Lot 258
£2,500
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 13 July 2022 from 10:00 BST
Manuscript in French, [12] 174 pp., 26.5 x 18.5cm, bookplate of the Steuart baronets of Coltness, contemporary half vellum binding, together with 2 other manuscripts ('Stile Book written by Robert Duncanson, anno domini 1754', comprising examples of various legal documents, e.g. 'Vendition of a part of a ship', approx. 180 pp., tissue-repairs to outer leaves, modern quarter sheep; day book of J. B. & H. F. Baughman & Bro's of Georgetown, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, possibly a firm of carpenters, 1847, approx. 35 ff., see further Meginnes, Biographical Annals of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1903, p. 662), and one other item (4)
Note: A substantially re-ordered manuscript abridgment of the French translation of Isaac Newton's The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms. Both the English original and the French translation were first published in 1728.