Lot 108

[Defoe, Daniel]

Rare Books, Maps and Manuscripts

Auction: 29 August 2012 at 12:00 BST

£750

Description

Elegy on the author of the true-born-English-man. London: [H.Hills], 1708. 8vo; [Blackmore, Sir Richard] The flight of the Pretender. London: H. Hills, 1708; [Shippen, William] Faction display'd, a poem. London: H. Hills, 1709; The New Revolution: or the Whigs turn'd Jacobites. London: J. Baker, 1710. 4 works in one volume, 8vo., marbled boards; [Defoe, Daniel] A seasonable expostulation with, and friendly reproof unto James Butler. London: S. Keimer, 1715. Second edition, 8vo., cloth; [Haldane, Patrick] The case of the forfeited estates in Scotland. London: J. Broun & F. Clay, 1718. First edition, 8vo; [Haldane, Patrick] A discourse on the rise, import and usefulness of the Acts of Parliament. Edinburgh, 1723. 8vo., a few dampstains, 2 works in one volume, calf-backed cloth; Paul, William Remarks and speeches of William Paul Clerk and John Hall of Otterburn, Esq., executed at Tyburn for rebellion. London: J. Baker & T. Warner, 1716, bound with [Bulstrode, Whitelocke] A letter touching the late rebellion and what means led to it. London: J. Roberts, 1717. 2 works in one volume, 8vo., calf-backed cloth; Michell, M. Young Juba, or the history of the young Chevalier. London: for the translator, 1748. 8vo., engraved frontispiece, calf-backed marbled boards, a few margins slightly frayed; [Chester Courant] The Chester miscellany. Chester: E. Adams, 1750. 12mo., contemporary half calf, rubbed; [Cromarty, George, Earl of] An historical account of the conspiracies by the Earls of Gowry. Edinburgh: J. Watson &c., 1713. First edition, 8vo., contemporary calf, rebacked, corners rubbed; Ruddiman, Thomas An introduction to Mr James Anderson's diplomata Scotiae. Edinburgh: C. Herriott, 1773. 12mo, contemporary calf, rubbed; Buchanan, W. An inquiry into the genealogy and present state of ancient Scottish surnames. Edinburgh: W. Auld, 1775. 8vo., 2 parts in one volume, contemporary calf, staining to upper margin, worn (9)

Footnote

Provenance: Viscount Strathallan, Stobhall, Perthshire