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Lot 371
Vischer, Nicolaus / Daniel StoopendaalOrbis Terrarum Tabula Recens Emendata et in Lucem Edita per N. Visscher. 315 x 467mm., [Amsterdam, 1728], Dutch text on verso, not laid downNote: 1728 World map drawn by Daniel Stoopendaal for the folio Dutch Bible published by Hendrik and Jacob Keur, based on Visscher's very similar map of 1663.
![Miscellaneous books, including Howe, James[Fourteen Engravings, from Drawings of the Horse. Edinburgh, 1824.] 10 (of 14) engr](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/a47fc324-3170-425b-8d46-a86c010236c1/cac5db69-48dc-442b-c49b-fd23daecb727/468x382.jpg)
Lot 388
Miscellaneous books, including Howe, James[Fourteen Engravings, from Drawings of the Horse. Edinburgh, 1824.] 10 (of 14) engravings mounted in a large folio half calf album, 2 slightly cut down; Kirby, W.F. The Butterflies and Moths of Europe. 1904. 4to, 54 coloured plates, contemporary brown half morocco gilt, t.e.g., upper hinge broken; Beattie, William Switzerland Illustrated. London: G. Virtue, 1836. 2 volumes, 4to, folding map & 106 plates, contemporary brown morocco gilt, a.e.g., worn, joints split; Sallust. The Works. London: T. Woodward & J. Peele, 1744. 4to, contemporary calf, short tear to head of spine; Rosini, Joannes Antiquitatum Romanarum corpus absolutissimum. Leiden: Hackios, Parentem & Filios, 1663. 4to, additional engraved title, folding view, engraved plates, contemporary calf, spine split, worn, covers detached; Boccaccio, Giovanni Il Decameron. "1527" [Venice: Pasinello, 1729], small 4to, 18th century calf, some light dampstaining, worn, one cover detached; Xenophontis De Cyri Expeditione libri Septem. Cambridge: J. Archdeacon, 1785. 4to, folding map, text in Greek and Latin, contemporary calf, worn, upper cover detached; Cuming, R.G. Five Years of a Hunter's Life in the Far Interior of South Africa. 1850. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, additional titles, map and 14 plates, original pictorial cloth gilt, spines worn; The Old Testament; The New Testament, edited by Rev. Charles Girlestone. 1837, 4 volumes; 1835, 2 volumes, uniform contemporary half calf; Finden, W. & E. Landscape Illustrations of the Bible. 1836. 2 volumes, large 8vo, engraved titles & plates, contemporary calf, slightly rubbed; [Keith, Robert] The History of the Affairs of Church and State in Scotland, Edinburgh, 1734. Folio, volume 1 (all published), engraved map, contemporary calf, head and base of spine worn; and 14 others, miscellaneous; sold not subject to return (quantity)
Lot 41
MacAulay, KennethThe History of St Kilda. London: T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt, 1764. 8vo, folding map, half-title, without the final advert leaf, 19th century half calf, a little light dampstaining throughout, bookplates of Peter Forbes and J. Robertson, small biro note regarding price on free-endpaper
Lot 43
Manuscript account of a voyage to Shetland, 1902Leith to Shetland, written and illustrated by Herbert J. Smith. 8vo, 25 leaves including photographs and a hand-drawn, hand-coloured map, The Peebles Book Supplement written in red ink to top of title-page, in later 20th century brown half calf gilt
Lot 46
Martin, MartinA Late Voyage to St. Kilda… London: D. Brown, 1698. First edition, 8vo, half-title, map, plate, later calf gilt with red morocco gilt label to spine, J. Robertson bookplate, blindstamp of the Library of Malcolm Stewart, Hoy and signature of Alan Stevenson to half-title, closed tear to half-title, pp.113-116 slightly torn with some minor loss to text, plate trimmed slightly affecting engraving, hinges splitting, a little soiling throughout, covers rubbed
Lot 47
Martin, MartinA Description of the Western Islands of Scotland. London: Andrew Bell, 1703. 8vo, folding map, folding plate, contemporary panelled calf rebacked with a modern spine, bookplates of Edward Abadam and J. Robertson, ownership signature to endpaper, some worming to upper margins, slightly affecting text, some tape marks to flyleaf [ESTC T94240]Note: "Donum Authoris" written to flyleaf, however there is no other inscription to suggest that this is a gift from the author.
