No VAT on hammer price or buyer's premium.
[JOHNSON, Samuel (1709-84)]. A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, London: for W. Strahan & T. Cadell, 1775. 8° (some very light spotting and marginal browning). Contemporary polished calf, spine gilt in compartments with red morocco lettering-piece (head of spine chipped, lightly rubbed). Provenance: George Home Drummond of Blair Drummond (armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION, with 12-line errata at end and cancels D8 and U4. Courtney & Smith p.122; Rothschild 1256.

Details
[JOHNSON, Samuel (1709-84)]. A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, London: for W. Strahan & T. Cadell, 1775. 8° (some very light spotting and marginal browning). Contemporary polished calf, spine gilt in compartments with red morocco lettering-piece (head of spine chipped, lightly rubbed). Provenance: George Home Drummond of Blair Drummond (armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION, with 12-line errata at end and cancels D8 and U4. Courtney & Smith p.122; Rothschild 1256.

With James Boswell's The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson (Dublin, 1785, modern half calf). (2)
Special notice
No VAT on hammer price or buyer's premium.

More from The Sunday Book Sale

View All
View All