Lot 713
Scotland - Monteith, Robert
Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographss | 10 May 2007
Description
An theater of mortality: or a further collection of funeral-inscriptions over Scotland. Edinburgh, 1713, 8vo, later calf gilt, rubbed at edges and backstrip, new endpapers; Scottish tracts A collection of scottish tracts including Memoirs of the Lord Viscount Dundee [1818], A collection of rare and curious tracts on witchcraft [1820], News from Scotland declaring the damnable life of Doctor Fian [1820], An answer if a letter from a gentleman in Fife to a nobleman [witches in Pittenweem], A brief discourse concerning the second sight, contemporary half calf gilt, some rubbing; Dalyell, John Graham The darker superstitions of Scotland illustrated from history and practice. Edinburgh, 1834, 8vo, contemporary calf gilt, rebacked, interior clean and an 1835 copy; Sinclair, George Satan's invisible world discovered.... to which is added that marvellous history of Major Weir and his sister, the witches of Bargarran, Pittenweem and Calder. Edinburgh, 1769, 8vo, title [1] 4-204 [numbered 294] iii, contemporary calf, worn, upper board loose, lacking backstrip, browned and foxed throughout [Ferguson 54]; Black, George A calendar of cases of witchcraft in Scotland 1510-1727. New York, 1971, 8vo, original cloth gilt; Maclagan, R.C. Evil eye in the western Highlands. London, 1902, 8vo, original cloth; Burns, Robert An address to the deil. London, 1830, 8vo, illustrations after Landseer, contemporary diced calf, rebacked, title page torn; and another (9)