Sothebys: Rare and interesting Scottish Books And a few manuscripts together with smaller collections of books on various subjects including early Protestant theology, both English and Continental, Chapbooks, Hebrew, Topography, and other subjects. The Property of The Free Church College, Edinburgh The Property of The Rt. Hon. The Earl of Kintore The Property of the late William Harvey, F.S.A. Scot.The Property of the late Professor William J. Smith, M.C., F.S.A., F.R.I.B.A. The Property of The Hornel Trust The Prope, SKIP,
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- September 28, 1979 - September 28, 1979
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 599 | Harper (M.) | Rambles in Galloway | 1896 |
USD 20.00 - 40.00 | Not Sold | |
| 600 | Harper (M.) | Rambles in Gallowy | 1896 |
USD 10.00 - 20.00 | Not Sold | |
| 601 | Henderson (R.) | A Treatise on the Breeding of Swine and Curing of Bacon | USD 30.00 - 40.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 602 | Heron (R.) | Observations made in a Journey through the Western Counties of Scotland | USD 50.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 603 | Heron (R.) | Scotland described | USD 40.00 - 60.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 604 | Historical and traditional Tales in Prose and Verse connected with the South of Scotland | USD 30.00 - 60.00 | Not Sold | |||
| 605 | Irvine (C.) | Historiae Scoticae Nomenclatura Latino vernacula | USD 40.00 - 60.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 606 | Johnston (B.) | General View of the Agrilcuture of the County of Dumfries | USD 50.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 607 | Kerr (J.) | The History of Curling | Edinburgh | 1890 |
USD 20.00 - 30.00 | Not Sold |
| 608 | Kerr (J.) | The Golf-Book of East Lothian | Edinburgh | 1896 |
USD 30.00 - 40.00 | Not Sold |
| 609 | (Mackenzie (Rev. William) | The History of Galloway | 1841 |
USD 30.00 - 50.00 | Not Sold | |
| 610 | Mactaggart (J.) | The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopaedia | 1824 |
USD 30.00 - 50.00 | Not Sold | |
| 611 | Octupla; hoc est Octo Paraphrases Poeticae Psalmi CIV Authoribus totidem Scotis | USD 30.00 - 40.00 | Not Sold | |||
| 612 | Oliver (J. R.) | Upper Teviotdale and the Scotts of Buccleuch | USD 40.00 - 60.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 613 | (Rutherford (Samuel of Galloway)) | Lex | John Field | 1644 |
USD 30.00 - 40.00 | Not Sold |
| 614 | Rutherford (Samuel, of Galloway) | Exercitationes Apologeticae pro Divina Gratia | USD 30.00 - 50.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 615 | Simpson (P., of Stirling) | The Historie of the Church .. . third Edition | USD 25.00 - 50.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 616 | Singer (Dr. W.) | General View of the Agriculture . .. of Dumfries | USD 40.00 - 60.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 617 | Abbot (A.) | The Dundee Directory for 1818 | USD 20.00 - 40.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 618 | 'Aberdeen Journal' Notes and Queries | Aberdeen | 1908-14 |
USD 40.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold | |
| 619 | Account of the Ferry across the Tay at Dundee . . . describing the Machinery of the twin Steam-Boats | USD 50.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold | |||
| 620 | Acts for maintaining | USD 50.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold | |||
| 621 | (Ainslie (Hew)) A Pilgrimage to the Land of Burns . . . with numerous Pieces of Poetry | 1822 |
USD 20.00 - 40.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 622 | (Alexander (W.)) | Notes and Sketches llustrative [sic] of Northern Rural Life in the Eighteenth Century | USD 20.00 - 40.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 623 | Annual Burns Chronicle and Club Directory | USD 80.00 - 160.00 | Not Sold | |||
| 624 | Articles | USD 20.00 - 40.00 | Not Sold | |||
| 625 | Asmodeus; or, Strictures on the Glasgow Democrats | USD 20.00 - 40.00 | Not Sold | |||
