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SCOTLAND
/ SCOTS
Very,
Very Scottish — Burns
In a Tartan MAUCHLINE Binding
(A
Robert Burns Delight). Burns,
Robert. The poetical works
and letters of Robert Burns, with copious marginal explanations of the Scotch
words, and life. Edinburgh: Gall & Inglis, [ca. 1880]. 8vo (17.5 cm, 7").
Frontis., add. t.-p., xxxii, [3]–642 pp.; 6 plts.
Click the images for enlargements. 
Difficult
to photograph, easy to enjoy in hand.
Fore-edge painting: A pleasantly bucolic scene of Ripley Castle in Harrogate (according to an endpaper annotation), with a few human figures dotted about the landscape.
• Binding as above, covers with minor scuffs, spine bands and extremities rubbed; leather consolidated, hinges (inside) skillfully repaired with long-fiber tissue. Scattered mild to moderate foxing in first and last sections; faint smudging to two pages. (28711)
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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. 
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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)
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A
Lady of five thousand a-year!
A Challenge!
A Gilded Coach!
The Berkshire Lady's garland. In
four parts. Glasgow [Scotland]: Printed for the Booksellers, [ca. 1840].
12mo. 8 pp.
Click the image for an enlargement. WorldCat locates ten copies worldwide.
• Original self wrappers (unbound; removed). Very good. (17572)
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BIBLES
Uncommon
Scottish
Bible
& 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)
For BIBLES & TESTAMENTS,
By
a
MEGASTAR
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.
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The
Beginning ofDemographic
Studies
Botero,
Giovanni. Relaciones universales del
mundo ... primera y segunda parte. Valladolid: Impresso por los herederos de
Diego Fernandez de Cordoua, 1603–1599. Folio (27 cm; 10.5"). [4], 207,
110 ff. (without final blank and without the maps).
Click the images for enlargements. Scotland,
Ireland, and “the realm of Prester John.” More than a few
scholars view this as one of the first demographic studies.
The
End Times &
the Coming
of the Antichrist
Braidwood,
William. Purity of Christian communion
recommended as an antidote against the perils of the latter days, in three discourses,
delivered to a church of Christ in Richmond Court, Edinburgh. Edinburgh: J.
Guthrie, J. Robertson, J. Ogle, et al., 1796. 8vo (20 cm, 7.9"). [2], 92 pp.
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the image for an enlargement.
• ESTC T27073. Removed from a nonce volume. Half-title and last two leaves lightly soiled, half-title with small early inked numeral, pages otherwise clean. (27653)
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Two Beloved Stories in a
Decorative Binding
Brown, John. Rab and his friends. Marjorie Fleming. New York & Boston: H.M. Caldwell Co., [ca. 1900]. 8vo. Frontis., 78 pp.
Binding: Publisher's red cloth, front cover with gilt-framed title and chromolithographic illustration of a fetching young girl in cap and cape.
• Binding as above, corners rubbed, spine darkened; frontispiece separated. Frontispiece and title-page with light spotting, offsetting to pp. 5 (blank) and 6 from a now-absent laid-in slip, pages otherwise generally clean. (28434)
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The State of19th-Century Metaphysics Brown, Thomas. Lectures on the philosophy of the human mind. Andover: Mark Newman (pr. by Flagg & Gould), 1822. 8vo (22.3 cm, 8.8"). 3 vols. I: 536 pp. II: 528 pp. III: 574, [2] pp.
Click the images for enlargements. • Shoemaker 8196; NSTC 2B53063. Period-style quarter light grey cloth and light blue paper–covered sides, spines with printed paper labels. One leaf with short tear from outer edge, not touching text. Pages age-toned with a scant handful of scattered small spots, otherwiseremarkably clean. (30339)
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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.
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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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“Pr. at the Scottish Press” — Madras Cotton, Arthur Thomas. Study of living languages. Madras: Pr. by L.C. Graves at the Scottish Press, 1857. 8vo. [2], v, [1], 34, [2 (blank)] pp.
Click the images for enlargements. • NSTC 2C39351. Removed from a nonce volume. Title-page only with small spots of faint foxing; outer margins with tiny edge chips. Pages clean. (15144)
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The Free Will Debate: Anti-Libertarian, Pro-Necessitarian
Crombie, Alexander. An essay on philosophical
necessity. London: J. Johnson, 1793. 8vo (21.6 cm, 8.5"). [4], viii, 508 pp.
Click the images for enlargements. Scottish-born Presbyterian minister, schoolmaster, and philosopher. Here Crombie argues against Reid's and Gregory's positions on free will and defends Hume's determinism; one chapter addresses Gregory's comparison of motives and their operations to causes in physics as described by Newton's laws of motion.
Evidence of readership: This copy has extensive pencilled shouldernotes left by an unknown reader who thoroughly (and neatly) recorded numerous questions about and responses to the first 39 pages of the text — after which our reader is heard from no more.
• ESTC T109696. Period-style quarter red morocco and marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped publication information and gilt-ruled raised bands, leather edges with gilt roll. One leaf torn across from outer margin, without loss. Marginalia as above, pages otherwise clean. An attractive and interesting copy. (31050)
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