Dalrymple david ed (3 Ergebnisse)

Brown leather hardback. Zustand: Good. Reprint. G : in good condition. Re-spined. Foxing and browning within. Heraldic book-plate on paste-down. 220mm x 140mm (9" x 6"). viii, 190pp. No date given, but the rear endpaper is watermarked 1826. The frontis and title page appear to be from another edition, being printed on different paper, and the frontis bearing the page number 485. Book-plate of Walter James Bourke Esq.…

Dalrymple's Reports Dalrymple, Sir David [1726-1792]. Brown, M[ungo] P[onton], Editor. Decisions of the Lords and Council and Session, From 1766 to 1791. Selected from the Original MSS. Edinburgh: Printed for William Tait, 1726. Two volumes. vii, 576; [ii], 577-1142 pp. Quarto (10" x 8"). Recent library buckram, gilt institution name to boards, red and black lettering pieces and gilt institution name to spine, endpapers renewed. Library stamps to edges and endleaves, light toning to text. $250. * Only edition. An important figure in Scottish law and letters, Dalrymple, Lord Hailes, 3rd Baronet of Hailes, was an advocate, judge and historian. Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 5:28.…

Zustand: Good. No place, 1767. 12:o. xii,+ 452 pp. Slight foxing, a minor hole in inner margin to the end from page 445. Sewn as issued and uncut in contemporary yellow marbled paper wrapper, spine with handwritten label. From the library of L. F. Rääf, with its exlibris. Fine. First french edition, translated by N.-P. Besset de la Chapelle. The english original, ?The Secret Correspondence of Sir Robert Cecil with James VI, King of Scotland?, was published in 1766. Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, (1540-1614) conducted correspondence with James VI (later James I of England) on behalf of Sir Robert Cecil (1563?-1612), who secured the accession of James VI to the English throne 1603. The correspondence was published and edited by Sir David Dalrymple from the orig. MS. Forteen of the sixteen letters are signed by Howard and the other two by James VI. Softcover / Paperback. …