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Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 792
Auction: 19 June 2024 from 10:00 BST
[Sutherland, Elizabeth Leveson-Gower, Duchess of]. Views in Orkney and on the North-Eastern Coast of Scotland. Taken in MDCCCV. [?London: privately printed, 1807]. First edition, folio (38 x 26cm), contemporary roan-backed boards, [2] 27 pp., half-title, etched title-page, 28 etched plates (a few with multiple images), etched head and tailpieces in text, tissue-guards, binding worn, half-title and title-page spotted, ink- and blind stamps of Malcolm Stewart of Hoy estate office to front pastedown and title-page respectively;
Low, George. Fauna Orcadensis. Edinburgh: by George Ramsay and Company, for Archibald Constable and Company, 1813. First edition, 4to, modern quarter calf, initial blank discarded;
Mitchell, J. M. Mesehowe: Illustrations of the Runic Literature of Scandinavia. Edinburgh: R. Grant and Son, 1863. First edition, 4to, inscribed by the author on the half-title, original cloth, 8 plates, cloth mottled,
Farrer, James. Notice of Runic Inscriptions discovered during Recent Excavations in the Orkneys. [?Edinburgh]: printed for private circulation, 1862. First edition, 4to, inscribed ‘Dr Deighton from James Farrer’ on the half-title, original cloth, 13 lithographic plates (plate 10 marked), binding slightly marked;
and 17 others (these not collated), including: J. B. Craven, History of the Church in Orkney 1558-1662, Kirkwall, 1897 (2 copies, first editions, 4to, original green cloth, one with water-damage to front cover); ibid. History of the Church in Orkney … 1662-1688. Kirkwall, 1893 (2 copies, first editions, 4to, original green cloth, one with covers somewhat mottled and with newspaper cuttings mounted to endpapers); ibid. History of the Episcopal Church in Orkney 1688-1912, Kirkwall, 1912 (2 copies, second editions, 4to, original green cloth, covers sprung);
Sir John Sinclair, The Orkney Parishes, Kirkwall, 1927 (2 copies, first editions, 4to, original cloth, one with rear inner hinge repaired); Monumenta Orcadica, Oslo, 1906 (4to, original cloth); George Barry, History of the Orkney Islands, 1808 (2 copies, second editions, later half calf, both defective, one copy with front board detached, folding map backed on linen, with 2 plates of 11 only, the other lacking map); and similar (quantity)