Lot 91
£819
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 8 February 2023 at 10:00 GMT
all 4to, original half morocco, gilt spines, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, plates (including facsimiles of original documents and similar), bindings rubbed, variable spotting and offsetting, titles comprising:
41) Hymns and Sacred Songs, by Alexander Hume. Reprinted from the Edition of Waldegrave, 1599, 1832. Extract from Bannatyne Club publication Adversaria (1867) bound in at front;
42) Ancient Criminal Trials in Scotland; compiled from the Original Records and MSS., with Historical Illustrations, etc. By Robert Pitcairn, 1833. 3 volumes in 7, one of 100 sets 'printed off on Club paper [and] purchased for the use of members. A few extra copies on Club paper were also printed, to supply members admitted to the Club after the time of publication' (Laing); the work was also published for general sale;
43) A Diurnal of Remarkable Occurrents that have passed within the Country of Scotland since the Death of King James the Fourth till the Year M.D.LXXV. From a Manuscript of the Sixteenth Century, in the Possession of Sir John Maxwell of Pollock, Baronet, 1833. With the glossary and index (both printed in 1938) bound in (these browned);
44) Collection of Ancient Scottish Prophecies in Alliterative Verse: reprinted from Waldegrave's Edition, M.DC.III, 1833.
45) Memoirs of the War carried on in Scotland and Ireland. M.DC.LXXXIX.-M.DC.XCI. By Major General Hugh Mackay, 1833. Largely unopened;
46) The Buik of the most Noble and Vailze and Conquerour Alexander the Great, 1831 [but not circulated until 1834]. Largely unopened;
47) Instrumenta Publica sive Processus super Fidelitatibus et Homagiis Scotorum Domino Regi Angliae factis A. D. MCCXCI-MCCXCVI, 1834.
48) Letters and Papers relating to Patrick Master of Gray, afterwards Seventh Lord Gray, 1835. Largely unopened;
49) Chronicae de Mailros, e codice unico, in Bibliotheca Cottoniana servato, nunc iterum in lucem edita, 1835.
50) Philotus; a Comedy. Reprinted from the Edition of Robert Charteris, 1835. Largely unopened;
51) Memorials of Transactions in Scotland, A. D. MDLXIX-A. D. MDLXXIII. By Richard Bannatyne, Secretary to John Knox, 1836. Largely unopened;
52) A Diary of Public Transactions and Other Occurrences, chiefly in Scotland, from January 1650 to June 16667. By John Nicoll, 1836. Partly unopened;
53) The Life of Lieut.-General Hugh Mackay, Commander in Chief of the Forces in Scotland, 1689 and 1690. By John Mackay of Rockfield, Esq., 1836. One of 101 copies printed on ordinary paper and purchased for the Club, with an additional title-page (one leaf of manuscript facsimile laid in, not mentioned in Laing);
54) Excerpta e Libris Domicilii Domini Jacobi Quinti Regis Scotorum MDXXV-MDXXXIII, 1836. Largely unopened;
55) Davidis Buchanani de Scriptoribus Scotis Libri Duo, nunc primum editi, 1837. Largely unopened;
[David Laing, The Bannatyne Club. Lists of Members and the Rules, with a Catalogue of the Books printed for the Bannatyne Club since its Institution in 1823, 1867, pp. 61-68]
Note: The Bannatyne Club was an antiquarian printing society founded in Edinburgh in 1823 by Sir Walter Scott on the model of London's Roxburghe Club.
Provenance: 1) Robert Graham (1785-1859), of Redgorton and Balgowan, advocate; 2) Thence by descent; 3) Lyon & Turnbull, 1st February 2005, lot 211.