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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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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 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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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,...

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A.L.S. To Patrick Falconer, Gasgow.

London: Feb 24, 1831. Chalmers was a Scottish mathematician, political economist and a leader of the Free Church of Scotland. Reading in part in a wretched hand: "I have just time to say that I have seen Dr. L---, and have recommended Pinhester (?) to him...but I am a ---shattered by the... Read More about A.L.S. To Patrick Falconer, Gasgow

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The Elements of Chemistry.

Edinburgh: Printed for W. Blackwood, [1810]. First edition. Possibly owned by John Steele, mechanical innovator who in 1817 started the first power loom in New Hampshire. Steele, a Democrat in politics, was elected Governor of New Hampshire in 1844 and 1845. Read More about The Elements of Chemistry

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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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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, 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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