[Scottish antiquarianism] Bannatyne Club
Numbers 71 to 89 in the Bannatyne Club series
£819
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 8 February 2023 at 10:00 GMT
Description
(except number 88), all 4to, original boards, cloth or half morocco, plates (including facsimiles of original documents and similar), many volumes at least partly unopened, variable spotting and offsetting, titles comprising:
71) Memoirs touching the Revolution in Scotland, M.DC.LXXXVIII.-M.DC.XC. By Colin, Earl of Balcarres, 1841. Spine defective;
72) Correspondence of Lord Baillie of Jerviswood. M.DCC.II-M.DCC.VIII., 1842. Spine defective;
73) The Letters and Journals of Robert Baillie, A.M. Principal of the University of Glasgow. M.DC.XXXVII.-M.DC.LXII., 1841. 3 volumes, spines defective, together with the additional volume, in original green paper wrappers, printed label on front cover 'Addition to Vol. I.';
74) Registrum de Dunfermelyn. Liber cartarum abbatie Benedictine S. S. Trinitatis et B. Margarete regine de Dunfermlyn, 1842;
75) Registrum episcopatus Glasguensis. Munimenta ecclesie metropolitane Glasguensis a sede restaurata seculo invente XII ad reformatam religionem, 1843. 2 volumes;
76) A Diary of the Public Correspondence of Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall, Bart. 1633-1645, 1843;
77) Letters and State Papers chiefly addressed to George, Earl of Melville, Secretary of State for Scotland 1689-1691, 1843;
78) Liber ecclesie de Scot. Munimenta vetustiora monaterii sancte Sancte Trinitatis et Sancti Michaelis de Scot, 1843;
79) The Accounts of the Great Chamberlains of Scotland, and some Other Officers of the Crown, rendered at the Exchequer, 1836-45. 3 volumes;
80) Horn et Rimenhild. Receuil de ce qui reste des poemes relatifs à leurs aventures, 1845;
81) Acts and proceedings of the General Assemblies of the Kirk of Scotland, from the Year M.D.LX., 1839-40-45. 3 volumes, volume 1 rear joint and volume 3 front joint split, volume 2 front board detached;
82) Liber S. Marie de Calchou registrum cartrarum abbacie Tironensis de Kelso 1113-1567, 1846. 2 volumes;
83) Liber S. Marie de Dryburgh. Registrum cartarum abbacie Premonstratensis de Dryburgh, 1847. 2 volumes (including separately-bound preface);
84) Carte monialium de Northberwic prioratus Cisterciensis B. Marie de Northberwic muniemnta vetusta que supersunt, 1847;
85) Liber insule missarum abbbacie canocicorum regularium B. Virginis et S. Johannis de Inchaffery registrum vetus, 1847;
86) Liber S. Thome de Aberbrothoc. Registroum abbacie de Aberbrothoc, 1848-56. 2 volumes;
87) Historical Notices of Scotish [sic] Affairs, selected from the Manuscripts of Sir John Lauder of Fountainhall, Bart., 1848. 2 volumes;
89) Registrum S. Marie de Neubotle abbacie Cisterciensis Beate Virginis de Neubotle Chartarium vetus, 1849;
[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. 73-80]
Footnote
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.