Bannatyne Club
Collection of works including editions of medieval literature, cartularies and similar
£1,008
Auction: 05 February 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
all 4to, original cloth or boards, titles including:
Syr Gawayne: a Collection of Ancient Romance-Poems by Scottish and English Authors, 1839, spotting;
Vita Sancti Columbae, 1857, largely unopened;
Ancient Scottish Melodies, from a Manuscript of the Reign of King James VI, 1838, largely unopened;
The Buik of the most noble and valzeand Conquerour Alexander the Great, 1831, mottling to cloth;
The Seven Sages, in Scottish Meter. By John Rolland of Dalkeith, 1837;
The Aeneid of Virgil translated into Scottish Verse by Gawin Douglas Bishop of Dunkeld, 1839. 2 volumes, largely unopened; and approx. 30 others similar (approx. 46)
Provenance
1. George Stirling Home Drummond of Blair Drummond and Ardoch (1813-1872), Scottish landowner and antiquarian (bookplates).
2. The Library of a Scottish Gentleman.