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Loch (James). An Account of the Improvements on the Estates of the Marquess of Stafford in the Counties of Stafford and Salop, and on the Estate of Sutherland, 1st edition, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820, pp. xx;236;118;4, half-title, engraved folding map as frontispiece, 39 numbered engraved plans (some hand-coloured and/or folding), folding table, plate 4 torn and stained, a few other faint damp-stains, edges untrimmed, 20th-century marbled half calf to style by Bayntun, gilt spine, 8vo (22.2 x 13.7 cm), together with: MacCulloch (John). The Highlands and Western Isles of Scotland ... founded on a Series of Annual Journeys between the Years 1811 and 1821, and forming an Universal Guide to that Country, in Letters to Sir Walter Scott Bart., 4 volumes, 1st edition, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824, contemporary tan calf gilt, 8vo (21.5 x 12.7 cm), Walker (John). An Economical History of the Hebrides and Highlands of Scotland, 2 volumes, 2nd edition, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1812, ownership inscriptions dated 1831 to title-pages, contemporary half calf, green morocco labels, 8vo (21.5 x 12.7 cm), and 5 others (not collated), including: Maxwell, Highlands and Islands, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1852 (lacking half-titles); [Browne], A Critical Examination of Dr. MacCulloch's Work, 2 copies, 1st and 2nd editions, 1825 and 1826; Smith, Excursions through the Highlands and Isles of Scotland in 1836 and 1836, 1st edition, 1837; and another copy of MacCulloch, The Highlands and Western Isles, 1824; all in leather bindings, 8vo (Qty: 16) THE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY PART III: SCOTLAND, HIGHLANDS & ISLANDS Kress C571 (Loch), B6076 (Walker). A few library records cite 42 plates for Loch's work, but the folding map and 39 numbered plans are the maximum complement which appears in commercial records.