AITCHISON Sir Walter de L.MareMagnum
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19478vo., with a plate and a large folding plan; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers lightly dust-soiled else a near fine copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS UNSIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT WRAPPER. Reprinted from 'The History of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club', vol. xxxi. Bonser 8214.
18595 vols., roy. 8vo., with 5 engraved frontispieces (original tissue guards present), engraved and printed titles, and 82 fine engraved portraits; strongly bound in contemporary half roan, sides in morocco-grain cloth blocked in blind, backs with five raised bands tooled in gilt, second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt and ruled in blind, all other compartments ruled and tooled in blind, gilt tops, red edges, marbled endpapers, boards very lightly age-marked, backstrips lightly chafed at heads and tails else a splendid bright, clean set. The set comprises: vol. I: Abercromby-Creech; vol. II: Crichton-Hamilton; vol. III: Hamilton-M'Gavin; vol. IV: Melville-Young; vol. V: Abercrombie-Wood. Lovely set of the extended version of a standard reference.
18878vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with frontispiece and 33 facsimiles in the text and decorative endpapers, endpapers lightly browned; pictorial cloth blocked in gilt and black, gilt back, uncut, covers a little age-soiled and backstrip mildly browned else a very good, firm copy. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
19278vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and numerous illustrations in the text; boards, cloth back, covers mildly age-soiled else a good, clean copy. Scarce. Thomson, p.52
17722 leaves, 4to., on laid paper, with a fine plate engraved on wood, last leaf of text supplied in photo-facsimile; uncut, disbound, a remarkably crisp, clean copy ideal for framing and display. Extracted from the 'Journal of the Society of Antiquaries'.The plate, eminently suitable for framing, depicts the West Front of Brechin Church, with three smaller figures inset
19874to., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece and very numerous monochrome photographs (a number full-page) in the text; original photographic wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy.
19348vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 3 plates and large folding pedigree, some faint offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; navy pebble-grain cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
19398vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and plates; navy buckram, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, blue top, a near fine copy in unclipped, lightly dust-soiled dustwrapper. Brief description of this great collection of 541 volumes, which is calendared in HMC 4549. Includes a few letters not printed there. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Pargellis & Medley 3311.
1896Roy. 4to., First and Sole Edition, on laid paper, with portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present), title in red and black, and 9 fine plates (all original tissue guards present), free endpapers mildly browned; original series binding of olive-brown cloth, boards blocked in gilt and blind, gilt back, uncut, a very good, bright, crisp copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 525 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 491). With the nineteenth century trade tickets of Edmond & Spark, Bookbinders of Aberdeen. Allardyce is one of the most valuable collections of contemporary Jacobite records. This is the second of two volumes (the first appeared in 1895) each of which is complete in itself. This volume comprises: XXX. Depositions against Jacobites, 1746; XXXI. Memorials for Thomas Forbes of Echt and Andrew Hay, 1746; XXXII. Concerning Highland Depredations, 1747; XXXIII. Memorial anent Thieving and Depredations in the Highlands, 1747; XXXIV. Description of the Road from Aviemore to Aberdeen, 1747; XXXV. Description of the Hills, Glens and Passes in the Counties of Aberdeen, 1747; XXXVI. Proposals for Cantoning the Five Highland Additional Company's, 1747; XXXVII. Highland Reports, 1749-50. The Appendix contains a further eight important records. VERY SCARCE. Pargellis & Medley 3306.
19148vo., First and Sole Edition, on laid paper, with a frontispiece and 7 plates (one folding); pictorial cloth gilt, gilt back, uncut, a remarkably bright, clean, near fine copy. Much sought after account of the military history of Kilcumein and Fort Augustus throughout the Jacobite period. Originally delivered as an address by the retiring President of Inverness Scientific and Literary Society. Very scarce, especially in this condition.
1959Sm. 8vo., Second Edition, with endpaper maps; original printed wrappers, a very good, clean copy. First published in the previous year.
