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[Glencoe massacre]. An Impartial Account of some of the Transactions in Scotland, concerning the Earl of Broadalban, Viscount and Master of Stair, Glenco-Men, Bishop of Galloway, and Mr. Duncan Robertson. In a Letter from a Friend, 1st edition, London: printed, and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1695, [2] 30 pp., errata slip pasted to title-page verso, browning and damp-staining, modern bookplate (David Murray , untrimmed, 19th-century red half morocco, title ('Massacre of Glencoe Etc. - 1695') gilt to spine, 4to (21 x 16.5 cm), together with: [Jacobite rebellion]. A Compleat History of the Rebellion, from its first Rise in 1745, to its total Suppression at the Glorious Battle of Culloden, in April 1746. By Mr. James Ray, of Whitehaven, Volunteer under his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland, 1st edition, Mancester: for the author by R. Whitworth, [1747?], pp. 408, a few light damp-stains, stab-holes visible in gutter, contemporary ownership inscriptions (Richard Widdowson of Thrumpton), contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, 12mo (16 x 9.5 cm), ibid. A Journey through Part of England and Scotland along with the Army under the Command of His Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland ... By a Volunteer, 2nd edition, London: T. Osborne, 1747, worming, contemporary sheep, rebacked, 8vo (15.4 x 8.5 cm), Buchanan (George). Rerum Scoticarum historia. Ad optimam et castigatissimam Roberti Fribarnii editionem expressa, Edinburgh: Jo. Patoni, 1727, engraved portrait frontispiece, folding map, duplicate of leaf 2D3 bound in after 3G5, bookplate (Maitland), contemporary mottled calf, spine rubbed, 12mo (17.2 x 10 cm), [Lord's Prayer; polyglot]. Oratio dominica ... Nimirum, plus centum linguis, versionibus, aut characteribus reddita et expressa. Editio novissima, London: Dan. Brown & W. Keblewhite, 1700, half-title, engraved title-vignette, the text containing the Lord's Prayer printed in some 100 languages (including Arabic, Chinese, Orcadian, etc., mainly using proper types, a few specimens engraved, e.g. Georgian), book-label of abolitionist Mary Anne Rawson of Wincobank Hall, Sheffield (1801-1887), contemporary polished calf, gilt spine, front joint cracked, 4to (19.9 x 14.7 cm), Lambarde (William). The Duties of Constables, Borsholders, Tythingmen, and such other low and Lay Ministers of the peace ... now carefully corrected and profitably augmented, London: Miles Flesher, and Robert Young the assigned of John More, 1640, damp-staining towards rear, initial binder's blank torn, contemporary mottled sheep, small 8vo (14.4 x 9 cm), and 2 others, including Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum, 3rd edition, 1631 (lacking engraved portrait; engraved title trimmed and mounted to front pastedown, contemporary manuscript genealogies in text, binding worn), and A Compleat History of the Proceedings of the Parliament of Great Britain against Dr. Henry Sacheverell, 1710 (lacking portrait; bookplate of Alexander Murray of Broughtoun) (Qty: 8) THE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY PART III: SCOTLAND, HIGHLANDS & ISLANDS ESTC R15762 (Glencoe massacre: nine UK copies), T118420 (Jacobite rebellion, first work), N6803 (Jacobite rebellion, second work: six UK copies), N13053 (Buchanan), R15295 (Lord's Prayer), S3976 (Lambarde: three copies); Wing I65 (Glencoe massacre), M2944 (Lord's Prayer); Sabin 57434 (Lord's Prayer).