Live auction - Lot 825
Live auction - Lot 825
[Jacobitism]
The history of the rebellion in the year 1745.
London, by A. Strahan, for T. Cadell, J. & W. Davies, 1802
Hammer price: €
180
€ 100 / 120
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Lot description
4to: 394-[2] pp.; 5 pl. (some spotting and browning).
Contemp. tree-calf with crowned monogram "HST", flat spine, sp. edges.
First edition telling the history of the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion by the Scottish playwright J. Home (1722-1808). Ill. with a map by Neele, an engr. portrait of Charles Edward Stuart by R. Smirke and 3 fold. pl. by Neele depicting the battles of Preston, Falkirk, and Culloden.
Ref. BnF.