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A Rather EXTENDED Chapbook!
   [AnotherGhost, Here, Too]

•  Religious conversation with a ghost, whose requests for reparation to those he wronged in life are declined by Mr. Ogilvie. The title-page woodcut vignette shows Mercury with winged staff, helmet and sandals, with “[No.] 48” printed at the foot of the title.

•  This ed. not in NSTC. Removed from a nonce volume. Title-page with upper margin trimmed a bit closely, just touching “The” of title. Pages slightly age-toned, otherwise clean. (16780)

BetterRoads & Bridges

•  Detailed plan, including tables, for improving the quality and financing of the Scottish transportation system: First published in 1845, this is the third of three editions.

Rare: We trace no U.S. copies of this edition via NUC Pre-1956, OCLC, or RLIN.

•  NSTC 2P809, Imprint 3; this edition not in Goldsmith’s-Kress. Recent speckled brown wrappers. Some shallow chipping. Closely trimmed by binder, shaving a few signatures and borders of tables. Inked numeral in margin of title-page.

“Carry Off theCry & Clamour  
   ofTHIS TROUBLESOME WOMAN”

(Pollock vs. the Thane of Cawdor).

•  The battle between Ruth Pollock and the Campbells (or Calders, from their estate of Cawdor) rages on, with the Calder side strenuously denying that any legitimate marriage ever took place between her and Capt. George Campbell. Pollock, who called herself Campbell’s widow despite apparently never having been acknowledged as his wife during his lifetime, was claiming a portion of the estate of his father, Sir Hugh Campbell; in this response to some of her petitions, lawyer John Fleming, acting on behalf of the Campbells, discusses the merits of various claims as pertaining to estate law. OCLC, ESTC, and NUC Pre-1956 record no holdings of this item.

•  Not in ESTC. Once sewn, now in a Mylar folder. Last leaf with closed tear partially repaired some time ago, costing or or obscuring a few letters to each line of about two paragraphs on either side of leaf. Age-toned, dust-soiled, creased.

It Says SHE LIES . . .

•  Dated July 30 1718, this broadside is a rebuttal of certain financial assertions made by Ruth Pollock in her ongoing legal battle against John Campbell over the estate of Sir Hugh Campbell, which included Cawdor Castle (although that legendary castle is not mentioned in this document). This is an uncommon legal item, with no holdings described by OCLC, RLIN, or ESTC.

•  Not in ESTC. Creased and dust-soiled, with a small hole in lower margin not touching text and a few pinholes within text. Tipped onto a leaf of 19th-century paper, now in a Mylar folder.

In Multiple Fonts — OneBlack-Letter

(Pollock vs. the Thane of Cawdor [Again]).

•  Dated February 5th 1718, this broadside was part of a protracted legal struggle between Ruth Pollock and John Campbell, grandson of Sir Hugh Campbell, thane of Cawdor. Particularly in question here are the marriage articles between Sir Alexander Campbell and Elizabeth Lort, John Campbell’s parents; the definition of impeachment of waste is discussed. No holdings of this uncommon item are listed by ESTC, RLIN, OCLC.

•  Creased and slightly dust-soiled but in overall good condition. Tipped onto a leaf of 19th-century paper; now in a Mylar folder.

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ALL THREE of the “Pollack Case” Broadsides.

Religion Laws & Liberty

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•  Statements regarding the position of William III of England on Scottish “Religion, Laws and Liberties,” affirming his defense of the Presbyterian government of the Church of Scotland. In their speeches, both the Duke of Queensberry and the Earl of Marchmont urge acquiescence to the king’s desire that troops be raised and supplied as a response to “the Warlike Preparations which are made both for Land and Sea, by other Neighbouring Princes and States,” as Lord Polwarth puts it.

There is at least one other variant of the first piece, also printed in 1700, “For A.H.” according to its colophon. It seems likely that the two speeches were in the present case issued together — the paper and type match, and the second speech is paginated “(2)” — although these examples were later separated and existing cataloguing records are inconsistent regarding the number of leaves that should be present. Sets of the two pieces together are scarce.

