PAST AUCTION

8 February 2023 at 10:00 GMT

Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs

Sale Number: 725

Live in Edinburgh & Online

LOT 1

De Wit, Frederick

Africa

SOLD FOR £404

LOT 2

Greenwood, C. & J.

Map of London made from an Actual Survey in the Years 1824, 1825 & 1826

SOLD FOR £17,640

LOT 4

Kitchin, Thomas

A General Atlas

SOLD FOR £4,536

LOT 5

Langlands, George, & Son

Map of the District of Kantyre in Argyllshire

SOLD FOR £1,512

LOT 6

Manuscript estate plans, Perthshire, Forfarshire, and Fife

Baikie, Brydieston, Cardean, Meigle

SOLD FOR £1,764

LOT 7

Martin, R. Montgomery

Tallis's Illustrated Atlas

SOLD FOR £2,772

LOT 9

African travel

19 volumes

SOLD FOR £819

LOT 12

Australia

3 works

SOLD FOR £1,197

LOT 13

Australia and Solomon Islands

3 volumes

SOLD FOR £252

LOT 14

Australia manuscript - New South Wales - Tasmania

Wentworth, William Charles

SOLD FOR £1,260

LOT 15

Australia Manuscript - Tasmania

Jeffryes, Lt. Charles

SOLD FOR £10,710

LOT 16

Bankes, Thomas, Edward W. Blake and Alexander Cook

A New Royal Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography

SOLD FOR £1,890

LOT 17

Beeverell, James

Les Delices de la Grande Bretagne

SOLD FOR £1,638

LOT 18

Bell, John

Travels from St Petersburg in Russia, to Diverse Parts of Asia

SOLD FOR £819

LOT 19

Blakiston, Thomas W.

Five Months on the Yang-Tsze

SOLD FOR £504

LOT 20

Borneo

3 volumes

SOLD FOR £555

LOT 21

Semedo, Alvaro

The History of that Great and Renowned Monarchy of China

SOLD FOR £756

LOT 22

Fitzroy, [Captain] Robert

Great Circle Sailing

SOLD FOR £404

LOT 24

Graziani, Antonio Maria

Histoire de la guerre de Chypre

SOLD FOR £1,008

LOT 26

Grose, Francis

The Antiquities of England and Wales [...] Scotland [...] Ireland

SOLD FOR £1,260

LOT 27

Guattani, Giuseppe Antoni

Roma descritta ed illustrata

SOLD FOR £630

LOT 28

Hariri, Abu Muhammad al-Qasim al-

Maqamat al-Hariri [Arabic title]

SOLD FOR £2,898

LOT 29

Heath, Leopold (1817-1907)

Hong Kong &c.

SOLD FOR £1,200

LOT 30

Herbert, Sir Thomas

Some Yeares Travels into Divers Parts of Asia and Afrique

SOLD FOR £605

LOT 31

Inwood, Henry William

The Erechtheion at Athens

SOLD FOR £454

LOT 32

Keyssler, Johann Georg

Travels through Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, Switzerland, Italy, and Lorraine

SOLD FOR £1,386

LOT 33

Ladoire, Fr. Marcel, [Vicaire de la Terre Sainte]

Voyage fait a la Terre Sainte en l'année MDCCXIX

SOLD FOR £303

LOT 34

Lamb, A. C.

Dundee, its Quaint and Historic Buildings

SOLD FOR £2,268

LOT 35

Lawrence, T.E.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom, a Triumph

SOLD FOR £52,700

LOT 36

Malaysia - Malaya

Skeat, Walter William

SOLD FOR £404

LOT 37

Marmol y Carvajal, Luis del

L'Afrique

SOLD FOR £693

LOT 38

Mason, George Henry

The Costume of China

SOLD FOR £2,520

LOT 40

Montagu, Edward

Memoirs of the late Edw. W-ly M-tague, Esq.

