Lot 255 , SCOTLAND: Stark, J. Picture of Edinburgh; containing a History and Description of the City, engraved folding plan frontispiece, numerous wood-engraved illustrations in the text, contemporary half calf, black morocco lett

° SCOTLAND: Stark, J. Picture of Edinburgh; containing a History and Description of the City, engraved folding plan frontispiece, numerous wood-engraved illustrations in the text, contemporary half calf, black morocco lettering piece, Edinburgh, Arch. Constable & Co., 1806, 12mo. Sold with George and Peter Anderson’s ‘Guide to the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, including Orkney and Zetland’, 1834, and Samuel Leigh’s ‘New Pocket Road-Book of Scotland’, 1829, and James Boswell’s ‘The Journal of A Tour to the Hebrides’, 1807, and nine more related volumes (13).
£40-60

Condition:
Stark- tear along fold of plan and minor creasing, light browning throughout, firm hinges, extremities rubbed, leaf E3 detached; Anderson- internally neat and clean, firm hinges, odd mark to upper cover; Leigh- rebacked, 2 folding maps inc. 1 with outline and wash hand-colouring, offsetting to title, bookplates of James Hugh Smith Barry and Arthur Hugh Smith Barry, firm hinges, rubbed. No map present in Anderson’s Guide to the Highlands.

Sold for £80