18th-century French and English history, military history and literature
Collection of works
£353
Auction: 05 February 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
Including: John Campbell, Lives of the British Admirals, London: J. Murray, 1785, 4 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf, engraved frontispieces, 6 engraved folding maps by John Lodge (West Indies; Europe; Asia; Africa; North America; South America), Europe and Asia with closed handling tears; Marquis de Bouillé, Memoirs relating to the French Revolution, London: Cadell and Davies, 1797, 8vo, later half sheep, worn, with the half-title; Madame de Stael, Considerations on the Principal Events of the French Revolution … Translated from the Original Manuscript, London: for Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, 1818, 3 volumes, 8vo, later half sheep, worn; John Andrews, Free Disquisitions on the Sentiments and Conduct requisite in a British Prince, in Order to Merit the Favourable Opinion of the Public, London: Blacks and Parry, 1805, 8vo, contemporary mottled calf, half-title; The Trial, by Impeachment, of Henry Lord Viscount Melville, London: Longman [etc.], 1806, 8vo, contemporary mottled calf, engraved portrait frontispieces, joints cracked; James Boswell, The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson … Sixth Edition, London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1813, 8vo, contemporary calf, front board near-detached; and 18 others similar (the lot not fully collated and sold as seen) (39)
Provenance
From the library of the Murrays of Dollerie, Crieff, Perthshire. Engraved bookplates of Murray Esqr of Crieff; ownership inscriptions of Anthony Murray