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17903249Dumbarton Scotland 1790. Good. Folio half-sheet 1 p. 20 lines name of the recipient on verso 2 vertical and 4 horizontal folds evidence of wax seal on verso old tape repair at top margin not affecting text ink gall corrosion on outer margin affecting one word. Preserved in mylar sleeve. An extremely curious provincial Scottish letter dated 1790 which incorporates misspellings based on non-standard sociolects of the Scottish dialect. While "worthless" relics such as this were almost invariably discarded they remain of the great interest in Ortheopy the study of pronunciation. Indeed much of what is known about Vulgar Latin pronunciation is preserved in graffiti in the ruins of Pompei. <br/><br/>Concerning the content of the letter: William Steuart or Stewart writes to John Adam Esq. describing water damage to four rooms in Dumbarton Castle: two were newly painted the other two newly wall-papered. An associate suggested that he procure a carpenter in Inversnaid to the amount of GBP 35 and therefore "if you have any masonwork to do I can do it at the time."<br/><br/>The letter is signed by Steuart but was clearly dictated by him to an unnamed scribe. Our transcription of the letter retains the original spelling:<br/><br/>"Dumbarton May 24th 1790. Dear Sir<br/>I received both your letters one of the 10th & the other of the 13th curant & have noted the contents. I told Capt. Roberson what work was to be don sic at the Castle hear sic this year when he simed i.e. seemed much surprised that his hous sic was not rough cast. Ther sic is 2 rooms neu sic painted & other two neu sic pappred sic which will be quite spiled i.e. spoiled with the watter sic comin through the wall & he has wrot i.e. wrote to Campt. Rudyard about it. Last neight sic I had a letter from Mr. Young beiging i.e. begging of me to go to Inversnaid to gat sic som sic Carpenter work don sic ther sic to the amount of GBP 35 so if you have any masson sic work to do I can do it at the time. I am Dear Sir your very humbel sic Serv't" shaky signature of William Steuart. <br/><br/>Questions remain: Why go to Inversnaid to procure a carpenter This extremely tiny village was located 30 miles away from Dumbarton Castle while Glasgow was only 13 miles away. And was recipient of the present letter to be identified with the architect John Adam Esq. of Edinburgh 1721-1792 son of William Adam and older brother of Robert Adam unknown books
1727240440London: Printed for J. Roberts near Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane 1727. First Edition wih half-title. 4. 1- 31 1 4 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Later cloth and boards. text toned. Bookplate of John Gerard Heckscher. First Edition wih half-title. 4. 1- 31 1 4 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Westwood & Satchell p 299; Hanson 3668; Kress 3719; Goldsmiths 6505; European Americana 727/195 Printed for J. Roberts, near Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane unknown books
1740714021740. Notable Eighteenth-Century Handbook for Scottish Notaries Notaries. Scotland. Ars Notariatus: Or The Art And Office Of A Notary-Publick As the Same Is Practised In Scotland. In Two Parts. I. Giving an Account of the Rise and Institution of the Office And Ancient and Present State Thereof. II. Containing Notorial Instruments of All Kinds. To Which is Added By Way of Conclusion An Advice to Notaries Touching the Right Discharging of Their Office. Edinburgh: Printed by Sands Brymer Murray and Cochran 1740. xv i 311 1 pp. Contemporary calf raised bands lettering piece and gilt ornaments to spine blind tooling to board edges. Light rubbing and a few minor scuffs and stains to boards moderate rubbing to extremities corners bumped and somewhat worn chipping to head of spine front board beginning to separate but secure rear joint starting at ends rear hinge cracked. Moderate toning to text later signatures and annotations to front pastedown and free endpaper. $500. First edition. "In Scotland any solicitor may on petition to the Court of Session be admitted a notary public. His main functions are to authenticate wills for disabled persons take affidavits in bankruptcy note and protest bills and authenticate the due execution of deeds to be used abroad" Walker. This was a durable book. Second and third editions were published in 1762 and 1777; editions after the third had titles beginning The Office of a Notary. OCLC locates 9 copies in North America 5 in law libraries Duke Harvard University of Michigan University of Minnesota University of Pennsylvania. Walker Oxford Companion to Law 892. English Short-Title Catalogue N15333. unknown books
17036829Edinburgh: Heirs and successors of Andrew Anderson 1703. Folio 31.3 cm 12.25". 1 p. <br><br>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. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â 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 dust-soiling. Now in a Mylar folder. Heirs and successors of Andrew Anderson unknown books
