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Wallace (James). An Account of the Islands of Orkney. To which is added, an Essay concerning the Thule of the Ancients, 2nd edition, London: for Jacob Tonson, 1700, engraved folding map and plate, light uniform browning, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, 8vo (19.1 x 11.5 cm), together with: [Groat, Alexander G.]. Thoughts on Orkney and Zetland, their Antiquities and Capabilities of Improvement ... Not printed for sale, 1st edition, Edinburgh: Neill & Co., 1831, half-title (marked), title-page with contemporary ownership inscription (Sir Howard Elphinstone, Bart) and shallow marginal chip, later cloth, 8vo (21.2 x 13.4 cm), Neill (Patrick). A Tour through some of the Islands of Orkney and Shetland, 1st edition, Edinburgh: for A. Constable and Company, 1806, half-title and advertisements discarded, deleted ownership inscription on title-page, near-contemporary half morocco, 8vo (21.5 x 12.8 cm), Peterkin (Alexander). Notes on Orkney and Zetland: illustrative of the History, Antiquities, Scenery, and Customs of those Islands. Vol. I [all published], 1st edition, Edinburgh: by John Moir for Macredie, Skelly, and Company, 1822, 2 engraved plates, half-title discarded, plates browned and damp-stained, repaired closed tear in title-page, spotting, edges untrimmed, modern half calf, 8vo (22 x 13.5 cm), and 5 others, including 2 other copies of Wallace, An Account of the Islands of Orkney, 1st edition, 1700 (one in contemporary sheep, with map and plate both closely trimmed cropping part of image in plate, map with closed tear repaired verso; the other in contemporary panelled sheep, with map and plate in facsimile, and 16 pp. advertisements not mentioned in ESTC), Peterkin, Rentals of the Ancient Earldom and Bishopric of Orkney, 1st edition, 1820, a sammelband of 19th-century guides to the Orkneys and Shetland with maps, and Odal Rights and Feudal Wrongs: A Memorial for Orkney, Edinburgh, 1860, these last 3 not collated (Qty: 9) THE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY PART III: SCOTLAND, HIGHLANDS & ISLANDS ESTC R34706 (Wallace); Mullens & Swann pp. 609 (Wallace), 431 (Neill); Wing W491 (Wallace). Wallace's work was first printed in Edinburgh in 1693.