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STEWART, David. Sketches of the Character, Manners and Present State of the Highlanders of Scotland, with details of the Military Service of the Highland Regiments, Edinburgh: for Archibald Constable & Co., 1822. 2 volumes, 8°, half titles, coloured folding map (old repairs, occasional light spotting and thumb-marks), later half calf gilt (lightly rubbed), t.e.g., bookplate of Iain Ramsay of Kildalton. FIRST EDITION.
BUCHANAN, John Lanne. A Defence of the Scots Highlanders in General; and some Learned Characters in Particular, London: for J. Egerton, 1794. 8° (some outer margins cropped, one or two light spots), later navy half morocco, spine with raised bands and gilt thistle motifs in compartments (a little rubbed), t.e.g., bookplate as above, partly unopened. FIRST EDITION.
With 8 other books, most on the history of Scottish Regiments, including Bruce Seton's The Pipes of War (Glasgow, 1920), J. Stewart & John Buchan's The Fifteenth (Scottish) Division 1914-1919 (Edinburgh, 1926), and a typed manuscript, incorporating a folding map, of an account of action by a Royal Engineer of the Irish Division, dated 21 March-04 April, 1918. (11)
BUCHANAN, John Lanne. A Defence of the Scots Highlanders in General; and some Learned Characters in Particular, London: for J. Egerton, 1794. 8° (some outer margins cropped, one or two light spots), later navy half morocco, spine with raised bands and gilt thistle motifs in compartments (a little rubbed), t.e.g., bookplate as above, partly unopened. FIRST EDITION.
With 8 other books, most on the history of Scottish Regiments, including Bruce Seton's The Pipes of War (Glasgow, 1920), J. Stewart & John Buchan's The Fifteenth (Scottish) Division 1914-1919 (Edinburgh, 1926), and a typed manuscript, incorporating a folding map, of an account of action by a Royal Engineer of the Irish Division, dated 21 March-04 April, 1918. (11)
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