24486 MELVIL (Sir James) Memoires; containing an impartial account of the most remarkable affairs of State relating to England and Scotland, published by G. Scott, folio, old calf, from the Sunderland library, £1. 16s London, 1683 24487 [MENTETH DE SALMONET (Robert)] Histoire des Troubles de la Grand' Bretagne, 4to. LARGE PAPER, in the original red morocco, sides plain, but the back decorated with fine gold tooling, somewhat faded, gilt edges, £15. 15s Paris, 1649

This is a very rare book (on the reign and death of Charles I) by a Scottish writer resident in France, whose initials, R. D. M. S., appear at foot of the dedicatory epistle. He seems to have ennobled himself gratuitously by the addition of de Salmonet to his name (for which, as David Laing maliciously asserted, he had no other reason than that his father was a salmon-fisher). The binding is contemporaneous with the book, and was done by one of Le Gascon's successors.

21188 MISCELLANEA SCOTICA, Tracts relating to the History, Antiquities, Topography and Literature of Scotland, 4 vols. sm. 8vo. hf. calf, £3. Glasgow, 1818-20

CONTENTS: Maule's History of the Picts-History of the Clans-Massacre of Glenco-Navigation of James V round Scotland-Letter of the Nobility in 1320 to Pope John-On Second Sight-Buchanan's Family of Buchanan-Earl of Glencairn's Expedition into the Highlands of Scotland, 1653-4; etc.

24489 MONRO his Expedition with the worthy SCOTS REGIMENT (called MacKeyes Regiment), levied in August, 1626, by Sir Donald Mac Key Lord Rhees, and reduced after the Battaile of Nerling to one Company in September, 1634, at Wormes in the Paltz, small folio, calf neat, £2. 10s

24490

the same, LARGE PAPER, original calf, £22. 10s I never before saw a copy on Large Paper.

1637

1837

One of the best contributions to the history of the Thirty Years' War in Germany. It details the Scottish services first under the King of Denmark, afterwards under GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS of Sweden, and the Chancellor Oxenstjerna and his generals.

24491 MONTGOMERY (Alexander) Poems [edited by David Laing]: with biographical notices by David Irving, small 8vo. green morocco extra, rough gilt edges, £3. 3s

24192

Edinburgh, 1821

As the writer of the Cherry and the Slae, and part author of the Flyting with Polwart, Montgomery is entitled to a place here. He is supposed to have died soon after 1605.

The Flyting betwixt Montgomery and Polwart (in verse), sm. 4to. green morocco extra, gilt edges, excessively rare, £60. Edinburgh, Heires of Andro Hart, 1629

This is the earliest edition of this singular production known, although one dated 1621 (probably by an error) is mentioned in the Harleian Catalogue. The time of its Composition must have been previous to 1584, as some verses are quoted from it in that year by James VI in his Essayes of a Prentise in the Divine Art of Poesie. Montgomery's invectives are equally distinguished by their virulence and ingenuity, and those of his antagonist, Sir Patrick Hume of Polwarth, can scarcely be considered as inferior. Many of the terms which they employ are highly offensive to delicate ears.

24493 Moray. LAUDER (Sir T. D.) Account of the Great Floods of August, 1829, in the Province of Moray, etc. 8vo. 430 pp. maps and illustrations, boards, 12s; or hf. calf, 14s

Edinb. 1830

"Full of Sir Thomas Lauder's characteristic genius. It has his descriptive power, his humour, his sense of the picturesque."-Athenæum, Aug. 15, 1874. 24494 MORRIS (T.) the Provosts of METHVEN: biographical notices of the Provosts, with Charters and other Documents, 4to. plates, cloth, 368 Edinburgh, printed for private circulation, 1875 24495 (MUIR "Unda ") Characteristics of Old Church Architecture in the Mainland and Western Islands of Scotland, 4to. maps and woodcuts of Crosses and other Antiquities, bds. 18s

