly bumped, front board with small white mark and hint peripheral toning, contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper, small stains to lower margins of pp. 107 and 109, small nick to lower margin of pp. 127/8 and to fore margin of pp. 277/8 First edition of the author's first novel, a milestone in modernist and Irish literature, rare. According to O'Brien's biographer only 244 copies of the first edition had been sold before the remaining stock was destroyed in an air raid on Longman's London premises in 1940 (Anthony Cronin, No Laughing Matter: The Life and Times of Flann O'Brien, 1989, p. 99). However, the existence of copies bound in black as well as green cloth, usually identified as representing the first and second issues respectively, tends to indicate the survival of at least a small number of unbound copies which were subsequently bound in green cloth as seen here. The work remained little known until its republication in 1960.

Group of histories and travel accounts, 18th-early 19th century Arnot, Hugo. The History of Edinburgh, Edinburgh: W. Creech, 1779 & 1788. 2 copies, first and second editions, both 4to (26.5 x 19.5cm), contemporary calf, rebacked, first edition with engraved frontispiece, folding plan of Edinburgh (backed on linen), contemporary bookplate and ownership inscription (Tower of Alloa, seats of the earls of Mar), binding rubbed, contents toned, spotting to endpapers, frontispiece offset, second edition with advertisement leaf (not present in all copies), directions to the binder leaf, engraved folding plan (with short closed tear), 19 engraved plates (most folding, plate facing p. 565 repaired along top edge and with stain in image), lacking leaf 4N1 (Appendix XI, pp. 649/50, possibly cancelled), but with leaf 4N2 (Appendix XII, pp. 651/2) present in two states, the first with verso blank [ESTC T142880 & T143106];Garnett, Thomas. Observations on a Tour through the Highlands and Part of the Western Isles of Scotland, particularly Staffa and Icolmkill. London: T. Cadell, Junior, and W. Davies, 1800. First edition, 2 volumes in 1, 4to, 20th-century quarter calf, 2 engraved maps (one folding), 52 aquatint plates, browning and spotting to text, plates offset, a few marked, old repairs to folding map, title-page laid down, repaired closed tear in volume 1 pp. 333/4 [Abbey Scenery 482; ESTC T131649];[Thomson, William]. Prospects and Observations on a Tour in England and Scotland: Natural, Oeconomical, and Literary. By Thomas Newte. London: G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1791. First edition, 4to, contemporary calf, engraved folding map (repaired), 23 engraved plates, front joint cracked, excision to lower margin of 2D1, damp-stains to a few plates [T1309];Carr, Sir John. Caledonian Sketches, or a Tour through Scotland in 1807. London: Mathews and Leigh, 1809. First edition, 4to, contemporary half calf, 12 aquatint plates (including folding frontispiece view of Edinburgh), front board detached [Abbey Scenery 488];and 7 others (these not collated: James Bone, Edinburgh Revisited, 1911; J. Stewart Smith, The Grange of St Giles, 1898; Clement B. Gunn & Others, George Heriot's Hospital, c.1900; James Colston, The Guildry of Edinburgh, 1887; Robert Miller, The Municipal Buildings of Edinburgh, 1895; Alexander Heron, The Rise and Progress of the Company of Merchants of the City of Edinburgh, 1903; D. Butler, The Tron Kirk of Edinburgh, 1906)(12) THE LIBRARY OF DR ANDREW G. FRASER MD FSA SCOT (1937-2020)

Drawings of the London and Birmingham Railway With Historical and Descriptive Account. By John Britton. London: published by the proprietor J. C . Bourne, Ackermann and Co., 1839. First edition, folio (53.5 x 37.4cm), 20th-century black crushed half morocco, repeated horizontal gilt fillets across spine and backstrip, 26 pp., tinted lithographic title-page, 29 tinted lithographic plates, engraved map, rubbing to joints and extremities, a little cracking to joint-ends, all plates and text-leaves mounted on linen stubs, plates variably spotted, tide-mark to head of title-page and first plate [Abbey Life 398, with coloured plates]

The Power of Movement in Plants London: John Murray, 1880. First edition, adverts dated May 1878, original green cloth gilt, hinges split, a few corners slightly torn Bookplate of John M. Murray to paste-down endpaper