A collection of works relating to Scotland, including
£280
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: 4 September 2013 at 12:00 BST
Description
Crombie, Benjamin Modern Athenians... Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1882. 4to, limited edition of 1040 copies signed by the publisher, hand-coloured lithograph frontispiece and 96 hand-coloured portraits on 48 double-page plates, contemporary green quarter morocco, bookplate to paste-down endpaper; Ramsay, Dean Reminiscences of Scottish life and character. Edinburgh: T.N. Foulis, [n.d.] 8vo, 15 (of 16) coloured plates, brown cloth gilt with hand-painted vellum jacket, bookplate; Laing, David, editor Facsimile of an ancient heraldic manuscript... Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1878. Folio, 129 of 250 copies signed by the publisher, coloured lithographic title and 144 plates (143 chromolithographed), original cream cloth, bookplate of James Cox; Robertson, William Proceedings relating to the peerage of Scotland... Edinburgh: Bell & Bradfute..., 1790. 4to, 2 folding tables, contemporary calf [ESTC T92233]; Gleadhill, T.S. Kyle's Scottish lyric gems... Glasgow: Morison Kyle, [n.d.]. Large 4to, wooden boards with 'made of Birnam wood' to upper board with two large photographs of Scottish countryside, photographic boards scratched; and 3 others, sold not subject to return (8)
Footnote
Books from the Library of Dr and Mrs Arthur Jamieson of Barnach
This collection comes from the library of the late Dr Arthur Jamieson of Barnach and his late wife Sheila. Throughout their married life they collected a wide range of books creating a library that in later years attracted many visitors to their home in Beith including the late Donald Dewar.
Their interests included Sir Walter Scott, religious books and Bibles, herbals, flower books and anything by George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) who was a relation of Sheila's. It was Sheila who collected botanical and herbal books. A biologist herself, she had been in her youth, lab assistant to Sir Alexander Fleming.
Dr Arthur was a GP in Beith for over thirty years but was also a recognized historian. It was he who transcribed the records of Births, Marriages and Deaths for the city of Glasgow thus paving the way for all those who have subsequently enquired upon their family histories.