Forbes, Alexander, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo
Essays Moral and Philosophical, on several Subjects
£555
Auction: 05 February 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
viz. A View of the Human Faculties. A Short Account of the World. Two Discourses on Decency. An Essay on Self-Love. London: J. Osborn and T. Longman, 1734. First edition, 8vo, xii 385 [3] pp., contemporary panelled calf, spine-label perished, a few marks internally, manuscript date ‘Aug. 30th 1735’ to front pastedown
Provenance
From the library of the Murrays of Dollerie, Crieff, Perthshire. Ownership inscription ‘Anthony Murray of Crieff’ to title-page.
Footnote
The first published work by the philosopher and Jacobite army officer, who commanded a cavalry unit at Sheriffmuir in 1715 and was appointed general of horse by Prince Charles Edward Stuart in 1745. One Anthony Murray of Dollerie is reputed to have died at Culloden, fighting on the Jacobite side, though Anthony is a recurring given name among the Murrays of Dollerie, and was shared by his father (1676-1761), son (d.1790), and grandson (see Johnston, The Heraldry of the Murrays, 1910, p. 47); 1735, the year inscribed on the front pastedown, was however the year in which the Culloden casualty married.