•  ESTC R182313 / R33479; Goldsmiths’-Kress 03732; Wing Q160. Removed from a nonce volume, now in a Mylar folder. Leaves darkened and creased, both lower margins irregularly torn with loss of approximately 20 words. First speech with nick affecting two letters of the title.

“I Sing the PLAID & Sing with All My Skill”

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•  Substantial collection of the works of a popular Scottish poet (1686–1758). Almost everything here is either composed in Scots dialect or Scottish-themed, including an odd but charming ode to the plaid, which Ramsay finds especially admirable when it serves to adorn belles; one elegy mourns the loss of a Canongate alehouse-keeper. Ramsay's pastoral play “The Gentle Shepherd” is included, and there is asubstantial glossary at the back of the volume which defines potentially unfamiliar words such as meikle and shawps.

•  ESTC T147963; despite the internal absence of publication information, the collation of this volume matches that given by ESTC. Contemporary sprinkled calf, spine with gilt-stamped leather title label and gilt-stamped floral devices in compartments, overall somewhat worn. Small inked ownership inscription to top of title-page. Some foxing, not severe; last leaves dog-eared. One text leaf torn out (being the middle part of one of the epithalamia), as also one preliminary leaf; and so a “busted bibliophile’s copy” — despite its real interest and attractions!

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A HeroicSCOTS AMERICAN

St. Andrew's and Thistle Societies

•  Mercer was a Scotsman; forced into exile by his participation in the rising of 1741, he emigrated to America, where he served with distinction in the French and Indian War and the American Revolution, falling in battle at Princeton on January 3rd, 1777 in an action in which he threw his brigade against the British in order to save the rest of Washington's army.

•  Good. Removed from a nonce volume; without wrappers. Some foxing and offsetting to the title-page. (1873)

Scots Antiquarianism — ILLUSTRATED

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•  During the heyday of attempts to find the origins of Great Britain's literature, Ritson collected and published anthologies of nursery rhymes, Robin Hoodiana, English songs and ballads, and English and Scottish poems. Shortly before the present work was supposed to be published in 1785, a fire destroyed part of the printer's warehouse and the manuscript of Ritson's introductory essay; the surviving sheets, printed in octavo with horizontal chain lines, make their first appearance here with a new introduction. The poems are illustrated with vignettes engraved by Heath after Stothard's designs, and with small woodcuts by Bewick. The frontispiece is an engraved silhouette portrait of Ritson.

•  NSTC 2R11677; Lowndes 2099; Hugo, The Bewick Collector, 434.   Contemporary half dark green morocco with red marbled paper sides, spine with gilt-stamped title; some rubbing and with a bit of green discoloration to paper of front cover. Minor offsetting to frontispiece and title-page; mild to moderate foxing in first third of volume and to last few pages.  (21934)

Three Plates with Cottage Designs

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•  Uncommon pamphlet, detail-packed as to both present housing realities and desirable changes, illustrated with three plates containing plans and elevations for cottage designs by architect William Fowler.

•  NSTC 2A17980 (for all years 1855–61).   Removed from a nonce volume. Title-page with small inked numeral in upper outer corner, otherwise clean.  (17033)

An Edition withBarton’s Additions

•  Early American edition of these creationist, moralistic musings, translated from the original French Études de la nature. The third volume includes Saint-Pierre’s oft-reprinted “Paul and Virginia”; the first two volumes are annotated by Benjamin Smith Barton, with thefour plates including a map of the Atlantic hemisphere and illustrations of various flora.

•  Shaw & Shoemaker 16129. Contemporary mottled sheep, rubbed, joints on vols. I and II open; spines with heads and gilt-stamped leather title labels chipped, and remnants of paper shelving labels. Front pastedowns with bookplates of a now-defunct institution; front pastedowns and free endpapers with pencilled gift inscriptions. Pages foxed throughout, with some leaves notably browned.

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Printed by theThomases of Worcester

•  First American edition of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre’s Études de la nature, here in an English translation done by Henry Hunter; this defense of God’s existence makes use of natural history to affirm divine authorship of the universe. Printed by Thomas, Son & Thomas (the famed Massachusetts printer Isaiah Thomas, in conjunction with his son Isaiah Thomas, Jr.), the present volume has an engraved frontispiece done by Samuel Hill, depicting Philocles in Samos.

