A quantity of books on gardening, flowers, gardens, plant dictionaries, vegetables, wild flowers, Gertrude Jekyll’s memoir, British Trees & Shrubs and Flowers of the Field by the Rev Johns, Constance Spry, etc. (37)

Estimate: £30 - £40

A leather bound Dropmore Press edition of The Royal Philatelic Collection by Sir John Wilson, in slipcase complete with prospectus; and two small schoolboy stamp collections. (3),

Estimate: £100 - £150

The Novels of Jane Austen in five volumes, published in 1923 with illustrations throughout, limited Clarendon Press Oxford edition with marbled boards - 8 guineas in 1950 with receipt. (5)

Estimate: £300 - £500

A collection of Scottish books - highlands & islands, several of Moray interest, Old Maps & Mapmakers of Scotland, histories, Scott and the Borders, Natural History & Sport in Moray, pamphlets, Ettrick Shepherd Tales, etc. (70+)

Estimate: £30 - £40

A quantity of childrens books - fairy tales, a set of Barbie books, classics, Arthur Mee, hobbies, etc. (55+)

Estimate: £20 - £30

A quantity of books on antiques and art - paintings, interior design, crafts, calligraphy, stained glass, ceramics & glass, etc. (65+)

Estimate: £30 - £40

Winston Churchill, a 1954 Illustrated London News publication commemorating his 80th year; an 1855 Illustrated London News folio; and a 1968 Times Atlas of the World. (3)

Estimate: £10 - £15

Scotts Novels, 48 leather bound volumes published by Adam & Charles Black in 1860, the gilt tooled leather spines with marbled boards. (48)

Estimate: £100 - £150

A quantity of books on fishing and shooting - The Complete Angler illustrated by Arthur Rackham, salmon fishing, angling stories, Fly Fishing by Grey of Fallodon, Lonsdale Library - Trout Fishing, Fifty Years Sport in Scotland - Duke of Portland, gundog training, The Keepers Book - war edition, etc. (45)

Estimate: £30 - £40

A quantity of books on history & war, biographies, Haig’s Despatches with coloured maps in two volumes, World War II, ancient greek history, Historical Records of the Cameron Highlanders, Churchill’s Second World War in four volumes, India and colonial stories, leather bound The 79th News - 11 volumes, etc. (90+)

Estimate: £40 - £60

Scott’s Border Antiquities of England and Scotland, published in 1814, two volumes with engraved plates throughout, leather bound with gilt tooling. (2)

Estimate: £60 - £80

Thorburn, British Birds, clothbound in four volumes published in 1917 by Longmans Green & Co, third edition with coloured plates throughout; Game Birds and Wildfowl, a similar volume published in 1923 with 30 coloured plates; and three later Thorburn books - landscapes, mammals & birds. (8)

Estimate: £200 - £300

A collection of poetry & prose - volumes - collected works, Rupert Brooke, Shakespeare, Scott, Burns, some leather bound, Scottish Border, border works, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson, JM Barrie, etc; and a box of 25 classic spoken books on cassettes. (A lot)

Estimate: £30 - £40

Mortimer Menpes, a signed limited edition copy of Japan - a Record with coloured plates throughout published in 1901 by Adam & Charles Black; another similar signed & numbered volume The Holy Land painted by Fulleylove and published in 1902; a History of the Holy Eucharist in Great Britain published in 1908; and The Book of Deer printed for the Splading Club with coloured plates. (4)

Estimate: £50 - £80

Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa by Mungo Park, published in 1799, with maps & plates, leather bound with gilt tooling, marbled inner boards; The Bride - the Story of Louise and Montrose by Margaret Irwin, clothbound and published by Chatto & Windus in 1939; and Lays of Ancient Rome by Lord of Macaulay, published in 1888, clothbound. (3)

Estimate: £40 - £60

A collection of books on birds and wildlife including Peter Scott volumes, Basil Ede Country Life book, a handwritten ramble, British Birds and their Jaunts by Rev Johns, Spring Summer Autumn & Winter - the English Year by Beach Thomas & Collett, countryside & woodland matters, wildlife fact files, etc. (55+)

Estimate: £50 - £80

Miscellaneous general books - dictionaries, atlases, reference, biographies, royalty, travel, archeology, music, etc. (A lot)

Estimate: £30 - £40

A run of World & Nature Library Life books countries of the world and their animals, plants, habitats, etc - 46 volumes; Harmsworth History of the World in 7 gilt tooled volumes; a 6 volume set of Practical Knowledge for All; Newnes’ Home Mechanic in 4 volumes; and 7 slip-cased Folio Society volumes. (74)

Estimate: £40 - £60

British Warships, an Illustrated London News publication with sepia illustrations; a First World War account of the 332 Siege Battery with pull-out plans & illustrations; the Clans, Septs and Regiments of the Scottish Highlands - 1965 edition; a childs schoolbook from the 50s with postcards; and Foxhunting on the Borders - a 1947 privately printed volume by Scott Watson detailing days out from 1896-1937 with pull-of map. (5)

Estimate: £20 - £30

The Lay of the Last Minstrel, a poem by Walter Scott published in 1805 by James Ballantyne of Edinburgh, leather bound; Roxburghe Revels, an 1837 private circulation publication, cloth bound with morocco leather spine with gilt tooling, marbled inner boards; and Life of Duchess of Newcastle, the private press of Lee Priory, published in 1814, leather bound, etc. (3)

Estimate: £40 - £60

The History of Selkirkshire or Chronicles of Ettrick Forest by T Craig-Brown, published in 1886 by David Douglas, two cloth bound volumes with gilt tooling and illustrations throughout. (2)

Estimate: £50 - £80