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1818658941818. Glasgow: April 29 1818. 18 ff. Glasgow: April 29 1818. 18 ff. Who Stole My Cheese Manuscript. Trial. Glasgow Scotland. Trial of Robert Hunter Alias Robert Hunter Guthrie and John Mackie Running Title. Glasgow: April 29 1818. 18 ff. Last leaf partially blank docketed on verso. Folio 12-1/2" x 7.5". Disbound light soiling and edgewear three horizontal fold lines lower portion of final leaf lacking with no loss to text. Content in neat hand throughout. $1500. A curious collection of court documents involving a pair of men who were stealing and fencing stolen wheels of cheese from a warehouse. Sensing that the police were closing in on them they fled one is tempted to say "like mice" but were eventually apprehended. These documents appear to have been given to someone who organized them added annotations including the title on the first leaf and had them bound into a volume. unknown books
1597D16825Edinburgh: Robert Walde-Grave 1597. Second edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Folding genealogical table. 4 of 5 162; 178; 100 leaves; lacks the engraved additional title and folding genealogical table. Folio 269x182 mm old calf rebacked endpapers renewed; preliminaries heavily soiled and rehinged with marginal restoration not affecting text mostly marginal soiling elsewhere. Repair in blank outer margin of f4-6 and g4 final 2 leaves toned and stained with blank lower half of last leaf excised and restored. Early marginalia enhances this volume the second edition revised of a collection originally published in 1566. STC 21877. Bound with: The Lawes and Acts of Parliament made by the most Excellent and Mighty King and Monarch James . . . Since His Majesties XV. Parliament the XIX. of December 1597. 2 105 1 pages. Edinburgh: Evan Tyler 1647. Wing S1264A. and: The XXIII Parliament of our most High and Dread Soveraine James . . . halden at Edinburgh the 4. Day of August 1621. Edinburgh: Thomas Finlason 1621. Woodcut portrait of James I on title verso. 2 34 leaves. STC 21900. A fine sammelband. <br/><br/> Robert Walde-Grave hardcover books
16254028<p>Scotland: 17th c. after 1625</p><p>Folio: 30.6 x 20 cm. 107 lvs. mostly numbered in a contemporary hand: 3 1-8 10-50 1-7 1-34 13 misbound 36-42 1 43-48 48 misbound</p><p>UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT.</p><p>Unpublished manuscript consisting of 107 full-page Scottish coats-of-arms each hand-painted over an underlying generic engraved template. The bare-bones template has minimal detail helm with mantling outline of a blank shield empty compartment with flourishes and serves only as a uniform foundation over which elaborate individualized crests are painted. The first three coats-of-arms are those of royalty and are painted on leaves without the engraved template.</p><p>Bound in 18th century reverse calf in fine condition corners lightly bumped small chip to foot of spine a few signs of wear to lower board. The painted lvs. have been interleaved twice once with lvs. contemporary with the manuscript and again at the time of rebinding in the 18th century. Both sets of blanks present. The volume is in overall very good condition. Two of the paintings have been smudged no. 16 in the first sequence and the unnumbered leaf in the 3rd sequence. One leaf no. 2 in 3rd sequence is torn with loss. There are some early minor paper repairs some a bit crude a few longer clean tears no loss and some smaller tears at the head and foot of scattered leaves. The colors are on the whole very fresh. Individual elements unicorns squirrels mermaids "wild men" and in one instance beavers and Native Americans are painted with nuance and in minute detail.</p><p>Provenance: Bookplate of Thomas Hamilton 1721-1794 7th Earl of Haddington Hadinton. The Hadington arms with the motto "Praesto et presto"I undertake and I persevere are painted on folio 35 first sequence. The title was created in 1627 and bestowed upon the Scottish lawyer and judge Thomas Hamilton First Earl of Melrose d. 1637.</p><p>The volume opens with the arms of Scotland those of the King of Scotland and England and those of the Prince of Wales.</p><p>The manuscript dates to after 1625 the year in which the poet and courtier William Alexander was made 1st Earl of Stirling ca. 1567-1640. Alexander was involved in the Scottish colonization of Nova Scotia and the Stirling arms prominently feature a beaver a Native American and a mermaid. </p><p>Condition notes: old repairs to lvs. 15 18 20 21 51 in first sequence. Leaf 2 3rd sequence torn with loss. Tears to leaf 7 3rd sequence Leaves 16 and 1 smeared. Other minor marginal tears.</p> 17th c., after books
