Lot 81
BATTLE OF CULLODEN
THE DAILY GAZETTEER, MONDAY MAY 5, 1746
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photography
Auction: 9 October 2019 at 12:00 BST
Description
Issue Number 5320. London: printed for M. Cooper, 1746. Folio, 2pp. Issue, headed "The Order of Battle: fought on Straghallen Moor, near Collodden-House, April 16. 1746", showing the disposition of the two armies, with a description of the battle on verso, stained, repaired, slight loss at 2 corners (with no loss of text), presently loosely enclosed between 2 sheets of perspex
Footnote
Note: An extremely rare ephemeral survival reporting the Battle of Culloden. Only one copy recorded on COPAC: Aberdeen University. Copac notes of the 1929 facsimile held by the National Library of Scotland that it is "A facsimile from the only known copy of the original, now in the newspaper collection of The William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan."