Sales catalogue 462: Maggs Bros

Date:
1925
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/34
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 462: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Scotland: Traittez Entre les Roys de France et les Roys d’Escosse—continued. refused to ratify; the Marriage Contract between Mary and James Boswell, April 5th, 1567, two months after the murder of Darnley, and several days before Boswell’s farcial acquittal. This Manuscript Collection came from the Library of Robert Bruce, Ear] of Ailesbury, (one of the 12 Commoners deputed to invite the return of Charles II.). On the fly-leaf he has written : — ‘‘ This Manuscript was given me May 26th, 1685, by Mr. George Spence the same day that he accompanied into France my sons Robert and James.—Ailesbury.”’ The volume also has the book-plate of his grandson the Hon. Charles Viscount Bruce. 1477 Ubaldini (Petruccio; cittadin Fiorentino). . Descrittione del Regno di Scotia, et delle Isole sue adjacenti; nella quale si descrivono i confini di ciascuna Provincia, et i juoghi che vi sono. etc. Foho, half calf neat (title soiled). Anversa, il di primo di Gennaio, 1588. £3 10s *** The author was a Florentine who had lived in England where he worked as an Uluminator. The volume is dedicated to Sir Christopher Hatton, Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester, and Sir Francis Walsingham. It was reprinted by the Bannatyne Club in 1829.—The imprint Anvers is fictitious; it was actually printed in London by John Wolfe, 1588. 1478 Wallace (James, late minister of Kirkwall). A Description of the Isies of Orkney, to which is added, an Essay concerning the Thule of the Ancients. 12mo, fixe copy bound by Pratt in full levant morocco, g. eé. Edinburgh, Printed by John Reid, 1603. £6 15s * * * TIlustrated with folding map and two folding plates. The Essay on the ‘“‘ Thule of the Ancients,’’ has a separate title-page with dedication to Sir Robert Sibbald. 1478a Scottish Poetry. Barbour (John). The Bruce; or, the History of Robert I., King of Scotland, with Notes and Glossary by J. Pinkerton. BrVOls. aod 0761700. Select Scotish Ballads. Edited by J. Pinkerton. BEVOlse SLOG Om 703) Ancient Scotish Poems, from the MS. Collections of Sir R. Maitland, comprising pieces written about 1420 till 1586. With large notes and a glossary, edited by J. Pinkerton. 2 vols. 17806. Scottish Poems, reprinted from scarce editions collected by J. Pinkerton. Frontispiece. 3 vols. London, 1792. Together 10 vols., post 8vo, unzformly bound by Ramage in full paned calf gilt, g. e. London, 1783-1792. £9 9s —_— oo