26th Oct, 2022 9:30
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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