26th Oct, 2022 9:30

Books & Works on Paper

 
  Lot 107
 

Books From the Library of Sir Frank Fraser Dorling

From the Library of Sir Frank Fraser Dorling

Grieve (Symington)

The Great Auk, or Garefowl

first edition, frontispiece and 9 illustrations including coloured map at end, original cloth, printed paper label to spine, upper joint splitting, some slight foxing, armorial bookplate to front paste-down, 1885; Another copy, (map is supplied in photocopy), slightly shaken in binding, original cloth, 1885 § Lowe (Percy R.) Our Common Sea-Birds, first edition, illustrated, original cloth, dust-jacket, [1913] § Mackay (Rev. Angus) The History of the Province of Cat (Caithness and Sunderland) from the Earliest Times to the year 1615, first edition, frontispiece, original cloth, worn, 1914 § Oppressions of the sixteenth century in the islands of Orkney and Zetland from original documents, original cloth, Edinburgh, 1859 § Burrows (C.W.) Scapa and a Camera, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, 1921 § [Dorling (Sir Frank Fraser)] Frank Dorling’s ‘Claret’ Book. Manuscript notebook of wines that he had and drank, [1945 – 55 (57); and a small collection of others 9 vols. v.s. (16)

***Sir Frank Fraser Dorling was an English ecologist, ornithologist, farmer, etc.

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