A complete history of the wars in Scotland : under the conduct of the illustrious James Marquis of Montrose : in two parts : the 1st part describing the wars in the years 1644, 45, 46 : the 2d part containing an account of Montrose's negotiations abroad and the state of affairs in Scotland, from the year 1647, to the year 1650 inclusive. This 2nd part being never before published, is now first done into English, from the Latin /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Item Description: | BM 259:723 (ESTC, T145261) suggests London as possible place of publication Author identified in "The publisher to the reader" as George Wishart. Pagination: page xxxiv misnumbered xxxvi; page xliii misnumbered lxiii (; page xxxix-xl used twice; page xlvii-xlviii (3rd group) omitted in paging. A variant has p. lvi misnumbered ilv. "The second part of the history of the civil wars in Scotland ..." (pages [133]-200) and "An appendix to the history of the civil wars in Scotland " (pages [i]-lvi, 3rd group) have each a special title page. The appendix and the fifteen letters to Montrose from King Charles the 1st, his queen, King Charles the 2d, and Prince Rupert are separately signed and paginated. A translation of 'De rebus auspiciis serenissimi, & potentissimi Caroli' by Dr. George Wishart, Bishop of Edinburgh, originally published in 1647 Part I in this edition is a reprint, with a few corrections, of the translation published in 1652 under title: Montrose redivivus. Later edition of the complete translation published in 1756 under title: Memoires of the most renowned James Graham, Marquis of Montrose. Title page within a double rule border. The Cushing Library/Rare Books copy was acquired as part of the Lois Goddard Morrison Collection of Eighteenth Century Literature. |
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| Physical Description: | 16 unnumbered pages, 200, lvi (that is, liv), 24 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : portrait ; 17 cm |
| Place of Publication: | Great Britain -- England -- London |