This is the separate issue of vol. I, which was issued without the map and has “The End” at the bottom of p. 331—the two-volume issue has “End of first volume” instead.

This copy includes a pencilled marginal comment, commanding, “Read this if thou canst be an atheist — or a fool.”

•  ESTC W36508; Bristol B10094; not in Evans. Contemporary treed sheep, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and double gilt rules; binding with small scrapes and rubbed patches, upper board edge darkened, and leather starting to crack over the spine and joints. Without the folding map. First and last few leaves foxed.

No“Tacks” on Bibles . . .

Scotland.

•  Scarce petition, written by “the Tacks-men of the Paper-Manufactorie,” arguing against a proposal to tax imported paper and foreign Bibles, Psalm books, and “Practical Pieces of Divinity.” Click the image for an enlargement.

•  Not in ESTC; not found either via OCLC or NUC. Removed from a nonce volume. Reverse with early inked inscription. Tattered, with lower quarter lost, as well as several words along the chipped and repaired inner margin. An incomplete survivor, but scarce and still of interest.

“Minuts” — TheAfrican & Indian Company

Scotland.

•  Number 78 (of 89) of the 1706–07 minutes, this is a brief account of a committee report “anent the Accompts”of a Scottish company trading to Africa and the Indies, authorized for printing by Andrew Anderson by decree of Sir James Murray, Lord Clerk Register. Many of the Parliamentary documents printed by Anderson and heirs display the same misspelling of minutes as seen in the header of this example.

•  ESTC T78547 (for holdings of complete sets). Tipped onto a leaf of 19th-century paper; now in a Mylar folder. Lower margin and bottom of outer margin slightly tattered to a curve; otherwise relatively minor creasing, soiling.

“Prayers Said, The Rolls Called, The MINUTS . . . Read”

•  Number 57 (of 63) of the minutes from this session of Parliament, mentioning petitions by Sir Alexander Dalmahoy, Sir George Hume, the heritors of the shires of Inverness and Ross, and Sir William Dowglas, as well as a draft of an act for a "Manufactory of Lame, Purslame and Earthen Ware." Many of the items produced by the Anderson press bear the misspelling seen in this broadside's header.

•  ESTC T78734 (for holdings of all 63 parts). Tears with slight loss of paper (not touching text) to inner and outer margins; moderate creasing and dustsoiling. Now in a Mylar folder.

Voting onUNION with England

Scotland.

•  Number 15 of the 1706–07 minutes of the Scottish Parliament. Although a number of protesters are herein recorded as arguing that “This Nation seems generally averse” to the terms of union proposed by England, and the Duke of Athol (backed by a number of supporters, whose names are given) claimed that uniting Scotland and England would be contrary to the Claim of Right and therefore high treason, these minutes close with a “yea” vote in favor of the First Article of Union.

Many of the items produced by the Anderson press bear the misspelling seen in the header here.

•  ESTC P2750 (for complete sets of 1706–07 minutes). Tipped onto a leaf of 19th-century paper; now in a Mylar folder. Waterstained and creased, with uncut edges slightly ragged.

IVANHOE

•  First edition of the second Limited Editions Club go-around for Ivanhoe: This version was illustrated in pen and dry-brush by Edward A. Wilson and hand-colored by Walter Fischer, printed by American Book-Stratford press, and bound by Russell-Rutter Co. in linen stamped in a crown and cross design. The present copy is no. 213 of 1500 printed, and is signed by Wilson at the colophon.

•  Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club 1929–1985, 211. Bindings as above; printed spine labels a bit rubbed, otherwise clean and unworn in the original slipcase, with inner edges of slipcase showing minor wear only.

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Collected — With a Life

•  Sir Walter Scott's collected poems, prefaced by a brief biography.

•  Very good; scattered small lightened spots to covers (a not unpleasing effect), spine extremities rubbed, with spine somewhat dulled. Pages with a very few spots of foxing. All edges gilt. (1906)

Phrenology . . . Scott, William. The Harmony of Phrenology with Scripture.  Edinburgh: Fraser & Co., et al., 1836. 12mo. xxiii, 332 pp.
$100.00

•  First edition. Scott was a practicing and successful phrenologist inEdinburgh and past president of the Phrenological Society. He here dissects Combe's "Constitution of Man."

