PAST AUCTION

22 September 2021 at 11:00 BST

Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs

Sale Number: 659

Live Online | Edinburgh

LOT 1

Art

10 volumes, comprising

SOLD FOR £300

LOT 2

Chambers, William

A Treatise on the Decorative Part of Civil Architecture

SOLD FOR £375

LOT 3

Forth Rail Bridge, circa 1890 SALEROOM NOTICE: THIS MEASURES 60 x 358cm

Scottish School illustration

SOLD FOR £750

LOT 4

Freedman, Barnett

15-Inch Gun Turret, HMS Repulse

SOLD FOR £575

LOT 6

Palladio, Andrea

The Four Books of Andrea Palladio's Architecture

SOLD FOR £300

LOT 8

Man Ray (American 1890-1976)

Alphabet for Adults

SOLD FOR £1,063

LOT 9

Rennie, Sir John

The Theory, Formation and Construction of British and Foreign Harbours

SOLD FOR £400

LOT 10

Stevenson, Robert

An Account of the Bell Rock Light-House

SOLD FOR £813

LOT 13

[Map of Africa] De Lisle, Guillaume

L'Afrique Dressée par les Observations de Mrs de l'Acadamie Royale des Sciences

SOLD FOR £500

LOT 14

[Map of Africa] Fer, Nicolas de

L'Afrique Dressée selon les derniers Relations et Suivant les Nouvelles Decouvertes

SOLD FOR £375

LOT 16

[Map of Africa] Münster, Sebastian

Totius Africae tabula & descriptio universalis

SOLD FOR £300

LOT 21

Armstrong, John

A Scotch Atlas: or, Description of the Kingdom of Scotland

SOLD FOR £750

LOT 22

Atlases

A collection of 5 works

SOLD FOR £300

LOT 24

Cary, John

Improved Map of England and Wales

SOLD FOR £625

LOT 26

German Atlas

Berghaus, Dr. Heinrich

SOLD FOR £575

LOT 27

Mauritius, manuscript plan

Plan de Rediuit Scituée entre le Quartier de Moka et célui des Plaines de Wilheme

SOLD FOR £2,375

LOT 29

7 Children's Books

Including Ardizzone, de Brunhof and Frances Hodgson Burnett

SOLD FOR £625

LOT 30

7 Children's Books

A collection, including Grahame, Kenneth

SOLD FOR £688

LOT 31

Burnside, H.M.

The Fairy Ring

SOLD FOR £325

LOT 33

Potter, Beatrix

The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit

SOLD FOR £375

LOT 34

Rowling, J.K.

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

SOLD FOR £1,188

LOT 35

Rowling, J.K.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

SOLD FOR £450

LOT 36

Rowling, J.K.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

SOLD FOR £3,250

LOT 38

Aldus - Petrarca, Francesco

Il Petrarca

SOLD FOR £300

LOT 39

Calligraphy - Rossignol, Louis

Nouveau livre d'Ecritures Italienne batarde

SOLD FOR £300

LOT 41

Luna, Miguel and Tarif Abentarique, Abulcacim

Historia verdadera del Rey Don Rodrigo

SOLD FOR £300

LOT 42

Schedel, Hartmann

[The Nuremberg Chronicle] Liber Chronicarum

SOLD FOR £30,000

LOT 43

1730s pamphlets, some relating to Sir Robert Cochran

including

SOLD FOR £238

LOT 44

1745 Jacobite Rising

7 pamphlets, including

SOLD FOR £475

LOT 45

20 late 18th century Scottish pamphlets in one volume

comprising

SOLD FOR £250

LOT 48

American Revolutionary War - Marshall, John

Atlas to Marshall's Life of Washington

SOLD FOR £300

LOT 49

Bacon, Francis

The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh

SOLD FOR £625

LOT 50

Churchill, Sir Winston Spencer

The Story of the Malakand Field Force

SOLD FOR £1,750

LOT 51

Colonial India

A collection of 8 books

SOLD FOR £938

LOT 54

Kay, John

A Series of Original Portraits

SOLD FOR £375

LOT 55

Miller, Hugh

[The Works]

SOLD FOR £750

LOT 56

Orme, Edward

Historic, Military and Naval Anecdotes

SOLD FOR £325

LOT 57

Pamphlets and short publications

A collection, political and literary

SOLD FOR £1,750

LOT 58

Politics in 1721-22: a collection of 7 pamphlets in one volume

comprising

SOLD FOR £350

LOT 59

Politics, 11 mid 18th century pamphlets

in one volume, comprising

SOLD FOR £213

LOT 60

Politics, 1689-1712: a collection of 16 pamphlets in one volume

comprising

SOLD FOR £325

LOT 61

Proclamations regarding Act of Union & others, 4 Broadsides

and 2 printed works

SOLD FOR £1,250

LOT 62

Scottish Books

13 works on Scottish History

SOLD FOR £300

LOT 63

Scottish History

11 volumes, comprising

SOLD FOR £300

LOT 64

Scottish works,

6 volumes, finely bound, comprising

SOLD FOR £300

LOT 68

1960s Literature

A collection of 12 volumes

SOLD FOR £688

LOT 69

20th Century First Editions

A collection of 9 books

SOLD FOR £375

LOT 70

Beecher Stowe, Harriett

Uncle Tom's Cabin

SOLD FOR £300

LOT 71

Bindings - George Eliot, Thomas Carlyle, and W.M. Thackeray

50 volumes, comprising

SOLD FOR £1,125

LOT 72

Buchan, John

11 works, including one signed by Buchan to the dedicatee, and several ALS

SOLD FOR £1,000

LOT 74

Burns, Robert

13 volumes, comprising

SOLD FOR £625

LOT 75

Dickens, Charles

The Works

SOLD FOR £1,188

LOT 76

Dickinson, Emily

Poems

SOLD FOR £1,500

LOT 77

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Four Novels

SOLD FOR £1,125

LOT 78

Fleming, Ian

Goldfinger

SOLD FOR £625

LOT 79

Homer - Thomas Hobbes

The Iliads and Odysses of Homer

SOLD FOR £1,125

LOT 80

Hughes, Ted

Meet my Folks!

