£819
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 725
Auction: 8 February 2023 at 10:00 GMT
(except 67, Correspondence diplomatique de Bertrand de Salignac), all 4to, original half morocco, gilt spines, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, plates (including lithographic or engraved facsimiles of original documents and similar), bindings rubbed, variable spotting and offsetting, titles comprising:
56) Liber Sancte Marie de Melros. Munimenta Vetustiora Monasterii Cistercinsis de Melros, 1837. 2 volumes [Laing: 'In this splendid contribution, there are fifteen engraved plate of seals'];
57) The Seven Sages, in Scotish [sic] Metre. By John Rolland of Dalkeith, 1837. Largely unopened, extract from Bannatyne Club publication Adversaria (1867) bound in at front;
58) Registrum Episcopatus Moraviensis, 1837.
59) Ancient Scotish [sic] Melodies, from a Manuscript of the Reign of King James VI, 1838. One of 101 copies printed on Club paper and purchased for members; partly unopened [Laing: 'The work was also published for Subscribers, and for the Maitland Club'];
60) Catalogue of the Library at Abbotsford, 1838. Partly unopened;
61) Syr Gawayne; a Collection of Ancient Romance-Poems, by Scotish and English Authors, relating to that Celebrated Knight of the Round Table, 1839.
62) De Arte Logistica Joannis Naperi Merchistonii Baronis, 1839. One of 101 copies printed on Club paper and purchased for members;
63) Ferrerii Historia Abbatum de Kynlos, 1839.
64) The Aeneid of Virgil, translated into Scottish Verse by Gawin Douglas, Bishop of Dunkeld, 1839. 2 volumes, largely unopened, extract from Bannatyne Club publication Adversaria (1867) bound in at front;
65) Chronicon de Lanercost. M.CC.I.-M.CCC.XLVI. E codico Cottoniano nunc prium typis mandatum, 1839. 2 volumes, largely unopened;
66) Historical Selections from the Manuscripts of Sir John Lauder of Fountainhall. Volume First, 1837. Together with the volume of additional sheets, in original drab wrappers, both largely unopened;
68) Roman de la Manekine par Philippe de Reimes, trouvère du treizième siècle, 1840. Largely unopened;
69) Liber Cartarum Prioratus Sancti Andree in Scotia, 1841.
70) Liber Cartarum Sance Crucis. Munimenta Ecclesie Sancte Crucis de Edwinesburg, 1840. Partly unopened;
[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. 68-73]
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.