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[Islay]. The Book of Islay. Documents illustrating the History of the Island, 1st edition, [Edinburgh]: privately printed, 1895, 6 plates, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, original green half morocco, rubbed, spine unevenly faded, pale markings to sides, 4to, one of 250 copies only, together with: Mackenzie (William Cook . History of the Outer Hebrides (Lewis, Harris, North and South Uist, Benbecula, and Barra), 1st edition, Paisley: Alexander Gardner 1903, 24 plates, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, orginal cloth, rebacked in morocco, 8vo, number 25 of 150 copies 'of this Special Edition', Stirton (John). Crathie and Braemar. A History of the United Parish, 1st edition, Aberdeen: Milne and Hutchison, 1925, frontispiece, 41 halftone plates (tipped in as issued), one further plate, damp-stain to foot of frontispiece, faint tide-mark to mounts of a few plates at foot, bookplate of Princess Beatrice (1857-1944), original cloth, 4to, Balfour (David, editor). Oppressions of the Sixteenth Century in the Islands of Orkney and Zetland: from Original Documents, 1st edition, Edinburgh: [privately printed], 1859, original blue cloth, rubbed, 4to, Mackay (Angus). The History of the Province of Cat (Caithness and Sutherland) from the Earliest Times to the Year 1615, 1st edition, Wick: Peter Reid & Coy Ltd, 1914, halftone portrait frontispiece, errata leaf, top edge gilt, original cloth, rubbed, 4to, Bone (Stephen & Gertrude). Of the Western Isles, 1st edition, London: T. N. Foulis, 1925, woodcuts throughout, original quarter vellum, 4to, number 37 of 150 copies on hand-made paper and signed by author and illustrator, and 12 similar (not collated), including another copy of The Book of Islay, 3 copies of Symington Grieve's The Great Auk, 1885, and others, all in original cloth, 4to (Qty: 19) THE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY PART III: SCOTLAND, HIGHLANDS & ISLANDS Mullens & Swann p. 418 (Mackenzie).