SOLD FOR £504

LOT 41

Netherlands - [Gribius, Johann]

The Netherland-Historian

SOLD FOR £240

LOT 43

Petre, Hon. Henry William

An Account of the Settlements of the New Zealand Company

SOLD FOR £555

LOT 44

Polar exploration

Collection of travel narratives

SOLD FOR £580

LOT 45

[Rickman, John]

Journal of Captain Cook's Last Voyage to the Pacific Ocean on Discovery

SOLD FOR £2,268

LOT 46

Robson, George Fennell

Scenery of the Grampian Mountains

SOLD FOR £1,260

LOT 47

Rycaut, Sir Paul

The Present State of the Ottoman Empire

SOLD FOR £530

LOT 48

St John, Sir Spenser Buckingham

Life in the Forests of the Far East

SOLD FOR £945

LOT 49

Stein, Sir Marc Aurel

Ancient Khotan

SOLD FOR £1,260

LOT 50

Waring, Edward Scott

A Tour to Sheeraz, by the Route of Kazroon and Feerozabad

SOLD FOR £1,197

LOT 51

Wilson, Samuel Sheridan

A Narrative of the Greek Mission, or Sixteen Years

SOLD FOR £756

LOT 52

Wise, Henry

An Analysis of One Hundred Voyages to and from China

SOLD FOR £378

LOT 53

Young, William

The History of Athens

SOLD FOR £882

LOT 55

2 volumes including Conway, Sir Martin

With Ski and Sledge over Arctic Glaciers

SOLD FOR £200

LOT 56

Annan, Thomas

University of Glasgow, Old and New

SOLD FOR £504

LOT 57

Carte-de-visites

Collection of portraits

SOLD FOR £819

LOT 58

[China]

Mennie, Donald

SOLD FOR £1,386

LOT 59

Hong Kong and Canton

Acetate paper negatives

SOLD FOR £945

LOT 60

Hong Kong, China, Japan, Algiers, Suez Canal, Singapore, India

Album of 25 albumen print photographs, c. 1870

SOLD FOR £1,512

LOT 61

[Hong Kong]

Sixty Diamond Jubilee Pictures of Hongkong

SOLD FOR £5,040

LOT 62

Maclean, Harry Aubrey de Vere

Early 20th Century photograph album, military manoeuvres, Morocco

SOLD FOR £693

LOT 63

Middle East

Collection of RAF aerial reconnaissance photographs of Iraq and Iran, 1920s-30s

SOLD FOR £1,071

LOT 64

Panorama of Constantinople

View from Beyazit Tower, c. 1900

SOLD FOR £404

LOT 65

Carte-de-visites and cabinet photographs

Mainly Scottish

SOLD FOR £378

LOT 66

Seaforth Highlanders; India (North-West Frontier) and Egypt

Photograph album, c.1879-1908

SOLD FOR £1,260

LOT 67

Stereoviews

Large collection of stereoview photographs, c.1890-1900

SOLD FOR £693

LOT 68

Baikie, Robert

Observations on the Neilgherries

SOLD FOR £693

LOT 69

Burrard, S. G., and H. H. Hayden

A Sketch of the Geography and Geology of the Himalaya Mountains and Tibet

SOLD FOR £756

LOT 70

Edwardes, Herbert B.

A Year on the Punjab Frontier, in 1848-49

SOLD FOR £693

LOT 71

Elliot, Robert

Views in the East

SOLD FOR £630

LOT 72A

Godwin-Austin, Henry Haversham

Description of a Mystic Play, as performed in Ladak, Zaskar, etc.

SOLD FOR £555

LOT 72

Francklin, William

Observations made on a Tour from Bengal to Persia in the Years 1786-7

SOLD FOR £315

LOT 73

Hughes, Albert William

The Country of Balochistan

SOLD FOR £454

LOT 74

Tagore, Sourindro Mohun

Mani-Mala, or a Treatise on Gems

SOLD FOR £1,197

LOT 75

India

Collection of works on Indian archaeology, architecture and similar

SOLD FOR £404

LOT 76

India

Collection of works on various subjects

SOLD FOR £945

LOT 77

India

Collection of travel narratives including Indian imprints

SOLD FOR £882

LOT 78

India

Collection of works

SOLD FOR £882

LOT 79

India

Collection of works on cricket

SOLD FOR £1,260

LOT 80

India

Journal of Indian Art

SOLD FOR £404

LOT 81

Urdu lithographic printing

Darbari 'Ilm al-Nisa [The Science of Women]