SOLD FOR £625

LOT 82

Lucas-Lucas, St. John W.

Nocturnes and Day-Dreams

SOLD FOR £300

LOT 83

MacDiarmid, Hugh [Christopher Murray Grieve]

Selected Lyrics

SOLD FOR £188

LOT 85

Macdiarmid, Hugh [Grieve, C.M.]

Works by and about MacDiarmid, 10 signed by MacDiarmid, comprising

SOLD FOR £688

LOT 86

Mackay Brown, George

7 volumes, 5 signed, comprising

SOLD FOR £1,188

LOT 87

Mann, Thomas

Unordnung und Frühes Leid

SOLD FOR £875

LOT 88

Science Fiction and Fantasy

A collection of 34 books

SOLD FOR £600

LOT 89

Science Fiction and Fantasy

A collection of 9 books

SOLD FOR £750

LOT 90

Scott, Sir Walter

The Works

SOLD FOR £425

LOT 92

Shaw, George Bernard

Cashel Byron's Profession

SOLD FOR £425

LOT 93

Spark, Muriel

11 volumes, 5 signed, comprising

SOLD FOR £425

LOT 94

Stoker, Bram

First edition, with Autograph Letter Signed

SOLD FOR £1,063

LOT 95

[Swift, Jonathan]

Bacon, Francis, Lord

SOLD FOR £450

LOT 96

The British Poets

35 volumes in calf gilt

SOLD FOR £375

LOT 97

Tolkien, J.R.R.

6 volumes, comprising

SOLD FOR £688

LOT 98

Whitney, James Lyman

Catalogue of the Spanish Library and of the Portuguese Books bequeathed by George Ticknor

SOLD FOR £75

LOT 99

Wodehouse, P.G.

Psmith Journalist

SOLD FOR £375

LOT 100

Autograph Album

mostly compiled 1937-40

SOLD FOR £450

LOT 101

Scottish Independence Movement - Barns-Graham, Allan, and Scottish Home Rule

A collection of A.L.S.

SOLD FOR £938

LOT 102

Black, Duncan - RAF Flight Officer

A small archive of letters

SOLD FOR £188

LOT 103

Bold, Alan, 1943-1988, Scottish poet

A collection of signed poems, including

SOLD FOR £813

LOT 104

Campaigns in Egypt and India

Letters written by a 19th century British officer, Alexander Redmond Bewley Warrand

SOLD FOR £500

LOT 105

Faraday, Michael & Aneurin Bevan

3 items

SOLD FOR £425

LOT 106

Ferme, G.

Christmas Carols and Hymns on the Nativity

SOLD FOR £400

LOT 109

[Jacobite Interest] Forbes of Culloden, Duncan

A collection of manuscripts by and relating to Forbes of Culloden

SOLD FOR £1,625

LOT 110

James II & VII, King of England, Ireland and Scotland, 1633-1701

Document Signed

SOLD FOR £300

LOT 111

Linlithgow archive SALEROOM NOTICE: PLEASE SEE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

A quantity of documents, including contemporary copies, relating to Linlithgow and political and legal matters

SOLD FOR £875

LOT 112

Sorabji, Kaikhosru

Inscribed musical scores, letters & photographs, comprising

SOLD FOR £4,250

LOT 113

Sorabji, Kaikhosru

Autograph music scores, comprising

SOLD FOR £5,000

LOT 114

Sorabji, Kaikhosru and Norman Peterkin SALEROOM NOTICE: PLEASE NOTE THE REVISED DESCRIPTION

A collection of signed music and photographs

SOLD FOR £2,750

LOT 115

Telford, Thomas

Two Autograph Letters, Signed

SOLD FOR £688

LOT 116

The Commissioners of Ross-Shire

Valuation Book of the Shire of Ross, Allested[?] copy

SOLD FOR £500

LOT 117

Aristotle

Aristotelis De Moribus ad Nicomachum, Libri Decem

SOLD FOR £688

LOT 118

Bindings - Highland Society of Scotland

Prize-Essays and Transactions

SOLD FOR £475

LOT 119

Bindings, 9 volumes

Including Thomson, Thomas

SOLD FOR £150

LOT 120

[Erotic Literature] Nerciat, Andréa de SALEROOM NOTICE: lacking several plates in second state and advert leaves

Les Aphrodites, ou Fragments Thali-Priapiques

SOLD FOR £350

LOT 121

Magic

Thorndike, Lynn

SOLD FOR £750

LOT 123

Miscellaneous books

13 volumes, comprising

SOLD FOR £500

LOT 124

Music - 16 volumes including Mahler, Gustave

Zehnte Symphonie

SOLD FOR £1,375

LOT 127

Three 17th and 18th century books

including Hopton, Arthur

SOLD FOR £400

LOT 128

Two illustrated volumes and an atlas

comprising

SOLD FOR £375

LOT 129

Wine - Henderson, Alexander

The History of Ancient and Modern Wines

SOLD FOR £450

LOT 130

Agriculture - Dickson, R.W.

Practical Agriculture

SOLD FOR £275

LOT 132

Geology

A collection of 12 geology books

SOLD FOR £400