Jacobite history
Collection of works
Home, John. The History of the Rebellion in the Year 1745. London: by A. Strahan, for T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1802. First edition, 4to, xx, 394 [2], contemporary half calf, rebacked, engraved folding map, portrait plate, 3 battle plans, errata leaf to rear; Henderson, Andrew. The Life of William Augustus Duke of Cumberland. London: for J. Ridley [and others], 1766. First edition, 8vo, [viii] 398 [2] pp., contemporary boards, rebacked, edges untrimmed; MacAllester, Oliver. A Series of Letters, discovering the Scheme projected by France, in MDCCLIX. For an Intended Invasion upon England with Flat-Bottom'd Boats … To which are prefixed, the Secret Adventures of the Young Pretender. London: for the author, 1767. First edition, 2 volumes in 1, 4to, contemporary calf, rebacked, v 263, [2] 268 pp., extremities worn, closed marginal tear to volume 2 sig. 2K1, contemporary manuscript fragment ('the humble petition of […] aged 55 years totaley blind […]' addressed to the archbishop of York sometime taped to rear pastedown (now detached), lacking rear free endpaper; Roxburghe Club. The Gowrie Conspiracy. Confessions of George Sprot. London: printed for private circulation [i.e. the Roxburghe Club], 1902. First edition, 4to, original quarter skiver, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, bookplate of J. R. Abbey; Bannatyne Club. Memoirs touching the Revolution Scotland, M.DC.LXXXVIII.-M.DC.XV. By Colin Earl of Balcarres. Edinburgh: for the Bannatyne Club, 1641. First edition, 4to, original boards; [1715 Jacobite Rebellion]. New Letters of 1715-16. Edited by A. Francis Steuart, Advocate. Printed from Original Papers in the Possession of C. E. S. Chambers, Edinburgh. London: W. & R. Chambers, Limited, 1910. First edition, 4to, original cloth, blind-stamped ‘presentation copy’ on title-page, front free endpaper inscribed ‘This book was given to Margaret Viscountess Strathallan by Andrew Lang when staying at Cowden where he had been reading and reviewing it, 4-7-10'; Rose, D. Murray (editor). Prince Charlie's Friends or Jacobite Indictments. Aberdeen: printed for private circulation, 1896. First edition, one of 50 copies only, 4to, contemporary quarter roan, bookplates (Colonel James Allardyce of Culquoich, and Colonel William Johnston, Army Medical Staff), joints cracking; Graeme, Louisa G. Or and Sable: A Book of the Graemes and Grahames. Edinburgh: William Brown, 1903. First edition, one of 295 copies, 4to, original yellow cloth, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, frontispiece, spotting to edges and outer leaves; and 20+ others similar (approximately 30)