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For
Distribution in
Scotland
— Scarce
BROADSIDE
(D—ned
Rare; Coldly Furious).
Broadside. Begins: “Queries. Whether any Parliament ever did better than
this has done...” [Edinburgh?]: J.M., 1710. Folio (30.8 cm, 12.1"). [2]
pp.
Searches
of ESTC, OCLC, RLIN, and NUC
Pre-1956 locate only two copies — one in Scotland,
one in England.
• ESTC T168050. Now in a Mylar folder; edges slightly ragged, repair at lower inner margin just touching letters on one side, small holes in lower center with loss of a few letters. Some letters in header cut off at top due to printer’s error. Tipped onto a blank leaf bearing a watermark of 1826.
Rare
POLITICAL Chapbook Dialogue between John and Thomas on the corn laws, the charter, teetotalism, and the probable remedy for the present disstresses. Paisley [Scotland]: Printed for the Author, by G. Caldwell, 1842. 12mo. 8 pp.
Click the image for an enlargement. • Original self wrappers. Unbound; removed. Slightly darkened. Very good. (17412)
Illustrated Explorations of the
Countryside Dibdin, Charles. Observations on a tour through almost the whole of England, and a considerable part of Scotland, in a series of letters, addressed to a large number of intelligent and respectable friends. London: G. Goulding & John Walker (pr. by T. Woodfall), [1801–02]. 4to (28.9 cm, 11.4"). 2 vols. I: 404 pp.; 27 plts. II: [2], 406, [2] pp.; 33 plts., 1 fold. map, 1 fold. chart.
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illustrated with 60 copper-engraved and aquatint plates, one folding map, and one folding chart. The copper engravings are done in two different styles; one set consists of large renditions of scenery, the other of smaller depictions of people and everyday life — the former done from Dibdin's own paintings, and the latter from drawings by his daughter Anne.
• Anderson, Book of British Topography, 373; Lowndes 638; NSTC D1044. Not in Abbey, Life in England; not in Ray, The Illustrator & the Book in England. On Dibdin, see: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online. Recent quarter caramel morocco and ochre cloth. Light to moderate foxing; mild offsetting around plates; four pages with patch of offsetting from now-absent laid-in item. Plates depicting people all with small area of waterstaining to upper inner portions, just touching corner of platemark without affecting images; scenic plates unaffected. All edges marbled. 
A solid, handsome, satisfying set. (26939)
From
Aberdeen'sFIRST
PRINTER
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)
Songs --- for Stirling The disappointed lover; to which are added, Up in the morning, Wellington's address, My bonny Jean. Stirling [Scotland]: W. Macnie, 1825. 12mo. 8 pp. 
• NSTC 2L23278. Removed from a nonce volume. Outer edges of pp. 6 and 7 darkened, otherwise clean. (16758)
A
Dumfries-shire Production — Here for New Yorkers Duncan, Henry. Tales of the Scottish peasantry. By the Rev. Henry Duncan, and others. New York: Robert Carter & Brothers, 1849. 12mo. Frontis., added wood-engraved title-page and four other plts., 321 pp.
Click the images for enlargement. Binding: Publisher's charcoal-colored ribbed cloth, front and rear covers blind-embossed with “Carter's Cabinet Library First Series” in a cartouche, and spine elaborately stamped in gilt. Small piece of cloth absent from top of spine.
Nicely done up, with several plates including a rather seductive one of “Mary Wilson.”
• Binding as above. Ex–social club library: 19th-century bookplate, call number on endpaper, pressure-stamp on title-page, no other markings. Spotting and discoloration in margins of early and late pages; occasional foxing. With that, still, a rather nice copy in a good example of this handsome and delicate American binding. (26508)
WHO
Gets the BEER
& Why?(Dunsinnan
vs. Ramsay). Broadside.
Begins: “Information for William Nairn of Dunsinnan, commissar clerk of
Edinburgh, against Mr. David Ramsay writer to the signet....”[Edinburgh,
ca. 1710]. Folio (31.2 cm, 12.35"). [2] pp.
This
is a scarce document, with no copies listed by ESTC, RLIN, OCLC, or NUC
Pre-1956.
• In good clean condition, tipped onto a leaf of 19th-century paper; now in a Mylar folder.
