£630
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 792
Auction: 19 June 2024 from 10:00 BST
Logan, James. The Scottish Gael; or, Celtic Manners, observed among the Highlanders. London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1831. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary tan half calf by J. Philip of Aberdeen, 8 hand-coloured aquatint plates including frontispieces, half-titles, contemporary ownership inscriptions (Alexander Irvine) to title-pages, volume 2 spine-label detaching;
Bartlett, W. H. (illustrator). The Ports, Harbours, Watering-Places, and Coast Scenery of Great Britain. With Descriptions by William Beattie. London: George Virtue, 1842. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, contemporary tan half calf by John Trail of Fraserburgh (with his ticket), numerous engraved plates, tissue guards;
Brown, John C., & others. Scotland Illustrated in a Series of Eighty Views by John C. Brown, William Brown, Andrew Donaldson, John Fleming, David M. Mackenzie, W. B. Scott, D. Stewart, and Other Scottish Artists. London: A. Fullarton and Co., 1845. First edition, 4to, contemporary tan half calf by John Trail of Fraserburgh, numerous steel-engraved plates, tissue guards, joints cracked;
Macgibbon, David and Thomas Ross. The Castellated and Domestic Architecture of Scotland from the Twelfth to the Eighteenth Century. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1887-92. First edition, 5 volumes, large 8vo, original cloth;
Campbell, J. F. Popular Tales of the West Highlands, Orally Collected, with a Translation. Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1860. First edition, 4 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, frontispieces to volumes 2-4, bookplate of Hugh Henry Robertson Aikman to volume 1 (with related gift inscription to half-title), W. H. Smith & Son subscription library labels to front pastedowns of volumes 3 and 4, volume 2 cloth very mottled and rubbed, binding shaken, light mottling and rubbing to bindings of other volumes;
[Landon, Letitia E.]. Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book; with Poetical Illustrations. London: H. Fisher, R. Fisher, & P. Jackson, 1835. 4to, original blind-stamped cloth with gilt-tooled leather backstrip, engraved plates including Indian subjects, front inner hinge cracked and frontispiece loose;
Thornbury, Walter. Old and New London: a Narrative of its History, its People, and its Places. London: Cassell Petter & Galpin, c.1880. 6 volumes, 4to, contemporary red half calf, numerous wood-engraved plates;
Gilpin, William. Remarks on Forest Scenery, and Other Woodland Views. Edinburgh: Fraser & Co., 1834. 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary blue-green straight-grain half morocco gilt;
Leslie, Forbes. The Early Races of Scotland and their Monuments. Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1866. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, tinted lithographic plates (25)
From the library of the late Robert Bogdan (1950-2022), of Boghead of Torries and Dykehead of Avochie, Aberdeenshire, geography master at Charterhouse and sometime chairman of the Scottish Castles Association.