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Two autograph letters signed “Argyll”. George Douglas Campbell Argyll, “The Radical...

Preserved Leaves of Mull

Two autograph letters signed “Argyll”.

Kensington and N. P: Argyll Lodge and Balmoral (stationery), n.d. and 28 September 1855. Preserved Leaves of Mull. The first stating that he will send specimens of the ores and the [?] Leaves of Mull to Glasgow for the Museum, the leaves only being “furnished on loan as the specimens... Read More about Two autograph letters signed “Argyll”

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A Bill for the more effectual Disarming the Highlands in that part of Great Britain called...

The Disarming Act

A Bill for the more effectual Disarming the Highlands in that part of Great Britain called Scotland; and for the...

np: 1746. The Disarming Act. This is one of several Acts passed by Parliament following the Rising of Forty-five, seeking not only to disarm the Highlanders but to quell their national spirit, demonstrated here by the ban on the wearing of clan tartans: “…no person within that part of Great..... Read More about A Bill for the more effectual Disarming the Highlands in that part of Great Britain called...

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Autograph Letter, signed (“Claud I. Boswell, Sheriff of Fife”), to First Viscount Melville...

Autograph Letter, signed (“Claud I. Boswell, Sheriff of Fife”), to First Viscount Melville Hanry Dundas.

County Fife, Scotland: November 2, 1795. [With:] HORSBRUGH, Thomas, Deputy sheriff clerk. Autograph Letter, signed (“Thos. Horsbrugh”), to Claud I Boswell. Cupar, Scotland: 24 October 1795. 4to (10 x 15 3/4 inches; 250 x 400 mm. across the fold). 3 1/4 pp. Usual fold lines. A very good copy. Torrential... Read More about Autograph Letter, signed (“Claud I. Boswell, Sheriff of Fife”), to First Viscount Melville...

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News from Ireland. being, The Examination and Confession of William Kelso, a Scotch Rebel, taken...

The Defeat and Pursuit of the Scottish Covenanters

News from Ireland. being, The Examination and Confession of William Kelso, a Scotch Rebel, taken in Ireland, whether he fled...

n.p. [London?]: s.n, "Printed in the Year 1679" The Defeat and Pursuit of the Scottish Covenanters. The context here is the late-breaking news of the crushing defeat of he Scottish Covenanters at the Battle of Borthwell Bridge, on June 22, 1679, by government troops under the Duke of Monmouth, only... Read More about News from Ireland. being, The Examination and Confession of William Kelso, a Scotch Rebel, taken...

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Riverston. Georgiana M. Craik, Mrs A. W. Way

Riverston.

London: Smith, Elder & Co., 65 Cornhill, 1857. First edition, listed in ads as "Just Ready." Craik's first novel consists of three stories linked by the first person narrator, Scottish governess Honor Haig. Read More about Riverston

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Ces Messieurs de Rothschild. Maurice Druon

Engelhard - Pirie Copy, inscribed by the three Barons Rothschild

Ces Messieurs de Rothschild.

Paris: Éditions Pierre Tisné, [1967]. First edition. Engelhard - Pirie Copy, inscribed by the three Barons Rothschild. Inscribed to Jane Engelhard on the title-page by the three Barons de Rothschild (Guy, Alain, and Elie), with a presentation card tipped in, and with a TLS from Baron Alain de Rothschild to..... Read More about Ces Messieurs de Rothschild

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A Compleat and Authentick History of the Rise, Progress, and Extinction of the Late Rebellion,...

A Compleat and Authentick History of the Rise, Progress, and Extinction of the Late Rebellion, and of the Proceedings against...

London: M. Cooper, 1747. First edition. Cross attributes this work to Fielding on the basis of an advertisement for The History of the Present Rebellion (1745) found in the second edition of Sarah Fielding's Cleopatra and Octavia (1758). Cross was unable to locate a copy and so attributed the present... Read More about A Compleat and Authentick History of the Rise, Progress, and Extinction of the Late Rebellion,...

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The History of the Present Rebellion in Scotland. From the Departure of the Pretender's Son from...

The History of the Present Rebellion in Scotland. From the Departure of the Pretender's Son from Rome, Down to the...

London: M. Cooper, 1745. First edition. First edition of the second of three anti-Jacobite tracts written by Fielding in October 1745 in response to the rebellion in Scotland. The work purports to be derived from the eyewitness account of Highlander James Macpherson, "entirely a figment of Fielding's imagination" (Battestin, p.... Read More about The History of the Present Rebellion in Scotland. From the Departure of the Pretender's Son from...

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