Lot 475
Barth, HenryTravels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa. 1857, volumes 1-4 (of 5), 8vo, lithographed plates, map repaired, modern half calf; Johnson, Samuel A Dictionary of the English Language. Dublin, 1798. 2 volumes, 4to, eighth edition, engraved portrait, contemporary calf, rebacked, titles with owner's name excised at head; Ison, W. The Georgian Buildings of Bath. 1948. 4to, original cloth; Cunnington, C.W. English Women's Clothing in the Nineteenth Century. 1937. 4to, original cloth; and c. 25 others, mainly on Africa
Lot 481
Brenchley, Julius L.Jottings during the Cruise of H.M.S. Curaçoa among the South Sea Islands in 1865. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1873. First edition, "Presented by the Publishers" blindstamp to title margin, 8vo, folding double-page chromolithograph frontispiece, 50 lithograph plates (all but 9 in colour), 1 chromolithograph & 8 wood-engraved plates & folding map, partly hand-coloured in outline, original green pictorial cloth, small gilt stamp of C.L.A. on upper cover, head of spine worn, joints repaired
Lot 485
Canada - Prince Edward Island - Johnstone, WalterTravels in Prince Edward Island, Gulf of St. Lawrence, North-America, in the year 1820-21. Undertaken with a design to establish Sabbath Schools. Edinburgh: for David Brown, 1823. First edition, 12mo, [pp. xi , 12-132], folding engraved map, bound with Johnstone, Walter A Series of Letters, descriptive of Prince Edward Island, in the Gulph of St. Laurence. Dumfries: for the Author, 1822. 12mo, pp. iii, 4-72; 19th century blue pebble dash cloth, lettered in gilt
Lot 487
China - Giles, Herbert AllenA Chinese-English Dictionary. London: B. Quaritch; Shanghai, HongKong, &c., 1892. 4to., contemporary black half morocco, title with slight loss of blank lower margin and laid down, rubbed; Sommarström, Bo. Archaeological Researches in the Edsen-Gol Region Inner Mongolia. Stockholm, 1956. 2 volumes, 4to., presentation copy to Dr. John A. Pope, illustrations, original wrappers, small marks to half-titles, uncut; Pott, P.H. Introduction to the Tibetan Collection of the National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1951. 8vo, plates, original wrappers; Roosevelt, Theodore and Kermit. Trailing the Giant Panda. New York: Scribner's, 1929. First edition, 8vo, colour frontispiece, 42 photographs, large folding map, original blue pictorial cloth, bookplate carefully removed (5)
![[Monteith, Robert, of Eglisha and Gairsa]The Description of the Isles of Orknay and Zetland. Edinburgh: published by S.R.S. [](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/a47fc324-3170-425b-8d46-a86c010236c1/d73ef073-5381-43c4-f5f8-b9f144970579/468x382.jpg)
Lot 49
[Monteith, Robert, of Eglisha and Gairsa]The Description of the Isles of Orknay and Zetland. Edinburgh: published by S.R.S. [Sir Robert Sibbald], 1711. Folio, folding map, single page map, 20th century half calf, folding map repaired to verso, some light foxing, stain to pp.37-38 obscuring a few words, J. Robertson bookplates [ESTC T131326]
Lot 500
Hall, Captain BasilForty Etchings, from Sketches made with the Camera Lucida in North America. Edinburgh: Cadell & Co., 1829. 4to, folding hand-coloured map, 40 engravings on 20 sheets, original paper-covered boards, some slight internal spotting and browning, some rubbing and chipping to covers and spine, joints splitting
Lot 503
IcelandHenderson, Ebenezer Iceland; or the Journal of a Residence in that Island... Edinburgh: Waugh and Innes, 1819. Second edition, 8vo, folding map, 16 plates, later half calf, gift inscription in biro, a little foxing and offsetting; Barrow, John A Visit to Iceland... London: John Murray, 1835. 8vo, 9 plates, original green cloth, cancelled library stamp to title-page, ownership inscriptions to endpapers, some spotting (2)
