Lot 94
£1,638
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 8 February 2023 at 10:00 GMT
(except 98), all 4to (except 93, 98, 106, 110, 112, and 116, 8vo), all in original cloth (except 107), plates (including facsimiles of original documents and similar), many volumes at least partly unopened, variable wear and sunning to bindings, variable spotting and offsetting to contents, titles comprising:
90) The Darien Papers: being a Selection of Original Letters and Official Documents relating to the Establishment of a Colony at Darien by the Company of Scotland trading to Africa and the Indies. 1695-1700, 1849. Map frontispiece, rear joint split, wear to head of spine;
91) Descriptive Catalogue of Impressions from Ancient Scottish Seals ... from A.D. 1094 to the Commonwealth ... by Henry Laing, 1850. Front joint split, wear to head of spine;
92) Original Letters relating to the Ecclesiastical Affairs of Scotland, chiefly written by, or address to His Majesty King James the Sixth after his Accession to the English Throne, 1851. 2 volumes;
93) The History of the Church of Scotland, by John Spottiswood, 1850. 3 volumes;
94) Registrum Honoris de Morton. A Series of Ancient Charters of the Earldom of Morton with Other Original Papers, 1853. 2 volumes;
95) [Biographical notice of Thomas Thomson, Esq., Advocate, President of the Bannatyne Club, published to accompany an engraved portrait of Thomson, not present];
96) Breviarium Aberdonense pars estiva [-hyemalis], 1854. 2 volumes, together with the preface, separately issued, 1855;
97) Origines parochiales Scotiae. The Antiquities Ecclesiastical and Territorial of the Parishes of Scotland, 1850-54-55. 2 volumes in 3;
99) Memoir of Thomas Thomson, Advocate, 1854. Front inner hinge cracked;
100) The Black Book of Taymouth. With Other Papers from the Breadalbane Charter Room, 1855. Bookplate (Robert Maxtone Graham);
101) Letters from Roundhead Officers written from Scotland and chiefly addressed to Captain Adam Baynes, 1856;
102) Registrum episcopatus Brechinensis cui accedunt quamplurimae originales, 1856. 2 volumes, spines slightly defective at head;
103) Vita Sancti Columbae: auctore Adamnano monasterii Hiensis abbate, 1857;
104) Original Letters of Mr John Colville 1582-1603. To which is added, his Palinode, 1600, 1858;
105) Registrum cartarum ecclesie Sancti Egidii de Edinburgh, 1859;
106) A Catalogue of the Graduates in the Faculties of Arts, Divinity, and Law, of the University of Edinburgh, since its Foundation, 1858. Spine torn at head;
107) Papiers d'état pièces et documents inédits ou peu connus relatifs à l'histoire de l'Ecosse au XVIe siècle, tirés des bibliothèques et des archives de France, 1852-52-60. 3 volumes, contemporary red half morocco, bookplates (Henry Drummond of Albury Park);
108) Tracts by Dr Gilbert Skeyne, Medicinar to His Majesty, 1860;
109) Registrum domus de Soltre necnon ecclesie collegiate S. Trinitatis prope Edinburgh etc., 1861;
110) Tracts by David Fergusson, Minister of Dunfermline. MDLXIII.-MDLXXII., 1860. Damp-staining to head of covers and text-block;
111) Inventaires de la Royne Descosse Douairiere de France. Catalogues of the Jewels, Dresses, Furniture, Books, and Paintings of Mary Queen of Scots, 1863;
112) The Works of John Knox, 1846-54. 6 volumes in 7;
113) Concilia Scotiae. Ecclesiae Scoticanae statua tam provinicliae quam synodalia quae supersunt, 1866. 2 volumes;
114) Royal Letters, Charters, and Tracts, relating to the Colonization of New Scotland, and the Institution of the Order of Knight Baronets of Nova Scotia. 1621-1638;
115) Adversaria. Notices Illustrative of some of the Earlier Works printed for the Bannatyne Club, 1867;
116) The Bannatyne Club. Lists of Members and the Rules, with a Catalogue of the Book printed for the Bannatyne Club since its Institution in 1823, 1867
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. This segment contains two of the most sought-after Club publications: The Darien Papers and Royal Letters ... relating to the Colonization of New Scotland.
Provenance: 1) Robert Graham (1785-1859), of Redgorton and Balgowan, advocate; 2) Thence by descent; 3) Lyon & Turnbull, 1st February 2005, lot 211.