Macintyre, Duncan Ban (1724-1812)
Orain Ghaidhealach
Estimate: £300 - £500
Auction: 19 September 2024 from 10:00 BST
Description
Le Donnchadh Macantsoir. Duneidiunn [Edinburgh]: gu feim an Ughdair, 1790. Second edition, 12mo (16.2 x 9cm), xi [1] 252 pp., contemporary red morocco, spine gilt in compartments with alternating griffin and star devices, Greek-key roll gilt to covers, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, half-title, list of subscribers, small spot to sigs. S-T.
With 2 others, both small 8vo, in 18th-century red morocco gilt (Jacob Masen, Sarcotis Carmen editio altera, Cologne: et venit Parisiis, apud J. Barbou, 1757; Theodori Bezae Vezelii Poemata [part 2:] Marci-Antonii Mureti Juvenilia [part 3:] Joannis Secundus Hagiensis Juvenilia, Leiden, 1757, 2 engraved portraits)
Provenance
The Library of a Scottish Gentleman
Footnote
The Gaelic poems of Duncan Ban MacIntyre were first published in 1760. All contemporary editions are rare, with no copies of any edition earlier than 1832 otherwise traced in auction records. The work is entirely in Gaelic except for a dedication to John Campbell, Earl of Breadalbane, a single-page biographical sketch of the author, and the list of subscribers, in which Highland residents predominate, including 150 individuals with the surname Campbell, and ten Donald McIntyres.
