Antiquarian books, 18th and 19th century Large collection of works, including Scottish interest comprising: Army List. A List of the Officers of the Army and Marines. [London]: War-Office, 1791. Thirty-ninth edition, 8vo (21 x 12.7cm), contemporary tree calf, bookplate of Sir George Russell Clerk (1801-1889), British civil servant in India, rubbed [ESTC T170302: 3 copies in UK libraries]; Robinson, Mary. Poems. London: J. Bell, 1791. First edition, 8vo (18.5 x 11.3cm), contemporary marbled calf, engraved portrait frontispiece, errata leaf, contemporary gift inscription ('To Miss Everett, by Mrs Lettsom as a token of friendship & esteem', bookplates ('Chute Lodge, 1816' and John Adam, motto 'crux mihi grata quies'), front board near-detached [ESTC T99736]; Scruton, James. The Practical Counting House; or, Calculation and Accountantship Illustrated. Glasgow: James Duncan, 1777. First edition, 8vo (20.6 x 12.5cm), contemporary marbled sheep, covers detached [ESTC T196938: 5 UK copies]; [Topham, Edward]. Letters from Edinburgh; written in the Years 1774 and 1774: containing some Observations on ... the Scotch Nation during a Six Months Residence in Edinburgh. London: J. Dodsley, 1776. First edition, 8vo (20.2 x 12.6cm), contemporary sheep, front joint partly cracked, front free endpaper absent, worming to foot of title and dedication, occasional soiling [ESTC T137107]; [Robertson, Joseph]. The Traveller's Guide through Scotland and it's [sic] Islands. Edinburgh: for J. Thomson Junr & Co., 1806. Third edition, 12mo (17.6 x 9.9cm), contemporary tree calf by Forsyth of Elgin, engraved title-page, 2 folding maps (coloured in outline; closed handling tears), 16 further maps; and 27 others (these not collated), including: Jonathan Swift, The Works, Dublin: George Faulkner, 1741-6 (7 volumes of 8?, 8vo, contemporary half calf, rubbed, together with a uniformly-bound copy of Miscellanies, The Last Volume, London: B. Motte, 1727); Robert Douglas, The Peerage of Scotland, 1764 (first edition, folio, contemporary half calf, label renewed, 10 engraved heraldic plates, moderate browning and damp-staining, old paper-reinforcement to inner hinges); idem, The Baronage of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1798 (first edition, 1 volume bound in 2, folio, contemporary marbled boards, rebacked to style, contemporary annotations to endpapers and margins; William Hawkins, A Treatise of the Pleas of the Crown. London, 1739 (third edition, 2 volumes in 1, folio contemporary calf, joints cracked, wear, contemporary trade card of the New Printing-Office, Norwich, 1723 to front pastedown); Thomas Wood, A New Institute of the Imperial or Civil Law, London, 1730 (fourth edition, folio, contemporary calf, joints cracked, loss to leather; idem, An Institute of the Laws of England, 1734 (fifth edition, folio, contemporary panelled calf, worn, engraved portrait frontispiece); William Maver, Johnson's English Dictionary, Glasgow, 1809 (2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary half calf, worn); Earl of Selkirk, Observations on the Present State of the Highlands of Scotland, 1805 (first edition, uncut in original boards, joints cracked, title-leaf and conjugate tipped in, 'Castle Grant, 1805' inscribed on title); Robert Southey, Roderick, 1815 (second edition, 2 volumes, 12mo, contemporary purple half calf); Warton et al., Essays on Gothic Architecture, 1808 (third edition, 8vo, contemporary tan calf gilt, worn); Robert Burns, The Life and Works, Edinburgh, 1815 (4 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf, worn); and similar, mainly in contemporary leather bindings (46)

Provenance: The Library of Keith Schellenberg (1929-2019), British businessman, Winter Olympian and laird of Eigg.