Macdonald, Alexander
Leabhar a Theagasc Ainminnin / A Galick and English Vocabulary
£1,125
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Auction: 23 June 2021 at 11:00 BST
Description
Edinburgh: Mris. Brown, 1741. 8vo, contemporary blue half morocco gilt, bookplate of The Right Honourable Henry Hobhouse, a little rubbed [ESTC T90552]
Footnote
Note: An excellent copy of one of the first Gaelic-English vocabularies published, Hugh Cheape writes that MacDonald, "...dominates the stage of Gaelic literature; a learned, inventive and complex author..." MacDonald's Ais-eiridh na Sean Chànoin Albannaich, no An nuadh Oranaiche Gaidhealach [The Resurrection of the Ancient Scottish Language, or New Gaelic Songster] of 1751, "...might well have encouraged another Jacobite rising with its powerful propagandist tone." [see Cheape, Hugh. The Gaelic Book - The Printed Book in Scottish Gaelic]