£500
Property of the Earls of Breadalbane & Holland, Taymouth Castle | 656
Auction: 18 May 2021 at 18:00 BST
Letters from Mauritius in the Eighteenth Century.. including an Account of Labourdonnais' Capture of Madras. Mauritius, Printed for Private Circulation, 1886. First edition, 8vo, red half morocco; Pinkerton, John. The Scotish [sic] Gallery, or Portraits of Eminent Persons of Scotland, many of them after pictures by the celebrated Jameson at Taymouth, and other places. London: E. Harding, 1799. First edition, 50 engraved plates, contemporary red morocco gilt, g.e., Earl of Breadalbane stamp to title-page, slightly rubbed, upper hinge broken; Gaultier, Bon. The Book of Ballads. 1870. 8vo, 11th edition, illustrations, red morocco gilt. Reynolds, Edward. Treatise of the Passions and Faculties Of the Soul of Man. London: for Robert Bostock, 1650. [18], 553, modern black quarter morocco, inscribed on early blank "George Sinclaire, Earl of Caithness, is the owner of this book, April 5th 1654, Con est Mortalle apto, Caithness, bought from Andrew Wisslone Stationer in Edinborough", [ESTC R11825], bookplate of the Earl of Breadalbane; Hunt, T.F. Examples of Tudor Architecture. London: H.G. Bohn, 1841, 4to, 38 plates, contemporary green quarter morocco, morocco gilt lettering piece on upper cover, some spotting, slightly rubbed (5)