| 626 | The Ballads and Songs of Ayrshire | USD 30.00 - 60.00 | Not Sold | |||
| 627 | Ballingall (W.) | The Shores of Fife | USD 20.00 - 30.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 628 | Barrie (J. M.) Peter and Wendy | plates by F. D. Bedford | USD 40.00 - | Not Sold | ||
| 629 | Beauties of the Scottish Poets or Harp of Ren-frewshire a Collection of Songs | USD 30.00 - 50.00 | Not Sold | |||
| 630 | The Beauties of upper Strathearn | USD 30.00 - 60.00 | Not Sold | |||
| 631 | Beveridge (D.) | Culross and Tulliallan | USD 20.00 - 40.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 632 | Beveridge (E.) | A Bibliography of . . . Dunfermline and the West of Fife | 1901 |
USD 30.00 - 60.00 | Not Sold | |
| 633 | Beveridge (E.) | North Uist . . . with Notes upon the early History of the Outer Hebrides | Edinburgh | 1911 |
USD 20.00 - 40.00 | Not Sold |
| 634 | Beveridge (J.) | Poets of Clackmannanshire | USD 20.00 - 30.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 635 | Bisset (A.) | The Poets and Poetry of Linlithgow-shire | USD 40.00 - 60.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 636 | Black (D. D.) | The History of Brechin | 1839 |
USD 15.00 - 30.00 | Not Sold | |
| 637 | Blair (G.) | Biographic and descriptive Sketches of Glasgow Necropolis | USD 40.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 638 | (BOSWELL (Sir ALEXANDER)) | 'Simon Gray' Edinburgh | Edinburgh | 1810 |
USD 60.00 - 90.00 | Not Sold |
| 639 | Brown (G. B.) | The Glasgow School of Painters | Glasgow | 1908 |
USD 40.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold |
| 640 | Brown (J. W.) | The Covenanters of the Merse | USD 40.00 - 60.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 641 | (Brown (William)) | 'Tarn Thrum' | USD 20.00 - 40.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 642 | Browne (James) | A History of the Highlands and of the Highland Clans | Glasgow | 1836-38 |
USD 20.00 - 30.00 | Not Sold |
| 643 | Bruce (J.) | Lives of eminent Men of Fife | USD 25.00 - 50.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 644 | Buchan (Peter) | Ancient Scottish Tales ed. Fairley | USD 20.00 - 40.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 645 | Buchanan (G.) | The History of Scotland ed. Aikman | USD 20.00 - 30.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 646 | Burke and Hare | 1829 |
USD 10.00 - 20.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 647 | Burns (E.) | The Coinage of Scotland | Edinburgh | 1887 |
USD 60.00 - 120.00 | Not Sold |
| 648 | Burns (R.) | Poems | USD 50.00 - 100.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 649 | Burns (R.) | Tam O'Shanter | 1825 |
USD 20.00 - 30.00 | Not Sold | |
| 650 | Burns (R.) | The complete Writings | USD 40.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 651 | (Burt (E.)) | Letters from a Gentleman in the North of Scotland | USD 20.00 - 40.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 652 | (Burton (J.)) | Ascanius or, the young Adventurer | USD 20.00 - 30.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 653 | Cameron (J.) William Nicholson the Pedlar | Piper a nd Poet of Galloway | (c. 1885) |
USD 20.00 - 40.00 | Not Sold | |
| 654 | Campbell (A.) | A Journey from Edinburgh through Parts of North Britain | 1802 |
USD 40.00 - 60.00 | Not Sold | |
| 655 | Campbell (J.) | Balmerino and its Abbey | USD 20.00 - 40.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 656 | Cant (James) | The Muses Threnodie . . . poetical Descriptions | 1774 |
USD 30.00 - 60.00 | Not Sold | |
| 657 | Carnoustie and its Neighbourhood | USD 30.00 - 50.00 | Not Sold | |||
| 658 | The Case of the Honourable James Annesley | USD 20.00 - 40.00 | Not Sold | |||
| 659 | Caw (J. L.) | Scottish Painting | Edinburgh | 1908 |
USD 15.00 - 30.00 | Not Sold |
| 660 | Chalmers (G.) | Caledonia | 1887-1902 |
USD 40.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold | |
| 661 | Chapbooks | USD 50.00 - 100.00 | Not Sold | |||
| 662 | Chapbooks | USD 300.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | |||
