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STUART TRACTS, 1717-1745 -- JAMES 'III' (1688-1766). His Majesty's Most Gracious Declaration. [?Edinburgh: ?1743]. 4° (250 x 195mm). 4p. (Both leaves holed with slight loss, lightly soiled.) Disbound. A promise to govern constitutionally and to introduce reforms. Dated at end: 'Given at our court at Rome, the 23rd day of December 1743.' 6 copies located in ESTC.
Sir Edward PEYTON (1588-1657). The Divine Catastrophe of the Kingly Family of the House of Stuarts. London: T. Warner, 1731. (Final leaf slightly soiled.) Second edition, the first appearing in 1652. [Bound with:] [John ADAMS (1662-1720), Provost of King's College, Cambridge]. Ahab's Evil containing a Secret History of the Family of the Stuarts. London: A. Moore, 1720. 32p. VERY RARE. ESTC locates one copy of a differing issue of [2],32p. with imprint on colophon (University of North Carolina). NO COPY OF THIS ISSUE IS RECORDED. Together 2 works, 8°, bound with a third. Half morocco c. 1900. Provenance: Alexander Campbell of Kilmartin (bookplate). -- JAMES 'III' (1688-1766). The Memorial of the Chevalier de St. George on occasion of the Princess Sobieski's retiring into a Nunnery. London: W. Wilkins and N. Blanford, [?1726]. 8°. Modern boards. [?]First of two issues, both very scarce. Also reprinted at Edinburgh in the same year. -- Notes of a Lecture after the Victory over the Rebels and on the Return of ... Major General Wightman. Edinburgh: James M'Euen, 1718. 4°. (Numerals shaved.) Modern half calf. RARE. ONLY 4 COPIES ARE RECORDED OF THIS ONE EDITION. -- James FREEBAIRN (d. 1733). L'Eloge d'Ecosse et des Dames Ecossoises. Edinburgh: aux depens de l'autheur, 1727. 8°. Contemporary marbled wrappers (spine worn). ONLY EDITION. VERY SCARCE. -- Letter from an English Traveller at Rome to his Father, of the 6th of May 1721. O.S.. [?London: ?1721]. 4°. Drop-head title. Modern boards. ONE EDITION. On the Old Pretender. SCARCE. -- The Chronicle of Charles the Young Man. [?Edinburgh: 1745]. 8°. 11,[1]p. Drop-head title. One of two editions, written in support of Prince Charles Edward after the battle of Prestonpans. Bound with 5 others in modern boards; together with 2 other disbound tracts and 8 other bound volumes. (17)
Sir Edward PEYTON (1588-1657). The Divine Catastrophe of the Kingly Family of the House of Stuarts. London: T. Warner, 1731. (Final leaf slightly soiled.) Second edition, the first appearing in 1652. [Bound with:] [John ADAMS (1662-1720), Provost of King's College, Cambridge]. Ahab's Evil containing a Secret History of the Family of the Stuarts. London: A. Moore, 1720. 32p. VERY RARE. ESTC locates one copy of a differing issue of [2],32p. with imprint on colophon (University of North Carolina). NO COPY OF THIS ISSUE IS RECORDED. Together 2 works, 8°, bound with a third. Half morocco c. 1900. Provenance: Alexander Campbell of Kilmartin (bookplate). -- JAMES 'III' (1688-1766). The Memorial of the Chevalier de St. George on occasion of the Princess Sobieski's retiring into a Nunnery. London: W. Wilkins and N. Blanford, [?1726]. 8°. Modern boards. [?]First of two issues, both very scarce. Also reprinted at Edinburgh in the same year. -- Notes of a Lecture after the Victory over the Rebels and on the Return of ... Major General Wightman. Edinburgh: James M'Euen, 1718. 4°. (Numerals shaved.) Modern half calf. RARE. ONLY 4 COPIES ARE RECORDED OF THIS ONE EDITION. -- James FREEBAIRN (d. 1733). L'Eloge d'Ecosse et des Dames Ecossoises. Edinburgh: aux depens de l'autheur, 1727. 8°. Contemporary marbled wrappers (spine worn). ONLY EDITION. VERY SCARCE. -- Letter from an English Traveller at Rome to his Father, of the 6th of May 1721. O.S.. [?London: ?1721]. 4°. Drop-head title. Modern boards. ONE EDITION. On the Old Pretender. SCARCE. -- The Chronicle of Charles the Young Man. [?Edinburgh: 1745]. 8°. 11,[1]p. Drop-head title. One of two editions, written in support of Prince Charles Edward after the battle of Prestonpans. Bound with 5 others in modern boards; together with 2 other disbound tracts and 8 other bound volumes. (17)
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