Edinb. 1882

Edinburgh, printed for private circulation, 1861 24496 MUNRO (Robert) Ancient Scottish Lake-Dwellings or Crannogs, with a supplementary paper on remains in England, 8vo. plates and woodcuts (pub. 21s), cloth, 14s 24497 NICOLAY (NICOLAS DE, Sieur d'Arfeville) La NAVIGATION DU ROY D'ESCOSSE IAQUES CINQUIESME de nom, autour de son Royaume, et Isles Hebrides et Orchades, soubz la Conduicte d'Alexandre Lyndsay, excellent Pilote Escossois, sm. 4to. with the EXCESSIVELY RARE MAP OF SCOTLAND, and the woodcut slip, "Figure ou Roue pour cognoistre tous le long de l'année," with woodcuts of Compasses in the text, very fine copy in limp vellum, £52. Paris, 1583

24498

24500

66

Livre rare, curieux et fort recherché."-Brunet.

Extremely rare. Mr. Beckford's copy sold for £140, and a very inferior copy in Dr. Laing's sale for £47.

"Vraye et exacte description Hydrographique des costes maritimes d'Escosse et des Iles Orchades et Hebrides avec partic d'Angleterre et d'Irlande servant a la navigation, par N. de Nicolay Daulphinois Sieur d'Arfeville et de Belair, pmier Cosmographe du Roy," 1583, a facsimile from the excessively rare original, executed by the Autotype process, 10s 6d

There is no facsimile of this map in the reprint of the book issued in the series entitled "Miscellanea Scotica."

The map was really drawn by Alexander Lyndsay, an excellent navigator and Hydrographer.

24499 PATTON (D.) Dialogue betuext the Old and New Burgar Kirk of Dunfermlne over hard by a bnighted Travler, to which is aded an eledgie on the much lamented death of the R'v. Mr. Campblle, 18mo. woodcuts, extremely rare, but first leaf in facsimile, bds. £1. (Dunfermline, D. Patton) 1811 Dialogue between the Old and New Light Burghar Kirks of Dunfermline (in Verse) with savral Answers and Epistels (in Prose) to Willy [Smith], concluding in a most serious Battle, 12mo. curious cuts, half morocco, very rare, £4. 4s Dunfermline, printed by D. Patton, 1815 An extraordinary specimen of Typography successively presented to R. Chapman by J. Lumsden, to the Rev. T. F. Dibdin by J. Kerr, and by Dr. Dibdin to Sir G. H. Freeling.

24501 [PINKERTON] ANCIENT SCOTTISH POEMS, published from the MS. Collections of Sir Richard Maitland of Lethington, with notes and glossary (by Pinkerton), 2 vols. 12mo. old red morocco, 30s 1786 Published by the celebrated and quarrelsome John Pinkerton. The first three poems are: "King Hart," an allegorical poem by Gawin Douglas; Dunbar's Twa Mariit Women and the Wedo; and the tale of the Freirs of Berwik.

24502

24503

24504

Scottish Poems reprinted from scarce editions, 3 vols. sm. 8vo. fronts. hf. calf, uncut, £2. 10s.

1792

Vitæ antiquæ Sanctorum qui habitaverunt in eâ parte Britanniæ nunc vocata Scotia vel in ejus insulis, 8vo. calf, gilt edges, £4. 4s

1789

Enquiry into the History of Scotland, preceding the Reign of Malcolm III or the year 1056, including the authentic history of that period, 2 vols. 8vo. portrait inserted, half morocco, uncut, 18s Edinb. 1814 24505 [PONTANUS (Robertus)] De Unione Britannia seu de Regnorum Angliæ et Scotia omniumque adjacentium insularum Britannicarum in unam Monarchiam consolidatione, dialogus per R. P. 12mo. vellum, good copy, £3. Edinb. excud. Rob. Charterus, 1604

A very scarce little book, being the earliest published relating to the union of England and Scotland. It is dedicated to James I, and has at the end some Latin verses on the proposed union, finishing with the following curious distich in English :

-

"Sith God hath made al under one

Let Albione now Al-be-one."

The author's real name was Pont. He was a person of some eminence in the Scottish Church, John Knox having been his father-in-law.

