Scottish history, topography and law
Collection of works, 17th-19th century
Estimate: £300 - £500
Auction: 18 June 2025 from 10:00 BST
Description
Including: [1715 Jacobite Rebellion], The History of the Late Rebellion rais'd against His Majesty King George, by the Friends of the Popish Pretender … by a Lover of the Prosperity and Peace of Great-Britain [i.e. Peter Rae], Drumfries [Dumfries]: printed by Robert Rae, 1718 (first edition, 4to, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, xiv 388 [8] pp., autograph letter signed from the author Peter Rae (1671-1748), minister at Kirkbride, later Kirkconnell, pasted to rear free endpaper, dated 1744 and discussing ‘a double of the registrated contract betwixt the Earl of Queensberry and Mr George Cleiland’, ownership inscriptions to title-page including John Carruthers (dated 1734), early marginalia to p. 3 ('This is a damnd lie …'); John Skene, Regiam Majestatem, The Auld Lawes and Constitutions of Scotland, Edinburgh: Thomas Finlason, 1609 (first edition in Scots, folio, 20th-century quarter calf, initial blank with ownership inscription of James Mowat of Fawsyde dated January 1628 (repair to foot of leaf), lacking ff. 12 and 15 (C2 and C5), minor damp-staining; Thomas Garnett, Observations on a Tour through the Highlands and Part of the Western Isles of Scotland … New Edition, London: John Stockdale, 1811 (2 volumes, 4to, contemporary boards, rebacked, 52 sepia aquatint plates, engraved map (all bound at rear of each volume rather than dispersed through text), text browned and slightly spotted, volume 1 title-page repaired; John Stoddart, Remarks on Local Scenery and Manners in Scotland during the Years 1799 and 1800, London: William Miller, 1801 (first edition, 2 volumes, 4to, contemporary tan calf decoratively panelled in gilt and blind, rebacked with original spines laid down, half-titles, engraved vignette title-pages, engraved folding map, 32 sepia aquatint plates, spotting and browning); Francis Grose, Military Antiquities respecting a History of the English Army … a New Edition with Material Additions and Improvements, London: T. Egerton, 1801 (2 volumes, 4to, contemporary diced russia gilt, sometime bound as a set of Grose's works as indicated by spine-lettering, numerous engraved plates, complete as listed in volume 1, no list of plates present in volume 2 so full collation not established); and 11 others similar (23)