Scottish History
Collection of works
£517
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 07 February 2024 from 10:00 GMT
Description
[Golf interest]. The Muses Threnodie; or Mirthful Mournings on Death of Mr Gall. Containing variety of pleasant Poetical Descriptions, Moral Instructions, Historical Narrations, and Divine Observations, with the most remarkable Antiquities of Scotland, especially of Perth. By Mr. H. Adamson … New Edition … Compiled from authentic records, by James Cant. Perth: by George Johnston for the Editor, 1774. Second edition, 2 volumes in 1, 8vo, 19th-century calf by J. Carrs of Glasgow, xxii [2] 261 200 pp., engraved folding plan of Perth (backed on linen), errata leaf, variant with title-page to volume 1 only (volume 2 with drop-head title ('Appendix. Number II'), laid-in c.1800 manuscript copy of the letter from William Drummond to Henry Adamson and the address to the reader from the first edition of 1638 (on single bifolium watermarked 1796, now split along central fold);
Arnot, Hugo. The History of Edinburgh. Edinburgh: for W. Creech, 1779. First edition, 4to, contemporary half calf, engraved frontispiece, engraved folding map, bookplate of General Alexander Campbell of Monzie (c.1750-1832), ownership inscriptions dated 1860 to front pastedown and title-page, binding rubbed, a little cracking to joints, spotting;
Dibdin, Thomas Frognall. A Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in the Northern Counties of England and in Scotland. London: for the author by C. Richard, 1838. First edition, 2 volumes, large 8vo (25 x 14.5cm), recent blue crushed half morocco by Paul C. Delrue, edges untrimmed, engraved plates (frontispiece to volume 1 replaced with duplicate of ‘Regeneration of the Heart’ plate at volume 2 p. 773), engraved vignettes on india paper, mounted, plates spotted;
and 6 others including David Hume, History of England, Dublin, 1780 (new edition, 8 volumes, recent quarter morocco)
(15+)
Footnote
The Muses Threnodie, first published in 1638, is known for containing an early description of the game of golf.