24506 Pretender. Letter from a Gentleman at the Court of St. Germains concerning Setting the Pretender on the Throne, sm. 8vo. half bound, 12s

24507

21508

1710

The History of the late Rebellion, raised against His Majesty King George by the Friends of the Popish Pretender, 4to. calf, 30s Dumfries, 1718

Tracts a scarce and curious Collection of Tracts for and against the Pretender, with narratives of the progress and extinction of the rising: also pamphlets on the reigns of Queen Anne and George I, together 56 pieces in 3 vols. 8vo. old calf, £4. 1711-16

CONTENTS:-Narrative of the Rebellion from its Origin to the Battle of Dunblain, 1716, with List of Prisoners; Manifesto of the Scots Rebels; Case of the Earl of Mar, with Verses to the Duke of Marlborough; Letter from the Earl of Mar to the King; View of the Scots' Rebellion; A Trumpet Blown in the North in the Ears of J. Erskine Earl of Mar; The Earl of Mar Marred, with Humours of Jockey; The Highlander; The Pretender's Flight, or Mock Coronation, with Humours of Harry St. John; Account of Proceedings at Perth; Account of Two Nights' Court at Greenwich; Complete History of the Late Rebellion; a Key to the Plot; Declarations in Council Concerning the Birth of the Prince of Wales on 22nd October, 1688; Remarks on the Pretender's Declaration; Memoir of the Chevalier de St. George; More Memoirs of the Pretender; Journal of the Earl of Mar's Proceedings; The Life and Miracles of St. Wenefrede, London, 1713; Remarks on the Speeches of W. Paul and J. Hall of Otterburn; Secret

History, Arlus Fortunatus, Ministers to the Empress of Grand Insulæ, 1710;
The Grand Mystery Laid Open; Coronation of George I; Pernicious Conse-
quences of Clergy Intermeddling in Affairs of State; Treason Detected;
Expostulation and Friendly Reproof to James Butler, Duke of Ormond;
Conduct of the Duke of Ormond at the Campaign of 1712; Account of the
Great and Generous Actions of the Duke of Ormond; and others.

24509 RAE (Peter) History of the Late Rebellion raised against King George by the Friends of the Popish Pretender, sm. 4to. in a splendid contemporary Scotch binding of blue morocco, the sides covered with elaborate and rich gilt tooling, g. e. FINE COPY, £18. 18s Dumfries, 1718

The first book printed at Dumfries, and, at the same time, a very fine example of Scottish binding at the period. There was a binder at Edinburgh during the first twenty years of the eighteenth century, who has left some characteristic specimens of luxurious book-decoration, and this is one of them.

24510 RAMSAY (Allan) Poems, with Glossary, Life and remarks, 2 vols. 8vo. portrait, and also another fine portrait in mezzotint inserted, calf, 20s 1800 24511 Renfrewshire. HISTORY of the WITCHES of Renfrewshire, 8vo. front. bds. 7s 6d Paisley, 1877 24512 ROBERTI Seneschalli Scotia Charta authentica cum observationibus historicis, quibus Regiæ Stuartorum stirpis natales ab iniusta labe vindicantur, folio, LARGE PAPER, plates of seals, ruled, old French red morocco, gilt edges, rare, unknown to Lowndes, £5. Paris, 1695

Robert II was the Seneschall or Steward of the kingdom. 24513 ROBERTSON (E. W.) Scotland under her early Kings, 2 vols. 8vo. (sells in bds. 36s), maps, calf extra, 28s Edin. 1862

24514 ROBERTSON (W.) Index of many Records of Charters granted by the Sovereigns of Scotland, which have been long missing, with indexes of the persons and places mentioned, 1309-1413, 4to. half russia, 27s Edin. 1798 24515 ROGERS (Charles) Monuments and Monumental Inscriptions in Scotland, 2 vols. 8vo. frontispieces, cloth, 258

Grampian Club, 1871-72 24516 ROSE (Thoma) Idæa, sive de JACOBI Magna Britanniæ Galliæ et Hyberniæ Regis virtutibus et ornamentis dilucida Enarratio, ejusque cum laudatissimis veterum Regibus, Monarchis et Imperatoribus Comparatio exacta et enucleata, 12mo. fine copy in old binding, 30s Londini, J. Norton, 1608

This curious volume is dedicated to King James, and has the royal arms on the back of the title. It contains also memoirs of the following illustrious persons: Duke of Leven, Earl of Marr, Earl of Dunbar, Viscount Fenton, John Ramsey, Lord Hadney, James Lord Hay, James Lord Colville, David Murray Lord Scone, R. Cecil Earl of Salisbury, Henry Howard Earl of Northampton, Charles Howard Earl of Nottingham, Lord High Admiral, Thomas Howard Earl of Suffolk, Wm. Herbert Earl of Pembroke, Philip Herbert Earl of Montgomery, W. Parker, Lord Mounteagle.

