Darien - Ferguson, Robert
£1,000
Rare Books, Maps and Manuscripts
Auction: 29 August 2012 at 12:00 BST
Description
A just and modest vindication of the Scots design, for the having established a colony at Darien. [Edinburgh]: Printed in the year 1699. First edition, 8vo, contemporary calf, [Wing F742; ESTC R21931] a few wormholes, mostly marginal but sometimes affecting text, slightly spotted, rebacked, rubbed; [Darien] A defence of the Scots abdicating Darien. [Edinburgh]: Printed in the year 1700. 12mo, cloth-backed boards, [Wing H2298; ESTC R29058] heavily spotted; [Darien] Pages 9-16 of an untraced pamphlet on the Darien venture, with ms. note in the margin "This stopt at the press by the Marshalls of the town of Edinburgh year 1696" (3)
Footnote
Provenance: Viscount Strathallan, Stobhall, Perthshire