Sale 2501 - Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books, March 7, 2019

247 248 247 c   (SCOTLAND.) Buchanan, George. Rerum Scoticarum historia. Title with printer’s woodcut device within type ornament border. [4], 85, [1], 74-183, [185]-249, [1] leaves, including errata leaf at end; lacks blanks Q4 and 2M6. Folio, 277x184 mm, 17th-century sheep, heavily worn, spine missing portions from top and bottom, joints cracked, cords intact; occasional toning or browning, few minor stains on title and last leaf. 18th-century armorial bookplate of D. D. P. P. de Nicolay. Edinburgh: Alexander Arbuthnet, 1582 [800/1,200] first edition of Buchanan’s history of Scotland, in which he drew on historical precedents in support of his ideas about resistance to tyranny. STC 3991. 248 c   (SCOTLAND.) Monipennie, John. The Abridgement or Summarie of the Scots Chronicles . . . Newly inlarged corrected and augmented. [4], 288 pages. 8vo, 145x92 mm, 19th-century sheep, spine worn, front cover partly detached; contents soiled, marginal dampstaining in first half of volume, scattered stains elsewhere, few later marginalia. Edinburgh: heirs of George Anderson for the Company of Stationers, 1650 [500/750] First published circa 1594. Wing M2420.