£819
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 725
Auction: 8 February 2023 at 10:00 GMT
all 4to, original half morocco, gilt spines, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, plates (including facsimiles of original documents and similar), bindings rubbed, variable spotting and offsetting, titles comprising:
26) Papers Relative to the Marriage of King James the Sixth of Scotland, with the Princess Anna of Denmark, 1828;
27) A Diary of the Proceedings in the Parliament and Privy Council of Scotland, May 21, MDCC. - March 7, MDCCVII. By Sir David Hume of Crossrigg, 1828;
28) Memoirs of his own Life and Times by Sir James Turner M.DC.XXXII.-M.DC.LXX. From the Original Manuscript, 1829. One of 100 copies 'printed off on the Club paper, and purchased for the use of the members' (Laing)
29) Les affaires du conte de Boduel. L'an M.D.LXVIII, 1829.
30) Papers relative to the Regalia of Scotland, 1829. With engraved folding plates;
31) The History of the House of Seytoun to the Year M.D.LIX. By Sir Richard Maitland of Lethington, Knight., 1829. One of 'one hundred copies [which] were printed off, on Bannatyne Club paper, and purchased from the Maitland Club, Glasgow, at whose expense the volume was printed, but not for general sale' (Laing); largely unopened;
32) Descrittione del Regno di Scotia di Petruccio Ubaldini, 1829;
33) Letters from Archibald, Earl of Argyll, to John, Duke of Lauderdale, 1829. [Laing: 'One hundred copies of this volume, which was published for general sale, were purchased by the Club'];
34) The Diary of Mr James Melvill 1556-1601, 1829;
35) Memorials of George Bannatyne. M.D.XLV.-M.DC.VIII., 1829;
36) The Anatomie of Humors, and the Passionate Sparke of a Relenting Minde, by Simion Grahame, 1830. Largely unopened, extract from Bannatyne Club publication Adversaria (1867) bound in at front;
37) A Relation of the Proceedings concerning the Affairs of the Kirk of Scotland, from August 1637 to July 1638. By John Earl of Rothes, 1830;
38) The History of Scotland, from the Death of King James I. in the Year M.CCCC.XXXVI, to the Year M.D.LXI. By John Lesley, Bishop of Ross, 1830. One of 100 copies printed on Club paper for members (copies were also printed for sale, on ordinary paper);
39) Memoirs of the Affairs of Scotland. By David Moysie. MD.LXXVII.-M.DC.III. From Early Manuscripts, 1830;
40) Trial of Duncan Terig Alias Clerk, and Alexander Bane Macdonald, for the Murder of Arthur Davis, Sergeant in General Guise's Regiment of Foot. June, A. D. M.DCC.LIV., 1831.
[David Laing, The Bannatyne Club. Lists of Members and the Rules, with a Catalogue of the Books printed for the Bannatyne Club since its Institution in 1823, 1867, pp. 56-61]
Note: The Bannatyne Club was an antiquarian printing society founded in Edinburgh in 1823 by Sir Walter Scott on the model of London's Roxburghe Club.
Provenance: 1) Robert Graham (1785-1859), of Redgorton and Balgowan, advocate; 2) Thence by descent; 3) Lyon & Turnbull, 1st February 2005, lot 211.