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Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge. An Account of the Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge, From its commencement, in 1709. In which is included, the present state of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland with regard to Religion, 1st edition, Edinburgh: A. Murray and J. Cochrane, 1774, engraved title-page, modern marbled quarter calf, 4to (24.9 x 19.4 cm), together with: Barry (George). The History of the Orkney Islands, 1st edition, Edinburgh: for the author by D. Willison, 1805, 11 engraved plates including frontispiece, folding map, retaining final leaf with directions to the binder and publisher's advertisement, plates and map spotted and offset, ink-stamp to title-page, short closed tear to inner fold of map, modern half calf, 4to (26.6 x 19.7 cm), Low (George). Fauna Orcadensis: or, the Natural History of the Quadrupeds, Birds, Reptiles, and Fishes, or Orkney and Shetland. From a Manuscript in the possession of Wm. Elford Leach, 1st edition, Edinburgh: for Archibald Constable and Company [and others], 1813, half-title, moderate browning, edges untrimmed, modern quarter calf, 4to (26.5 x 20.4 cm), and 3 others, including 2 other copies of Low, Fauna Orcadensis, both 1st editions, 1813 (one in c.1900 green half morocco by J. Leighton, with bookplate of J. Griffith Dearden of Walcot Hall, Stamford; the other in c.1900 blue half morocco, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, damp-stained) (Qty: 6) THE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY PART III: SCOTLAND, HIGHLANDS & ISLANDS ESTC T82929 (SSPCK); Freeman 206 (Barry), 2323 (Low); Mullens & Swann pp. 43-4 (Barry), 361-2 (Low). Chapter two of the first item (pp. 13-19) discusses the Society's activities in North America.