Lot 509
Japan, India, Russia & Turkey - 8 travel guidesChamberlain, Basil Hall & W.B. Mason A Handbook for Travellers in Japan. London: John Murray, 1899. Fifth edition, 8vo, maps, including map in pocket at rear, original red cloth; [Idem] Another copy, eighth edition, 1907, lacking map in pocket; [Idem] Another copy, lacking map of Kyoto, another map loose, with map in rear pocket; Cook/Wagons-Lists Japan, information for Visitors. London: Thomas Cook & Son Ltd., [n.d.] 8vo, original green cloth gilt; Murray, John, publisher A Handbook for Travellers in India, Burma and Ceylon. London, 1933. Fourteenth edition, 8vo, map in pocket at rear, original red cloth gilt; and another travel guide for the Indian sub-continent, 1975; Baedeker, Karl Russland, nebst Teheran, Port Arthur, Peking. Leipzig, 1912. Seventh edition, some adhesion to initial map, original red cloth gilt, joints split; [Idem] Konstantinopel, Balkanstaaten, Kleinasien, Archipel, Cypern. Leipzig, 1914. Second edition, original red cloth gilt, upper cover lacking; a few maps torn across volumes, sold not subject to return (8)
Lot 51
Neill, Patrick, and othersA Tour through some of the Islands of Orkney and Shetland... Edinburgh: A. Constable, 1806. 8vo, half-title, contemporary calf, bookplates of George Stirling Home Drummond and J. Robertson, early ownership signature of Wm Jardine to title-page, some spotting, joints rubbed and splitting; Maxwell, W.H. Wanderings in the Highlands and Islands. London: A.H. Baily & Xo., 1844. 2 volumes, 8vo, portrait, contemporary half calf with morocco gilt labels to spines, bookplates; Low, George A Tour through the Islands of Orkney and Schetland. Kirkwall: William Peace & Son, 1879. 8vo, contemporary calf gilt, bookplates, folding map repaired to verso; [Haldane, J.A.] Journal of a Tour through the Northern Counties of Scotland and the Orkney Isles, in Autumn 1797. Edinburgh: J. Ogle..., 1798. Third edition, 12mo, later half calf, bookplate, half-title repaired, some very slight dampstaining (5)
![Landt, G. [Jorgen]A Description of the Feroe Islands. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1810. 8vo, frontispiece, foldin](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/a47fc324-3170-425b-8d46-a86c010236c1/04507d73-15c2-469f-c65e-537b448bb68a/468x382.jpg)
Lot 524
North Durham - Raine, JamesThe History and Antiquities of North Durham. London: John Bowyer Nichols, 1852. First edition, large folio (483 x 295mm.), engraved portrait, map, 9 plates, & 2 genealogical tables, illustrations in text, contemporary maroon morocco, g.e., some spotting to the plates, head and foot of spine worn, split at head of upper joint
Lot 546
White, J. ClaudeSikhim & Bhutan. Twenty-one years on the North-East Frontier 1887-1908. London: E. Arnold, 1909. First edition, 8vo, portrait frontispiece, folding map, 40 plates, original pictorial green cloth gilt, spine faded, extremities worn, NLS de-accession stamp & label to front endpapers
Lot 548