SOLD FOR £2,772

LOT 82

Urdu lithographic printing

Ru-numa'i futagrafi ma'ruf bi Usul-i musawwiri

SOLD FOR £1,638

LOT 83

Urdu lithographic printing

Tarikh-i Rajastan [History of Rajasthan]

SOLD FOR £1,071

LOT 84

Urdu lithographic printing

Anwar al-nujum [The Lights of the Stars]

SOLD FOR £3,528

LOT 85

Urdu lithographic printing

Group of literary works

SOLD FOR £4,536

LOT 86

Urdu lithographic printing

Tughray nastaliq [Monograms in nasta'liq script]

SOLD FOR £693

LOT 87

Urdu lithographic printing

Two veterinary treatises

SOLD FOR £2,520

LOT 88

[Scottish antiquarianism] Bannatyne Club

Numbers 1-7 and 9-10 in the Bannatyne Club series

SOLD FOR £605

LOT 89

[Scottish antiquarianism] Bannatyne Club

Numbers 11-25 in the Bannatyne Club series

SOLD FOR £819

LOT 90

[Scottish antiquarianism] Bannatyne Club

Numbers 26-40 in the Bannatyne Club series

SOLD FOR £819

LOT 91

[Scottish antiquarianism] Bannatyne Club

Numbers 41-55 in the Bannatyne Club series

SOLD FOR £819

LOT 92

[Scottish antiquarianism] Bannatyne Club

Numbers 56-70

SOLD FOR £819

LOT 93

[Scottish antiquarianism] Bannatyne Club

Numbers 71 to 89 in the Bannatyne Club series

SOLD FOR £819

LOT 94

[Scottish antiquarianism] Bannatyne Club

Numbers 90-115 in the Bannatyne Club series

SOLD FOR £1,638

LOT 95

[Scottish antiquarianism] Bannatyne Club

Etchings Chiefly of Views in Scotland. By John Clerk, Esq. of Elgin, MDCCLXXIII-MDCCLXXIX

SOLD FOR £2,016

LOT 96

[Scottish antiquarianism] Bannatyne Club

The Ancient Sculptured Monuments of the County of Angus

SOLD FOR £819

LOT 97

[Scottish antiquarianism] Bannatyne Club

A Series of Etchings chiefly of Views in Scotland. By John Clerk of Eldin, Esq.

SOLD FOR £1,260

LOT 98

[Scottish antiquarianism] Bannatyne Club

Collection of Bannatyne Club Garlands and related publications

SOLD FOR £2,268

LOT 99

[Scottish antiquarianism] New Club

Set of large-paper copies

SOLD FOR £278

LOT 100

Burn-Murdoch, William Gordon (1862-1939)

A Procession of Scottish History

SOLD FOR £819

LOT 101

Burns, Robert

The Poetry of Robert Burns

SOLD FOR £530

LOT 102

[Burns, Robert] Thomson, George, editor and publisher

A Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs

SOLD FOR £378

LOT 103

Hume, David [Baron Hume of Ninewells (1757–1838)]

Volume of manuscript notes from Hume's lectures on Scots law at Edinburgh, 1811

SOLD FOR £202

LOT 104

Hume, David [Baron Hume of Ninewells (1757–1838)]

Commentaries on the Law of Scotland, respecting the Description and Punishment of Crimes

SOLD FOR £429

LOT 105

MacLellan, Bill, publisher (1919-1996)

Hugh MacDiarmid and others

SOLD FOR £1,512

LOT 106

McGonagall, Sir William Topaz

The Tragic Death of the Rev. A. H. Mackonochie

SOLD FOR £1,197

LOT 107

McGonagall, Sir William Topaz

The Storming of Dargai Heights

SOLD FOR £1,197

LOT 108

McGonagall, Sir William Topaz

The Ancient Town of Leith. A New Poem

SOLD FOR £1,071