Lot 15
Antiquarian English and Scottish books
Collection of works, 17th-18th century
£504
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 19 June 2024 from 10:00 BST
Description
Drummond, William, of Hawthornden. The History of Scotland … The Second Edition, with a Brief Account of the Authors Life. London: for Tho. Fabian, 1681. 8vo, contemporary blind-ruled calf, 6 engraved portraits (the author and kings James I-V), closed tear in I6;
Bunyan, John. The Holy War, made by Shaddai upon Diabolus, for the regaining of the Metropolis of the World; or, the losing and taking again of the Town of Mansoul. Paisley: A. Weir, 1777. 8vo, contemporary sheep, front board near-detached;
Brown, John, Minister of the Gospel at Wamphray. A Pious and Elaborate Treatise concerning Prayer and the Answer of Prayer. Edinburgh: for the publishers, by John Reid, 1720. First edition, 8vo, contemporary calf, longitudinal half-title to rear, contemporary gift inscription ‘John Erskine, 19 Novr 1720, to my wife’, identified in later inscription as John Erskine or Carnock, additional inscriptions to front free endpaper and title-page;
Tindal, Nicolas. A Guide to Classical Learning; or, Polymetis Abridged. London: for J. Dodsley, and R. Horsfield, 1764. 12mo, contemporary sprinkled calf;
and 18 others (these not collated), all in contemporary calf or sheep, including: Matthew Prior, Poems on Several Occasions, 1725 (2 volumes in 1, engraved portrait); David Paterson (publisher), The Complete Letter-Writer, Edinburgh, 1771; John Nalson, The Trial of Charles the First, 1740 (engraved portrait); John Watson (publisher), The Gentleman and Citizen's Almanack, Dublin, 1760 (contemporary tiger-striped calf); Thomas Brooks, The Silent Soul, with Soveraign Antidotes against the Most Miserable Exigents: or, a Christian with an Olive-Leaf in his Mouth, 1660 (spine split, lacking A1, possibly the half-title, title-page laid down, worming to lower margins, a few closed tears); Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Aesop, 1738 (eighth edition, engraved portrait); James Thomson, The Poetical Works, Dublin, 1751 (engraved portrait); George Stanhope (translator), Epictetus, his Morals, with Simplicius, his Comment, 1700 (second edition); Gilbert Burnet, An Exposition of the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England, Dublin: Elizabeth Sadleir, 1721 (third edition); Holy Bible, Edinburgh, 1764 (12mo); Alexander Pope, The Iliad of Homer, Edinburgh, 1792; and similar, variable condition, various contemporary ownership inscriptions of note, a few front covers detached, one work (Notes … on Mr. George Buchanan's History of Scotland, 1708) lacking front cover (22)
Provenance
From the library of the late Robert Bogdan (1950-2022), of Boghead of Torries and Dykehead of Avochie, Aberdeenshire, geography master at Charterhouse and sometime chairman of the Scottish Castles Association.