Yorkshire and County of DurhamYorkshire and County of Durham, a further collection to include: Fletcher, J.S. Pictureque history of Yorkshire. London: Blackwood,1901. 6 volumes, 4to., illustrations, publisher's red cloth, a.e.g; Hargrove, E. The history of the castle, town, and forest of Knaresborough, with Harrogate and its mineral waters. York: Blanchard, 1789. 4th edition, small 8vo., frontispiece, folding map hand coloured in outline, contemporary half calf, marbled boards, rubbed; The Scarborough guide. Scarborough: Thomas Coultas, 1815. Small 8vo., folding plan as frontispiece, folding map, woodcut plates and illustrations, original printed paper boards; Leyland, John. The Yorkshire coast and the Cleveland Hills and Dales. London: Seeley, 1892. 8vo., frontispiece, plates, publishers cloth; An history of Leeds, compiled from various authors to which is added An history of Kirstall Abbey. Leeds: [no printer, no date, c. 1797?]. Small 8vo., folding map as frontispiece, engraved plate of Kirstall Abbey, contemporary half calf, marbled boards (ESTC T61871); [Croft, John]. Scrapeana: fugitive miscellany; or, a medley of choice bons mots, repartees, &c. to which is added a large collection of Yorkshire anecdotes, York: Blanchard, 1792. Second edition (in fact a reissue of the first edition), 8vo., 19th century half calf, cloth boards; Robson, Thomas. Birds of the Derwent Valley. Consett: Dent, 1896. 8vo., woodcut illustrations, contemporary cloth; Blackett, Walter, Sir. Memoirs … with a pedigree of the Calverleys, of Calverley in Yorkshire, and the Blacketts of Newcastle upon Tyne and Northumberland. Newcastle: Hodgson, 1819. 8vo., engraved frontispieces, plate, armorial illustrations, contemporary calf, red leather lettering piece; Phillips, John. The rivers, mountains, and sea-coast of Yorkshire. London: John Murray, 1853. 8vo., frontispiece, plates, publisher's cloth, rebacked; Purey-Cust, A. P., the Very Rev. Picturesque Old York. Leeds: Jackson, 1909. 4to., frontispiece, plates, publisher's parchment over bevelled boards, t.e.g., others uncut, one of an hundred copies; Album of 14 mounted photographs of Knaresborough [bound with] The legend of Saint Robert the Hermit. Knaresborough: Hamman, 1873. Small 8vo., contemporary tan morocco with raised panels, gilt metal clasps, a.e.g.; A New Guide to Scarborough. Scarborough: Story, 1844., Small 8vo., engraved frontispiece, engraved plates, illustrations, contemporary cloth; Tweddell, G.M. Rhymes and sketches to illustrate the Cleveland dialect. Stokesley: Tweddell,1875. Small 8vo., publisher's cloth; The Tyneside Songster: humorous and descriptive songs in the Newcastle dialect. Newcastle: Dean, 1889, Small 8vo., publisher's cloth; a quantity
Lot 55
Polar exploration, including Fisher, AlexanderA Journal of a Voyage of Discovery to the Arctic Regions. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1821. Third edition, 8vo, map; Laing, John A Voyage to Spitzbergen... Edinburgh, 1822. Fourth edition, 12mo, modern calf; Scoresby, William Journal of a Voyage to the Northern Whale-Fishery… Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1823. 8vo, folding maps (repaired) and plates, contemporary half calf, bookplates, foxed; McClintock, Captain The Voyage of the 'Fox' in the Arctic Seas. London: John Murray, 1859. 8vo, modern blue morocco gilt; Fergusson, R. Menzies Our Trip North. London: Digby, Long & Co., 1892. 8vo, original cloth; Nansen, Fridtjof "Farthest North"... London: George Newnes, Ltd., 1898. 2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth; and 4 others, sold not subject to return (11)
Lot 6
Barry, GeorgeThe History of the Orkney Islands. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, 1805. First edition, 4to, frontispiece, folding map, 10 plates, advertisement leaf, contemporary tree calf with red morocco gilt label and gilt tooling to spine, bookplates of Kimbolton Castle and J. Robertson, a little offsetting, hinges and joints splitting, rubbing to spine
Lot 62