Folded,
Sealed,
& Sent
from EDINBURGH
to NEW
GALLOWAYEdinburgh (Scotland). Town Council. Begins, “Right Honourable, and very Loving Friends and Neighbours...Whereas the Commissioners of Burrows...did appoint their next general Convention to be holden at the said Burgh of Edinburgh, upon the first Tuesday of July next, 1723 years....” [Edinburgh, 1723]. Folio (31 cm, 12.4"). 4 pp.
The paper bears the seal of Edinburgh in red wax, with one half of the broken seal on either end.
• Not in ESTC. Tipped onto a leaf of 19th-century paper, now in a Mylar folder. Slightly tattered, with a few small holes around margins and occasionally in text. Tears along folds to second leaf partially repaired some time ago, in one area with archival tissue and in three other places with paper, with text imperfectly aligned along one main fold and a few letters obscured along the other.
Intemperance
Killed
the TAILOR?
Elegy on Jamie Gemmill, tailor. [Paisley, Scotland?]: no publisher/printer, [18--]. 12mo. 8 pp.
Click the image for an enlargement. The last page offers a “Per Contra” claiming, “Jamie Gemmill yet is leevin” — with a note on where you can find him to buy him a drink!
• Original self wrappers (unbound; removed). Very good. (17415)
Whoa! Hold on There! Just One Darn Minute! Episcopal Church in Scotland. The declinator and protestation of the archbishops and bishops, of the Church of Scotland, and others their adherents within that kingdome, against the pretended generall Assembly holden at Glasgow Novemb. 21. 1638. London: Pr. by John Ravvorth, for George Thomason & Octavian Pullen,, 1639. Small 4to. [1] f., 33, [1 (blank)] pp.
Click the image for an enlargement. This work appeared with three different title-pages and there are even internal differences. In this copy the setting of quire B has line B3v with “Deliberations” spelled with the capital letter “D.”
• STC (rev ed.) 22058; ESTC S116980. Removed from a nonce volume and in modern wrappers. First and last pages dust-soiled; tea (?) stain to last leaf. Ex-library with the not unattractive stamp of the Union Theological Seminary on the verso of the title and in the bottom margin of the last text page. Blank area of foremargin of B4 torn with loss. In modern wrappers. (21000)
Both
Pieces inScots
Dialect VerseForbes, William. Dominie deposed, with
the sequel.... To which is added, Maggy Johnston's elegy. Glasgow: Pr. for the
booksellers, n.d. (ca. 1848). 12mo. 24 pp.
• Forges was "late schoolmaster at Petercoulter." Woodcut on the chapbook's title-page is of a woman seated outside a cottage with a basket in her lap. • Not in NSTC. Removed from a bound volume. Good++ condition. (8419)
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AGreat Series of Song Titles . . . Four favourite comic songs. Glasgow: Pr. for the booksellers, [ca. 1825?].
12mo. 8 pp. 
“The Cork Leg and Steam Arm. / The Great Sea Snake. / The Sailor's Consolation. /
The Wonderful Nose” — a woodcut vignette shows a young man dancing with one arm raised and “[No.] 28” printed at
the foot.
• Not in NSTC. Removed from a nonce volume. Pages age-toned, otherwise clean. (16763)
“Practice” for a Scots Women’s Culinary SchoolFrazer, Mrs. The practice of cookery, pastry, and confectionary; in three parts...the fifth edition, improved and enlarged. Edinburgh: Peter Hill (pr. by Alex. Smellie), 1806. 12mo (18.3 cm, 7.2"). [8], 304 pp.; 2 plts.
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• Early 19th-century edition of a popular Scottish cookbook, originally printed in 1791. The inspiration for this work came from Cookery and Pastry by Susanna Maciver, whom Mrs. Frazer had worked with and eventually succeeded as head of a culinary school for women in Edinburgh. The liquid quantities are given in both Scottish and English measures, with a note that the “butter weight . . . is rated at twenty-two ounces to the pound.” The first plate shows a sample table layout featuring fish, brown soup, boiled fowls, haricot of mutton, ducks ragoo’d, preserved apples, and almond pudding; the second plate illustrates how to truss hares, chickens, pheasants, turkeys, and other game for roasting and boiling.
• Bitting 166–67; Cagle, A Matter of Taste, 691 (for fourth ed.). Contemporary mottled sheep, recently rebacked in complementary fashion, preserving the original gilt-stamped leather spine label; sides and edges worn, with abrasions. Title-page with stray small ink markings; half-title and title-page with outer edges darkened. A few leaves with spots of light staining; two lower corners torn away, and a number of others dog-eared. Pages mostly clean — this is overall an attractive copy.
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