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    Sale 9066

    Printed Books including Maps and Atlases, Travel, Natural

    London, South Kensington

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    6 April 2001

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    Lot 57

    GARNETT, Thomas. Observations on a Tour through the Highlands and part of the Western Isles of Scotland, London: for T. Cadell & W. Davies, 1800. 2 volumes, 4°, folding map and 52 mostly tinted aquatint plates after W. H. Watts (short tear to map, occasional spotting and dampsaining, a little browned), contemporary half blue calf, spines with raised bands and lettered in gilt in 2 compartments (rubbed with losses), bookplate of Iain Ramsay of Kildalton. FIRST EDITION. Abbey Scenery 482; Brunet I, 1489.

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    GARNETT, Thomas. Observations on a Tour through the Highlands and part of the Western Isles of Scotland, London: for T. Cadell & W. Davies, 1800. 2 volumes, 4°, folding map and 52 mostly tinted aquatint plates after W. H. Watts (short tear to map, occasional spotting and dampsaining, a little browned), contemporary half blue calf, spines with raised bands and lettered in gilt in 2 compartments (rubbed with losses), bookplate of Iain Ramsay of Kildalton. FIRST EDITION. Abbey Scenery 482; Brunet I, 1489.
    HERON, Robert. Observations made in a Journey through the Western Counties of Scotland; in the Autumn of MDCCXCII, Perth: for R. Morison and Son and others, 1793. 2 volumes, 8° (old repair to margin of Ooo volume II, one or two light spots), later half green morocco, spine gilt in compartments (lightly rubbed and sunfaded), owner's signature on verso of titles, bookplate as above. FIRST EDITION.
    MACCULLOCH, John. The Highlands and Western Isles of Scotland, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1824. 4 volumes, 8° (one or two light spots and thumb-marks), contemporary half blue calf, spines gilt in compartments (rubbed with loss), bookplate as above. FIRST EDITION.
    With 7 other works in 9 volumes on Scottish travel, including Martin Martin's A Voyage to St. Kilda (London, 1749), John Lane Buchanan's Travels in the Western Hebrides (London, 1793), and B. Faujas Saint-Fond's Travels in England, Scotland and the Hebrides (London, 1799, 2 vols.). (17)

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