Sibbald, RobertA Collection of Several Treatises in Folio concerning Scotland... Edinburgh: Hamilton and Balfour..., 1739. Folio, 3 folding maps, single page map and 10 plates, slight worming to final 24 leaves affecting a few letters per leaf [ESTC T131329]; [bound with] [Idem] Introductio ad Historiam Rerum a Romanis Gestarum... Edinburgh, '1706' [but 1711?]. Folio, folding map, probably issued as part of Tractatus varii ad Scotiæ antiquæ & modernæ historiam facientes, 1711, as pagination continues until page 122 with Commentarius in Julii Agricole Expeditiones...; [bound with] [Idem] Miscellanea Quaedam Eruditae Antiquitatis... Edinburgh: M. Andrew Simson, 1710 but 1711?]. Folio, lacking plates, possibly issued as part of Tractatus varii ad Scotiæ antiquæ & modernæ historiam facientes [ESTC T130124]; [bound with] Vindiciae Scotiae Illustratae sive Prodomi Naturalis Historiae Scotiae... Edinburgh: Andrew Simson, 1710. Folio, possibly issued as part of Tractatus varii ad Scotiæ antiquæ & modernæ historiam facientes [ESTC T130128]; contemporary calf, rebacked with original spine gilt and modern black morocco label, bookplates of the Restenneth library and J. Robertson, a little browning and some slight worming in places
Lot 70
Thorkelin, Grimr JohnsonFragments of English and Irish History in the Ninth and Tenth Century. London: John Nichols, 1788. 4to, map, inscribed to the Reverend Mr Jameson to title-page from the editor, modern quarter morocco, lacking an initial leaf (half-title?), J. Robertson bookplate, some foxing [ESTC T84189]
Lot 72
TravelWilson, James A Voyage round the Coasts of Scotland and the Isles. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1842. 2 volumes, 8vo, modern green cloth, bookplates; Macky, John A Journey through Scotland...being the third volume which compleats Great Britain. London: J. Pemberton, 1723. 8vo, modern half morocco, bookplate; [Gifford, Thomas] Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica, no. XXXVII, contains Mr. Gifford's Historical Description of Zetland. London: J. Nichols, 1786. 4to, map, modern half calf, several ownership stamps, bookplate; Brand, John A Brief Description of Orkney, Zetland, Pightland-Firth & Caithness. Edinburgh: William Brown, 1883. 8vo, 1/157 copies, original cloth; Miscellanea Antiqua: Containing First the Life and Death of King James the Vth. of Scotland [including The Navigation of King James V. round Scotland...] London: W. Taylor, 1710. 8vo, later calf, rebacked, bookplate; Low, George A Tour through the Islands of Orkney and Schetland. Kirkwall: William Peace & Son, 1879. 8vo, original cloth; Goodrich-Freer, A. Outer Isles. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co Ltd, 1904. 8vo, original red cloth, bookplate; Lord Teignmouth Sketches of the Coasts and Islands of Scotland and the Isle of Man. London: John W. Parker, 1836. 2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, bookplates; Ferguson, Malcolm An Autumn Tour through Orcadia and the North of Scotland. Glasgow, 1869. 8vo, original blue cloth; Ker's Naval Log A folio photocopy of the log, 1778-1782, including visits to Shetland and Orkney in 1778, modern black morocco gilt; and 24 others, sold not subject to return (36)
Lot 74
Wallace, JamesAn Account of the Islands of Orkney. London: Jacob Tonson, 1700. 8vo, folding map (repaired), folding plate (small closed tear), contemporary panelled calf, neatly rebacked with modern red morocco gilt labels to spine, some manuscript notes and an early ownership signature to title-page, bookplates of Mathew Shields and J. Robertson [ESTC R34706]
Lot 94
