Paul, Sir James Balfour
The Scots Peerage
£240
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 September 2023 at 10:00 BST
Description
founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1904-14. First edition, 9 volumes (including index volume), 8vo, original blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, colour frontispiece of the royal arms of Scotland to volume 1, armorial plates, decorative initials throughout, bookplates of Kenneth Charles Corsar, occasional marginalia, spotting to outer leaves, spines a little darkened or otherwise discoloured;
Scott, Hew. Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae: the Succession of Ministers in the Parish Churches of Scotland, from the Reformation, A.D. 1560, to the Present Time. Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1866-71. First edition, 3 volumes in 6, 4to, original cloth, worn and marked, volumes 5-6 ex-library with gilt stamps to spines, plates to front pastedowns and ink-stamps to title-pages
Idem. Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae ... New Edition, revised and continued to the Present Time under the Superintendence of a Committee appointed by the General Assembly. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1915-27. 7 volumes, large 8vo, original cloth, volumes 1 and 5 without dust jackets, volume 2 dust jacket front panel near-detached;
Brown, P. L. Clyde Company Papers. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1952-77. Later edition of volume 1, first editions of remaining volumes, 7 volumes, large 8vo, original cloth, dust jackets, plates;
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