•  Contemporary sheep, rebacked; leather gone to red. Ex-library with bookplate and charge pocket but no stamps. From one of the libraries founded by Ben Franklin. A decent copy. (1713)

Scots-LiteraryAntiquarianism

•  The author writes: “The following Epitaph, or Elegy, was writen by Robert Semple of Beltrees about the year 1600. He is allowed to be the inventor of the Stanza of this Epitaph. Alan Ramsay and William Hamilton, in writing the same measure acknowledge 'The Elegy on Habby Simpson' to be 'a finished piece,' and a standard for that kind of rhyme.” Two verses by Ramsay and Hamilton are quoted, followed by an introduction to the Epitaph and the Epitaph itself [3 pages]. The last third of page 5 through page 8 is taken up by a detailed commentary on the preceding verses, amplifying and explicating their content. Click the image for an enlargement.

•  Very good. Original self wrappers [unbound; removed].  (17559)

Och Hey!

•  Uncommon songster. The title-page lists: “The Bridal Ring. / What Are You Going to Stand. / The Lassies of Scotland. / The MacGregor's Gathering / Farewell to the Mountain / The Banks of the Blue Mozelle. / 'Twas Merry in the Hall.” A woodcut title-page vignette shows a young woman in a bonnet carrying two pails slung from a hoop around her knees, with [no.] “45" at the foot of the title.

•  Not in NSTC.   Removed from a nonce volume. Small spot of faint staining to two leaves, otherwise clean and fresh. (16822)

Sentimental Scots Songs

•  Very uncommon. The title-page lists: "Jock o' Hazeldean. / This Is No My Ain Lassie. / Logan Water. / Banks of Allan Water. / Somebody. / They're A' Teasing Me. / To All You Ladies," above a woodcut vignette of a young woman with a basket hung on each arm and holding a birdcage on her head, with "[No.] 69" printed at the foot.

•  Not in NSTC. Removed from a nonce volume. Upper corners nicked; pages slightly age-toned but otherwise clean. (16761)

TheLovat Vassals Protest

(Simon “The Fox” Fraser).

•  The tenants of the Lovat estate petition for a delay in producing the writs and securities of their holdings, as the protracted dispute between the Lovat family and the infamous Capt. Simon Fraser of Beaufort (who attempted a forced marriage to the family’s heiress, young Amelia Fraser, before successfully kidnapping and wedding her mother, the dowager Lady Amelia Murray) has left them in a sorry state regarding the payment of creditors. Not only does this broadside touch on the common perspective of a great contemporary scandal, but it is of interest for its scarcity as well. No holdings are listed by OCLC, RLIN, ESTC, or NUC Pre-1956.

•  Not in ESTC. On Fraser, see: Dictionary of National Biography, XX, 216–22. Excellent clean condition, with two small sewing holes at inner margin, one very small spot of foxing, and ink traces from printing process to outer edge. Tipped onto a leaf of 19th-century paper; now in a Mylar folder.

Jenny Vow'd away to Run / WithJockey to the Fair . . .

•  Uncommon chapbook printing of lyrics (only) to popular songs. The title-page gives: Jockey to the Fair. / Wha's at the Window? Wha? / Fairest of the Fair. / The Flower o' Dumblane. / The Maid of Arundel. / Farewell, Farewell; it also bears a woodcut vignette of a young woman leaning against a gate and "[No.] 34" printed at the foot.

•  NSTC 2S31173. Removed from a nonce volume. Pages clean. (16755)

BALLADS

•  Uncommon Scots ballads. The title-page gives this listing: “Bonaparte's Lament in His Exile. Green Grows the Rashes, O. Marry for Love, and Work for Siller. Lovely Arran Maid. O'er the Muir Amang the Heather. Maclean's Welcome,” with a woodcut vignette of a seated man in kilt & bonnet, playing the bagpipes and “[No.] 52" printed at the foot. “Maclean's Welcome” is addressed to “Charlie” (Bonny Prince Charlie).

