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Dickson, David. A short explanation, of the Epistle of Paul to the
Hebrewes. Aberdene [i.e., Aberdeen]: Imprinted by Edw. Raban, 1635. Small 8vo.
[14], 333, [1] pp. (lacks initial and final blank leaves).
Click the images for enlargements. Dickson (1583?–1663) was a Scottish divine who had a trouble-tossed career but who eventually settled into a pattern of living that suited him. He authored a number of works on several of the books of the Bible; this one was reprinted at Dublin in 1637 and Cambridge in 1649.
Uncommon: ESTC locates only six copies in the U.S. and of those only three are verified.
• STC (2nd ed.) 6824; ESTC S109676. Contemporary sheep rebacked with library cloth tape (!). Ex-library with bookplate and 19th-century library rubber-stamps (including one on title-page); blind pressure-stamp on title as well. Title-page soiled. Text age-toned slightly. (17341)
This entry is repeated in the
Trial by Jury Adam, William. Observations respecting the further extension of trial by jury to Scotland in civil causes. Edinburgh: J. Hay & Co., 1819. 8vo. [2], 51, [1], xi, [1] pp.
Click the image for an enlargement. • NSTC 2A2513. Removed from a nonce volume. Closely trimmed with shouldernotes and signature marks variously shaved; one page's last line in the Appendix taken (but no others). (11155)
How
Many? HODS
were in a
“Dale”
of Coal?[Anderson,
Andrew]. Broadside.
Begins: “At Edinburgh, 170....”[Edinburgh, ca. 1700]. Folio (31.4
cm, 12.4"). [1] p.
Only
one holding of this item, in Scotland, is reported by ESTC.
• ESTC R172299; Wing (rev.) A3084B. Small portion of upper inner margin torn away. Tipped onto a leaf of 19th-century paper; now in a Mylar folder.
Seceders
&
CovenantersAssociate
Reformed Church in North America. The Constitution and Standards....
New York: Pr. by T.J. Swords, 1799. 8vo (21.5 cm, 8.5"). 612 pp., [2] ff. 
• ESTC W35823; Evans 35119. Contemporary sheep, spine with red leather title label; abraded with a few wormholes (including one track across spine) and front joint opening. Some pages quite stained, not impairing reading; a couple instances of chipping in margins with loss of letters. Front free endpaper excised. Pp. 433–44 pinned together in the inside margin. Pencil doodlings on half-title and p. [5].
Scots
“Lays” —
With Notes
Aytoun, William Edmonstoune.
Lays of the Scottish cavaliers and other poems. New edition. New York: R. Worthington,
1878. 8vo. 230 pp.
• Very good; front cover bright and unmarked, spine notably faded, corners and spine extremities gently worn. All edges gilt. Pages very clean. (1908)
SIGNED
Binding by
Amy Richards Barr, Amelia
E. A daughter of Fife. New York: Dodd, Mead, & Co., (© 1886,
but really ca. 1895–1905). 12mo. 335, [1] pp.
popular
novelist and women's rights activist.
Binding: Publisher's green cloth, spine and front cover stamped in darker green and silver in an art nouveau design of tall thistle-like flowers. Binding signed “AR” — Amy Richards, fl. 1896–1918.
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the image for an enlargement.
• Wright, III, 317 (for the first ed.). Binding slightly cocked, very good condition. Front fly-leaf with pencilled gift inscription dated 1899, front free endpaper with later pencilled inscription. Clean and quite nice! (12905)
BIBLES
Uncommon ScottishBible & Psalter Bible. English. 1793. Authorized (i.e., King James Version). The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments: Translated out of the original tongues; and with the former translations diligently compared and revised, by His Majesty's special command. Edinburgh: Mark & Charles Kerr, 1793. 4to (30.4 cm, 12"). [508] ff. [with] Bible. O.T. Psalms. English.1795. Paraphrases. The Psalms of David in metre. Translated, and diligently compared with the original text, and former translations. More plain, smooth, and agreeable to the text, than any heretofore. Allowed by the authority of the General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland, and appointed to be sung in congregations and families. Edinburgh: Mark & Charles Kerr, 1795. 4to. [24] ff.
Click the interior images for enlargements. This edition ends with leaf 6M4 and does not match Darlow and Moule 957 (Edinburgh: M. & C. Kerr, 1793), described as a folio with text ending on 9R2, although that entry's statement that “The insertion of the Apocrypha interrupts the signatures” would seem to explain the absence of the non-integral Apocrypha; the accompanying Scotch Metrical Psalms of 1795 are also present in Darlow and Moule's listing. Herbert finds additional Kerr printings of 1793, but none that match the format and collation of this copy.
