Scotland Collection of antiquarian and topographical books, mainly Scotland-related, 17th-19th including: Napier, John, of Merchiston. A Plaine Discoverie of the Whole Revelation of St John. Edinburgh: Andro Wilson, 1645. Fifth edition ('corrected and amended'), 4to (18.1 x 13.8cm), 19th-century half calf, rebacked, browning and damp-staining, errata leaf discarded [ESTC R209880]; Grose, Francis The Antiquities of Scotland. London: Hooper & Wigstead, 1797. Folio, contemporary half calf, rebacked with original spine laid down (front joint partly cracked), engraved title-page with vignette, 185 engraved plates (of 191), without text and map, marginal spotting; Hogg, James. The Jacobite relics of Scotland: being the Songs, Airs and Legends, of the Adherents to the House of Stuart. Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1819-21. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo (21 x 13cm), contemporary green calf gilt; [Erskine, John]. The Principles of the Law of Scotland. Edinburgh: John Balfour, 1764. 8vo (19.7 x 12.5cm), contemporary calf, [ESTC T84162: 10 copies world-wide]; Colvil, Samuel. The Whigs Supplication, or, the Scotch-Hudibras. A Mock-Poem. Glasgow: Robert Urie, 1751. First edition under this title, 8vo (15 x 9.5cm), contemporary sheep, spotting, front inner hinge tender [ESTC T140222]; Dreghorn, John Maclaurin, Lord. Arguments and Decisions, in Remarkable Cases, before the High Court of Justiciary, and other Supreme Courts, in Scotland. Edinburgh: for J. Bell, 1774. First edition, 4to (25.7 x 20cm), front joint cracked [ESTC T94367]; Mackenzie, Sir George. The Laws and Customs of Scotland, in Matters Criminal. Edinburgh: heirs and successors of Andrew Anderson, 1699. Folio, 20th-century half calf, title-page crudely repaired [ESTC R19368]; Hamilton, James George Hamilton, Duke of. Memorial ... against the Person pretending to be Archibald Stewart, alias Douglas. [Edinburgh?]: [no publisher], 1767. 9 parts in 1 volume, 4to, 19th-century half morocco, front cover detached [ESTC T118950]; Britton, John. Graphical and Literary Illustrations of Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire. With heraldic and genealogical notices of the Beckford family. London: printed for the author, 1823. First edition, apparently one of 30 large-paper copies with 'proofs and etchings' (there were also 270 standard large-paper copies and 500 small-paper copies), 4to, original boards (printed label to front, with contemporary annotation 'Proofs and etchings'), half-title, 14 engraved plates numbered 1-10 (all marked 'proof', plates 3-6 each present in two states; plates 9-10 hand-coloured aquatints); tissue-guards, bookplate ('Anna Maria Powell, Sarum ... 1824', a Richard Powell M. D. recorded in the list of subscribers for a large-paper copy), front board detached, marginal spotting; Rabelais, François. The Works … done out of French, by Sir Thomas Urchard [sic], Knight, Mr. Motteux, and others. London: James Woodward, 1708. 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary panelled calf, portrait frontispiece to the first volume [ESTC T52476]; and 4 others: John Slezer, Theatrum Scotiae, Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1874, first edition, one of 250 copies, large folio, 69 facsimile plates (including one double-page prospect of Edinburgh), the additional plate to the list of 68 being the plans of Thirlestane Castle, coloured coat of arms on the title-page, numerous other coloured coats of arms separately printed and mounted as headpieces, lacking spine and front board, rear board detached; Francisque-Michel, A Critical Inquiry into the Scottish Language, 1882, one of 500 copies, spine worn; John Anderson, Historical and Genealogical Memoirs of the House of Hamilton, 1825, front inner hinge gone; Archaeological scotica, Volume IV, Part First, 1831), the lot sold as seen (17)

Provenance: The Late Lord David Douglas-Hamilton (1952-2020).