•  Not in NSTC.   Removed from a nonce volume. Very good. (16769)

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ASwede in South Africa — Scottish Edition

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•  Rare first Scottish edition of this travelogue, written by a Swedish naturalist and pupil of Linnaeus. Sparrman traveled to the Cape ostensibly to tutor children, with his real goal being “to investigate the Works of Nature in this remote corner of the globe,” as the preface puts it. In this journal of his travels he provides a wealth of sociological and naturalistic observations, and takes special pains to debunk previously supplied tales that he considers incorrect. An appendix of examples of Hottentot and Caffre language is also supplied.


The engraved plates include illustrations of a rhinoceros, a hippopotamus, dwarf mice, and Hottentot weaponry, as well as an oversized folding landscape and a map of the territory covered by the author.

•  ESTC T131019. Recently rebound in quarter calf over marbled paper sides, spines with gilt-stamped title labels. Title-page and two others of vol. I stamped by a now-defunct institution; one page with outer margin reinforced. Small hole to map. Title-page of vol. II with topmost left portion of title repaired and replaced in facsimile; title-page and five others stamped. Pagination skips in vol. II from 136 to 139. A few minor spots of foxing to plates; one plate with short edge tear carefully repaired.

Thoughtful & ImaginativeCity Planning for Edinburgh, 1814

•  Posthumous publication of Stark's last piece of city planning and architecture, incomplete because of his untimely death, but encompassing a broad and inspirational view of the possibilities the terrain provided and the needs of the city, hospital, and populace generally. Click the images for enlargements.

Very uncommon: NSTC and OCLC locate only the copy at the National Library of Scotland. RLIN located only the copy at Yale.

•  NSTC S3358; Goldsmiths’-Kress 21080.   Disbound. Very Good copy.  (11008)

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Signed in Paradise

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•  Scottish-born author and traveller R.L. Stevenson (1850–94) spent the last years of his life on his estate "Vailima" on Samoa, where he penned this signature and notation of the place.

Provenance: Residue of the stock of Seven Gables Bookshop (1930–79), via the son of Michael Papantonio (2009).

•  Bold clear signature. Very good condition. (25679)

Common Sense & the Principles of Human Thought

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•  Psychology and psychiatry have attracted some of the keenest intellects to their study. Dugald Stewart (1753–1828) was, without a doubt, during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the preeminent investigator of the mind, its faculties, and its limitations. A Scot, he was educated entirely in Edinburgh, and as a professor, when the political situation on “the continent” was unsettled, he was able through a combination of his great knowledge and abilities as a teacher, according to the Dictionary of National Biography, to make a sojourn in Edinburgh a typical substitute for the “grand tour.” That same source notes that “Edinburgh continued during his life to be scarcely inferior to London as a centre of intellectual activity.” Stewart's Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind is one of his finest works and possibly his most important, delving into imagination, memory, perception, attention, abstraction, and cognition, each in depth and abstractly and concretely. This is the second edition, following the London first of 1792. A second volume was not printed until 1816 and so is not present here.

•  NSTC 2S40115. On Stewart, see: Dictionary of National Biography, XVIII, 1169–73.   Contemporary treed calf, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and gilt-stamped decorations; rubbed with front joint opening and top spine compartment showing old shelving notations. Ex–social club library: Front pastedown with old inked numeral and 19th-century bookplate affixed over an older one; front free endpaper with inked call number offsetting to bookplate. No other markings; pages gently age-toned.  (26443)

485 Stunning Views ofEngland, Scotland, & Wales
EACH IMAGE Hand-Captioned

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•  Deluxe printing of the first edition, here in an impressive large-paper set illustrated with 485 copper-engraved plates. The engraved images designed for the duodecimo regular edition are here, in this octavo printing, mounted within printed borders withhand-inked calligraphic captions.  Those images depict such scenic high spots as Dunstaple Priory in Bedfordshire, Roman remains in Brecknockshire, the “great oak” at Silton, a Crusader monument in Winchester Cathedral, Tintern Abbey (of course), and many, many churches and castles; they were engraved by J. Greig, W. Angus, W. & G. Cooke, and J. Storer after drawings by various hands. Each plate is accompanied by a letterpress description, generally about two pages long.

