Lot 52
Buchanan, George
Auction: 16 May 2008 at 12:00 BST
Description
Buchanan's history of Scotland. Edinburgh, 1752, fourth edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, map, engraved plates, contemporary calf, worn; [Ibid.] Appendix to the history of Scotland, 1721, 8vo, engraved frontispiece (repaired on verso), red quarter morocco, a few leaves slightly damp-stained; [Heron, Robert] Scotland described. Edinburgh, 1806, third edition, engraved plates, later half calf; [Burt, Edward] Letters from a gentleman in the north of Scotland, 1818, fifth edition, 2 volumes in one, 8vo, contemporary calf, small crack at head of upper joint; Innes, Cosmo Scotland in the Middle Ages, 1860; Sketches of early Scotch history, 1861, 2 volumes, matching panelled calf gilt, neatly rebacked, spines gilt; Laing, Malcolm The history of Scotland, 1800, first edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary speckled calf, head of spines slightly rubbed; Lindsay, Robert The chronicles of Scotland, 1814, 2 volumes, 8vo, calf, worn, one cover detached; [Edinburgh] The Edinburgh topographical, traditional and antiquarian magazine, 1848, nos. 1-4 (all published) in one volume, 8vo, engraved plates, contemporary half calf (12)