Bannatyne Club
Collection of works
£404
Auction: 05 February 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
All 4to, original cloth, titles including:
The Darien Papers: being a Selection of Original letters and Official Documents relating to the Establishment of a Colony at Darien by the Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies, 1695-1700, 1849, contents toned;
Royal Letters, Charters, and Tracts, relating to the Colonization of New Scotland, and the Institution of the Order of Knights Baronets of Nova Scotia 1621-1638, 1867, largely unopened;
Descrittione del regno di Scotia di Petruccio Ubaldini, 1829, inscribed ‘To James F. Gordon Esqre with best Compts from A. Coventry’ on initial blank, largely unopened;
Catalogue of the Library at Abbotsford, 1838, largely unopened;
and approx. 18 others (a few in multiple volumes) (approx. 43)
Provenance
1. George Stirling Home Drummond of Blair Drummond and Ardoch (1813-1872), Scottish landowner and antiquarian, with his bookplates;
2. The Library of a Scottish Gentleman.