Binding:  Contemporary green morocco, darkened to black; covers framed in gilt with gilt-stamped corner fleurons, spines with gilt-stamped title, board edges with gilt-stamped roll. All edges gilt.

•  NSTC S4069; Brunet, I, 319, Graesse 503.   Bound as above with insignificant shelf wear only, now refurbished and a bit of scuffing; 15 plates lacking of 500. Most plates clean, some foxed (a few heavily); some pages with light offsetting from plates. One page with pencilled annotation detailing an 1823 update in a site's ownership. A luxurious, in fact in its way spectacular, production.  (22855)

A Lot of“STORYS” for the Money!

•  Title woodcut vignette of a man leading a prancing black horse by the reins. Also with decorative woodcut border & woodcut tail-piece on p. 12 of a tiger stalking through the underbrush. In the first tale [12 pages] a fiddler becomes lost in the forest and finds his way into a enchanted castle. He wakes up at the foot of a gibbet with a strange violin which turns out to be made of a dead man's bone embossed in silver. Engraved on it is the name of a much-feared local magician. With some trepidation he returns the violin to its owner and in return is given a bottomless purse of money. His four nephews, envying his new-found wealth, murder him for his money. The second story [6 pages] is a vividly dramatic account of the narrow escape of sailors whose ship is set on fire by lightning. John Hetherington, a tailor who cannot resist clipping small pieces out of each piece of cloth his customers bring him, falls asleep after a meal of Welsh rabbit [toasted cheese]. He dreams he has died and is met by the Devil, who unrolls a long patchwork scroll of all the pieces he has stolen. This cures him of the practice of "cabbaging". The final page of the chapbook contains an anecdote about soldiers from an American regiment making fun of a hunchback who gets back at them with a dig about Bunker Hill where the regiment suffered heavy losses. "[No.] 28." printed at the foot of the title.

•  Not located in RLIN. Very good. Original self wrappers (unbound; removed). (17584)

A CANADIAN'sFirst & Last Appearance

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•  Sole edition of this effusion of Canadian Victorian poetry. There is a Scottish strain, here, and one leaf supplies a two-page “Glossary of Scottish Words”; an artifact of the high imperial era, this Canadianum was “Published for the Benefit of the India Relief Fund.”

•  TPL 5826.   Publisher's printed paper–covered boards, outer corners chipped and a lighter spot to front cover where there once was an old label of some sort affecting one word of type (“Price”); old, light waterstaining (with a darker edge) and some soiling to same cover, with evidence of the onetime moisture visible also to back cover and intermittently in the interior (especially to early leaves). Fragile. (25512)

Scottish Church Divided

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•  From about 1820 through 1843 the Church of Scotland was in turmoil over the question of lay patronage and its implications regarding civil authority over the church; in 1843, after the “Ten Years’ Conflict” between the evangelical and moderate branches of the church, the issues were temporarily resolved by “the Disruption,” in which close to a third of the ministers of the Church of Scotland separated to form the Free Church of Scotland. The upheaval prompted the publication of numerous pamphlets and treatises on the controversy, and its effects continued to be felt in Scotland for many years afterward.

The collection contains works by many of the principal voices of the conflict. The vast majority of the publications are from ca. 1840.

A good research collection. 

•  All items are in good to very good condition, disbound, a few with library markings (stamps) but a few only. The strange glossy effect in our “group photo” is the pamphlets' archival mylar folders, reflecting light — nothing worse, and nothing stranger! You can CLICK HERE for a list.   Do note, please, that this gathering is being sold as a collection only.

Murders TWA'

•  Uncommon printing of two Scots ballads. The title-page bears a woodcut vignette of two ruffians, one with a dagger in his hand, apparently robbing a gentleman of his money; "[No.] 79" is printed at the foot of the title.

•  NSTC 2J7717. Removed from a nonce volume. Upper inner corner of last leaf nicked. (16783)

An American Scots Pastor Edits “Kempis” — A Glaswegian Writes the Preface

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•  “Rendered into English from the original Latin, by John Payne. With an introductory essay, by Thomas Chalmers, of Glasgow. A new edition: edited by Howard Malcolm, Pastor of the Federal Street Baptist Church, Boston.” A Protestant edition, without the fourth “book” (i.e., chapter).