10 volumes on Scotland, comprising Wilson, DanielMemorials of Edinburgh in the Olden Time. Edinburgh, 1873. 4to, folding frontispiece, engraved plates, original quarter brown morocco, some spotting, Newbattle Abbey stamp to title, some spotting, rubbed; Stuart, John, Marquess of Bute, J.R.N. Macphail & H.W. Lonsdale. The Arms of the Royal and Parliamentary Burghs of Scotland. 1897. 4to, one of 325 copies, illustrations, original white buckram, binding dust-soiled; History of the Society of Writers to Her Majesty's Signet. Edinburgh, 1890. 4to, plates, original red buckram, t.e.g., uncut, faded; Clan Donald Roll of Honour 1914-1918. 1931. 4to., original cloth, library stamp to title verso; Skinner, William The Society of Trained Bands of Edinburgh. 1889. Presentation copy signed by W. Skinner, large folding map, original cloth gilt; An Actto raise and Establish a Militia Force in Scotland. 26th June 1802. Edinburgh, 1802. 8vo, quarter calf, worn; Ornsby, R. Memorials of James Robert Hope-Scott of Abbotsford. 1884. 2 volumes, original cloth; Masson, D. Memories of Two Cities. 1911, original cloth; and 1 other (10)Provenance: The property of the Newbattle Abbey College Trust
Lot 95
4 large maps on rollers, comprising:Philips' Comparative Series of Large School Maps, England and Wales. 157 x 196cm., no date; Philips' Comparative Large School-room Map of Scotland, Physical., 1/375,000, 173 x 144cm.; W. & A.K. Johnstons' Effective Class Room Atlas of Asia - Relief & Communications. 87 x 108cm.; and Covens, J. and C. Mortier. Theatre de la Guerre en Austriche, Baviere, Souabe, le Tirol et les pays aux environs. Amsterdam, [1715], 97 x 108cm., slight wear at centre where joined; all 4 mounted on linen and wooden rollers, first 3 with slight wear or minor defectsProvenance: The property of the Newbattle Abbey College Trust
Lot 154
Peiping Institute of Fine Arts magazine for 1934-1935; a visa for Vera Alabaster dated 1936; two priced tickets relating to paintings by Vera Alabaster and a small collection of unrelated ephemera re. China including a map, copy of the Yellow Crane Tower Historical Drama; three Chinese softback books re. paintings and drawings, etc. The artist, Vera Alabaster was Russian born (St Petersburg, 1889), studied in Italy and Germany, spent some time in China (see following lots 155 to 158) and lived latterly in Kirkcudbright. She died in 1964. Condition Report. As images.
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Lot 576
“The Royal Scots Tercentenary 1633-1933”, 12 large postcard size coloured prints of uniform, covering the period, mounted and framed together, 17½” x 28½”; 2 Smitherman coloured prints of Norfolk Rangers uniform, 1783 and 1795, mounted and framed together 19” x 25”; “A Cartographic History of Sussex” being a map of the county with vignettes and details, c 1960, mounted and framed, 27” x 33”; 6 others. GC to VGC (9)
Lot 21
World coins x 8, Falklands 1s x 4, 50p x 3; 1995 VE day, 2001 75th birthday, 2002 Coach, 1999-200 Island Map bi-metal; Marshall Islands 1s x3, 1990 Battle of Britain $5 cu-ni plus $10 x 2; 1991 Mosquito, 1994 B-day both brass all prooflike; Uganda 2000 shillings, 2001 silver proof all encapsulated
Lot 1122
Attributed to William Russell Flint (1880 - 1969), watercolour on fabric - A pirate treasure map, 46cm x 50cm.Provenance: By descent from the vendor's grandfather, artist and close friend of Russell Flint. As a frequent house guest at Dryderdale House, Russell Flint was often involved in amateur dramatic productions and by family tradition this was painted by the artist as a prop for a production of Treasure Island - offered together with two books by Russell Flint (3)
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