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184824356Glasgow: Robert Stuart 1848. First edition. 27 Full Page Lithographs drawn by Several Artists. Lithos by Allan & Ferguson. 1 vols. 4to. Original cloth rebacked in new half brown morocco. Some occasional foxing else very good copy. First edition. 27 Full Page Lithographs drawn by Several Artists. Lithos by Allan & Ferguson. 1 vols. 4to. Robert Stuart 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
1840HGK913-32Edinburgh:: The Society of the Arts 1840. Very Good. 1 sheet folded. 8 1/2 x 5 7/8 inches. 4 pp. the last a blank. Seal of the Society printed on page 1 text with the program for the evening of Wednesday 12th February 1840 page 3 with a blank form to fill out and give to guests who may tender the completed form for admission; text unmarked. The sheet has been folded several times for mailing and is addressed by hand to "Wm. Kennedy Esq 59 Northumberland Street" and with a return address "1840 Edw. S. Fiby Society of Arts." Sealing wax impression on top of page 3 and the bottom corner of page 3 is torn away missing a 1 1/2 x 1 1/2 inch piece of paper torn at a diagonal to the corner no text or writing affected. Some light foxing in the paper page 4 soiled at the creases. Very Good. Fun little survival from 1840s Edinburgh announcing 8 lectures on such topics as "On a new kind of ink obliterated with great difficulty" by Andrew Fyfe and "Notice on the use of Brass or Copper Plates having their surfaces Silvered for producing Pictures by the process of Daugerreotype" by Mr. John Adie Optician and others. The Society of the Arts, unknown books