Scarce: ESTC, OCLC, and NUC Pre-1956 find only two U.S. holdings.
Provenance: The beautifully written ownership note, “Rebecca Jane Emack,” at top of first text leaf.
• ESTC T91818; this ed. not in Darlow & Moule or Herbert. Recent quarter calf and marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and gilt-stamped thistle decorations, leather edges tooled in blind. Upper portion of title-page neatly excised and probably something off the bottom also; early inked ownership inscription as above. Light staining and foxing; several instances of laid-in dried plant matter. (25336)
“Oh,
Wha’ll
Gie MeWings
like the Doo?”Bible. O.T. Psalms. Scots. Waddell. 1871. The Psalms: Frae Hebrew intil Scottis. Edinburgh: J. Menzies & Co.; Glasgow: T. & J. Lochhead and Wm. Love, 1871. 4to (21.7 cm, 8.5"). [2], 2, 105, [1] pp.; illus.
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• Publisher’s cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped title; cloth faded along edges and spine. Front hinge (inside) slightly tender. Pages faintly age-toned; in fact, a very clean nice copy.
ForVanautu, Where They SpeakTOLOMAKO Bible. N.T. Acts. Tolomako. Yates et al. 1906. A translation into Santoese (St. Philip's Bay) of the Doings of the Apostles[:] ra vei hira Varisula. Melbourne: Melbourne Auxiliary, British & Foreign Bible Society (Arbuckle, Waddell &Fawckner, Printers), 1906. 12mo (18.5 cm; 7.25"). 70 pp.
the
New Hebrides Mission with the help of fifteen of his Vanuatuan
teaching staff.
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the images for enlargements.
The first translation of any portion of the Bible into Tolomako only occurred in 1904.
Given the small size of the Tolomako-speaking population, this must have
been printed in an edition of 200 or fewer copies. 
We
find only one copy in U.S. libraries.
• Darlow and Moule 8064; Dance, Oceanic scriptures, 573. Publisher's moiré-style dark green cloth, plain without lettering or labels. Front free endpaper excised with front hinge (inside) exposed; title-page with significant off-setting, therefore, from the binding. A good copy of a very scarce work. (25030)
One
from the
Church
of Scotland Mission
Bible.
N.T. Lala. 1947. Ichalayano Ichabwangu icha ku Sikulu wesu
no Mupanusi wesu Yesu Kristu. Edinburgh & Glasgow: National Bible Society
of Scotland, 1947. 12mo (19 cm; 7.5"). [2] ff., 519, [1] pp.
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the images for enlargements.
This
is the first printing of the New Testament and Psalms in this language. The
translation is the work of Cecilia M. Irvine and J.S. Howie of the Church
of Scotland Mission.
We locate only three U.S. libraries reporting ownership.
• North & Nida, Book of a Thousand Tongues (1972), 1352. Publisher's red cloth, slight discoloration at top of spine and abrasion/discoloration to back cover. Upper outer edges of pp. 17–92 bumped and crumpled, front free endpaper with spots of soil. NOT a dreadful copy but not a fresh one! (25341)
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My Jewel,
with Me .
. . The Blaeberry courtship;
to which is added, the crook and plaid. Glasgow: Pr. for the booksellers, [1820?]. 12mo. 8 pp. 
• This ed. not in NSTC. Removed from a nonce volume. Slightly age-toned, else crisp and clean. (16779)
By
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Medical ProfessorBoerhaave, Herman. Aphorismi de cognoscendis et curandis morbis, in usum doctrinae domesticae digesti ... editio sexta. Edinburgi: R. Drummond & Soc. for G. Hamilton & J. Balfour, 1744. 12mo (15.5 cm, 6.1"). [8], 330, [24 (index)] pp.
• ESTC N5425; Garrison-Morton 2199 (for first ed.). Contemporary speckled calf, spine with gilt-stamped title and compartment decorations; leather cracked and chipped on spine and joints, with minor rubbing to sides and edges. Front free endpaper with private collector’s rubber-stamp and inked name, front pastedown with small inked numeral. One front and one back fly-leaf excised. One leaf with short tear from outer margin just touching one letter; one leaf with paper flaw affecting a few letters without loss of legibility. Pages clean save for some age-toning and scattered iinstances of light staining to outer margins.
