£2,500
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs ft. the Library of the Late William St Clair | 683
Auction: 2 February 2022 at 10:00 GMT
Edinburgh, October 25th 1699. Table of the Duties and Fees to be taken for Wegage, and Lying of all Goods, Home-ward, or In-land, and Forraign Commodities, appointed to be Weighted in the Weigh-House of this Burgh, conform to the Acts and Statutes of the famine made thereanent. Folio, [Edinburgh, 1699], slightly frayed at head without loss, [not traced on ESTC]; Edinburgh Town Council Edinburgh October 25th, 1717, Rectified Table, of the Duties or Fees, to be paid for Weighing and Lyage &c. of all Sorts of Merchandize, whether Foreign or Inland, weighed in, or received into the Weigh-Houses of Edinburgh or Leith. [1717], folio, 1 page, [not on ESTC]; Edinburgh Town Council Edinburgh, November 11th 1749. Table of the Fruit Market Custom payable to the City of Edinburgh, for each Horse-Load of Fruit, Nuts, Potatoes and Artichokes... [not found on ESTC], split at folds but complete; Advertisement The Streets of the City being much abused, by Stones brought into it on Coal-horse and Packs, the Magistrates, to prevent the like in time to come Order the... 4 copies of the advertisement printed on one folding sheet; "Neuter" A Serious and Seasonable Address to the Inhabitants of Edinburgh. [Edinburgh, 1777]. 4to, 4pp., one sheet folded, [ESTC T47499]; [Mein, Robert] Edina's Welcome to our Royal Sisters at their Convention in Edinburgh in July 1774. 8vo, 3pp., one sheet folded, signed 'Robert Mein' at foot of p. 2; [Mein, Robert] An Anagramical and Nominal Encomium humbly inscribed to my Lord Provost and Council, with an Epithalamium to be sung upon Edina's Marriage, by their oldest Servant now alive for the new year 1771. 4to, 4pp. (one sheet folded), first page slightly dust-soiled; Edinburgh Guild Court Act of the Gild Court, anent the Elnwand. Edinburgh, March 19th, 1701. 4 copies of the Act printed on 2 pages, one sheet folded, [Edinburgh, 1701] (8)
Provenance: Seemingly from the personal collection of Robert Mein; see other items relating to him and Edinburgh Council in this sale.