Scottish and Jacobite history
Collection of works
£819
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 19 June 2024 from 10:00 BST
Description
[Scottish herringbone binding]. The Holy Bible. [Old Testament only]. Edinburgh: Alexander Kincaid, 1764. 12mo, contemporary morocco richly gilt overall, herringbone pattern comprising two parallel columns of heart-shaped motifs to covers, all edges gilt, patterned endpapers, ownership inscriptions to endpapers;
Wishart, George. Memoirs of the Most Renowned James Graham, Marquis of Montrose, Translated from the Latin, 1756. 8vo, contemporary sheep, [2], xxvi, [2], 412 pp., engraved portrait frontispiece, rubbing and a little wear to binding, bookplate of Robert Maxtone Graham;
Lockhart, George, of Carnwath. The Lockhart Papers: containing Memoirs and Commentaries upon the Affairs of Scotland from 1702 to 1715 … also, Journals and Memoirs of the Young Pretender's Expedition in 1745. London: for William Anderson, 1817. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, xvi 616 xvi 586 pp., 19th-century half calf by Seton of Edinburgh (with their ticket), book-labels and ownership inscriptions dated 1852 of Edward Ellice of Glenquoich, Edinburgh court of session ruling (Answers for George Lockhart of Carnwath, and James Somervell of Corehouse […], 30 January 1745, 11 pp., first leaf heavily stained and with closed tear) and 1 other item bound in at rear of volume 2, volume 1 pp. 1-8 misbound between prelims pp. vi-vii, no half-titles (probably paginated i/ii), occasional spotting;
Jamieson, John. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language. Edinburgh: printed at the University Press, 1808. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, contemporary diced calf, rebacked with original spines laid down, book-labels of F. Cyril F. Parker of Skirwith Abbey, Cumberland), occasional ink marginalia;
and 6 others (these not collated); Francis Grose, Antiquities of Scotland, 1797 (2 volumes, 4to, contemporary sprinkled calf ruled in gilt with red and green labels, engraved folding map, numerous engraved plates, volume 2 front joint superficially cracked); William Hanna, Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Thomas Chalmers, 1851 (4 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf, gilt spines); Thomas Babington Macaulay, Critical and Historical Essays, contributed to the Edinburgh Review, 1846 (3 volumes, 8vo, contemporary tan calf, gilt spines); Hugh Blair, Sermons, 1818 ('new edition', 5 volumes, 8vo, contemporary diced russia; George Grub, An Ecclesiastical History of Scotland, 1861 (4 volumes, 8vo, contemporary half calf); Samuel Pepys, Diary, 1848 (5 volumes, 8vo, 20th-century blue half morocco); George Wishart, The History of the Kings Majesties Affairs in Scotland, under the Conduct of the most Honourable James Marques of Montrose … The Second Edition Corrected … The Hague: Samuel Browne, 1647 (8vo, c.1800 tan calf gilt, lacking frontispiece) (30)