| 663 | Chapbooks | USD 40.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold | |||
| 664 | Chapbooks | USD 80.00 - 160.00 | Not Sold | |||
| 665 | Chapbooks | USD 40.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold | |||
| 666 | Chapbooks | USD 40.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold | |||
| 667 | Chapbooks | USD 30.00 - 60.00 | Not Sold | |||
| 668 | Chapbooks | USD 30.00 - 60.00 | Not Sold | |||
| 669 | Chapbooks | USD 30.00 - 60.00 | Not Sold | |||
| 670 | Chapbooks | USD 40.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold | |||
| 671 | Chapbooks | USD 60.00 - 120.00 | Not Sold | |||
| 672 | Chapbooks | USD 30.00 - 60.00 | Not Sold | |||
| 673 | Chapbooks | USD 15.00 - 30.00 | Not Sold | |||
| 674 | 'Chapbook Literature and Chapmen' | (c. 1850-1930) |
USD 50.00 - 100.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 675 | Charters | USD 20.00 - 40.00 | Not Sold | |||
| 676 | Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) | Dundee War Election ... Election Address | USD 30.00 - 60.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 677 | Clark (A.) | A Short History of the Shipmaster Society ... of Aberdeen | Aberdeen | 1911 |
USD 15.00 - 30.00 | Not Sold |
| 678 | Cleland (J.) | Annals of Glasgow | USD 30.00 - 60.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 679 | A Collection of Scottish Song and Joke books | Edinburgh | c. 1850-60 |
USD 40.00 - 60.00 | Not Sold | |
| 680 | A Collection of Song Sheets | (c. 1830-40) |
USD 30.00 - 60.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 681 | Colvil (S.) | The Whigs Supplication; or, the Scots Hudibras | USD 15.00 - 30.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 682 | A comical Dialogue between Maggy and Janet or 'The Folly of witless Women displayed' | Edinburgh | 1820 |
USD 20.00 - 30.00 | Not Sold | |
| 683 | A complete historical Account of the Visit of H.M. King George the Fourth to . . . Scotland | Edinburgh | 1822 |
USD 10.00 - 20.00 | Not Sold | |
| 684 | The Correspondence between Burns and Clarinda ed. M'Lehose | Edinburgh | 1843 |
USD 20.00 - 30.00 | Not Sold | |
| 685 | Cramond (W.) | The Annals of Banff | Aberdeen | 1891-93 |
USD 15.00 - 30.00 | Not Sold |
| 686 | Crawford (J.) | Memorials of . . . Alloa | USD 20.00 - 30.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 687 | Crockett (W. S.) | Ministrelsy of the Merse | USD 10.00 - 20.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 688 | Crockett (W. S.) | Biggar | USD 20.00 - 30.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 689 | Crombie (B. W.) | Modern Athenians | Edinburgh | 1882 |
USD 60.00 - 120.00 | Not Sold |
| 690 | Cromek (R.) | Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway Song | USD 40.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 691 | Cruickshank (F.) | Navar and Lethnot | USD 40.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 692 | Curiosities of Street Literature | 1871 |
USD 40.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 693 | Curiosities of Street Literature | 1871 |
USD 20.00 - 40.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 694 | Curiosities of Street Literature | 1871 |
USD 40.00 - 60.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 695 | Dalton (C.) | The Scots Army 1661-1688 | USD 10.00 - 20.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 696 | Dalyell (J. G.) | The darker Superstitions of Scotland | USD 40.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 697 | d'Assigny (Marius) | The Art of Memory ... the Second Edition corrected and inlarged | Edinburgh | [1699?] |
USD 15.00 - 30.00 | Not Sold |
| 698 | Davidson (A.) | Cortege | USD 20.00 - 40.00 | Not Sold |
![<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of <i>Sense and Sensibility,</i> the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/9a74d9ff-42dd-46a1-8bb2-b636c4cec796.png "<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of <i>Sense and Sensibility,</i> the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.")
