Lot 62
Sibbald, Robert
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 14 February 2018 at 10:00 GMT
Description
A Collection of Several Treatises in Folio concerning Scotland... Edinburgh: Hamilton and Balfour..., 1739. Folio, 3 folding maps, single page map and 10 plates, slight worming to final 24 leaves affecting a few letters per leaf [ESTC T131329]; [bound with] [Idem] Introductio ad Historiam Rerum a Romanis Gestarum... Edinburgh, '1706' [but 1711?]. Folio, folding map, probably issued as part of Tractatus varii ad Scotiæ antiquæ & modernæ historiam facientes, 1711, as pagination continues until page 122 with Commentarius in Julii Agricole Expeditiones...; [bound with] [Idem] Miscellanea Quaedam Eruditae Antiquitatis... Edinburgh: M. Andrew Simson, 1710 but 1711?]. Folio, lacking plates, possibly issued as part of Tractatus varii ad Scotiæ antiquæ & modernæ historiam facientes [ESTC T130124]; [bound with] Vindiciae Scotiae Illustratae sive Prodomi Naturalis Historiae Scotiae... Edinburgh: Andrew Simson, 1710. Folio, possibly issued as part of Tractatus varii ad Scotiæ antiquæ & modernæ historiam facientes [ESTC T130128]; contemporary calf, rebacked with original spine gilt and modern black morocco label, bookplates of the Restenneth library and J. Robertson, a little browning and some slight worming in places
Footnote
Provenance: From the collection of the Late John Davie Manson Robertson, CBE, DL, FRSA