£945
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 792
Auction: 19 June 2024 from 10:00 BST
4to (20 x 15cm), contemporary calf, [50] pp., in Latin, in several different hands, under 3 headings ('Theses Logicae' etc.), respectively comprising 81, 68 and 40 articles numbered with roman numerals, incipit ‘Cum logica se ducem profiteatur ad veritatis cognitionem …', bound with approx. [120] pp. manuscript notes in various hands including prayers, ‘Doctor Meads receipt for the bite of a mad dog’, and rents for estates including Kirktoun of Kilbryde, Southannan, Hunterstone, etc. mainly dated 1730s-40s, ownership inscriptions including David Bigger dated 1719 and ‘Ex libris Springi Macky in Aca. Glasg. 19mo die Augusti 1717’ (see note), binding worn, 2 terminal leaves (including both ownership inscriptions) loose
Spring Macky, sometime owner of this manuscript, was the son of John Macky (d.1726), a Scottish-born spy in the service of William III and Anne who helped expose multiple Jacobite plots including the planned invasion from La Hogue in 1692, the attempted assassination of William III in 1696, and James Stuart's invasion of Scotland in 1708. Spring was the publisher of his father's autobiography, Memoirs of the Secret Services of John Macky, which appeared in 1733.