Twa Ballads in
Dialect Bonnie baby Livingstone; to which is added the twa martyr's widows. Glasgow: Pr. for the booksellers, [1850]. 12mo. 8 pp.
• Not in NSTC. Removed from a nonce volume. (16766)
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BROUGHAM on Literature & Science — with MS. Letter Brougham, Henry Peter, Baron Brougham & Vaux. Addresses on popular literature, and on the monument to Sir Isaac Newton: Delivered at Liverpool and Grantham. London: Edward Law, 1858. 8vo. 63, [1] pp.
Click the images for enlargements. Provenance: Ownership signature on front free endpaper, “Mr. Justice McDougall, Jamaica.”
Autograph manuscript addition: Tipped onto the title-page is a manuscript letter signed by Brougham, dated 1839. In this informal but warmly written letter apparently addressed to an uncle, he declines an invitation and briefly mentions “the children,” whom he thought were left safe from the measles at Paris; he had one living daughter at the time of this letter's composition, and may be referring to members of his extended family.
• NSTC 2B51067. Publisher's limp red cloth in imitation of morocco, yapp edges, covers blind-stamped, spine with gilt-stamped title; extremities rubbed, spine slightly darkened with small paper label, sides with small areas of minor discoloration. All edges stained red. Front free endpaper with early inked inscription and small private pressure-stamp. Pages age-toned; one early inked correction. (26986)
Some
Songs inDIALECT,
Some
--- Not Bundle and go; to which are added, Donald and Mary, The wonders, Sweet Kitty o' the Clyde. Stirling [Scotland]: W. Macnie, [ca. 1825?]. 12mo. 8 pp.
• Song lyrics, with a woodcut title vignette of a figure seated in a chair with two small children. Macnie was active between 1820 and 1830.
• NSTC 2B57765. Removed from a nonce volume. The front edges of the title and verso are darkened, else very good. (16759)
Three Verse StoriesBurness, John. The comical stories of Thrummy Cap and the ghaist. Margaret and the minister. Soda water. Glasgow: Pr.
for the booksellers, [1840?]. 12mo. 24 pp. 
a
woodcut vignette of a man playing a barrel organ with a monkey on a leash at
his feet, with "[No.] 16" printed at the foot of the title.
• NSTC 2T11878. Removed from a nonce volume. Title-page separated; title-page and some others with short edge nicks, otherwise clean and fresh. (16777)
One
Newly Titled — One
New Account
ENTIRELY
Chamberlayne, John. Magnæ
Britanniæ notitia: Or, the present state of Great Britain, with divers
remarks upon the antient state thereof...the two and twentieth edition of the
south part call'd England, andfirst
[edition] of the north part call'd Scotland; with improvements....
In two parts. London: Pr. for Timothy Goodwin, Matthew Wotton, Benjamin Tooke, Daniel Midwinter,
and George Wells, 1708. 8vo (20 cm, 7.9").
Frontis., [10], x, [10], 756, [27 (index)], [1 (blank)] pp.
The
frontispiece portrait, engraved by R. White, depicts Queen Anne.
• ESTC T54583. Contemporary calf, blind-panelled and spine with printed paper title and shelving labels; worn and abraded, with loss of leather to head of spine. Title-page with line reading "Present State" excised, repaired some time ago by backing upper part of page with similarly colored paper; title-page and one other with inked ownership inscriptions. Endpapers and pastedowns doodled on in an early hand, with lower inner portion of front free endpaper torn away; frontispiece with a few small ink marks. Pages age-toned.
Pickering & Whittingham'sSEVEN BCPs Church
of England. Book of Common Prayer. [Seven
editions of the Book of Common Prayer, 1549–1844 ]. London: William Pickering
(pr. by Whittingham), 1844. Folio (35.8 cm, 14"). 7 vols. I: [264] ff. II: [314]
ff. III: [134] ff. IV: [130] ff. V: [142] ff. VI: [140] ff. VII: [154] ff.
Click the images for enlargements. Scotland,
commonly called Archbishop Lauds); Charles II, 1662; and Victoria, 1844. The
uniform black-letter printing was done by Charles Whittingham the younger, of
the Chiswick Press, “distinguished for . . . tasteful design and excellent
presswork” (Oxford DNB online).
Provenance: Elegant old lozenge-shaped ink-stamp on title-pages: “John Brymer Heir-Loom.”
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