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[Scottish family histories]
Group of deluxe copies
£882
Auction: 19 September 2024 from 10:00 BST
Description
Anderson, John. Historical and Genealogical Memoirs of the House of Hamilton. Edinburgh: John Anderson, Jun., 1825. First edition, 4to (31 x 23cm), 324 409-12 *321-*324 325-408 [4] pp., near-contemporary red morocco richly gilt by Clarke and Bedford, broad turn-ins with elaborate foliate roll gilt, red moiré silk doublures, gilt gauffered edges, engraved frontispiece, plate facing p. 409, list of subscribers to rear, extra-illustrated with engraved arms of the dukes of Hamilton (on india paper, mounted), frontispiece offset, bookplate of T. Dawson Turner to initial blank, pencilled annotation ‘From the Beckford lib' to front free endpaper, early-20th-century printed catalogue description for the present copy laid in, annotated Large paper copy. From the Beckford library’. Housed in custom marbled card case (now defective) with 2 related items, comprising: William Aiton, An Inquiry into the Pedigree, Descent, and Public Transactions of the Chiefs of the Hamilton Family, Glasgow: Andrew Young, 1827 (8vo, wrappers); and Memoirs of the House of Hamilton, Corrected, with an Addition, Edinburgh: John Stevenson, 1828 [bound with:] Reply to the Misstatements of Dr Hamilton of Bardowie in his Late “memoirs of the House of Hamilton, Corrected,” Edinburgh: John Stevenson, 1828 (2 works in 1 volume, 4to, wrappers);
Stuart, John (editor). Registrum de Panmure. Records of the Families of Maule, de Valoniis, Brechin, and Brechin-Barclay, United in the Line of the Barons and Earls of Panmure. Compiled by the Hon. Harry Maule of Kelly, A.D. 1733. Edinburgh: [privately printed for the Earl of Dalhousie], 1874. First edition, out-of-series copy from the edition of 150, 2 volumes, 4to (27.2 x 20.5cm), original green full morocco by Orrock presumably for the Earl of Dalhousie, green moiré silk doublures, all edges gilt, all plates as called for (including tinted lithographic facsimiles of manuscripts, colour-printed facsimiles of heraldic facsimiles, etc.), bookplates of T. Dawson Turner;
[Laing, David, editor]. The Genealogy of the Most Noble and Ancient House of Drummond. By the Honourable William Drummond, afterwards First Viscount of Starthallan, M.DC.LXXXI. Edinburgh: A. Balfour and Co., 1831. First edition, one of 4 large-paper copies (in addition to 100 standard copies, all intended for private circulation), 4to (29.2 x 23cm), contemporary red morocco gilt, all edges gilt, title-page in red and black, engraved arms present in two states (coloured and uncoloured).
Together with 2 others similar (George Seton, A History of the Family of Seton, 1896, first edition, one of 200 copies, 2 volumes, 4to, original morocco-backed cloth, plates, bookplate of T. Dawson Brodie; and another copy of Registrum de Panmure in original red cloth gilt)
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Provenance
The Library of a Scottish Gentleman