179027962Paris: Defer de Maisonneuve 1790. First edition in French. iv 412; iv 392 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Contemporary sheep. Covers a little scuffed upper joint of volume 2 starting else very good. First edition in French. iv 412; iv 392 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. "a good introduction of Scotland to Frenchmen" First French edition of A Tour through the Highlands of Scotland . London 1787.<br/><br/>"This Scottish philanthropist was for many years a bookseller of eminence in London and devoted the fortune he acquired in his business to the improvement of his country. He had long been concerned over the wretched condition of the Highlanders and had made as many as sixteen journeys since 1764 into various parts of the North. He succeeded in arousing the active interest of the London Highland Society in the formation of a British Society for extending the fisheries and improving the sea ports on the coasts. Subscriptions were taken and then he set out on the above recorded tour for which he was voted a gold medal by the Society. The two principal improvements he advocated were inland navigation e.g. tbe Crinan Canal since accomplished and the establishment of free villages or fishing stations on the east coast." - Cox. <br/><br/>Cox says of this French edition: "This work served as a good introduction of Scotland to Frenchmen and is of importance for the story of Ossianism in France. He reproduced some of the arguments of John Smith's Gaelic Antiquities Edinb. 1780 in reply to Johnson's attacks whereby Frenchmen became acquainted with some of the theories of Smith an acquired some notion of the Highland bards.<br/><br/>The Tour was first published in 1787 at the Highland Society of London. Cox III p. 33-34 Defer de Maisonneuve unknown books
1701705511701. A Seventeenth-Century Scottish "Case Book" Scotland. Court of Session. Vallange John Editor. A Collection of Decisions Of the Lords of Council and Session In Two Parts. The First Contains Decisions From July 1661 To July 1666. Observ'd by Sir John Gilmour of Craigmiller President of the Colledge of Justice. The Second Part Contains Decisions from November 1681 To January 1686. Observ'd by Sir David Falconer of Newton President of the Colledge of Justice. Never Before Publish'd. Revised and Corrected According to the Most Authentick Manuscript Copies And Augmented with a Table of the Names of the Pursuer and Defender; And with a Table of the Matter Containing not Only the Determination of the Lords in the Cause But also the Positions of Law Made Use of in the Pleading Which May Serve for an Alphabetical Compend. As Likeways the Acts of Sederunt from 1681 to 1691. And Continued to 1696. With an Indice of the Same Acts. Edinburgh: Printed by James Watson For John Vallange Book-Seller 1701. 8 2 136 18; ii 80 16; ii 32; 15 3 pp. Three parts each with individual title page pagination and index. Copyright slip pasted to front endleaf two errata slips pasted to rear free endpaper. Quarto 8-1/4" x 6-3/4". Contemporary mottled calf with recent period-style plain-calf rebacking blind rules to boards gilt title and raised bands to spine hinges mended. Light rubbing to board edges corners bumped. Moderate toning light foxing in places final index leaf of Part I partially detached with moderate wear and a few chips to edges. $950. Only edition. With thorough subject indexes. This collection is notable because each decision is headed by a brief statement outlining its underlying legal principal. In this regard it is a forerunner to a casebook a point indicated in the title which says the reports contain "not only the determination of the lords in the cause but also the positions of law made use of in the pleading which may serve for an alphabetical compend" that is a student notebook of exemplary cases. English Short-Title Catalogue T78113. unknown books
1777303387Aberdeen: Printed for and sold by J. Boyle 1777. 395 1 pp. 12mo. Contemp. sheep covers off. 395 1 pp. 12mo. with at end:<br/>Translations and Paraphrases of Several Passages of Sacred Scripture.Edinburgh: Printed in 1774 incomplete only 1-36 of 40 pp ESTC T208251 2 copies Nat. Lib. Scotland; Aberdeen Univ. Library. Not in ESTC Printed for, and sold by J. Boyle unknown books
1705WRCAM52851Edinburgh 1705. Detailed below. Small quarto. Contemporary paneled calf gilt leather label. Corners worn. Contemporary bookplate on front pastedown. Internally clean. Very good. A handsome contemporarily bound volume of religious tracts published in Edinburgh at the beginning of the 18th century. All are scarce with relatively few copies located and most of those in Scottish and British institutions. The individual titles are as follows: <br> <br> 1 PRIMITIVE CHURCH GOVERNMENT IN THE PRACTICE OF THE REFORMED IN BOHEMIA. OR AN ACCOUNT OF THE ECCLESIASTICK ORDER AND DISCIPLINE AMONG THE REFORMED; OR AS THE CALL'D THEMSELVES THE UNITY OF BRETHREN IN BOHEMIA. N.p. Printed in the Year 1703. 1656pp. ESTC T114573. SOUPIS 755. <br> <br> 2 Hay John: SOUND AND SOLID REASON AGAINST THE PRESBYTERIAN PRINTS ANENT PATRONAGES WHEREBY DIVINE RIGHT OF THE POPULAR ELECTION OF PASTORS IS PERPETUALLY BARR'D &c. N.p. Printed in the Year 1703. 20pp. ESTC T58079. <br> <br> 3 Brown George: TOLERATION DEFENDED: OR THE LETTER FROM A GENTLEMAN TO A MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT CONCERNING TOLERATION CONSIDERED; WITH SOME OBSERVES ON MR. MELDRUM'S SERMON. N.p. Printed in the Year 1703. 224pp. ESTC T104305. <br> <br> 4 Sage John: THE REASONABLENESS OF A TOLERATION TO THOSE OF THE EPISCOPAL PERSUASION ENQUIR'D INTO PURELY ON CHURCH- PRINCIPLES. IN IV LETTERS TO MR. GEORGE MELDRUM PROFESSOR OF THEOLOGY IN THE COLLEDGE OF EDINBURGH. Edinburgh: Printed by Mr. Andrew Symson 1704. 144pp. ESTC T124413. <br> <br> 5 Garden George: THE CASE OF THE EPISCOPAL CLERGY AND OF THOSE OF THE EPISCOPAL PERSWASION CONSIDER'd; AS TO THE GRANTING THEM A TOLERATION AND INDULGENCE. Second edition revised and cleared from the mistakes of The Gentleman's Letter &c. N.p. Printed in the Year 1703. 40pp. ESTC N16050. <br> <br> 6 Garden George: THE CASE OF THE EPISCOPAL CLERGY AND OF THOSE OF THE EPISCOPAL PERSWASION CONSIDERED AS TO THE GRANTING THEM A TOLERATION & INDULGENCE THE SECOND PART. N.p. Printed in the Year 1704. 2100pp. ESTC T79512. <br> <br> 7 Garden George: THE CASE OF THE EPISCOPAL CLERGY AND OF THOSE OF THE EPISCOPAL PERSWASION CONSIDERED AS TO THE GRANTING THEM A TOLERATION & INDULGENCE. THE THIRD PART. N.p. Printed in the Year 1705. 8184pp. ESTC N16051. hardcover books
