Lot 112
Monro, Robert
Auction: 10 June 2009 at 12:00 BST
Description
Monro his expedtition with the worthy Scots Regiment (called Mac-Keyes Regiment) levied in August 1626. London: printed by William Jones, 1637. First edition, 2 parts in one volume, folio, pp. [16], 89, [23], 224, [20] blank leaf, nineteenth century half calf, rebacked, title slightly soiled and a little frayed, inserted blank before text with contemporary manuscript notes
Footnote
Note: First edition of a vivid account of the first two decades of the Thirty Years War. Robert Monro served in the French Army in 1625-26 before enlisting under Sir Donald Mackay (afterward Lord Reay) to fight for the Danes in Germany, Mackay's regiment distinguishing itself at Boitzenburg and then at Oldenburg. When Denmark withdrew from the Thirty Years' War in 1629 Monro and 1400 other Scots tranferred to the Swedish service, in which he also acted as an itinerant ambassador to Scotland. His account, which remains a valuable source for the history of Scottish involvement in the Thirty Years' War, influenced Sir Walter Scott, whose based Dugald Dalgetty in A legend of the wars of Montrose (1819) on Monro.
STC 18022