Shetland, Orkney & Caithness A Collection of 13 Books
Grant, Francis J. The County Families of the Zetland Islands. Lerwick: T. & J. Manson, 1893. First edition, 8vo, one of 200 copies printed, contemporary black quarter calf, two contemporary ownership signatures to the title-page, several passages of neat annotation in the text; Laing, Samuel Pre-Historic Remains of Caithness. Edinburgh: Williams and Norgate, 1866. 8vo, original green cloth gilt; Small, John A Description of the Isles of Orkney. Edinburgh: William Brown, 1883. 8vo, number 205 of 250 copies, original blue cloth with paper label to spine; Manson, Thos. M.Y. Guide to Shetland. Lerwick: T. & J. Manson, 1932. 12mo, original cloth, several leaves lacking; Cluness, A.T. The Shetland Book. [Lerwick:] Zetland Education Committee, 1967. 8vo, original red cloth gilt; and another copy; Berry, R.J. - J.L. Johnston The Natural History of Shetland [New Naturalist volume 64]. London: Collins, 1980. 8vo, original green cloth gilt, dust-jacket not price-clipped but with adhesion from plastic wrapper; another [proof?] copy in original wrappers with a publisher's compliments slip; Burgess, Haldane Rasmie's Büddie. Lerwick: The Shetland Publishing Company, Ltd., 1979. 8vo; Venables, Ursula Life in Shetland. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1956; Howarth, David The Shetland Bus. London: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, 1951; Butler, Rhoda Shaela, Shetland Poems. Sandwick: Thuleprint Ltd., 1976; Henderson, Tom Shetland from Old Photographs. [Lerwick:] Shetland Library and Museum, 1978 (13)
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Grant, Francis J. The County Families of the Zetland Islands. Lerwick: T. & J. Manson, 1893. First edition, 8vo, one of 200 copies printed, contemporary black quarter calf, two contemporary ownership signatures to the title-page, several passages of neat annotation in the text; Laing, Samuel Pre-Historic Remains of Caithness. Edinburgh: Williams and Norgate, 1866. 8vo, original green cloth gilt; Small, John A Description of the Isles of Orkney. Edinburgh: William Brown, 1883. 8vo, number 205 of 250 copies, original blue cloth with paper label to spine; Manson, Thos. M.Y. Guide to Shetland. Lerwick: T. & J. Manson, 1932. 12mo, original cloth, several leaves lacking; Cluness, A.T. The Shetland Book. [Lerwick:] Zetland Education Committee, 1967. 8vo, original red cloth gilt; and another copy; Berry, R.J. - J.L. Johnston The Natural History of Shetland [New Naturalist volume 64]. London: Collins, 1980. 8vo, original green cloth gilt, dust-jacket not price-clipped but with adhesion from plastic wrapper; another [proof?] copy in original wrappers with a publisher's compliments slip; Burgess, Haldane Rasmie's Büddie. Lerwick: The Shetland Publishing Company, Ltd., 1979. 8vo; Venables, Ursula Life in Shetland. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1956; Howarth, David The Shetland Bus. London: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, 1951; Butler, Rhoda Shaela, Shetland Poems. Sandwick: Thuleprint Ltd., 1976; Henderson, Tom Shetland from Old Photographs. [Lerwick:] Shetland Library and Museum, 1978 (13)
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