A general description of the east coast of scotland, from edinburgh to cullen; Including a brief Account of the Universities of St. Andrew's and Aberdeen, Of the Trade and Manufactures carried on in the large Towns, and the improvements of the country. In a series of letters to a friend.
Aberdeen.
Re-printed by D. Chalmers & Co. for W. Gordon.., 1826.
12mo in 6s.
247pp, [1]. Neatly bound in gilt-tooled twentieth-century tan half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting morocco lettering-pieces. Marbled endpapers. A trifle rubbed to extremities, corners, some occasional browning or paper-flaws to text, else fine. From the recently dispersed remains of the Stevenson family library, with the inscription of D. Alan Stevenson to blank fly.
A regency Aberdonian reprint of the most popular of Scottish baker-come- bookseller works, an epistolary survey of the Scottish coast, by Francis Douglas (bap. 1719, d.1790). Despite the title, the work is more concerned with the history, social and political, of the Scottish east coast, but does also feature both geographical and geological references.
David Alan Stevenson (1891-1971), Scottish engineer and last in the long-line of Stevenson lighthouse-builders. Like several of his forebears, D.A. Stevenson was until 1938 engineer to the Northern Lighthouse Board.
£ 200.00
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David Alan Stevenson (1891-1971), Scottish engineer and last in the long-line of Stevenson lighthouse-builders. Like several of his forebears, D.A. Stevenson was until 1938 engineer to the Northern Lighthouse Board.
