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Mary, Queen of Scots - Scottish Imprint, [Le Pesant (Pierre, Sieur de Boisguilbert)], The Life of Mary Stewart, Queen of Scotland and France [...], [translated and edited by] James Freebairn, Printed for the Author, and are to be Sold by moft of the Bookfellers in Town, Edinburgh 1725, pp: [iii], iv-lx, 95, [96], 97-221, [222], 223-328, contemporary panelled calf (faults), each cover tooled in blind, raised bands to spine, fragmentary Jacobean Armorial bookplate to recto pastedown: Mckay of Strathy (sic, MacKay?, presumably George Mackay, 3rd Lord Reay (1678-1748)), 8vo; Skelton (John), Mary Stuart Boussod, Valadon & Co, London [...], 1893, illuminated engraved frontispiece of the queen after the portrait by François Clouet 24 full-page plates of portrait with tissue guards titled in red, 4-page facsimile of Mary's last letter, b/w illustrations throughout text, contemporary black leather binding as issued, sometimes attributed to Durvand Thivet, each cover's centre blocked in gilt with crowned arms, crowned cypher to angles within a pair of graduating blind fillet borders, six-compartment spine gilt lettered in the second, cyphers and thistles to the remainder, top-edge gilt, lady's bookplate to recto pastedown: Sara R. Dunn, further inscriptions and stamps, small folio; Tytler (William), An Inquiry [...] Into the Evidence against Mary Queen of Scots [...], fourth edition, two-volume set, T. Cadell, London 1790, contemporary marbled boards, later cloth spines, 8vo, (2); The Memoirs of Sir James Melvil (sic) of Halhill [...], third edition, Robert Urie, Glasgow 1751, contemporary calf, 12mo; The Letter-Books of Sir Amias Poulet, Keeper of Mary Queen of Scots, edited by John Morris Burn and Oates, London 1874, contemporary cloth, 8vo; Bede (Cuthbert), Fotheringhay and Mary, Queen of Scots [...], Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., London 1886, tipped-in albumen photograph frontispiece, further full-page plates, contemporary cloth, 12mo; Raumer (Frederick von), Contributions to Modern History, from the British Museum and the State Paper Office: Queen Elizabeth and Mary Queen of Scots, Charles Knight London 1836, engraved portrait frontispiece, rebacked contemporary cloth, contemporary bookseller's ticket: Fletcher of Norwich, 8vo; Aytoun (W. Edmondstoune), Bothwell: A Poem, In Six Parts, second edition, William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1857, contemporary blue cloth gilt, book label to recto pastedown: Rev. Robert Logan, 8vo; Melville (G.J. Whyte), The Queen's Maries: A Romance of Holyrood, two-volume set, Parker, Son, and Bourn, London 1862, contemporary red half-roan and marbled boards (faults, disbound), 12mo, (2); Yonge (Charlotte M.), Unknown to History: A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scotland, two-volume set, Macmillan and Co., London 1882, contemporary maroon half-roan and cloth, 12mo, (2); qty