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SCOTLAND -- Several Reports presented to the House of Commons by the Commissioners for taking and
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SCOTLAND -- Several Reports presented to the House of Commons by the Commissioners for taking and stating the debts due and growing due to Scotland by way of equivalent. London: Jacob Tonson [and 3 others], 1718. 2 ° (317 x 201mm). (Some browning and spotting, heaviest on last few leaves, I2 holed with slight loss.) Panelled calf (front cover detached). Scarce. No sale recorded in ABPC or AE. Goldsmiths’ 5557; Hanson 2532.
Authentick Coppie of the Tryall of William Haunt Dragoon, Anno 1711. Laid before the House. London: John Baskett, 1737. 2° (300 x 189mm). (Several leaves soiled.) Haunt had killed Henry McMillan with a single blow from his musket in an apparently unprovoked attack in Dalkeith. Bound in one volume with 8 other pamphlets, three being reports on traitors and popish recusants in Scotland and their forfeited estates (London: 1719-1725), three others on trials involving crimes in Scotland (all with imprint of John Baskett 1737), one on legal title to land in Scotland (Edinburgh: 1747) and another on the Glasgow brewers opposition to excise (c. 1742, imperfect). Contemporary half calf and marbled boards (rubbed). Provenance: Luton Library (bookplate).
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Authentick Coppie of the Tryall of William Haunt Dragoon, Anno 1711. Laid before the House. London: John Baskett, 1737. 2° (300 x 189mm). (Several leaves soiled.) Haunt had killed Henry McMillan with a single blow from his musket in an apparently unprovoked attack in Dalkeith. Bound in one volume with 8 other pamphlets, three being reports on traitors and popish recusants in Scotland and their forfeited estates (London: 1719-1725), three others on trials involving crimes in Scotland (all with imprint of John Baskett 1737), one on legal title to land in Scotland (Edinburgh: 1747) and another on the Glasgow brewers opposition to excise (c. 1742, imperfect). Contemporary half calf and marbled boards (rubbed). Provenance: Luton Library (bookplate).
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SCOTLAND -- Several Reports presented to the House of Commons by the Commissioners for taking and stating the debts due and growing due to Scotland by way of equivalent. London: Jacob Tonson [and 3 others], 1718. 2 ° (317 x 201mm). (Some browning and spotting, heaviest on last few leaves, I2 holed with slight loss.) Panelled calf (front cover detached). Scarce. No sale recorded in ABPC or AE. Goldsmiths’ 5557; Hanson 2532.
Authentick Coppie of the Tryall of William Haunt Dragoon, Anno 1711. Laid before the House. London: John Baskett, 1737. 2° (300 x 189mm). (Several leaves soiled.) Haunt had killed Henry McMillan with a single blow from his musket in an apparently unprovoked attack in Dalkeith. Bound in one volume with 8 other pamphlets, three being reports on traitors and popish recusants in Scotland and their forfeited estates (London: 1719-1725), three others on trials involving crimes in Scotland (all with imprint of John Baskett 1737), one on legal title to land in Scotland (Edinburgh: 1747) and another on the Glasgow brewers opposition to excise (c. 1742, imperfect). Contemporary half calf and marbled boards (rubbed). Provenance: Luton Library (bookplate).
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Authentick Coppie of the Tryall of William Haunt Dragoon, Anno 1711. Laid before the House. London: John Baskett, 1737. 2° (300 x 189mm). (Several leaves soiled.) Haunt had killed Henry McMillan with a single blow from his musket in an apparently unprovoked attack in Dalkeith. Bound in one volume with 8 other pamphlets, three being reports on traitors and popish recusants in Scotland and their forfeited estates (London: 1719-1725), three others on trials involving crimes in Scotland (all with imprint of John Baskett 1737), one on legal title to land in Scotland (Edinburgh: 1747) and another on the Glasgow brewers opposition to excise (c. 1742, imperfect). Contemporary half calf and marbled boards (rubbed). Provenance: Luton Library (bookplate).
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