This has an engraved title-page with vignette incorporating David as harpist, and a steel-engraved frontispiece signed by J. Eddy as engraver, “W. Heath, del.”

Provenance:  Inked ownership note to blank of “Charlotte Russell / July 14th — 1831.”

•  Publisher's brown cloth shelfback with paper-covered boards; binding fragile, showing considerable wear with tears in the cloth. Foxing and age-toning; page edges lightly chipped and worn. Ex-library: call number on binding, bookplate, pressure-stamps and other identifications, pencilling. Uncut copy.  (23938)

“We Could NotHope for Any Thing More Glorious”

Edinburgh

•  Following English successes at the battles of Turin and Ramillies, members of the House of Commons and House of Lords send their congratulations to Queen Anne, and encourage her efforts to unify England and Scotland. The Scottish Parliament had begun debate on the Treaty of Union just a few months prior to the December 1706 issue of this item, and would agree to it one month afterwards.

•  ESTC T36741. Now in a Mylar folder; edges uncut. Some creasing, with ink markings from press.

Standard Instruction Book forScots Presbyterians

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•  Scottish edition of the Westminster Shorter Catechism “with some further corrections and improvements” by James Fisher. Adopted by the Church of Scotland in 1648, the Shorter Catechism opens with a question fixed in the memory of many Presbyterians: “What is the chief end of man?”

Each part has a separate title-page; the first says “Fourth Edition” while the second says “Third Edition.”

ESTC and OCLC locate only one U.S. holding of this particular edition.

•  Pt. 1: ESTC T162183; Pt. 2: ESTC T162189.   Contemporary mottled sheep, spine with printed leather title-label and raised bands ruled in gilt double fillets; corners and joints rubbed, joints starting from head, spine label with small cracks, spine head chipped. Fly-leaves excised at front and back; frontispiece lacking; a little foxed, too, yet a nice old volume.  (25834)

“READ!”

•  Third edition. Political satire, in verse and prose, attributed to Will Williamson. At head of title is printed a large, “Read!” Stated on p. 32: “On Friday will be published, Part II. Have at them. Tally Ho! by Fair Play ... and soon thereafter will be published, Part III. The games afoot. Tally Ho! by Fair Play.” Click the image for an enlargement.

•  NSTC 2F755 & 2W16139.   Disbound. A few light brown spots on title-page. A very good copy.  (11078)

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Church of ScotlandControversy

Willison, John.

• First American edition, preceded by two scarce Edinburgh and Glasgow issues (in 1744 and 1765, respectively), of this impassioned anti-Episcopalian commentary on the contemporary state of Scottish Protestantism, written by an evangelical divine who labored mightily in the name of unity of the Church of Scotland. The work serves as an important source of information on both civil and church history of the period; this copy is also an example of a very early Pittsburgh imprint, following the first recorded printing in that city by only two years.

• Shaw & Shoemaker 16746. Contemporary treed sheep, worn and front cover with incisions; both covers with water damage to lower edges, spine with head chipped and gilt-stamped title somewhat rubbed. Front free endpaper with early inked notations and inscription dated 1819; title-page with early inked ownership inscription in upper margin. Some age-toning, occasional spots, last few leaves with waterstaining to lower outer corners—solid, and in much better condition inside than the binding description would augur.

“Occasional Jangles . . . Not Sufficient to Break
the Solemn Ty of Marriage” 

•  Younger (by way of his attorney, James Graham) here argues against points made in the divorce proceedings between his wife Anna Carnagie and himself. In response to allegations that he called his wife names, forced her to live penuriously in his parents’ house, and beat her, Younger provides explanations for the latter two charges, noting that even if he did insult her, the incidents in question took place over a year before she left him, during which year they had been living on good terms. (There is considerable He said, She said, and The neighbors said, detail.) Also extensively canvassed in this document is the vexing issue of whether or not Younger is obliged to pay the debts contracted by both parties before and since the marriage. No holdings of this item are recorded by ESTC, OCLC, or NUC Pre-1956.

•  Now in a Mylar folder. Last leaf pressure-stamped by a now-defunct institution; light age-toning, with outer margin of first page darkened. One spot of pinhole worming to all four leaves.

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