19138vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, very numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text and a folding map, free endpapers very lightly browned; cloth gilt, gilt back, gilt top, a very good, bright, clean copy. Spielmann & Jerrold, 56.
19715 vols., 8vo., with very numerous fine illustrations throughout; red cloth, a near fine set. EDITION LIMITED TO 250 COPIES. Much-needed facsimile re-issue of the scarce original edition of 1887-92.
19238vo., on laid paper; original printed wrappers, sewed as issued, yapped edges, a very good, bright, clean copy.
19498vo., with 8 plates; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy.
19308vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece in photogravure (original tissue guard present), title in red and black, and 7 plates in photogravure (all original tissue guards present); original blue ribbed cloth, crest blocked in gilt on upper board, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Provides 'reliable information on the campaign which preceded Culloden in 1746 by the commander of a volunteer regiment of cavalry' (Pargellis & Medley). This copy was formerly in the library of William Lumsden Walker (1919-2005), formerly Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Royal Hospital for Sick Children and Southmead Hospital, Bristol, and bears his signature on front free endpaper. Very scarce. See Pargellis & Medley, 3321.
19118vo., First Edition, with 20 fine coloured plates and a map; original green pictorial cloth, upper board blocked in gilt and colours, gilt back, gilt top, backstrip lightly chipped at head and tail else a very good, clean copy. Inman 141.
19362 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates, maps and diagrams (a number folding); original blue cloth, gilt backs, a very good, bright, clean copy. EXTREMELY SCARCE
1973Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with photographs and maps in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy. Ottley (Supp), 8340.
19128vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with a mounted coloured frontispiece [by Sir J Gordon Watson] and 32 mounted plates in sepia or monochrome, neat inscription on front free endpaper; original buckram gilt, gilt back, gilt top, UNCUT AND LARGELY UNOPENED, a very good, clean copy. No. 1 of Foulis's famous series 'The Anecdote Books'. Elfick and Harris, 357.
18798vo., Best Edition, with a frontispiece, 11 illustrations in the text and a map; ribbed cloth gilt, small mark on upper cover, endpapers a little marked else a sound, clean copy. With the addendum slip, often wanting. Sold from an institution with its neat stamp on endpapers. This edition not recorded by BMC
18838vo., Sole Edition thus, on laid paper, with folding map as frontispiece, 2 folding plates and folding map; navy buckram, gilt back, upper hinge starting (but binding entirely sound), slightly pulled at head of backstrip else a near fine copy. Includes 'An Explication of some Norish Words used in Orkney and Zetland' and 'An Essay concerning the Thule of the Ancients' (1693). THIS HIGH QUALITY FACSIMILE IS ITSELF EXTREMELY SCARCE. Anderson, p.402 (recording the first edition).
18272 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with engraved frontispieces and 5 engraved plates, some minimal spotting and staining; mid-nineteenth century half calf, backs gilt extra with double roan labels, speckled edges, corners lightly bruised, joints a little rubbed else a most attractive and very clean copy. Pargellis and Medley, 3299.
19398vo., Sole Edition, with a frontispiece and 4 plates by Sir D. Y. Cameron; cloth, gilt back, covers a little age-marked and rubbed else a good, sound copy. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER, with a copy of the original 4pp prospectus bound in at end.
19082 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with frontispieces (original tissue guards present), 138 plates from photographs (one folding), 5 folding maps (3 coloured), 6 full-page maps (5 coloured), and 23 illustrations and diagrams, and several tables, in the text, endpapers lightly spotted, small label scars on front free endpapers, small neat contemporary signature on front paste-down of first volume, some mild age-staining (mainly marginal); original blue cloth, gilt backs, gilt tops, uncut and partially unopened, covers lightly age-marked else a very good, bright copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 480 COPIES. Includes a bibliography. Nice copy of a scarce standard reference.