24517 RowLL'S (Sir Johne) Cursing upoun the Steilaris of his Fowlis (in Verse), sm. 4to. 5 leaves including title and introduction, PRINTED ON VELLUM FOR D. LAING, half morocco, £3. 10s

Edinburgh, circa 1820

24518 ROSWALL AND LILLIAN, A PLEASANT HISTORY (in Verse), Edinburgh, 1663, sm. 4to. edited by D. Laing, PRINTED ON VELLUM, half morocco, unique, £5. 5s (1822)

A pleasant story in Scottish verse, of which no edition older than 1663 is known, although the book was probably written in the fifteenth century. 24519 SADLER (Sir Ralph) State Papers and Letters edited by Arthur Clifford, with a Memoir of his Life and historical notes by (Sir) Walter Scott, 2 vols. 4to. portraits and facsimiles of autographs, boards, 24s Edinburgh, 1809

Containing, Embassy to Scotland in 1539-40 and 1543, Letters during the War of the Scottish Reformation, 1559-60, Letters and Papers relating to Mary Queen of Scots, Speeches in Parliament, and Genealogies of the Sadler Family. 24520 SCOTT OF SCOTSTARVET (Sir John) The Staggering State of the Scots Statesmen this last 100 years by gone, viz. from the year 1550 till the year 1650, to witt Chancelors, Secretars, Treasurers and their deputies, a neatly written manuscript on 80 pp. sm. folio, old calf gilt, from the Sunderland library, £5. 5s s. a. (circa 1650)

A Collection of interesting Biographical and Historical Memoirs. 24521 SCOTIA REDIVIVA: Tracts on the History and Antiquities of Scotland, Vol. I, 8vo. (all published), bds. uncut, 7s 6d 1826

Including: Hay's Vindication of Eliz. More (Queen of Robert II)— Gordon on the Marriage of Robert II with Eliz. More-Waddel's Remarks on Inne's Critical Essay-Taitt's Roman Account of Britain and Ireland— Lord Ruthen's Death of David Rizzi, etc.

24522 SCOTISH SONGS and BALLADS: a collection of sixteen GARLANDS and SONG BOOKS, chiefly printed at Dumfries, and Newcastle, at the end of last Century, with other pieces, in 1 vol. 18mo. rude woodcuts on the titles, hf. bd. £2. 10s Dumfries, etc. ca. 1790 24523 SCOTTISH CHURCH. Testimony-bearing Exemplified: a collection containing Gillespie against Association with Malignants, with the Causes of God's Wrath, agreed upon by the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland at Edinburgh, 1651, with a Declaration of the Assembly, July, 1648, concerning the Danger to Religion, etc. 12mo. bd. 25s Paisley, 1791 24524 SCOTTISH SESSIONS PAPERS OF THE LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION A.D. 1761-1770:

1761-70

A Collection of Privately Printed Papers, relating to Peerage Cases, Family Disputes, Estates, Legal Mercantile, and Local Matters, and a variety of other subjects:-the whole comprising several hundred pieces, with manuscript remarks, opinions, decisions, etc.-bound in 25 thick vols. 4to. hf. calf, chiefly uncut, £75. 24525 SETON (G.) Law and Practice of Heraldry in Scotland, 8vo. plates and woodcuts, cloth, £2. 28 Edin. 1863 24526 THE SEVEN SAGES, translated out of Prose into Scottish meter by IOHN ROLAND, in Dalkeith, sm. 8vo. (16mo.), black letter, vellum, £50. Edinburgh, Andro Hart, 1620 UNIQUE; BEING THE ONLY PERFECT COPY KNOWN of this edition. There are two other copies in existence, both imperfect, one in the Advocates' Library at Edinburgh, the other in the University Library, Glasgow.