21. Shoemaker, Michael Myers.

Palaces Prisons and Resting Places of Mary Queen of Scots.

No 26 of 375 Numbered Copies. London, H. Virtue and Company Limited, 1902. 37 cm x 29 cm. 196 pages. With 8 full page photo gravures, 24 full page plates and 30 textual illustrations. Original, parchment covered Softcover with supralibro to frontcover. Very good copy in the original white vellum covers. Only slightly foxed.

22. Sinclair, John.

The Statistical Account of Scotland. Drawn up from the Communications of the ministers of the Different Parishes. Collection of five Volumes including Volumes 7 (1793), 8 (1793), 10 (1794), 11 (1794) and 19 (1797). Including the County of Fife, County of Ayr, Syno of Glasgow etc.

Original Edition. 5 Volumes. Edinburgh, William Creech, 1793 – 1797. Octavo. Collation: Volume 7: VI, 625 pages / Volume 8: (3), 650 pages / Volume 10: VIII, 637 pages / Volume 11: (4), 627 pages / Volume 19: VI, 631 pages. Illustrated with maps and illustrations ! Modern Hardcover (half cloth with marbled-paper covered boards. New endpapers. Excellent recent Masterbindings). Excellent condition of all five Volumes. Paper and illustrations in wonderful condition.

23. [Stevenson, Robert Louis] Simpson, E. Blantyre.

Robert Louis Stevenson’s Edinburgh Days. Illustrated.

London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1913. 15 cm x 22 cm. Frontispiece (R.L.S. “A deal of Aerial, just a streak of Puck, Much Anthony, of Hamlet most of all, And something of the shorter Catechist” W.E. Henley), VI, 293 pages. Several illustrations (also tipped-in-plates) of Edinburgh throughout some of which are portraits of Stevenson at different times in his life. Hardcover / Original publisher’s cloth with gilt embossed logo and gilt lettering on front board. Deckled fore and bottom edge. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Very decent, private giftinscription on endpaper. Protective tissue-guards for illustrations intact throughout. Spine slightly sunned.