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[Shetland; Fisheries]. A True Description of the Island of Shetland, containing an Account of its Situation, Trade, Produce, and Inhabitants. Together with an Account of the Great White Herring Fishery of that Place, 2nd edition, London: T. James [and others], 1753, toning, some spotting, title-page nicked and marked, top edge gilt, 19th-century half calf, 8vo (18.9 x 12 cm), together with: Hibbert (Samuel). A Description of the Shetland Islands, comprising an Account of their Geology, Scenery, Antiquities, and Supersitions, 1st edition, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1822, 6 engraved plates including frontispiece (2 folding), additional vignette section-title, folding map, engraved vignettes throughout the text (including a 'Plate 2' apparently counted in pagination and register), occasional light browning, plates and map spotted and offset, bookplate (George Seton Veitch), contemporary tan calf, rebacked, craquelure, discolouration and marks to sides, 4to (26.8 x 21.2 cm), ibid. A Description of the Shetland Islands, 2nd edition, Lerwick: T. & J. Manson, 1892, half-title, frontispiece, gilt edges, contemporary half calf, rebacked, 4to (24.6 x 17.5 cm), Edmonston (Arthur). A View of the Ancient and Present State of the Zetland Islands, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Edinburgh: for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809, half-titles, folding map (browned and offset), 20th-century green quarter morocco, 8vo (21.1 x 13 cm), Manson (Thomas, editor). Shetland's Roll of Honour and Roll of Service, 1st edition, Lerwick: T. & J. Manson, 1920, half-title, 70 plates (paginated 1-140) containing 560 halftone portrait photographs, contemporary half calf, 4to (27.9 x 21 cm), Grant (Francis J.). The County Families of the Zetland Islands, 1st edition, Lerwick: T. & J. Manson, 1893, half-title, frontispiece, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, contemporary quarter calf, 4to (25.1 x 18.5 cm), and 11 others (not collated), all Shetland-related, 19th and early-20th century, including Catton, History and Description of the Shetland Islands, 1st edition, 1838, Saxby, The Birds of Shetland, 1st edition, 1874, and Holbourn, The Isle of Foula, 1st edition, Lerwick, 1938, 3 other copies of Hibbert (2 copies of the 1st edition, 1822, and a 2nd edition, 1892), and another copy of Edmonston, 1st edition, leather bindings, various formats (Qty: 19) THE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY PART III: SCOTLAND, HIGHLANDS & ISLANDS ESTC T94721 (A True Description: six copies in UK libraries); Ward & Carozzi 1062 (Hibbert, first edition).