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Auction archive: Lot number 14

Scotland Collection of early travel narratives

Estimate
n. a.
Price realised:
£819
ca. US$875
Auction archive: Lot number 14

Scotland Collection of early travel narratives

Estimate
n. a.
Price realised:
£819
ca. US$875
Beschreibung:

[Thomson, William]. A Tour in England and Scotland, in 1785. By an English Gentleman. London: for G. G. J. and J. Robinson 1788. First edition, 8vo, contemporary calf, half-title, 6 engraved plates, binding worn, a few stains and marks to contents, free endpapers excised, contemporary ownership inscriptions to half-title [ESTC T145931]; Lettice, John. Letters on a Tour through Various Parts of Scotland, in the Year 1792. London: T. Cadell, 1794. First edition, 8vo, 19th-century blue-green half calf, rubbed, light toning, shallow damp-stain to head of gutter at front [ESTC T146987]; Murray, Sarah. A Companion, and Useful Guide to the Beauties of Scotland, to the Lakes of Westmoreland, Cumberland, and Lancashire; and to the Curiosities in the District of Craven. London: for the author, 1799. First edition, 8vo, contemporary half calf, worn, half-title discarded, prelims misbound [ESTC T147827]; Troil, Uno von. Letters on Iceland ... made during a Voyage undertaken in the Year 1772, by Joseph Banks. Dublin: by G. Perrin, for S. Price [and others], 1780. First Dublin edition, 8vo, contemporary sprinkled calf gilt, half-title, engraved frontispiece, engraved folding map, bookplate of the Barons Cloncurry ('Lyons Library'), slightly rubbed, small nick to head of spine, light spotting to map and adjacent text-leaves, an attractive copy [ESTC N138]; [Heron, Robert]. Scotland Delinated, or a Geographical Description of Every Shire in Scotland ... for the Use of Young Persons. Edinburgh: for James Neill, 1791. First edition, 8vo, contemporary calf, engraved folding map (torn in margin) [ESTC T83697]; [Botfield, Beriah]. Journal of a Tour through the Highlands of Scotland during the Summer of MDCCCXXIX. Norton Hall [Northamptonshire]: [for the author], 1830. First edition, 8vo, later maroon calf gilt by Riviere, engraved frontispiece and additional title-page (both spotted), bookplate of the Dukes of Argyll; Necker de Saussure (Louis Albert). A Voyage to the Hebrides, or Western Isles of Scotland. London: for Sir Richard Phillips 1822. First edition in English, 8vo, 20th-century cloth, 5 aquatint plates, edges untrimmed, spotting; and 7 others (these not collated), including: Thomas Pennant A Tour in Scotland, and Voyage to the Hebrides, MDCCLXII, Chester, 1774 (4to, contemporary half calf, worn, engraved plates); John Ogilvie, Rona, a Poem, 1777 (first edition, 4to, contemporary tree calf, spine worn, front board detached, engraved folding maps, 7 plates, one damp-stained); The Traveller's Guide through Scotland and it's [sic] Islands, Edinburgh, 1806 (third edition, 8vo, contemporary red half morocco, maps); The Tour of the Duke of Somerset ... through Parts of England, Wales, and Scotland, in the Year 1795, 1845 (8vo, contemporary maroon morocco by Hering); Sir Donald Monro, Description of the ... Hybrides, 1884 (original cloth, one of 250 copies); and similar (16)

Auction archive: Lot number 14
Auction:
Datum:
28 Sep 2022
Auction house:
Lyon & Turnbull
33 Broughton Place
Edinburgh, EH1 3RR
United Kingdom
info@lyonandturnbull.com
+44 (0)131 5578844
Beschreibung:

[Thomson, William]. A Tour in England and Scotland, in 1785. By an English Gentleman. London: for G. G. J. and J. Robinson 1788. First edition, 8vo, contemporary calf, half-title, 6 engraved plates, binding worn, a few stains and marks to contents, free endpapers excised, contemporary ownership inscriptions to half-title [ESTC T145931]; Lettice, John. Letters on a Tour through Various Parts of Scotland, in the Year 1792. London: T. Cadell, 1794. First edition, 8vo, 19th-century blue-green half calf, rubbed, light toning, shallow damp-stain to head of gutter at front [ESTC T146987]; Murray, Sarah. A Companion, and Useful Guide to the Beauties of Scotland, to the Lakes of Westmoreland, Cumberland, and Lancashire; and to the Curiosities in the District of Craven. London: for the author, 1799. First edition, 8vo, contemporary half calf, worn, half-title discarded, prelims misbound [ESTC T147827]; Troil, Uno von. Letters on Iceland ... made during a Voyage undertaken in the Year 1772, by Joseph Banks. Dublin: by G. Perrin, for S. Price [and others], 1780. First Dublin edition, 8vo, contemporary sprinkled calf gilt, half-title, engraved frontispiece, engraved folding map, bookplate of the Barons Cloncurry ('Lyons Library'), slightly rubbed, small nick to head of spine, light spotting to map and adjacent text-leaves, an attractive copy [ESTC N138]; [Heron, Robert]. Scotland Delinated, or a Geographical Description of Every Shire in Scotland ... for the Use of Young Persons. Edinburgh: for James Neill, 1791. First edition, 8vo, contemporary calf, engraved folding map (torn in margin) [ESTC T83697]; [Botfield, Beriah]. Journal of a Tour through the Highlands of Scotland during the Summer of MDCCCXXIX. Norton Hall [Northamptonshire]: [for the author], 1830. First edition, 8vo, later maroon calf gilt by Riviere, engraved frontispiece and additional title-page (both spotted), bookplate of the Dukes of Argyll; Necker de Saussure (Louis Albert). A Voyage to the Hebrides, or Western Isles of Scotland. London: for Sir Richard Phillips 1822. First edition in English, 8vo, 20th-century cloth, 5 aquatint plates, edges untrimmed, spotting; and 7 others (these not collated), including: Thomas Pennant A Tour in Scotland, and Voyage to the Hebrides, MDCCLXII, Chester, 1774 (4to, contemporary half calf, worn, engraved plates); John Ogilvie, Rona, a Poem, 1777 (first edition, 4to, contemporary tree calf, spine worn, front board detached, engraved folding maps, 7 plates, one damp-stained); The Traveller's Guide through Scotland and it's [sic] Islands, Edinburgh, 1806 (third edition, 8vo, contemporary red half morocco, maps); The Tour of the Duke of Somerset ... through Parts of England, Wales, and Scotland, in the Year 1795, 1845 (8vo, contemporary maroon morocco by Hering); Sir Donald Monro, Description of the ... Hybrides, 1884 (original cloth, one of 250 copies); and similar (16)

Auction archive: Lot number 14
Auction:
Datum:
28 Sep 2022
Auction house:
Lyon & Turnbull
33 Broughton Place
Edinburgh, EH1 3RR
United Kingdom
info@lyonandturnbull.com
+44 (0)131 5578844
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