May 01, 2014 - Sale 2348

Sale 2348 - Lot 5

Price Realized: $ 281
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
ARNOT, HUGO. The History of Edinburgh, from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time. Engraved frontispiece and 18 plates; folding engraved plan. [iii]-xii, 677 [i. e., 689], [1] pages. 4to, 260x204 mm, contemporary 1/2 mottled calf; varying foxing and dampstaining, both occasionally heavy, soiling on title, some plates partly separated at folds, extraneous second plan of Edinburgh bound in, with repairs on verso. Edinburgh: printed for William Creech; and sold by Messrs Robinson & Co. . . . London, 1788

Additional Details

Reissue of the 1779 edition with title and portions of the text reset.